Loneliness and the Big Five personality traits: A meta–analysis

S Buecker, M Maes, JJA Denissen… - European Journal of …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
This preregistered meta–analysis (k= 113, total n= 93 668) addressed how the Big Five
dimensions of personality (extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism …

How do educational inequalities develop? The role of socioeconomic status, cognitive ability, home environment, and self-efficacy along the educational path

L Paulus, FM Spinath, E Hahn - Intelligence, 2021 - Elsevier
In Western countries, children's education is strongly influenced by their social background,
which cannot be fully explained by individual differences in cognitive ability between social …

[PDF][PDF] The social stratification of environmental and genetic influences on education: new evidence using a register-based twin sample

T Baier, V Lang - Sociological Science, 2019 - sociologicalscience.com
The relative importance of genes and shared environmental influences on stratification
outcomes has recently received much attention in the literature. We focus on education and …

[HTML][HTML] What happens with comparison processes when “the other” is very similar? Academic self-concept formation in twins

Y Kim, H Gaspard, M Fleischmann, B Nagengast… - Contemporary …, 2023 - Elsevier
According to the internal/external frame of reference (I/E) model (Marsh, 1986), individuals'
academic self-concept is strongly influenced by comparing their achievement in one domain …

Socioeconomic status amplifies genetic effects in middle childhood in a large German twin sample

J Gottschling, E Hahn, CR Beam, FM Spinath, S Carroll… - Intelligence, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Scarr-Rowe hypothesis predicts that the heritability of cognitive abilities is
higher in more privileged socioeconomic conditions, meaning that genetic potential can be …

Pathways of intergenerational transmission of advantages during adolescence: social background, cognitive ability, and educational attainment

W Schulz, R Schunck, M Diewald… - Journal of youth and …, 2017 - Springer
Educational attainment in adolescence is of paramount importance for attaining higher
education and for shaping subsequent life chances. Sociological accounts focus on the role …

The German twin family panel (TwinLife)

B Mönkediek, V Lang, L Weigel, MA Baum… - Twin Research and …, 2019 - cambridge.org
The German Twin Family Panel (TwinLife) is a German longitudinal study of monozygotic
and dizygotic same-sex twin pairs and their families that was designed to investigate the …

Is there something special about twin families? A comparison of parenting styles in twin and non-twin families

B Mönkediek, W Schulz, H Eichhorn, M Diewald - Social Science Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Twin comparisons offer a powerful quasi-experimental design to study the impact of the
family of origin on children's life chances. Yet, there are concerns about the generalizability …

Do academic ability and social background influence each other in shaping educational attainment? The case of the transition to secondary education in Germany

B Mönkediek, M Diewald - Social science research, 2022 - Elsevier
Studies examining the interplay between children's academic ability and parental
background are rare, and their findings are mixed and inconclusive. This paper addresses …

Differences in parenting behavior are systematic sources of the non-shared environment for internalizing and externalizing problem behavior

A Nikstat, R Riemann - Behavior Genetics, 2023 - Springer
Although there is evidence for non-shared environmental links between parenting and
problem behavior, so far, age-, informant-, and parent-specific patterns for both internalizing …