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Meulemann, Heiner (2016). Am I meines Gluckes Schmied? Causal Attribution of Personal Occupational Success and Societal Mobility between Early and Late Mid-life. Z. Soziol., 45 (1). S. 22 - 39. BERLIN: WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH. ISSN 2366-0325

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Abstract

According to the thesis of the self-favoring function of internal attribution, this contribution examines whether with increasing personal success occupational success and societal mobility are attributed to the person rather than to the situation. The data used are taken from a panel survey of former German 16 year old high school students who were re-interviewed at ages 30, 43, and 56. Occupational success is measured as prestige gain, income increase, and the assessment of current success relative to the career start. Hypotheses are tested with structural equation models with a latent factor for every subject to control for unobserved heterogeneity. At no time point does occupational success simultaneously increase its internal and decrease its external attribution; and the same holds for the attribution of social mobility. Yet internal and external attributions are stable and affect each other negatively - and do so increasingly over the life course.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Meulemann, Heiner UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-291058
DOI:	10.1515/zfsoz-2015-1001
Journal or Publication Title:	Z. Soziol.
Volume:	45
Number:	1
Page Range:	S. 22 - 39
Date:	2016
Publisher:	WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH
Place of Publication:	BERLIN
ISSN:	2366-0325
Language:	German
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language SEX-DIFFERENCES; EXPLANATIONS; PERFORMANCE Multiple languages Sociology Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/29105