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Kooij, D., Zacher, H., Wang, M., & Heckhausen, J. (in press). Successful Aging at Work: A Process Model to Guide Future Research and Practice. Industrial and Organizational Psychology. pdf
Hamm, J. M., Heckhausen, J., Shane, J., & Lachman, M. E. (in press). Risk of cognitive declines with retirement: Who declines and why? Psychology and Aging. pdf
Knoll, N., Keller, J., Scholz, U., Röcke, C., Schrader, M., & Heckhausen, J. (in press). Control strategies and daily affect: Couples adapt to new functional limitations. Geropsych – The Journal of Gerontopsychology and Geriatric Psychology. pdf
Johnson, M. K., Mortimer, J. T., & Heckhausen, J. (2020). Work value transmission from parents to children: Early socialization and delayed activation. Work and Occupations, 47, 83-119. pdf
Heckhausen, J. & Buchmann, M. (2019, online). A multi-disciplinary model of life-course canalization and agency. Advances in Life Course Research, 41, ???. pdf
Hamm, J. M., Perry, R. P., Chipperfield, J. G., Parker, P. C., & Heckhausen, J. (2019). A motivation treatment to enhance goal engagement in online learning environments: Assisting failure-prone college students with low optimism. Motivation Science, 5, 116-134. pdf
Heckhausen, J., Wrosch, C., & Schulz, R. (2019). Agency and motivation in adulthood and old age. Annual Review of Psychology, 70, 191-217. pdf
Schoon, I., & Heckhausen, J. (2019). Conceptualizing individual agency in the transition from school to work: A social-ecological developmental perspective. Adolescent Research Review, 4, 135-148. pdf
Cramer, S. C., Dodakian, L., Le, V., See, J., Augsburger, R., McKenzie, A., Zhou, R. J., Chiu, N. L., Heckhausen, J., Cassidy, J. M., Scacchi, W., Smith, M. T., Barrett, A. M., Knutson, J., Edwards, D., Putrino, D., Agrawal, K., Ngo, K., Roth, E. J., Tirschwell, D. L., Woodbury, M. L., Zafonte, R., Zhao, W., Spilker, J., Wolf, S. L., Broderick, J. P., Janis, S., for the National Institutes of Health StrokeNet Telerehab Investigators (2019). Efficacy of home-based telerehabilitation vs. in-clinic therapy for adults after stroke: A randomized clinical trial. JAMA Neurology, 76, 1079-1087. pdf
Gerstorf, D., Drewelies, J., Duezel, S., Smith, J., Wahl, H.-W., Schilling, O. K., Kunzmann, U., Siebert, J. S., Katzorreck, M., Eibich, P., Dmuth, I., Steinhaben-Thiessen, E., Wagner, G. G., Lindenberger, U., Heckhausen, J., Ram, N. (2019). Cohort differences in adult-life trajectories of internal and external control beliefs: A tale of more and better maintained internal control and fewer external constraints. Psychology and Aging, 34, 1090-1108. pdf
Hamm, J. M., Perry, R. P., Chipperfield, J. G., Parker, P. C., & Heckhausen, J. (2019). A motivation treatment to enhance goal engagement in online learning environments: Assisting failure-prone college students with low optimism. Motivation Science, 5, 116-134. pdf
Hamm, J. M., Heckhausen, J., Shane, J., Infurna, F. J., & Lachman, M. E. (2019). Engagement with six major life domains during the transition to retirement: Stability and change for better or worse. Psychology and Aging, 34, 441-456. pdf
Hommelhoff, S., Richter, D., Niessen, C. Gerstorf, D., Heckhausen, J. (2019). Being unengaged at work but still dedicating time and energy: A longitudinal study. Motivation Science, Advance online publication. pdf
Shane, J., Hamm, J., & Heckhausen, J. (2019). Subjective age at work: Feeling younger or older than one’s actual age predicts perceived control and motivation at work. Work, Aging and Retirement, 5, 323-332. pdf
Hamm, J. M., Chipperfield, J. G., Perry, R. P., Parker, P. C., & Heckhausen, J. (2017). Tenacious self-reliance in health maintenance may jeopardize late life survival. Psychology and Aging, 32, 628-635. pdf
