title: Neighbourhood Poverty, Work Commitment and Unemployment in Early Adulthood: A Longitudinal Study into the Moderating Effect of Personality.
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.
authors.affiliation: OTB-Research for the Built Environment, Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands.
authors.forename: Jaap
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Nieuwenhuis
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Rongqin
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.affiliation: Research Centre Adolescent Development, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Branje
authors.affiliation: Research Centre Adolescent Development, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
authors.forename: Wim
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Meeus
authors.affiliation: Urban and Regional research centre Utrecht (URU), Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
authors.forename: Pieter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Hooimeijer
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004651:Employment; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D010551:Personality; D011203:Poverty; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D014478:Unemployment; D055815:Young Adult