Print Email Facebook Twitter Neighbourhood Poverty, Work Commitment and Unemployment in Early Adulthood Title Neighbourhood Poverty, Work Commitment and Unemployment in Early Adulthood: A Longitudinal Study into the Moderating Effect of Personality Author Nieuwenhuis, J.G. (TU Delft OLD Urban Renewal and Housing) Yu, Rongqin (University of Oxford) Branje, S (Universiteit Utrecht) Meeus, W (Universiteit Utrecht) Hooimeijer, P. (Universiteit Utrecht) Date 2016-12-09 Abstract We studied how personality moderates the effect of neighbourhood disadvantage on work commitment and unemployment in early adulthood. Using a personality typology 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 was 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 PersonalityAdolescentsPersonality differencesSchoolsEthnicitiesPsychometricsJobsSocial networksOA-Fund TU Delft To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:f73b2ff3-1dae-49da-8be5-4fd6a6c5a149 DOI 10.1371/journal. pone.0167830 ISSN 1932-6203 Source PLoS ONE, 11 (12) Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2016 J.G. Nieuwenhuis, Rongqin Yu, S Branje, W Meeus, P. Hooimeijer Files PDF journal.pone.0167830.pdf 511.57 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:f73b2ff3-1dae-49da-8be5-4fd6a6c5a149/datastream/OBJ/view