PD Dr. Daniel Seddig
Sociologist
Expertise and highlights
- Criminal sociology, life course criminology, legal cynicism, values research
- Research methods and statistics: structural equation modeling, analysis of longitudinal data, intercultural comparability, and measurement invariance
- Work and research positions in Bielefeld, Cologne, Münster, Passau, and Zurich
- “Young Criminologist Award” from the European Society of Criminology (2015)
- President of the European Survey Research Association (since 2025)
- Publications
Contact
PD Dr.
Daniel Seddig
Sociologist
+49 511/34836-76
Research unit:
- Bartz, L., Neumann, M., Dreißigacker, L., & Seddig, D. (2026). From victim to offender: The role of dark personality traits in school violence. Victims & Offenders, 1–23.https://doi.org/10.1080/15564886.2026.2640011
- Seddig, D. (2026). Rechtszynismus: Konzeptionelle Grundlagen und empirische Befundlage. Monatsschrift für Kriminologie und Strafrechtsreform.https://doi.org/10.1515/mks-2025-0041
- Seddig, D., Bartz, L., Bliesener, T., Rühs, F., Schauten, D., & Thomsen, S. (2026). Evaluation of a social media campaign for the prevention of intimate partner violence. Journal of Experimental Criminology.https://doi.org/10.1007/s11292-025-09723-3
- Seddig, D., Bartz, L., Rühs, F., Bliesener, T., Thomsen, S., & Schauten, D. (2025). Prävention von Partnerschaftsgewalt über Social Media: Eine Evaluationsstudie. Open Source Repository.https://osf.io/8q6ht
- Glückstad, F., Kobayashi, H., Seddig, D., Davidov, E., & Nakamura, R. (2024). Personal beauty values: Development and validation of a multidimensional measurement scale. Journal of Consumer Behaviour.https://doi.org/10.1002/cb.2421
- Hasselhorn, F. A., Sattler, S., Kroneberg, C., & Seddig, D. (2024). The self-control ability scale: Measuring a key construct of situational action theory. Justice Quarterly, 1–28.https://doi.org/10.1080/07418825.2024.2413584
- Reinl, A.-K., Seddig, D., Dennison, J., & Davidov, E. (2024). Basic human values and preferences for an EU-Wide social benefit scheme. Journal of Common Market Studies, 62(2), 564–582.https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13517
- Seddig, D. (2024). Assessment of the dimensionality and comparability in legal cynicism measurement. Justice Quarterly, 1–26.https://doi.org/10.1080/07418825.2024.2393197
- Seddig, D. (2024). Latent growth models for count outcomes: Specification, evaluation, and interpretation. Structural Equation Modeling, 31 (1), 182-198.https://doi.org/10.1080/10705511.2023.2175684
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Seddig, D. et al. (2025, 15. July). Integrating latent variable modeling and machine learning for ‘zooming in’ on measurement (non)invariance [Konferenzbeitrag]. Tagung der European Survey Research Association (ESRA), Utrecht, Niederlande.
Seddig, D. et al. (2024, 2. December). Model-Based Tree Algorithms und die itembasierte Analyse von Messinvarianz in ländervergleichenden Studien [Konferenzbeitrag]. KFN-MethodLab Herbst-/Wintertagung Maschinelles Lernen und computergestützte Methoden in der Kriminologie, Hannover (online), Deutschland.
Seddig, D. (2024, 28. September). Rechtszynismus in Deutschland: Grundlagen, empirische Befunde und zukünftige Forschungsansätze [Konferenzbeitrag]. Tagung der Kriminologischen Gesellschaft (KrimG), Tübingen, Deutschland.
Bliesener, T., Seddig, D., & Hahnemann, A. (2024, 27. September). Zur spezialpräventiven Wirkung von Polizeikontakten nach früher Auffälligkeit [Konferenzbeitrag]. Tagung der Kriminologischen Gesellschaft (KrimG), Tübingen, Deutschland.
Eisentraut, M., Seddig, D., Davidov, E., & Schmidt, P. (2023, 19. July). Basic human values and willingness to vaccinate against COVID-19 [Konferenzbeitrag]. Konferenz der European Survey Research Association, Mailand, Italien.
