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| Termin: MO 17. Februar 2025 Zeit: ab 08.00 h via OLAT Bei der Modulbuchung beachten Sie bitte: Betreuer = Prof. Dr. Mike Martin; Ko-Betreuer*in = die beim Thema genannte Kontaktperson. |
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Beschreibung: Empathic accuracy, i.e., the ability to accurately infer other people?s thoughts and feelings, is crucial for socio-affective functioning. While earlier research suggests that empathic accuracy declines with age, recent studies paint a more nuanced picture, indicating that age differences may depend on the context in which empathic accuracy is assessed.
The present thesis will systematically review the literature on empathic accuracy across adulthood, with a focus on studies conducted in naturalistic contexts such as dyadic interactions and experience-sampling studies. Possible research questions include (1) the identification of situational moderators of age difference in empathic accuracy and (2) the relationship between empathic accuracy and socio-affective functioning.
References:
Kunzmann, U., Wieck, C., & Dietzel, C. (2018). Empathic accuracy: age differences from adolescence into middle adulthood. Cognition and Emotion, 32(8), 1611-1624. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2018.1433128
Blanke, E. S., Rauers, A., & Riediger, M. (2015). Nice to meet you?adult age differences in empathic accuracy for strangers. Psychology and Aging, 30(1), 149?159. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0038459
Blanke, E. S., & Riediger, M. (2019). Reading thoughts and feelings in other people: Empathic accuracy across adulthood. Progress in brain research, 247, 305?327. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.pbr.2019.02.002
Kontakt: Dr. Tabea Meier, E-Mail
Beschreibung: Fulfilling social relationships are essential for healthy aging. Loneliness is a growing concern in nowadays societies that can have profound impacts on health and well-being (e.g., Holt-Lunstad et al., 2015).
The present thesis will systematically review the recent literature on loneliness in older adults, focusing on the causes, contextual factors, and/or consequences of loneliness during this stage of life.
References:
Akhter-Khan, S. C., Prina, M., Wong, G. H.-Y., Mayston, R., & Li, L. (2023). Understanding and Addressing Older Adults? Loneliness: The Social Relationship Expectations Framework. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 18(4), 762-777. https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916221127218
Dykstra, P. A. (2009). Older adult loneliness: myths and realities. European journal of ageing, 6, 91-100. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10433-009-0110-3
Holt-Lunstad, J., Smith, T. B., Baker, M., Harris, T., & Stephenson, D. (2015). Loneliness and Social Isolation as Risk Factors for Mortality: A Meta-Analytic Review. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 10(2), 227-237. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691614568352
Hoppmann, C. A., Lay, J. C., Pauly, T., & Zambrano, E. (2021). Social isolation, loneliness, and solitude in older adulthood. The handbook of solitude: Psychological perspectives on social isolation, social withdrawal, and being alone, 178-189. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119576457.ch13
Kontakt: Dr. Tabea Meier, E-Mail
Beschreibung: Couples' interactions are characterized by a high interdependence in romantic partners' emotional experience and expression (e.g., Brinberg et al., 2018; Butler, 2011). However, the majority of the existing studies in the field of romantic relationships has been based on between-couple designs, examining mainly how couples differ from each other. Although a between-couple perspective can be valuable and appropriate for comparisons between dyads regarding their stable characteristics or traits, it does not allow to study the variability and interdependence in emotional experience and expression observed within each couple in their everyday interactions (Brinberg et al., 2018; Gable et al., 2012). During the last decades the rapid technological development as well as the advancement of analytic tools and statistical methods allow the collection and analysis of a large amount of data for each individual couple. Thanks to these advancements it is nowadays easier to adopt a within-couple analytic approach and to examine the real-time, short-term dynamic emotional processes taking place within couples during their everyday interactions (e.g., Butler, 2011; Hamaker, 2012) as well as to investigate how these processes are associated with important interaction and relationship outcomes (Slep et al., 2021).
Aim of this thesis is 1) to review existing studies that have adopted a within-couple analytic approach to examine the emotional short-term, dynamic processes during couples' interactions (conflict, support discussions, positive interactions) across the adult lifespan and 2) to discuss the valuable insights that this design has to offer in the study of couples' everyday interactions.
This thesis will be written in English.
