Adam Perkins: The Welfare Trait | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9781137555281 | The Welfare Trait | How State Benefits Affect Personality | Perkins

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Beschreibung

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 own economic and social foundations. In The Welfare Trait, award-winning personality researcher Dr Adam Perkins argues that welfare-induced personality mis-development is a significant part of the problem. In support of his theory, Dr Perkins presents data showing that the welfare state can boost the number of children born into disadvantaged households, and that childhood disadvantage promotes the development of an employment-resistant personality profile, characterised by aggressive, antisocial and rule-breaking tendencies. The book concludes by recommending that policy should be altered so that the welfare state no longer increases the number of children born into disadvantaged households. It suggests that, without this change, the welfare state will erode the nation's work ethic by increasing the proportion of individuals in the population who possess an employment-resistant personality profile, due to exposure to the environmental influence of disadvantage in childhood.

Über den Autor

Adam Perkins is Lecturer in the Neurobiology of Personality at the Institute of psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, UK. He brings to this book a wealth of scientific knowledge about personality, gained during more than 15 years researching the topic. Before he became established as a scientist, Adam spent years working as an unskilled labourer and has also claimed welfare when unemployed.

Zusammenfassung

Advances a new theory of personality development following solid academic research; book has strong public interest and policy implications as will publish after General Election

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.- Chapter 1. What is Personality and Why does the Welfare State Matter?.- Chapter 2. The Employment-Resistant Personality Profile.- Chapter 3. The Lifelong Impact of Personality.- Chapter 4. The Influence of Benefits on Claimant Reproduction.- Chapter 5. Childhood Disadvantage and Employment-Resistance.- Chapter 6. Genetic Influences on Personality.- Chapter 7. Personality as a Product of Nature and Nurture.- Chapter 8. A Model of How the Welfare State Leads to Personality Mis-Development.- Chapter 9. Further Evidence for Welfare-Induced Personality Mis-Development.- Chapter 10. What Next?.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2015
Fachbereich:	Theoretische Psychologie
Genre:	Importe , Psychologie
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	x 201 S.
ISBN-13:	9781137555281
ISBN-10:	1137555289
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Perkins, Adam
Auflage:	1st edition 2016
Hersteller:	Palgrave Macmillan Palgrave Macmillan UK
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	216 x 140 x 12 mm
Von/Mit:	Adam Perkins
Erscheinungsdatum:	11.11.2015
Gewicht:	0,274 kg

Artikel-ID: 104682876

Über den Autor

Zusammenfassung

Advances a new theory of personality development following solid academic research; book has strong public interest and policy implications as will publish after General Election

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2015
Fachbereich:	Theoretische Psychologie
Genre:	Importe , Psychologie
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	x 201 S.
ISBN-13:	9781137555281
ISBN-10:	1137555289
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Perkins, Adam
Auflage:	1st edition 2016
Hersteller:	Palgrave Macmillan Palgrave Macmillan UK
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	216 x 140 x 12 mm
Von/Mit:	Adam Perkins
Erscheinungsdatum:	11.11.2015
Gewicht:	0,274 kg