The welfare trait : how state benefits affect personality /
by Perkins, Adam.
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BookPublisher: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015Description: 224 pages.ISBN: 9781137555281 (pbk.) :; 1137555289 (pbk.) :; 9781137555274 (hbk).Classification number: 155.92 PERSubject(s): Personality and occupation | Public welfare -- Psychological aspects | Welfare recipients -- Psycology | Welfare recipients -- Attitudes | Personality change | Psychology | PsychologySummary: The welfare state has a problem: each generation living under its protection has lower work motivation than the previous one. In order to fix this problem we need to understand its causes, lest the welfare state ends up undermining its economic and social foundations - and endangering those of the nation as whole. In 'The Welfare Trait', personality researcher Dr Adam Perkins presents data that suggest welfare-induced personality mis-development is a significant part of the problem. Dr Perkins bases his theory on the discovery that childhood disadvantage promotes the development of an employment-resistant personality profile that is characterised by aggressive, antisocial and rule breaking tendencies; tendencies that in the jargon of personality research signify relatively low scores on the major personality dimensions of conscientiousness and agreeableness.
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| Book - Adult Paperback | Southport Library | Adult Non-Fiction | 155.92 PER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 002927432X |
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The welfare state has a problem: each generation living under its protection has lower work motivation than the previous one. In order to fix this problem we need to understand its causes, lest the welfare state ends up undermining its economic and social foundations - and endangering those of the nation as whole. In 'The Welfare Trait', personality researcher Dr Adam Perkins presents data that suggest welfare-induced personality mis-development is a significant part of the problem. Dr Perkins bases his theory on the discovery that childhood disadvantage promotes the development of an employment-resistant personality profile that is characterised by aggressive, antisocial and rule breaking tendencies; tendencies that in the jargon of personality research signify relatively low scores on the major personality dimensions of conscientiousness and agreeableness.
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