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In recent years, researchers have grappled with the phenomenon that public demand for redistribution has not systematically increased in response to rising inequality. Meritocratic beliefs have been suggested as an explanation for this observation, because they can help legitimize inequalities. Past research has identified local-level inequality, segregation, or diversity as important factors for how ...
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Social Sciences
12 (2023), 7, 376
| Nicole Oetke, Maria Norkus, Jan Goebel
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Exposure to expectations for active aging may be modulated by age and individual resources (socioeconomic status, social integration, and health) via multiple pathways. Using a cross-sectional, nationally representative sample of adults aged 17 to 94 (N = 2,007), we investigated the relations between age, individual resources, and perceived expectations for active aging (PEAA) in three domains (physical ...
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The International Journal of Aging and Human Development
97 (2023), 3, 267-288
| Maria K. Pavlova, Sonja Radoš, Klaus Rothermund, Rainer K. Silbereisen
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The link between personality and fertility is relatively underexplored. Moreover, there are only a few studies focusing on the prospective association between personality and childbearing. However, none of these studies considered the Five-Factor Model (FFM), which is the most widely accepted measurement of personality. The present study fills this gap by examining the prospective association between ...
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Genus
79 (2023), 1, 6
| Steffen Peters
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Erwerbsarme gelten als vulnerable Gruppe. Die vorliegende Studie untersucht, ob sich die Gesundheitsunterschiede zwischen Erwerbsarmen und Nicht-Erwerbsarmen während der COVID-19-Pandemie verstärkt haben, und führt dazu einen Zeitvergleich mit früheren Phasen ökonomischer Krisen und arbeitsmarktpolitischer Reformen durch.
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Bundesgesundheitsblatt - Gesundheitsforschung - Gesundheitsschutz
66 (2023), 8, 869-881
| Timo-Kolja Pförtner, Ibrahim Demirer
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Background Controlled population-based studies on long-term health sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 can help to identify clinical signs specific to “Long COVID” and to evaluate this emerging public health challenge.Aim To examine prevalence differences of Long COVID-associated symptoms among adults with and without SARS-CoV-2 infection in Germany.Methods This population-based, retrospective study (11/2021-2/2022) ...
2023,
(medRxiv)
| Christina Poethko-Müller, Ana Ordonez-Cruickshank, Julia Nübel, Giselle Sarganas, Antje Gößwald, Lorenz Schmid, Angelika Schaffrath Rosario, Jens Hoebel, Martin Schlaud, Christa Scheidt-Nave
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Objective: This study examines whether parental and adolescent life satisfaction is lower when adolescents are on a lower educational trajectory than their parents, and whether this association is mediated by the quality of the parent–adolescent relationship. Background: Existing literature shows that families seek to ensure status maintenance and to avoid downward educational mobility in their children. ...
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Family Relations
72 (2023), 1, 234-252
| Matthias Pollmann-Schult
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Individuals who are socioeconomically disadvantaged are at increased risk for aging-related diseases and perform less well on tests of cognitive function. The weathering hypothesis proposes that these disparities in physical and cognitive health arise from an acceleration of biological processes of aging. Theories of how life adversity is biologically embedded identify epigenetic alterations, including ...
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Clinical Epigenetics
15 (2023), 1, 70
| Laurel Raffington, Ted Schwaba, Muna Aikins, David Richter, Gert G. Wagner, Kathryn Paige Harden, Daniel W. Belsky, Elliot M. Tucker-Drob
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In recent decades, the number of large-scale surveys that have included measures of the Big Five personality traits in their standard questionnaires has grown sharply both in Germany and internationally. Consequently, a vast, heterogeneous, high-quality data base is now readily available to personality psychologists for secondary analyses. In this paper, we provide an overview of 25 public large-scale ...
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Personality Science
4 (2023), 1-25
| Beatrice Rammstedt, Lena Roemer, Julie Mutschler, Clemens Lechner
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Working time mismatches – and especially overemployment – continue to be a highly relevant topic in German legislation, business practice and in research. However, it has been rather neglected in empirical absenteeism research. Therefore, the aim of this study is to examine the relationship between contractual overemployment, that is, the difference between contractual and preferred working hours, ...
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German Journal of Human Resource Management
38 (2024), 1, 25-58
| Ricarda Reich
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Intergenerational relations have received close attention in the context of population aging and increased childcare provision by grandparents. However, few studies have investigated the psychological consequences of becoming a grandparent. In a preregistered test of grandparenthood as a developmental task in middle and older adulthood, we used representative panel data from the Netherlands (N = 563) ...
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European Journal of Personality
37 (2023), 5, 560-586
| Michael D. Krämer, Manon A. van Scheppingen, William J. Chopik, David Richter