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The Social Comparison Scale: Testing the Validity, Reliability, and Applicability of the Iowa-Netherlands Comparison Orientation Measure (INCOM) on the German Population
Schneider, Simone; Schupp, Jürgen - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011
Social comparisons are an essential source of information about the self. Research in social psychology has shown individual variation in the tendency toward comparison with other people's opinions and abilities, raising the question of whether social comparisons are driven by psychological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008854233
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Life Satisfaction and Relative Income: Perceptions and Evidence
Mayraz, Guy; Wagner, Gert G.; Schupp, Jürgen - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
income comparisons against a wide range of potential comparison groups, enabling us to investigate a broader range of … subjects to report (a) how their income compares to various groups, such a co-workers, friends, and neighbours, and (b) how … important these income comparisons are to them. We find substantial gender differences, with income comparisons being much …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017414
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The German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP): Scope, Evolution and Enhancements
Wagner, Gert G.; Frick, Joachim R.; Schupp, Jürgen - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2007
After the introduction in Section 2, we very briefly sketch out current theoretical and empirical developments in the social sciences. In our view, they all point in the same direction: toward the acute and increasing need for multidisciplinary longitudinal data covering a wide range of living...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017428
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The Socio-Economic Module of the Berlin Aging Study II (SOEP-BASE): Description, Structure, and Questionnaire
Böckenhoff, Anke; Saßenroth, Denise; Kroh, Martin; … - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
The Berlin Aging Study II (BASE-II) is a multidisciplinary study that allows for the investigation of how a multitude of health status factors as well as many other social and economic outcomes interplay. The sample consists of 1,600 participants aged 60 to 80, and 600 participants aged 20 to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128949
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Members of German Federal Parliament More Risk-Loving than General Population
Heß, Moritz; Scheve, Christian von; Schupp, Jürgen; … - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
The article analyzes the question of whether career politicians differ systematically from the general population in terms of their attitudes toward risk. A written survey of members of the 17th German Bundestag in late 2011 identified their risk attitudes, and the survey data was set in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128951
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Control Strivings in the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)
Schöllgen, Ina; Gerstorf, Denis; Heckhausen, Jutta - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014
The Motivational Theory of Life-Span Development (MTD) identifies motivational and self-regulatory strategies that people use to meet the challenges they face throughout life. The theory distinguishes control strivings related to goal engagement from those related to goal disengagement and goal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128953
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Sind Politiker risikofreudiger als das Volk?: Eine empirische Studie zu Mitgliedern des Deutschen Bundestags
Heß, Moritz; Scheve, Christian von; Schupp, Jürgen; … - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
The paper seeks to answer whether career politicians differ systematically from the general population in terms of their attitudes toward risk. A written survey of members of the 17th German Bundestag in late 2011 identified their risk attitudes, and the survey data was set in relation to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128992
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Natural Disaster, Policy Action, and Mental Well-Being: The Case of Fukushima
Goebel, Jan; Krekel, Christian; Tiefenbach, Tim; … - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
We study the impact of the Fukushima disaster on people's mental well·being in another industrialized country, more than 5000 miles distant. The meltdown significantlyincreased environmental concerns by 20% among the German population. Subsequent drastic policy action permanently shut down the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185772
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What Drives Academic Data Sharing?
Fecher, Benedikt; Friesike, Sascha; Hebing, Marcel - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014
Despite widespread support from policy makers, funding agencies, and scientific journals, academic researchers rarely make their research data available to others. At the same time, data sharing in research is attributed a vast potential for scientific progress. It allows the reproducibility of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185773
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Choices Which Change Life Satisfaction: Similar Results for Australia, Britain and Germany
Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud; Wagner, Gert G. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
Using data from national socio-economic panel surveys in Australia, Britain and Germany, this paper analyzes the effects of individual preferences and choices on subjective well-being (SWB). It is shown that, in all three countries, preferences and choices relating to life goals/values,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008584360