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Refereed essays Web of Science
People presumably choose and create their daily environments according to their personality. Prior research shows that, for example, more extraverted people engage more often in social situations, and more conscientious people engage more often in work-related activities compared with less extraverted or less conscientious people, respectively. The current study examined such personality-situation ...
In:
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
110 (2016), 5, S. 782-799
| Cornelia Wrzus, Gert G. Wagner, Michaela Riediger
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Externe Monographien
Wiesbaden:
Springer VS,
2013,
192 S.
| Denise Saßenroth
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Refereed essays Web of Science
In light of the recent interest in using longitudinal panel data to study personality development, it is important to know if personality traits are related to panel attrition. We analyse the effects of personality on panel drop-out separately for an ‘older’ subsample (started in 1984), a relatively ‘young’ subsample (started in 2000), and a ‘new’ subsample (started in 2009) of the German Socio-Economic ...
In:
Journal of Research in Personality
53 (2014), S. 31-35
| David Richter, John Körtner, Denise Saßenroth
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Refereed essays Web of Science
We provide the first joint evidence on the relationship between individuals' cognitive abilities, their personality and earnings for Germany. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, we employ scores from an ultra-short IQ-test and a set of measures of personality traits, namely locus of control, reciprocity and all basic items from the Five Factor Personality Inventory. Our estimates ...
In:
Labour Economics
17 (2010), 3, S. 535-546
| Guido Heineck, Silke Anger
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Diskussionspapiere 733 / 2007
Objectives - Taking a cross-national comparative perspective, we investigate linkages between volunteer work, informal helping, and caring among Europeans aged 50 or older: Is the relationship between these activities characterized by complementarity or by substitution? Is there evidence for the existence of (unobserved) personality traits that foster engagement independent of a specific activity? ...
2007| Karsten Hank, Stephanie Stuck
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Refereed essays Web of Science
This paper empirically analyzes whether the character-based approach, which focuses on the personality structure and the human capital of business founders, allows prediction of entrepreneurial success. A unique data set is used consisting of 414 persons whose personal characteristics were analyzed by different methods, namely an one-day assessment center (AC) and a standardized questionnaire, before ...
In:
Kyklos
61 (2008), 2, S. 189-214
| Marco Caliendo, Alexander S. Kritikos
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Refereed essays Web of Science
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, S. 533-535
| Beatrice Rammstedt, Jürgen Schupp
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SOEPpapers 124 / 2008
We provide the first joint evidence on the relationship between individuals' cognitive abilities, their personality and earnings for Germany. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, we employ scores from an ultra-short IQ-test and a set of measures of personality traits, namely locus of control, reciprocity and all basic items from the Five Factor Personality Inventory. Our estimates ...
2008| Guido Heineck, Silke Anger
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Externe Monographien
Bonn:
IZA,
2007,
36 S.
(Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 2687)
| Marco Caliendo, Alexander S. Kritikos
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Diskussionspapiere 836 / 2008
We provide the first joint evidence on the relationship between individuals' cognitive abilities, their personality and earnings for Germany. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, we employ scores from an ultra-short IQ-test and a set of measures of personality traits, namely locus of control, reciprocity and all basic items from the Five Factor Personality Inventory. Our estimates ...
2008| Guido Heineck, Silke Anger