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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Subjective well-being (SWB) is a complex multidimensional construct with manifold positive implications. However, research on the structure of SWB faces some challenges, as empirical results regarding the popular tripartite model of SWB are inconclusive, and domain satisfaction is often not sufficiently considered when analyzing the structure of SWB. Furthermore, since the different SWB components...
28.06.2023| Bernd Schäfer, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
We examine changes in the well-being of family caregivers during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and the SOEP-CoV study. The COVID-19 pandemic posed an extraordinary challenge for family caregivers, as care recipients are a high-risk group requiring special protection, and professional care services were severely cut back. ...
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European Journal of Ageing
20 (2023), 1, 15, 11 S.
| Katja Möhring, Sabine Zinn, Ulrike Ehrlich
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
joint with Alexander Schmidt-Catran, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
This study analyses the impact of a high-profile crime event on perceived public safety. At the 2015 New Year's Eve celebrations in Cologne (NYE), Germany, refugees allegedly committed thousands of crimes, ranging from theft to sexual assault. The widespread media coverage of these incidents has made a shift in the publics’...
14.06.2023| Martin Lange, ZEW – Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
Humans possess a need for social contact. Satisfaction of this need benefits well-being, whereas deprivation is detrimental. However, how much contact people desire is not universal, and evidence is mixed on individual differences in the association between contact and well-being. This preregistered longitudinal study (N = 190) examined changes in social contact and well-being (life satisfaction, depressivity/anxiety) ...
In:
Journal of Research in Personality
98 (2022), 104223
| Michael D. Krämer, Yannick Roos, David Richter, Cornelia Wrzus
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Objectives: Experiencing the onset of a chronic disease is a major life event impacting living conditions and wellbeing. Using longitudinal data, this study investigates immediate and trend impacts of chronic disease onset on life satisfaction and health satisfaction. It further examines, whether healthcare access buffers the immediate wellbeing reduction after disease onset.Methods: Data were...
14.12.2022| Barbara Stacherl
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
Unexpected crises, such as armed conflicts, natural disasters and pandemics require immediate government decisions on how to act to protect the population. The COVID-19 pandemic was the worst sudden onset global crisis since the Second World War, and highlighted tension between civil liberties and public health objectives. How did attitudes towards democracy respond to restrictive policy...
17.01.2023| Lorenz Meister
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
We study how land use fragmentation affects the life satisfaction of city dwellers. To this end, we calculate fragmentation metrics based on exact geographical coordinates of land use from the European Urban Atlas and of households from the German Socio-Economic Panel. Using ordinary least squares and fixed effects specifications, we find little effect on life satisfaction when aggregating over land ...
In:
Land Economics
98 (2022), 2, S. 399-420
| Christine Bertram, Jan Goebel, Christian Krekel, Katrin Rehdanz
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
This paper examines the experienced well-being of employed and unemployed workers. We use the survey-adapted Day Reconstruction Method of the Innovation Sample of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study to analyze the role of the employment status for well-being, incorporating time use. We use the novel P-index to summarize the average share of pleasurable minutes on a day and show that in contrast to ...
In:
Social Indicators Research
163 (2022), 2, S. 691–721
| Tobias Wolf, Maria Metzing, Richard E. Lucas
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Declining response rates have made traditional, probability-based sampling methods more resource-intensive and thus more expensive. Studies of population subgroups are particularly vulnerable to this trend, as smaller group sizes as well as other factors often make these groups "hard-to-reach" or "hard-to-survey". In response, researchers have increasingly relied on network...
04.04.2022| Mariel McKone Leonard, DeZIM - German Center for Integration and Migration Research
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Risk preference impacts how people make key life decisions related to health, wealth, and wellbeing. Yet the evolutionary roots of human risk taking behavior remain poorly understood. I will present two studies on risk preferences in chimpanzees, one of our closest living relatives.In the first study, we investigated whether chimpanzees (N=13) differentiate between social...
09.02.2022| Lou Haux, Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung (MPIB)