Literature:
Brinberg, M., Ram, N., Hülür, G., Brick, T. R., & Gerstorf, D. (2018). Analyzing dyadic data using grid-sequence analysis: Interdyad differences in intradyad dynamics. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 73(1), 5-18. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbw160
Butler, E. A. (2011). Temporal interpersonal emotion systems: The ?TIES? that form relationships. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 15(4), 367-393. https://doi.org/10.1177/1088868311411164
Gable, S. L., Gosnell, C. L., & Prok T. (2012). Close Relationships. In M. R. Mehl & T. S. Conner (Eds.), Handbook of Research Methods for Studying Daily Life. The Guilford Press.
Hamaker, E. L. (2012). Why researchers should think ?within-person?: a paradigmatic rationale. In M. R. Mehl & T. S. Conner (Eds.), Handbook of Research Methods for Studying Daily Life. The Guilford Press.
Slep, A. M., Heyman, R. E., Lorber, M. F., Tiberio, S. S., & Casillas, K. L. (2021). Couples? anger dynamics during conflict: Interpersonal anger regulation, relationship satisfaction, and intimate partner violence. Family process, 60(4), 1280-1294.
Kontakt: M. Sc. Myrto Dolcetti, E-Mail
Beschreibung: In der Forschung wird zunehmend deutlich, dass das Ausprobieren neuer Aktivitäten und die soziale Aktivität im Alter verschiedene Aspekte des gesunden Alterns fördern. Diese Literaturarbeit soll untersuchen, wie emotionale, soziale und kognitive Ressourcen durch verschiedene Trainingsprogramme gestärkt werden können, um die psychosoziale Gesundheit und das Wohlbefinden zu fördern. Ein besonderer Fokus soll dabei auf verschiedenen Trainingsstudien im höheren Erwachsenenalter liegen.
Kontakt: M. Sc. Zilla Huber, E-Mail
Beschreibung: Research has shown that subjective age is associated with people's health, life expectancy, and well-being. However, most research has focused on trait-liked subjective age and has not examined variability of subjective age until recently. This thesis aims to examine subjective age as a varying and dynamic concept and understand its correlates as captured in older adults' daily life. Your thesis can examine subjective age in relation to one/some of the following various aspects, such as (1) health and well-being, (2) activity engagement, and (3) mind wandering and time focus, etc. The thesis should review existing studies on the topic, critically reflect upon the merits and limitations, and propose possible future research directions. The thesis will be written in English.
Kotter-Grühn, D., Kornadt, A. E., & Stephan, Y. (2015). Looking beyond chronological age: Current knowledge and future directions in the study of subjective age. Gerontology, 62(1), 86-93.
Montepare, J. M. (2020). An exploration of subjective age, actual age, age awareness, and engagement in everyday behaviors. European Journal of Ageing, 17(3), 299-307.
Kontakt: Dr. Minxia Luo, E-Mail
Beschreibung: Mobility is an important functional ability in healthy aging, but it is a relatively understudied concept in aging research, including the lack of a profound theoretical rationale and empirical findings on its antecedents, correlates, and consequences. This thesis aims to overcome the limitations and examine mobility and its correlates. Your thesis can examine mobility in relation to one/some of the following various aspects, such as (1) health and well-being, (2) physical and social environments, (3) goals and motivation, (4) personality, and (5) attitudes to aging and ageism, etc. The thesis should review existing studies on the topic, critically reflect upon the merits and limitations, and propose possible future research directions. The thesis will be written in English.
De Silva, N. A., Gregory, M. A., Venkateshan, S. S., Verschoor, C. P., & Kuspinar, A. (2019). Examining the association between life?space mobility and cognitive function in older adults: a systematic review. Journal of Aging Research, 2019(1), 3923574.
Luo, M., Kim, E. K., Weibel, R., Martin, M., & Röcke, C. (2023). GPS-derived daily mobility and daily well-being in community-dwelling older adults. Gerontology, 69(7), 875-887.
Kontakt: Dr. Minxia Luo, E-Mail
Beschreibung: With the rapid development of technology and ambulatory assessment methods, burst study designs wherein data are obtained across multiple time scales have become increasingly more popular in gerontopsychology research. This thesis aims to review existing studies that have a measurement-burst design and to summarize topics covered and data analytical methods that have been used. The thesis should critically reflect on the advantages and disadvantages of the research method and pinpoint limitations of the current literature. The thesis findings will be used to inform an in-house project that has a measurement burst design. The thesis will be written in English.
Ram, N., & Gerstorf, D. (2009). Time-structured and net intraindividual variability: tools for examining the development of dynamic characteristics and processes. Psychology and aging, 24(4), 778.
