Personality Has Minor Effects on Panel Attrition

Artikel

Abstract In light of the recent interest in using longitudinal panel data to study personality development, it is important to know if personality traits are related to panel attrition. We analyse the effects of personality on panel drop-out separately for an ‘older’ subsample (started in 1984), a relatively ‘young’ subsample (started in 2000), and a ‘new’ subsample (started in 2009) of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study. We found that openness slightly decreases the probability of panel drop-out in all three samples. For the ‘older’ subsample only, we found a small negative effect of agreeableness on panel drop-out. We control for age, sex, education, migration background, and the number of inhabitants in the region of the respondents.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal: Journal of Research in Personality ; ISSN: 0092-6566 ; Volume: 53 ; Year: 2014 ; Pages: 31-35 ; Amsterdam: Elsevier

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft
• Subject: Personality ; Panel attrition ; German Socio-Economic Panel Study

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Richter, David ; Körtner, John L. ; Saßenroth, Denise
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Elsevier ; ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
• (where): Amsterdam
• (when): 2014-12

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2014.08.001
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/109222
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET