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Theoretical considerations suggest that volunteering contributes to retirement adjustment because it compensates for role losses following retirement. However, the idea that mental health benefits of volunteering are stronger after retirement than prior to retirement has been hardly tested empirically. Moreover, it remains open to question who benefits from volunteering in retirement in particular. ...
2024,
(OSF Preprints)
| Matthias Lühr
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What compels a doctor to volunteer at a makeshift clinic in a remote village? Why do lawyers from elite firms devote hundreds of hours to pro-bono cases? These examples illuminate how occupations shape behavior beyond formal job requirements. As careers become increasingly defined by occupational rather than organizational membership, understanding the occupational forces that shape discretionary behaviors ...
In:
Academy of Management Proceedings
2025 (2025), 1,
| Sridhar Polineni
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We examined the between-person correlations and within-person reciprocal effects of physical activity, long-standing health issues, self-rated health, and life satisfaction across four panels using random intercept cross-lagged panel models. Data were analyzed from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey (HILDA, N = 32,913, 21 waves, 1-year intervals), the German Socio-Economic ...
In:
Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being
17 (2025), 2, e70027
| Daniel Groß, Carl-Walter Kohlmann
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Life events have been theorized to elicit personality trait changes. However, the empirical evidence for event-related personality development remains inconclusive. Even comprehensive reviews and meta-analyses are limited by the availability of effect sizes, the control for relevant confounders, and the way time is treated in the analyses. To overcome these limitations, we conducted a coordinated data ...
In:
European Journal of Personality
(online first) (2025),
| Peter Haehner, Michael D. Krämer, Amanda J. Wright, Wiebke Bleidorn
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Aim Previous studies on loneliness among refugees have focused in particular on refugee and host country conditions. The present study expands the state of research by taking into account selected personality traits and additional indicators relating to refugee and host country conditions. The aim is to analyse loneliness among refugees from a more holistic perspective.Methods The study is based on ...
In:
Journal of Public Health
(online first) (2025),
| Rahim Hajji
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Based on the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this article investigates the recent development of meat consumption in Germany and selected socio-demographic determinants of meat-related dietary habits. In line with official data, the SOEP shows a downward trend in the frequency of meat consumption and an upward trend in self-reported vegetarianism for 2016?2022. Women, the better educated, singles, ...
In:
Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition
(online first) (2025), 1–14
| Jörg Hartmann, Peter Preisendörfer
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In recent decades, both mean dwelling sizes and per-capita living space have significantly increased worldwide. With dwelling size being the main determinant of private households? residential energy demand, these increases are major drivers of residential energy consumption. This article quantitatively analyses housing consumption in order to gain a better understanding of the factors behind risen ...
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Housing Studies
(online first) (2025), 1–27
| Simon Hein, Tobias Kuhnimhof
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Do border closures affect political attitudes? While a large body of research has discussed the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on nationalism and outgroup hostility, much less is known about how one of the main policy responses to stop the virus, closing the national borders, has impacted political attitudes. We argue that the sudden and unprecedented closures of national borders in the COVID-19 ...
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European Journal of Political Research
64 (2025), 4, 1923–1944
| Lisa Herbig, Asli Unan, Theresa Kuhn, Irene Rodríguez, Toni Rodon, Heike Klüver
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The average gender pay gap in Germany is 16 percent according to the most recent data. On the occasion of the 2025 Equal Pay Day, this Weekly Report using Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data shows that considerable differences according to age and level of education are hiding behind this average gap. For example, the gender pay gap increases significantly with age for people of all educational backgrounds ...
In:
DIW Weekly Report
15 (2025), 18/19, 109-115
| Fiona Herrmann, Katharina Wrohlich
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Migrants living in postindustrial countries are confronted with various socioeconomic challenges, including lower incomes, extended working hours, and lower occupational statuses than natives. Although health disparities linked to occupational positions have frequently been documented, they remain a relatively unexplored factor in the explanation of health gaps over time between migrants and native ...
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KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie
77 (2025), 1, 27–52
| Manuel Holz, Jochen Mayerl