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Non-native Accents among School Beginners and Teacher Expectations for Future Student Achievements

Based on sociological, economic, and social-psychological theories of discrimination and bias, this study addresses non-native accents among ethnic minority students as they begin school and explores effects of such accents on their teachers’ achievement expectations. Using a unique data set of first graders in Germany, the analysis reveals that a non-native accent is relevant to teachers’ expectations ...

On the robustness of reciprocal associations between personality and religiosity in a German sample

Objective Entringer et al. used longitudinal data from a German panel study to examine reciprocal causal effects between personality and religiosity, along with cultural moderators of these effects. The current paper examines the robustness of the original effects to alternative model specifications. Method We reanalyzed the same four-wave data spanning 12 years (total N = 46,316), first replicating ...

Neuroticism, emotional stress reactivity and recovery in daily life: Examining extraversion and openness as moderators

Emotional stressor reactivity and recovery from stressors are associated with the personality trait neuroticism. We examined whether higher extraversion or openness might buffer these associations in daily life. Participants from two age-heterogeneous samples (lifespan: n = 364, aged 14–88 years; late adulthood: n = 170, aged 66–89 years) answered personality questionnaires and reported their momentary ...

The Happiness Analyzer: A New Technique for Measuring Subjective Well-Being

PIAAC-L: the longitudinal follow-up to PIAAC in Germany

Dieser Beitrag beschreibt die Grundzüge von PIAAC-L, der Nachfolgestudie von PIAAC (Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies) in Deutschland und stellt die PIAAC-L-Daten vor. PIAAC-L war eine gemeinschaftliche Studie von drei groß angelegten Erhebungen in Deutschland, PIAAC, dem Nationalen Bildungspanel (NEPS) und dem Sozio-oekonomischen Panel (SOEP). Die Befragungspersonen ...

Measuring Digital Work in (German) Employee Surveys: An Overview and Proposal of Systematization

Innovative measurements in representative surveys are needed to draw meaningful conclusions about the prevalence of digital work and its consequences for employees’ job demands and resources. Since the digitalization of work encompasses a variety of technological developments and possible implications for employment, there are many different approaches to its operationalization. Within this article, ...

Working memory and fluid intelligence are differentially related to categories of urban fabric in older adults: Results from the Berlin aging study

Urbanization is Globally increasing at a rapid rate but its consequences for mental health, including cognitive functioning, are not well understood. In particular, little is known about the effects of different morphological features associated with urban development, such as variations in the densities of urban fabric (i.e., degrees of ground sealing). We investigated associations of episodic memory, ...

Representativeness in Business Surveys and Linked Employer Employee Data: Evidence from the SOEP-LEE2 Data for Germany

A central goal of the dtec.bw project SOEP-LEE2 is to provide high-quality data for research in organisational, business, and economic studies. To this end, the project conducted two multi-year surveys among German establishments. The first survey, SOEP-LEE2-Core, is linkable to employee data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and is characterized by a complex sampling procedure. The second survey, ...

The Socio-Economic Panel Linked Employer-Employee Survey Version 2 (SOEP-LEE2): Overview and Results from the First Wave

The trend toward digitalization not only changes the organization of work in areas such as production, services and logistics, but also the work situation of employees. To study such changes, data is needed at both the individual and corporate levels. The SOEP-LEE2 project contributes to research through a linked employer-employee study in combination with an establishment and self-employed survey ...

Measuring Loneliness: The European Union Loneliness Survey Covering 27 European Countries

While Chap. 1introduces the concept of loneliness as a negative feeling associated with perceived deficiencies in the quantity and quality of social relationships, this chapter focuses on how this concept is operationalised and measured in surveys. We start by discussing the literature on the measurement of loneliness, which often relies on the use of psychometric scales. In large-scale surveys the ...