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The Welfare Trait [electronic resource] : How State Benefits Affect Personality / by Adam Perkins.
By: Perkins, Adam
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Contributor(s): SpringerLink (Online service).
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TextPublisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016ISBN: 9781137555298 (eBook: PDF).Subject(s): Developmental psychology | Welfare state | ConsciousnessDDC classification: 155 Online resources: Click here to access online
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Summary: 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.
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?.
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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.