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 change in individuals

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

• TEMPHEALTH – Technologies to Monitor and Promote sustainable Health Behaviour

• Research Network Osteoarthritis - OVERLOAD-PrevOP: Self-regulatory interventions to facilitate physical exercise maintenance (subproject SPP7, funded by BMBF)

• Evaluation of the falls prevention program "Be active, but safe" by AOK Nordost

• HABIT
• Credits4Health

• 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)
• Becoming Non-smoker

• 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)

Dyadic health behavior change

• Interpersonal Relationships and Health Collaborative (IRH): 

  • IRH Project: Health-related Social Control in Close Relationships 

  • IRH Project: Meta-Framework of Dyadic Interventions 

  • IRH Collaborative Webinar Series 

• Compendium of Dyadic Intervention Techniques

• Developing a Taxonomy of Dyadic Behavior Change Techniques
• HASCI 1+1– Healthy, Active and Sustainable Commuting Intervention
• Days in Motion/ Bewegter Alltag

Coping and Social Support

• YouCan-App! Psychosocial Support for Parents Caring for Their Dependent Children at Home
• 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
• Model Project "Network of Self-Efficacious Schools"

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

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