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      <title>Partnership Longevity and Personality Congruence in Couples</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/10419/74546</link>
      <description>Title: Partnership Longevity and Personality Congruence in Couples
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Rammstedt, Beatrice; Spinath, Frank M.; Richter, David; Schupp, Jürgen
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: Evidence of assortative mating according to personality was reported in a previous SOEP-based study (Rammstedt &amp; 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 of this time, which allowed us to investigate the relationship between personality congruence and marriage duration longitudinally. Using this data, we investigated (a) whether personality congruence is predictive for partnership longevity and whether congruence therefore differs between subsequently stable and unstable couples, (b) if stable couples become more congruent, and (c) if separated couples become less congruent with regard to their personality over time. The results provide initial evidence of personality congruence as a predictor for partnership longevity: the more congruent couples are in the personality domain of Openness, the more stable their partnership. In addition, we found no indications of an increase in personality congruence over time within the stable couples; within the separated couples, however, a strong decrease in congruence was detectable.</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Effect of Unemployment on the Mental Health of Spouses – Evidence from plant closures in Germany</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/10419/74545</link>
      <description>Title: The Effect of Unemployment on the Mental Health of Spouses – Evidence from plant closures in Germany
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Marcus, Jan
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: Studies on health effects of unemployment usually neglect spillover effects on spouses. This study specifically investigates the effect of an individual's unemployment on the mental health of their spouse. In order to allow for causal interpretation of the estimates, it focuses on plant closure as entry into unemployment, and combines difference-in-difference and matching based on entropy balancing to provide robustness against observable and time-invariant unobservable heterogeneity. Using German Socio-Economic Panel Study data the paper reveals that unemployment decreases the mental health of spouses almost as much as for the directly affected individuals. The findings highlight that previous studies underestimate the public health costs of unemployment as they do not account for the potential consequences for spouses.</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Preadult Origins of Postmaterialism: A Longitudinal Sibling Study</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/10419/74464</link>
      <description>Title: The Preadult Origins of Postmaterialism: A Longitudinal Sibling Study
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Kroh, Martin
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: Using a research design that traces siblings' preferences for postmaterialist values in Germany over two decades, this article provides new evidence on the origins of value preferences. Focusing on Inglehart's thesis of value change, the combined socialisation and scarcity hypothesis is tested against the social learning hypothesis – a prominent rival account of preadult value preference formation. Sibling estimates show that the shared preadult environment does indeed exert lasting effects on preferences for postmaterialist policies. In addition to the weak effect of the shared experience of socioeconomic scarcity, it is found that the intergenerational transmission of postmaterialism, disregarded by Inglehart's original thesis, plays a significant role in value preference acquisition. The implications of individual-level findings for forecasts of aggregate-level trends in value change are discussed.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Inheritance and the Dynamics of Party Identification</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/10419/74463</link>
      <description>Title: Inheritance and the Dynamics of Party Identification
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Kroh, Martin; Selb, Peter
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: Extensive research efforts notwithstanding, scholars continue to disagree on the nature and meaning of party identification. Traditionalists conceive of partisanship as a largely affective attachment to a political party that emerges in childhood through parental influences and tends to persist throughout life. The revisionist conception of partisanship is that of a running tally of party utilities that is updated based on current party performance. We attempt to reconcile both schools of thought in an individual difference perspective, showing that the party loyalties acquired through parental influences confirm better the traditional view, while the attachments of individuals who did not inherit their parents' party loyalties exhibit features more closely matching the revisionist predictions. The analysis is facilitated by uniquely suited longitudinal household data emanating from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study that allow to study party identifications of young adults and their parents on an annual basis from 1984 to 2007.</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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