Seddig, D. (2021, 05. January). Approximate measurement invariance: Bayesian SEM and alignment optimization. Eingeladener Vortrag an der Hochschule Hamm-Lippstadt, Deutschland.
Seddig, D. (2021, 08. March). Direct and indirect predictors of opposition to immigration in Europe: individual values, cultural values, and symbolic threat. Eingeladener Vortrag an der City, University of London, England.
Seddig, D. (2020, 09. December). Dynamic panel models with maximum likelihood and structural equations. Eingeladener Vortrag an der Universität Mainz (BMBF-Projekt „DDR-Psych“), Deutschland.
Seifert, N., Seddig, D., & Eckhard, J. (2019, 18. July). The impact of social isolation on health-related quality of life. A test of the social causation hypothesis using dynamic panel models with fixed effects [Konferenzbeitrag]. Konferenz der European Survey Research Association, Zagreb, Kroatien.
Leitgöb, H., Seddig, D., & Enzmann, D. (2017. 19. July). Testing 9- and 12-item versions of the Grasmick et al. (1993) self-control scale for measurement invariance across cultural-contexts: A comparison of different approaches [Konferenzbeitrag]. Konferenz der European Survey Research Association, Lissabon, Portugal.
Seddig, D., & Davidov, E. (2016, 02. December). The concept of Bayesian approximate measurement invariance. Eingeladener Vortrag bei GESIS Mannheim, Deutschland.
Seddig, D., & Davidov, E. (2016, 24. September). Values, attitudes towards violence, and violent offending. A test with the Schwartz theory of basic human values [Konferenzbeitrag]. Konferenz der European Society of Criminology, Münster, Deutschland.
Seddig, D., & Leitgöb, H. (2015, 03. September). Bayesian SEM in criminology [Konferenzbeitrag]. Konferenz der European Society of Criminology, Porto, Portugal.
Seddig, D. (2012, 15. November). Trajectories of adolescent delinquency. Development and explanation [Konferenzbeitrag]. Konferenz der American Society of Criminology, Chicago, USA.
| since 09/2023 | Research associate (PostDoc) at KFN |
| 04/2022 – 03/2023 | Substitute Professor for Criminology, Institute of Criminology, University of Münster |
| 10/2021 – 03/2022 | Substitute Professor for Methods of Empirical Social Research, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Passau |
| 11/2019 | Habilitation (Venia Legendi in Sociology), Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Cologne |
| 04/2017 – 03/2019 & 10/2019 – 03/2021 | Academic advisor, Institute of Sociology and Social Psychology, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Cologne, (currently on leave) |
| 04/2019 – 09/2019 | Substitute Professor for Empirical Social and Economic Research, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Cologne |
| 09/2013 | Doctorate (Dr. phil.), Faculty of Sociology, University of Bielefeld |
| 05/2013 – 12/2016 | Research Assistant, Institute of Sociology, University of Zurich, Switzerland |
| 08/2006 – 04/2013 | Research Assistant, Institute of Criminology, University of Münster, Germany |
| 06/2006 | Diploma in Sociology, Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University |
| 2001 – 2006 | Student assistant/tutor for statistics at Bielefeld University |
| 2024 | Introduction to Longitudinal Structural Equation Modeling. GESIS Workshop Series, Mannheim: 28.-29.11.2024 | GESIS Mannheim |
| FS 2024 | Einführung in Pfadanalyse, konfirmatorische Faktorenanalyse und Strukturgleichungsmodelle mit R | Universität Zürich |
| SoSe 2023 | Introduction to special analysis techniques
Übung Statistik 1 |
Universität zu Köln |
| WS 2022/23 | Kultur- und ländervergleichende Kriminologie (VL)
Kriminologie und Kriminalsoziologie (VL) Kriminologie und strafrechtliche Praxis (VL) Soziale Kontrolle – Überwachung, Kriminalstrafe und Strafvollzug (SE) |
Universität Münster (Vertretungsprofessur) |
| SoSe 2022 | Kriminologie und Kriminalsoziologie (VL)