Gerstorf, D., Schilling, O. K., Pauly, T., Katzorreck, M., Lücke, A. J., Wahl, H. W., ... & Ram, N. (2023). Long-term aging trajectories of the accumulation of disease burden as predictors of daily affect dynamics and stressor reactivity. Psychology and aging.
Sliwinski, M. J., Almeida, D. M., Smyth, J., & Stawski, R. S. (2009). Intraindividual change and variability in daily stress processes: findings from two measurement-burst diary studies. Psychology and aging, 24(4), 828.
Kontakt: Dr. Minxia Luo, E-Mail
Beschreibung: Couples' interactions are characterized by high interdependence between the romantic partners, which manifests itself, among others, as the synchronization of partners' experience or behavior (Butler, 2011; Randall et al., 2013). Synchrony is not something per se positive or negative, but it can be an aspect of both negative/ hostile couples' interactions and positive/ supportive ones (e.g., Randall et al., 2013). However, the function of synchrony seems to vary depending on the interactional context (e.g., conflict) in which it takes place and the characteristics of this context (e.g., emotional valence) (e.g., Chen et al., 2021; Shrout et al., 2023). For example, a higher degree of synchrony during conflict has been associated with negative interaction and/ or relationship outcomes, whereas in support discussions greater synchrony has been related to positive ones (e.g., Bowen et al., 2017).
The aim of this thesis is to provide a systematic overview of empirical studies that examined 1) how synchrony in different modalities (e.g., emotional experience, behavior, physiology etc.) manifests itself during couples' support interactions across the adult lifespan and 2) the association of synchrony with other time-varying factors and interaction outcomes.
The thesis will be written in English.
Literature:
Bowen, J. D., Winczewski, L. A., & Collins, N. L. (2017). Language style matching in romantic partners' conflict and support interactions. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 36(3), 263-286.
Butler, E. A. (2011). Temporal interpersonal emotion systems: The "TIES" that form relationships. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 15(4), 367-393.
Chen, K. H., Brown, C. L., Wells, J. L., Rothwell, E. S., Otero, M. C., Levenson, R. W., & Fredrickson, B. L. (2021). Physiological linkage during shared positive and shared negative emotion. Journal of personality and social psychology, 121(5), 1029.
Randall, A. K., Post, J. H., Reed, R. G., & Butler, E. A. (2013). Cooperating with your romantic partner: Associations with interpersonal emotion coordination. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 30(8), 1072-1095.
Shrout, M. R., Black, A. E., Wilson, S. J., Renna, M. E., Madison, A. D., Kiecolt-Glaser, J. K., & Reis, H. T. (2023). How aging couples' emotional and physiological associations change across positive, supportive, and conflictual discussions: roles of capitalization and responsive behaviors. Biological psychology, 177, 108500.
Kontakt: M. Sc. Myrto Dolcetti, E-Mail
Beschreibung: Recent concepts suggest that most adaptive ways of momentary emotion regulation in daily life are characterized by a flexible implementation of emotion regulation strategies adjusted to the requirements of the situation. To investigate this notion, momentary, ambulatory assessment of emotions and emotion regulation in intensive longitudinal designs is required. Furthermore, the importance of interpersonal processes for emotion regulation has been acknowledged in the literature yielding new insights in the interpersonal component of emotion regulation. The bachelor thesis aims at providing a review over these findings.
Kontakt: Dr. Andrea Horn, E-Mail
Beschreibung: With the advancement of technology and the generation gap present in the workforce, older working adults experience some challenges and barriers in their careers. The current practices and norms of the workforce do not always accommodate the needs and wishes of older employees. The current thesis will focus on the shifts in the workforce, how employers are coping with the changing demographics and how aging employees are experiencing these shifts. Cognitive, social and psychological changes that are associated with aging will be discussed in relation to productivity and satisfaction in the workplace.
This thesis has to be written in English.
References:
Clark, R. L., & Ritter, B. M. (2020). How are employers responding to an aging workforce?. The
Gerontologist, 60(8), 1403?1410. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnaa031
Wisse, B., van Eijbergen, R., Rietzschel, E. F., & Scheibe, S. (2018). Catering to the needs of an aging
workforce: The role of employee age in the relationship between corporate social responsibility and employee
satisfaction. Journal of Business Ethics, 147(4), 875?888. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-015-2983-8
Kontakt: Dr. Burcu Demiray, E-Mail
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