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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
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High levels of concerns about immigration pose a threat to the successful integration of immigrants and may even destabilize heterogeneous societies. This study assesses the mechanisms underlying the association between subjective well-being and concerns about immigration. The analyses rely on the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (1999-2017), a long-running data set that follows individuals over time ...
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European Sociological Review
40 (2024), 4, 686-703
| Fabian Kratz
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Building on a thick strand of the literature on the determinants of higher-order births, this study uses a gender and class perspective to analyse second birth progression rates in Germany. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1990 to 2020, individuals are classified based on their occupation into: upper service, lower service, skilled manual/higher-grade routine nonmanual, and semi-/unskilled ...
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European Journal of Population
39 (2023), 1, 5
| Michaela Kreyenfeld, Dirk Konietzka, Philippe Lambert, Vincent Jerald Ramos
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International migration of couples is rising. Still, there is little evidence on men’s and women’s domestic work hours before and after migration. This is despite the fact that domestic work provides deep insights into family life and, for migrants, is directly linked to integration. Therefore, this study examines how immigrant men and women change their domestic work hours following migration, using ...
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Journal of Family Issues
44 (2023), 4, 954-976
| Magdalena Krieger, Zerrin Salikutluk
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Balancing parenthood and employment can be challenging and distressing, particularly for single mothers. At the same time, transitioning to employment can improve the financial situations of single mothers and provide them with access to social networks, which can have beneficial effects on their health and well-being. Currently, however, it is not well understood whether the overall impact of employment ...
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Social Science Research
114 (2023), 102906
| Mine Kühn, Christian Dudel, Martin Werding
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On average, temporary jobs are far less stable than permanent jobs. This higher instability could potentially lower workers’ incentives to relocate towards the workplace, thereby resulting in longer commutes. However, surprisingly few studies have investigated the link between temporary employment and commuting length. Building on the notion that individuals strive to optimize their utility when deciding ...
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Transportation
51 (2024), 1, 1467-1491
| Inga Laß, Thomas Skora, Heiko Rüger, Mark Wooden, Martin Bujard
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Why is the empirical evidence for birth-order effects on human psychology so inconsistent? In contrast to the influential view that competitive dynamics among siblings permanently shape a person's personality, we find evidence that these effects are limited to the family environment. We tested this context-specific learning hypothesis in the domain of risk taking, using two large survey datasets ...
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Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
1531 (2024), 1, 60-68
| Tomás Lejarraga, Daniel D. Schnitzlein, Sarah C. Dahmann, Ralph Hertwig