On this page you will find some projects that are currently being conducted or already completed on the topics of Health Behavior, Coping and Social Support and Lifespan Development and Health.

For prior studies please consult our publication list.

Health Behavior

• Junior research group AMBER: Active mobility for maintained benefits of health and environment

• HASCI – Healthy, Active and Sustainable Commuting Intervention

• Research Network Osteoarthritis – OVERLOAD-PrevOP
  - PrevOP SPP7 Self-regulatory interventions to facilitate physical exercise maintenance (funded by BMBF)
  - PrevOP SPP7 Project and Team overview
• Evaluation of the falls prevention program "Be active, but safe" by AOK Nordost
• HABIT
• Bewegter Alltag
• Personal Resources of Elderly People With Multiple Illnesses: Fortification of Effective Health Behaviour (PREFER). Project of the consortium Autonomy Despite Multimorbidity in Old Age (AMA)
• Fostering Lifelong Autonomy and Resources in Europe Behavior and Successful Aging (FLARE-BSA)
• Self-Regulation, Stages of Change and Successful Aging (SESSA)
• Risk Appraisal Consequences in Korea (RACK) Project
• Improvement of a Physically Active Lifestyle in Orthopedic and Cardiologic Rehabilitation Patients With an Expert System (FaBA - Förderung eines aktiven Bewegungs-Alltags bei Rehablitanden: Unterstützung durch ein Expertensystem)

Coping and Social Support

• Gendersensitive Mental Risk Assessment
• Stress and Coping in working mothers
• Enjoying Retirement funded by the German-Polish Science Foundation
• Men’s utilization of control strategies and spousal support after prostatectomy: Managing autonomy in the face of postoperative morbidities (DFG KN 937/3-1)
• Coping Research and Assessment Instruments

Lifespan Development and Health

• Focus Area DynAge -- Disease in Human Aging: Dynamics at the Level of Molecules, Individuals, and Society
• Multi-center collaboration „Socio-Emotional Development and Health“
• International Max Planck Research School on the Life Course (LIFE)
• PhD Program: Multimorbidity in Old Age and Selected Care Problems (GRADMAP)
• Molecular profiles, treatment adherence, personal goals, and social network structures (MAPS)
• PhD Program: Neuropsychiatry and Psychology of Aging

If you want to take part in our research, visit our current calls for study participation. Please find scales and questionnaires on assessment tools.