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Subjective indicators have been proven to possess predictive power for a large array of social and economic outcomes. However, most of these measures face serious psychometric shortcomings, namely that the items used are not psychometrically investigated. Furthermore, various different item phrasing and response formats are used in different surveys for the assessment of one and the same construct. ...
In:
Rat für Sozial- und WirtschaftsDaten (RatSWD) ,
Building on Progress. Expanding the Research Infrastructure for the Social, Economic, and Behavioral Sciences
Opladen: Budrich Unipress
813-824
| Beatrice Rammstedt
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Psychological constructs are becoming increasingly important in social surveys. Scales for the assessment of these constructs are usually developed primarily for individual assessment and decision-making. Hence, in order to guarantee high levels of reliability, measurement precision, and validity, these scales are in most cases much too long to be applied in surveys. Such settings call for extremely ...
In:
Journal of Individual Differences
35 (2014), 4, 212-220
| Beatrice Rammstedt, Constanze Beierlein
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The present paper investigates the power of personality to predict important life outcomes in the context of the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC). On the most global level, personality can be described by the Big Five dimensions, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, and openness to experience. These five dimensions were assessed ...
In:
Large-scale Assessments in Education
5 (2017), 1, 2
| Beatrice Rammstedt, Daniel Danner, Clemens Lechner
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In Germany, the respondents who had participated in the 2012 survey of the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) were re-approached for the panel study PIAAC-L. PIAAC-L aims at investigating the longitudinal effects of skill outcomes over the life course and the development of the key skills assessed in PIAAC. Moreover, additional and alternative background information ...
In:
Large-scale Assessments in Education
5 (2017), 4,
| Beatrice Rammstedt, Silke Martin, Anouk Zabal, Claus Carstensen, Jürgen Schupp
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Numerous studies proved that people tend to select partners that are similar to them with regard to many social and psychological variables. Even though this effect was also found for personality, results are inconsistent and reveal convergence coefficients ranging from negative over zero- to positive correlations. The present study thus aims to investigate personality congruence between spouses and ...
In:
Personality and Individual Differences
45 (2008), 6, 533-535
| Beatrice Rammstedt, Jürgen Schupp
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Evidence of assortative mating according to personality was reported in a previous SOEP-based study (Rammstedt & Schupp, 2008). Based on population representative data of almost 7000 couples, high levels of congruence between spouses were found, which increased with marriage duration. Almost 5000 of these couples were tracked over a five-year period with personality assessed at the beginning and ...
In:
Personality and Individual Differences
54 (2013), 7, 832-835
| Beatrice Rammstedt, Frank M. Spinath, David Richter, Jürgen Schupp
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This article examines the prevalence of partnership formation at different life stages and analyses whether the determinants of partnership formation change over the life course. Data were obtained from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the years 1992 to 2014. Event history analyses were used to examine 13,871 periods of being single, of which 8,551 ended with the beginning of an intimate relationship. ...
In:
Journal of Family Issues
39 (2018), 13, 3363–3390
| Ingmar Rapp
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Despite the increasing number of non-marital romantic relationships in developed countries, little is known about their effects on health-related behaviors. This paper examined the impact of relationship status (single, dating, cohabiting or married) on physical activity. Three possible mechanisms underlying this association were discussed: social control and support by the partner, time restrictions ...
In:
Social Science & Medicine
98 (2013), 197-203
| Ingmar Rapp, Björn Schneider
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The German Child Benefit ("Kindergeld") is paid to legal guardians of children as a cash benefit. This study employs exogenous variations in the amount of child benefit received by households to investigate the extent to which these various changes have translated into an improvement in the circumstances of children related to their well-being. I use the German Socio-Economic Panel to estimate ...
In:
German Economic Review
17 (2016), 4, 438-477
| Christian Raschke
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After Easter, Germany's new labor and social affairs minister Andrea Nahles will be presenting the grand coalition's first major reform proposal for parliamentary debate: a bill to improve the benefits provided under the statutory pension system. A centerpiece of the reform package is early retirement on a full pension at 63 for those who have been paying into the state pension system for ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2014,
(DIW Roundup - Politik im Fokus 9)
| Anika Rasner