A5084482242- Aging and Gerontology Research
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research
- Identity, Memory, and Therapy
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Retirement, Disability, and Employment
- Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports
- Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Work-Family Balance Challenges
- Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Social and Demographic Issues in Germany
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Cognitive Abilities and Testing
- Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Psychology, Coaching, and Therapy
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
University of Zurich
2015-2024
NCCR Chemical Biology - Visualisation and Control of Biological Processes Using Chemistry
2022-2023
FORS – Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences
2021-2022
Columbia University
2018
Max Planck Institute for Human Development
2000-2015
Hess (United States)
2015
Evanston Hospital
2015
University of Bonn
2015
Northwestern University
2005-2015
University of Bern
2013
The authors examined the usefulness of a self-report measure for elective selection, loss-based selection. optimization, and compensation (SOC) as strategies life management. expected 4-factor solution was obtained in 2 independent samples (N = 218, 14-87 years; N 181, 18-89 years) exhibiting high retest stability across 4 weeks (r(tt) .74-82). As expected, middle-aged adults showed higher endorsement SOC than younger older adults. Moreover, meaningful convergent divergent associations to...
Using a multimethod approach, the authors conducted 4 studies to test life span hypotheses about goal orientations across adulthood. Confirming expectations, in Studies 1 and 2 younger adults reported primary growth orientation their goals, whereas older stronger toward maintenance loss prevention. Orientation prevention of correlated negatively with well-being adults. In adults, was positively associated well-being. 3 extend findings self-reported shift level behavioral choice involving...
The usefulness of self-reported processes selection, optimization, and compensation (SOC) for predicting on a correlational level the subjective indicators successful aging was examined. sample Berlin residents subset participants Aging Study. Three domains (marked by 6 variables) served as outcome measures aging: well-being, positive emotions, absence feelings loneliness. Results confirm central hypothesis SOC model: People who reported using SOC-related life-management behaviors (which...
This study investigated predictions of the life-span theory selection, optimization, and compensation, focusing on different patterns task priority during dual-task performance in younger older adults. Cognitive (memorizing) sensorimotor (walking a narrow track) were measured singly, concurrently, when difficulty was manipulated. Use external aids to provide another index priority. Before testing, participants received extensive training with each component aid. Age differences costs greater...
We present a consensus-based checklist to improve and document the transparency of research reports in social behavioural research. An accompanying online application allows users complete form generate report that they can submit with their manuscript or post public repository.
Three studies demonstrate that mutual facilitation and interference among personal goals are distinct characteristics rather than mutually exclusive opposites have different functions for psychological well-being goal pursuit. The three vary in design (cross-sectional, short-termlongitudinal) follow a multimethod approach using questionnaires, diaries, objective behavioral information. Results show (resulting from resource constraints incompatible attainment strategies) is negatively...
Four studies investigated age-related differences in goal focus younger and older adults. Studies 1 2 confirmed the hypothesis that adults are more persistent when same sensorimotor task offers possibility for optimizing performance than requires counteracting a loss (compensation). In contrast, were compensation optimization condition. Study 3 showed age-differential effects of on persistence not simply due to perceiving conditions as easy versus difficult. 4 ruled out age tasks themselves....
One of the central tenets life-span psychology is that process development entails gains and losses occur over entire life span. Thus, Paul Margret Baltes (1990) Baltes, P. B. M. 1990. "Psychological perspectives on successful aging: The model selective optimization with compensation". In Successful Perspectives from behavioral sciences, Edited by: 1–34. New York: Cambridge University Press. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar] conceptualized aging as a lifelong maximizing minimizing by means three...
Four studies utilizing different methodological approaches investigated adult age-related differences in altruism (i.e., contributions to the public good) and self-centered value of increasing personal wealth. In Study 1, data from World Values Survey (World Association, 2009) provided 1st evidence a negative association between age self-reported wish be rich. Ecological concerns, form contributing good, were positively related age. 2 whether these values are expressed behaviorally when...
Older adults contribute—through charitable donations or volunteering—more to the common good than younger adults, an age difference that has profound society-level implications. Yet reasons for this are not well understood. Evidence suggests a purely altruistic concern is major motivation prosocial behavior and increases across adulthood. We argue finding, in general, better understood using value-based decision framework through traditional dual-process accounts. Following approach, we...
Previous studies have shown that participation in leisure time physical activity is related to better mental well-being and subjective health. However, the associations between different types of activities dimensions rarely been studied. In addition, longitudinal research, analyzing possible causal relations these variables, lacking. To investigate research questions, data gathered at ages 42 50 (present N = 303) for Finnish Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study Personality Social Development were...
Scholarship pertinent to the nature of human plasticity and contemporary theoretical stress on developmental systems theories suggest that regulation dynamic person-context relations should be key focus inquiry in study adolescent development. An exemplar a theory congruent with this relational conception development is Selection, Optimization, Compensation (SOC) model offered by Baltes, colleagues. The may value-added contribution literature several respects: through illustrating centrality...
In a 3‐year longitudinal study with sample of N =82 young professionals (44% male; age range: 28–39 years), self‐reported progress in the pursuit personal goals was associated affective well‐being, work satisfaction, and subjective developmental success domain. Goal progress, however, did not predict an increase well‐being satisfaction. Four constructs – goal difficulty, current involvement, positive fantasies, private domain were selected to analyse their potentially moderating effect on...
Two studies varying in design (cross-sectional and longitudinal) methods (questionnaires, diaries, objective information) support the notion that personal goals are among phenomena show positive development throughout adulthood: Older adults (M = 64 years) reported more mutual facilitation their were engaged goal pursuit than younger 25 years). Results robust when age-group differences education disposable time controlled for, they also emerged a context where older participants had one...
In 2 cross-sectional studies, the authors examined age-related differences in evaluation of emotional stimuli community samples, with participants ranging age from young to older adulthood (18-81 years old). Pictures International Affective Picture System were used Study 1, and written verbs 2. Participants rated these along major affective dimensions hedonic valence arousal, thus yielding a 2-dimensional space for each participant. Young adults showed expected pattern distinct clusters this...
Research on subjective age has shown that most older adults feel significantly younger than their chronological age. One of the proposed mechanisms for this effect is distancing oneself from an group associated with decline in functioning helps maintain a positive view themselves. Providing negative age-related information, then, should lead to direct attention away stimuli remind them and distance themselves same-aged people. In 2 experiments (N₁ = 78, 65-83 years age, M 71.67, SD 4.81; N₂...
How do changes in life expectancy and longevity affect life-span development? This paper argues that historical increases primarily have an impact on the later less earlier parts of span. Increased is both a challenge opportunity for positive development. A perspective outlined according to which self-regulation key factor successful aging. Assuming compensatory relationship social norms/expectations developmental regulation, processes such as setting, pursuing, disengaging from personal...