LEADER 04715nam 22008055 450 001 9910253336903321 005 20200703104009.0 010 $a1-137-55529-7 024 7 $a10.1057/9781137555298 035 $a(CKB)3710000000517099 035 $a(EBL)4096860 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001580928 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16260280 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001580928 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14180082 035 $a(PQKB)10132444 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-137-55529-8 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4096860 035 $a(PPN)191699101 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000517099 100 $a20160126d2016 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Welfare Trait$b[electronic resource] $eHow State Benefits Affect Personality /$fby Adam Perkins 205 $a1st ed. 2016. 210 1$aLondon :$cPalgrave Macmillan UK :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (212 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-137-55528-9 311 $a1-137-55527-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPreface -- 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?. 330 $aThe 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. 606 $aDevelopmental psychology 606 $aWelfare state 606 $aSocial policy 606 $aPersonality 606 $aSocial psychology 606 $aSocial service  606 $aWell-being 606 $aChildren 606 $aDevelopmental Psychology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Y20010 606 $aPolitics of the Welfare State$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X33050 606 $aSocial Policy$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X33000 606 $aPersonality and Social Psychology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Y20050 606 $aSocial Care$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X33060 606 $aChild Well-being$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X31000 615 0$aDevelopmental psychology. 615 0$aWelfare state. 615 0$aSocial policy. 615 0$aPersonality. 615 0$aSocial psychology. 615 0$aSocial service . 615 0$aWell-being. 615 0$aChildren. 615 14$aDevelopmental Psychology. 615 24$aPolitics of the Welfare State. 615 24$aSocial Policy. 615 24$aPersonality and Social Psychology. 615 24$aSocial Care. 615 24$aChild Well-being. 676 $a155.9/2 700 $aPerkins$b Adam$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0782133 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910253336903321 996 $aThe Welfare Trait$92480677 997 $aUNINA