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PublisherPalgrave Macmillan The Limited

ISBN-101137555270

ISBN-139781137555274

eBay Product ID (ePID)211808496

Product Key Features

Number of PagesX, 201 Pages

Publication NameWelfare Trait : How State Benefits Affect Personality

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2015

SubjectPublic Policy / Social Services & Welfare, Public Policy / Social Policy, Personality, Developmental / General, Industrial & Organizational Psychology

TypeTextbook

AuthorAdam Perkins

Subject AreaPolitical Science, Psychology

FormatHardcover

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Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight130.4 Oz

Item Length8.8 in

Item Width5.9 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2015-020341

Reviews'The Welfare Trait is electrifying - energising and shocking. Dr Perkins, an expert in the neurobiology of personality, argues that a generous welfare state can proliferate employment-resistant personality characteristics. The scientific discharge of this new theory is sure to spark high voltage debate - be prepared for a jolt!' - Philip Corr, Professor of Psychology, City University, London, UK, 'The Welfare Trait is electrifying energising and shocking. Dr Perkins, an expert in the neurobiology of personality, argues that a generous welfare state can proliferate employment-resistant personality characteristics. The scientific discharge of this new theory is sure to spark high voltage debate be prepared for a jolt!' Philip Corr, Professor of Psychology, City University, London, UK, "A courageous and carefully researched book teeming with novel insights and highly original sweeping syntheses. It deserves to be an integral part of the political debate on welfare, as we struggle to construct sustainable structures that can survive the demographic demands of the 21st century. It is also a model of clear writing that is easily accessible to the layman and the policymaker alike. I recommend it to readers in the confident expectation that they will think likewise." (Andrew Sabisky, Adam Smith Blog, adamsmith.org, January, 2016) "The central thesis of the book is that the benefits of a generous welfare state erode work ethics, and that the longer people live under welfarism, the more they depend on those benefits, and the more likely they are to cheat to obtain them. ... This book deserves to be read. ... it is worth buying and sending to your elected representative, with the key findings underlined." (James Thompson, Psychological Comments, drjamesthomson.blogspot.co.uk, January, 2016) 'The Welfare Trait is electrifying energising and shocking. Dr Perkins, an expert in the neurobiology of personality, argues that a generous welfare state can proliferate employment-resistant personality characteristics. The scientific discharge of this new theory is sure to spark high voltage debate be prepared for a jolt!' Philip Corr, Professor of Psychology, City University, London, UK

Dewey Edition23

TitleLeadingThe

Number of Volumes1 vol.

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal155.9/2

Table Of ContentPreface.- 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?.

SynopsisThe 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 to avoid the continuation of this trend. 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 such a personality profile, due to exposure to the environmental influence of disadvantage in childhood., 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., Childhood disadvantage encourages the development of antisocial, 'employment-resistant' personality characteristics which harm life outcomes in adulthood. A welfare state therefore risks harming society by increasing the number of citizens who develop employment-resistant personality characteristics due to disadvantage during childhood.

LC Classification NumberBF712-724.92