Loneliness levels were assessed in a longitudinal, nationwide sample (N total = 6,010) collected over the course of the first 3 months of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. When in-person social contact restrictions were put in place, loneliness increased significantly compared to prepandemic levels but began to decrease again even before contact restrictions were eased. The loneliness costs were distributed ...
Personality traits like neuroticism show both continuity and change across adolescence and adulthood, with most pronounced changes occurring in young adulthood. It has been assumed, but insufficiently examined, that trait changes occur gradually over the years through the accumulation of daily experiences. The current longitudinal measurement burst study examined (a) how changes in average momentary ...
Repeated experiences and activities drive personality development. Leisure activities are among the daily routines that may elicit personality change. Yet despite the important role they play in daily life, little is known about their prospective effects on personality traits and vice versa. The objective of this study was to examine the extent to which within-person changes in leisure activities lead ...
24. Juni 2021 - In von Unsicherheit geprägten Zeiten wie der COVID-19-Pandemie ist Vertrauen in die Mitmenschen eine wichtige gesellschaftliche Ressource: Denn die Pandemie kann nicht durch einzelne Institutionen oder Personen, sondern nur durch breite gesellschaftliche Kooperation überwunden werden. Wie aktuelle Ergebnisse der SOEP-CoV-Studie zeigen, ist das Vertrauen in andere auch in...
The digit ratio (2D:4D) is considered a proxy for testosterone exposure in utero, and there has been a recent surge of studies testing whether 2D:4D is associated with economic preferences. Although the results are not conclusive, previous studies have reported statistically significant correlations between 2D:4D and risk taking, altruism, positive reciprocity, negative reciprocity and trust. However, ...
Bereits zu Beginn der Corona-Pandemie und des ersten Lockdowns wurde vermutet, dass die Krise mit einer starken psychischen Belastung der Bevölkerung einhergehen würde. Im zweiten, deutlich längeren Lockdown wurden diese Befürchtungen noch größer. Denn viele sahen dadurch die psychische Gesundheit der in Deutschland lebenden Menschen akut bedroht. Wie aktuelle...
Agency and communion are the two fundamental content dimensions in psychology. The two dimensions figure prominently in many psychological realms (personality, social, self, motivational, cross-cultural, etc.). In contemporary research, however, personality is most commonly measured within the Big Five framework. We developed novel agency and communion scales based on the items from the most popular ...
Die Vielfalt von geschlechtlichen Identitäten wie auch sexuellen Orientierungen repräsentieren ein gesellschaftliches Phänomen, das in Wissenschaft, Politik und Öffentlichkeit zunehmend an Bedeutung gewinnt. Die soziale Lage von Lesben, Schwulen, Bisexuellen, Trans-, Inter- und queeren Menschen (LGBTIQ) betrifft dabei thematisch verschiedenste Bereiche des Lebens wie Familien,...
Personality predicts how we interact with others, what partners we have, and how happy and lasting our romantic relationships are. At the same time, our experiences in these relationships may affect our personality. Who experiences specific major relationship events and how do these events relate to personality development? We examined this issue based on data from a nationally representative household ...