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Selection Or Socialization? A Propensity Score Matched Study Of Personality And Life Events, Emorie Beck
Selection Or Socialization? A Propensity Score Matched Study Of Personality And Life Events, Emorie Beck
Arts & Sciences Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Across the lifespan, personality changes in normative ways, but the source of such change remains ambiguous. Life events may be one impetus of such change, but strong selection effects into such events makes it unclear whether such change is driven by already existing differences (selection) between people or socialization following life events. In a preregistered study, we test socialization and selection effects of the Big 5 and life events using a large (N = 19,627) representative sample of Germans and 12 life events (e.g. marriage, retirement) from the GSOEP. Using propensity score matching and Bayesian multilevel growth curve models, we …
The Impact Of Childhood Trauma And Personality On Kinkiness In Adulthood, Kaitlyn Hillier
The Impact Of Childhood Trauma And Personality On Kinkiness In Adulthood, Kaitlyn Hillier
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Historically, kinky sexualities and sexual behaviors have been understood as pathological or perverse. Such misunderstandings and misrepresentations have contributed to the development and perpetuation of kink stigma. The aim of this retrospective, cross-sectional, correlational research study was to explore the potential relationship(s) between pathology, personality, and kinky sexual behaviors/roles in adulthood. Guided by queer-feminist theory, the research questions addressed whether personality traits, experiences of childhood trauma, or a combination thereof, were predictors for kinky behaviors/roles in adulthood. A multi measure, anonymous, and confidential survey was distributed online including the Childhood Traumatic Events Scale as a childhood trauma questionnaire, the Mini-IPIP, …