04715nam 22008055 450 991025333690332120200703104009.01-137-55529-710.1057/9781137555298(CKB)3710000000517099(EBL)4096860(SSID)ssj0001580928(PQKBManifestationID)16260280(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001580928(PQKBWorkID)14180082(PQKB)10132444(DE-He213)978-1-137-55529-8(MiAaPQ)EBC4096860(PPN)191699101(EXLCZ)99371000000051709920160126d2016 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe Welfare Trait[electronic resource] How State Benefits Affect Personality /by Adam Perkins1st ed. 2016.London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2016.1 online resource (212 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-137-55528-9 1-137-55527-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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?.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.Developmental psychologyWelfare stateSocial policyPersonalitySocial psychologySocial service Well-beingChildrenDevelopmental Psychologyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Y20010Politics of the Welfare Statehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X33050Social Policyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X33000Personality and Social Psychologyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Y20050Social Carehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X33060Child Well-beinghttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X31000Developmental psychology.Welfare state.Social policy.Personality.Social psychology.Social service .Well-being.Children.Developmental Psychology.Politics of the Welfare State.Social Policy.Personality and Social Psychology.Social Care.Child Well-being.155.9/2Perkins Adamauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut782133BOOK9910253336903321The Welfare Trait2480677UNINA