SOEP-IS 2013 - Project "Mobility and Identity"

Neyer, Franz J.; Zimmermann, Julia Teresa; Schubach, Elisabeth Edith Research Report SOEP-IS 2013 - Project "Mobility and Identity" SOEP Survey Papers, No. 1090 Provided in Cooperation with: German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) Suggested Citation: Neyer, Franz J.; Zimmermann, Julia Teresa; Schubach, Elisabeth Edith (2022) : SOEP-IS 2013 - Project "Mobility and Identity", SOEP Survey Papers, No. 1090, Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin This Version is available at: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/253409 Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen: Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden. Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen. 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Neyer, Julia Zimmermann, Elisabeth Schubach Series H - SOEP-IS Modules SOEP-IS 2013 – Project “Mobility and Identity“ 1090 2022 Running since 1984, the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) is a wide-ranging representative longitudinal study of private households, located at the German Institute for Economic Research, DIW Berlin. The aim of the SOEP Survey Papers Series is to thoroughly document the survey’s data collection and data processing. The SOEP Survey Papers is comprised of the following series: Series A – Survey Instruments (Erhebungsinstrumente) Series B – Survey Reports (Methodenberichte) Series C – Data Documentation (Datendokumentationen) Series D – Variable Descriptions and Coding Series E – SOEPmonitors Series F – SOEP Newsletters Series G – General Issues and Teaching Materials Series H – SOEP-IS Modules The SOEP Survey Papers are available at http://www.diw.de/soepsurveypapers Editors: Dr. Jan Goebel, DIW Berlin Prof. Dr. Stefan Liebig, DIW Berlin and Freie Universität Berlin Prof. Dr. David Richter, DIW Berlin and Freie Universität Berlin Prof. Dr. Carsten Schröder, DIW Berlin and Freie Universität Berlin Prof. Dr. Jürgen Schupp, DIW Berlin and Freie Universität Berlin Prof. Dr. Sabine Zinn, DIW Berlin and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin Please cite this paper as follows: Franz J. Neyer, Julia Zimmermann, Elisabeth Schubach. 2022. SOEP-IS 2013 – Project “Mobility and Identity“. SOEP Survey Papers 1090: Series H. Berlin: DIW/SOEP This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. © 2022 by SOEP ISSN: 2193-5580 (online) DIW Berlin German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) Mohrenstr. 58 10117 Berlin Germany [email protected] SOEP-IS 2013 – Project “Mobility and Identity“ Module Title in SOEP Documentation: Regional Identification Franz J. Neyer, Julia Zimmermann, Elisabeth Schubach Project “Mobility and Identity“ Spatiotemporal mobility - the permanent or temporal, voluntary or forced change of residence - constitutes extensive challenges and opportunities to individual life plans in the 21st century. Mobility experiences may either enrich or challenge individual identities. At the same time, identity may determine whether individuals engage in mobility experiences or not. However, until today the psychological conditions and consequences of spatiotemporal mobility have hardly ever been researched (cf. Oishi, 2010). With the current project we aim to provide the scientific framework for a research program that systematically investigates mobility from the perspectives of developmental, social and personality psychology. The project is funded by the Thüringer Ministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft, und Kultur (TMBWK). Several chairs at the Institute of Psychology at FSU Jena are involved and focus on either developmental (Prof. Dr. Andreas Beelmann, Prof. Dr. Peter Noack, Prof. Dr. Klaus Rothermund), social (Prof. Dr. Thomas Kessler, Prof. Dr. Melanie Steffens) or personality (Prof. Dr. Franz J. Neyer) related issues of the overall topic. Research Questions Within our project “Mobility and Identity”, one of our main goals is to analyse the dynamic interplay of personality traits, regional identification and geographic mobility based on representative and longitudinal survey data. First, we will investigate the concept of regional identification empirically, e.g. its temporal stability and whether a bidirectional relationship between regional identification and residential mobility exists, i. e. to what extent regional identification predicts mobility decisions and vice versa. Second, we will analyse regional identification in the context of other meaningful psychological constructs (e.g. the Big Five personality traits). Previous research revealed the Big Five predicting moving behaviour within countries (Jokela, 2009; Jokela, Elovainio, Kivimäki, & KeltikangasJärvinen, 2008) but also moving behaviour catalysing personality development in the core traits (Specht, Egloff, & Schmukle, 2011). This is particularly surprising, given that personality traits may also moderate the effects of geographic mobility decisions on developmental outcomes. For example, childhood geographic mobility experiences were found to impair the well-being of introverted but not extraverted adults (Oishi, & Schimmack, 2010). However, to the best of our knowledge, the dynamic interplay of the Big Five personality traits and regional identification with respect to geographic mobility experiences has not been examined before. Hence, a simultaneous and longitudinal assessment of these psychological constructs is a prevalent desiderate of our research project. In 2009, the Big Five and regional identification were both assessed within in the SOEP for the first time. In 2013, the Big Five will be reassessed, and it would be desirable to include a reassessment of regional identification that would provide us with the data to close that research gap. SOEP Survey Papers 1090 SOEP-IS 1 Proposed Survey Question And Issues Related To Data Collection In order to assess regional identification, we propose a single-item assessment identical to the one in 2009 (ZP145). „Wie sehr fühlen Sie sich dem Ort und der Gegend hier, in der Sie wohnen, verbunden? Sehr stark □ Stark □ Weniger □ Eigentlich gar nicht □ The proposed mode of data collection is computer-assisted personal interviews (CAPI). The requested sample size is the entire SOEP-IS. The estimated length of interview time needed is 1 additional minute. Literature Jokela, M. (2009). Personality predicts migration within and between U.S.States. Journal of Research in Personality, 43, 79-83. Jokela, M., Elovainio, M., Kivimäki, M., & Keltikangas-Järvinen, L. (2008). Temperament and migration patterns in Finland. Psychological Science, 19, 831837. Oishi, S. (2010). The psychology of residential mobility: Implications for the self, Social relationships, and well-being. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 5, 5-21. Specht, J., Egloff, B. & Schmukle, S. C. (2011). Stability and change of personality across the life course: The impact of age and major life events on mean-level and rank-order stability of the Big Five. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 101, 862-882. Oishi, S. & Schimmack, U. (2010). Residential mobility, well-being, and mortality. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 98, 980-994. SOEP Survey Papers 1090 SOEP-IS 2