Kriminologie und strafrechtliche Praxis (VL) Kriminologische Theorien und ihre empirische Bewährung (SE) Kriminalität, Überwachung und soziale Kontrolle im und durch das Internet (SE) |
Universität Münster (Vertretungsprofessur) |
| WS 2020/21 | Einführung in die Statistik für Sozialwissenschaften (VL)
Regression mit R (SE) Empirical Methods (SE) |
Universität Passau (Vertretungsprofessur) |
| SoSe 2021 | Comparative data analysis mit structural equation models in R (SE) | Universität zu Köln |
| WS 2020/21 | Cross-cultural perspectives on deviance and crime (SE)
Life-course perspectives on deviance and crime (SE) |
Universität zu Köln |
| SoSe 2020 | Analysis of longitudinal data (VL) | Universität zu Köln |
| WS 2019/20 | Analyzing comparative data using structural equation modeling (SE) | Universität zu Köln |
| SoSe 2019 | Analysis of longitudinal data (VL) | Universität zu Köln (Vertretungsprofessur) |
| WS 2018/19 | Analyzing comparative data using structural equation modeling (SE) | Universität zu Köln |
| SoSe 2018 | Advanced structural equation modeling (SE) | Universität zu Köln |
| WS 2017/18 | Cross-cultural perspectives on deviance (SE)
Praxisseminar: Jugend und Devianz (SE) |
Universität zu Köln |
| SoSe 2017 | Anomie und Desintegration (SE)
Werte, Einstellungen und Verhalten in der Soziologie (SE) |
Universität zu Köln |
| Frühjahrssemester 2016 | Methodenpraktikum (SE)
Cross-country comparisons of values and attitudes using SEM (mit E. Davidov) (SE) |
Universität Zürich |
| Herbstsemester 2015 | Desintegration und Anomie (SE)
Multivariate data analysis (SE) |
Universität Zürich |
| Frühjahrssemester 2015 | Individualistische Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie (SE)
Measurement and causal models in comparative research (SE) |
Universität Zürich |
| Herbstsemester 2014 | Multivariate data analysis (SE) | Universität Zürich |
| Frühjahrssemester 2014 | Measurement and causal models (SE) | Universität Zürich |
| Herbstsemester 2013 | Multivariate data analysis (SE) | Universität Zürich |
| WS 2010/11 | Soziale Kontrolle, Sicherheit und Strafrecht (SE) | Universität Münster |
| SoSe 2010 | Juvenile delinquency in international perspective (mit K. Boers) (SE) | Universität Münster |
| WS 2009/10 | Introduction to data analysis mit Mplus (SE) | Universität Bielefeld |
| SoSe 2009 | Überwachung und Kontrolle (SE) | Universität Münster |
| WS 2008/09 | Kriminalitätstheorien und ihre empirische Überprüfung (SE) | Universität Münster |
| SoSe 2008 | Juvenile delinquency – International perspectives (SE) | Universität Münster |
| WS 2006/07 | Multivariate Datenanalyse mit SPSS (SE) | Universität Bielefeld |
VL = Lecture; SE = Seminar; Event language as indicated
Sonstige (freiberufliche) Kurse
| 2023 | Comparative social research with multiple group SEM | GESIS Spring Seminar |
| 2023 | Confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modelling | Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis |
| 2022 | Comparative research with confirmatory factor Analysis/SEM | GESIS Training Workshop |
| 2022 | Confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modelling | Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis |
| 2022 | CLOSER Consortium training workshop “Longitudinal measurement invariance” | CLOSER Consortium London |
| 2021 | Confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modelling | Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis |
| 2017 | Structural equation modeling for longitudinal and panel data | 6th GESIS summer school in survey methodology |
| 2016 | Testing survey data for measurement equivalence across countries and time | 5th GESIS summer school in survey methodology |
| 2015 | Testing survey data for measurement equivalence across countries and time | 4th GESIS summer school in survey methodology |
| 2015 | Longitudinal data analysis | University of Hamburg |
Event language as indicated