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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we undertake a simultaneous assessment of the importance of factors that are individually found to be significant for the adoption of renewable energy systems by households but are not yet tested jointly. These are sociodemographic and housing characteristics, environmental concern, personality traits, and economic factors; i.e. the expected costs of ...
In:
Energy Economics
81 (2019), S. 216-226
| Anke Jacksohn, Peter Grösche, Katrin Rehdanz, Carsten Schröder
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
Maternal well-being is assumed to be associated with well-being of individual family members, optimal parenting practices, and positive developmental outcomes for children. The objective of this study was to examine the interplay between maternal well-being, parent-child activities, and the well-being of 5- to 7-year-old children. In a sample of N = 291 mother-child dyads, maternal life satisfaction, ...
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Frontiers in Psychology
9 (2018), Art. 739, 12 S.
| Nina Richter, Rebecca Bondü, C. Katharina Spiess, Gert G. Wagner, Gisela Trommsdorff
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Diskussionspapiere 1720 / 2018
Despite considerable policy efforts, women continue to be underrepresented in positions of power and decision making. As an important aspect of women empowerment, we examine women’s participation in intrahousehold financial decision making and how this is affected by financial literacy. Using both OLS and IV regression analysis, we show that women with higher financial literacy are more involved in ...
2018| Antonia Grohmann, Annekathrin Schoofs
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SOEPpapers 867 / 2016
This paper analyzes private retirement savings, the amount for German individuals and how these savings are influenced by personality traits. With the 2002 to 2009 cross section of the Socio-Economic Panel for Germany (SOEP), it is investigated how the Big-Five and the Locus of Control influence the decision to have private retirement savings, and the estimated amount of these savings. Results indicate ...
2016| Konrad C. Schäfer
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SOEPpapers 783 / 2015
Aims: To investigate cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between personality and smoking, and test whether sociodemographic factors modify these associations.Design: Cross-sectional and longitudinal individual-participant meta-analysis. Setting: Nine cohort studies from Australia, Germany, UK and US. Participants: A total of 79,757 men and women (mean age = 51 years). ...
2015| Christian Hakulinen, Mirka Hintsanen, Marcus R. Munafò, Marianna Virtanen, Mika Kivimäki, G. David Batty, Markus Jokela
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Referierte Aufsätze 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 ...
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Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
110 (2016), 5, S. 782-799
| Cornelia Wrzus, Gert G. Wagner, Michaela Riediger
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Seminar
mit Kommentar von Dr. Wiebke Schulz (DIW Berlin)
Anmeldung bis 29.06.2015 unter Bien-edu@diw.de
02.07.2015| Prof W. Steven Barnett, PhD
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DIW Wochenbericht 12 / 2015
Die Messung und Erklärung von Kriminalitätsfurcht ist ein seit Jahrzehnten umstrittenes Thema in der Kriminologie und ihren Nachbardisziplinen. Dieser Beitrag schlägt einen Weg vor, wie Kriminalitätsfurcht empirisch breiter als mit dem bisher üblichen Standardindikator untersucht und gemessen werden kann. Im Rahmen der umfangreichen Erhebung von Angaben zu Sorge und Wahrscheinlichkeit, Opfer von Kriminalität ...
2015| Mathias Bug, Martina Kraus, Bartosz Walenda
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SOEPpapers 539 / 2013
We argue that entrepreneurial choice proceeds in at least in two steps, with vocational choice nearly always preceding choice of employment status, whether that be self-employment or dependent employment. Since the two decisions are interrelated, analysis of entrepreneurial choice as a single act may lead to inconsistent estimates of the factors that determine the decision to launch a business venture. ...
2013| Michael Fritsch, Alina Sorgner
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
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 end ...
In:
Personality and Individual Differences
54 (2013), 7, S. 832-835
| Beatrice Rammstedt, Frank M. Spinath, David Richter, Jürgen Schupp