Print Email Facebook Twitter Neighbourhood poverty, work commitment and unemployment in early adulthood: A longitudinal study into the moderating effect of personality Title Neighbourhood poverty, work commitment and unemployment in early adulthood: A longitudinal study into the moderating effect of personality Author Nieuwenhuis, J.G. Yu, R. Branje, S. Meeus, W. Hooimeijer, P. Faculty Architecture and The Built Environment Department OTB Date 2015-08-11 Abstract We studied how personality moderates the effect of neighbourhood disadvantage on work commitment and unemployment in early adulthood. Using a personality typolo-gy of resilients, overcontrollers, and undercontrollers, we hypothesised that the association between neighbourhood poverty and both work commitment and unemployment would be stronger for overcontrollers and undercontrollers than for resilients. We used longitudinal data (N=249) to test whether the length of exposure to neighbourhood poverty between age 16 and 21 predicts work commitment and unemployment at age 25. In line with our hypothesis, the findings showed that longer exposure is related to weaker work commitment among undercontrollers and overcontrollers and to higher unemployment among undercontrollers. Resilients’ work commitment and unemployment were not predicted by neighbourhood poverty. Subject neighbourhood effectsyouth unemploymentwork commitmentpersonalitylongitudinal study To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:5490597c-b149-4cd7-8603-f5ff2fdffbda Embargo date 2015-08-12 Source OTB Working papers 2015-03 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type report Rights (c) 2015 The Author(s) Files PDF OTB_Working_papers_2015-0 ... overty.pdf 500.96 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:5490597c-b149-4cd7-8603-f5ff2fdffbda/datastream/OBJ/view