Child personality characteristics and selection into long-term unemployment in Finnish and Swedish longitudinal samples.

Autor/inn/en	Kokko, Katja; Bergman, Lars R.; Pulkkinen, Lea
Titel	Child personality characteristics and selection into long-term unemployment in Finnish and Swedish longitudinal samples.
Quelle	In: International journal of behavioral development, 27 (2003) 2, S. 134-144Infoseite zur Zeitschrift Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Literaturangaben 53; Tabellen 4; Grafiken 3
Sprache	englisch; englische Zusammenfassung
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0165-0254
Schlagwörter	Empirische Untersuchung; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Bildungsniveau; Persönlichkeitsentwicklung; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Kind; Verhaltensauffälligkeit; Schulerfolg; Schulversagen; Arbeitslosigkeit; Finnland; Schweden
Abstract	The main aim of the present study was to test a model of selection into long-term unemployment obtained for a sample of 36-year-old Finns to see whether it similarly explained long-term unemployment among 26- to 27-year-old Finns and Swedes. The participants were drawn from two ongoing longitudinal studies ... conducted in Sweden and Finland. At both ages ... low education was related to long-term unemployment, and explained by personality characteristics in middle childhood, such as low self-control of emotions or conduct problems, and behavioural inhibition or timidity. However, while low self-control of emotions additionally explained long-term unemployment among the 36-year-olds directly, in both the young samples personality characteristics showed only indirect effects through poor educational attainment. At age 26-27, childhood personality characteristics explained selection onto an educational track rather than selection into long-term unemployment, and length of education explained duration of unemployment. (DIPF/Orig./Bi.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2004_(CD)