In this study, I analyzed influences of the 'Big Five' personality traits onto transition risks into partnership and cohabitation and the likelihood of experiencing any of the different identified pattern of partnership dynamics (trajectories) within four years after the measurement of the Big...

In this study, I analyzed influences of the 'Big Five' personality traits onto transition risks into partnership and cohabitation and the likelihood of experiencing any of the different identified pattern of partnership dynamics (trajectories) within four years after the measurement of the Big...

Using panel data from childless respondents of the German Family Panel (pairfam, n=3,802 respondents), this paper investigates whether fertility orientations (biographical orientations with respect to fertility) influence the risk of different partnership transitions among German men and women...

Die bisherige Forschung zu übergreifenden Tendenzen des Wandels von Lebensverläufen ist durch unterschiedliche und teilweise ungenaue Verwendungen von Begriffen und Konzepten gekennzeichnet. Der Beitrag schlägt im Anschluss an jüngere methodische Entwicklungen ein mehrdimensionales Konzept...

Destandardisation is still assumed to affect family formation more than other are as of the life course, though fertility and partnership appear to be developing differently and there are indications that a new phase of restandardisation has commenced. Comparative analysis of the life course...