Prior research has suggested three explanations why levels of voluntary engagement rise
and fall over time within societies. A social structural explanation considers individual …

This study pursues two objectives: First, to describe how gender disparities in wealth levels
vary by parental class and second, to examine the contribution of the gendered allocation of …

Driven by financialization and rising demand for credit, household sector debt in OECD
countries has risen sharply. We argue that this rise in private debt has become a significant …

Life events have been theorized to cause personality trait changes. However, people differ
in their personality trait trajectories after experiencing important life events. Although several …

Objective: In comparing East and West Germany, we investigate task specialization and its
association with marital stability twofold:(1) Has the association between women's …

This paper describes the weighting methodology for the second wave of the Living in
Germany-Nationwide Corona Monitoring study (RKI-SOEP2). Information from the larger …

Our study investigated gender role attitudes in narcissism. Using a representative data set
(N= 2,850) from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) in Germany, we examined how two …

A key element of migrants' well-being is their emotional integration, that is, the extent to
which they perceive themselves as members of society and their identification with the …

Relations to family and friends are a key dimension of an individual's social integration and,
by extension, are crucial for the social cohesion of societies. Based on that principle, this …

This study among owners of photovoltaic systems investigates whether users' Big Five
personality traits derived from their Facebook likes contribute to whether or not they adopt an …