Shane, J., & Heckhausen, J. (2019). Motivational theory of lifespan development: Implications for work and career across the lifespan. In: B. B. Baltes, C. Rudolph, & H. Zacher (Eds.). Work across the lifespan. Elsevier: London, UK. pdf
Shane, J., & Heckhausen, J. (2017). It’s only a dream if you wake up: Young adults’ achievement expectations, opportunities, and meritocratic beliefs. International Journal of Psychology, 52, 40-48. pdf
Kay, J. S., Shane, J., & Heckhausen, J. (2017). Youth’s causal beliefs about success: Socioeconomic differences and prediction of early career development. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 46, 2169-2180. pdf
Drewelies, J., Wagner, J., Tesch-Römer, C., Heckhausen, J., & Gerstorf, D. (2017). Perceived control across the second half of life: The role of physical health and social integration. Psychology and Aging, 32, 76-92. pdf
Infurna, F. J., Wiest, M., Gerstorf, D., Ram, N., Schupp, J., Wagner, G. G., & Heckhausen, J. (2017). Changes in life satisfaction when losing one’s spouse: Individual differences in anticipation, reaction, adaptation, and longevity in the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). Aging and Society, 37, 899-934. pdf
Hülür, G., Heckhausen, J., Hoppmann, C. A., Infurna, F. J., Wagner, G. G., Ram, N., & Gerstorf, D. (2017). Levels of and changes in life satisfaction predict mortality hazards: Disentangling the role of physical health, perceived control, and social orientation. Psychology and Aging, 32, 507-520. pdf
Heckhausen, J. (2016). Social inequality across the life course: Societal unfolding and individual agency pp. 1-18). In: M. Buchmann, R. Scott, & S. Kosslyn (Eds.) Emerging trends in the social and behavioral sciences. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. pdf
Kriegbaum, K., Villarreal, B., Wu, V. C., & Heckhausen, J. (2016). Parents still matter: patterns of shared agency with parents predict college students’ academic motivation and achievement. Motivation Science, 2, 97-115. pdf
Shane, J., & Heckhausen, J. (2016). Optimized engagement across life domains in adult development: Balancing diversity and interdomain consequences. Research in Human Development, 13, 280-296. pdf
Kay, J., Shane, J., & Heckhausen, J. (2016). High-school predictors of university achievement: Youths’ self-reported relationships with parents, beliefs about success, and university aspirations. Journal of Adolescence, 53, 95-106. pdf
Shane, J., & Heckhausen, J. (2016). For better or worse: Young adults’ opportunity beliefs and motivational self-regulation during career entry. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 40, 107-116. pdf
Heckhausen, J., & Wrosch, C. (2016). Challenges to developmental regulation across the life course: What are they and which individual differences matter? International Journal of Behavioral Development, 40, 145-150.pdf
Schilling, O. K., Wahl, H.-W., Horowitz, A., Brennan-Ing, M., Boerner, K., Reinhardt, J. P., Cimarolli, V. R., & Heckhausen, J. (2016). Developmental regulation with progressive vision loss: Use of control strategies and affective well-being. Developmental Psychology, 52, 679-694. pdf
Infurna, F. J., Gerstorf, D., Ram, N., Schupp, J., Wagner, G. G., & Heckhausen, J. (2016). Maintaining perceived control with unemployment facilitates future adjustment. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 93, 103-119. pdf
Hamm, J., Perry, R. P., Chipperfield, J. G., Heckhausen, J., & Parker, P. C. (2016). A motivation-enhancing treatment to sustain goal engagement during life course transitions. Motivation and Emotion, 40, 814-829. pdf
Heckhausen, J. & Shane, J. (2015). Social mobility in the transition to adulthood: Societal opportunities and constraints for individual agency. In: L. A. Jensen (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Human Development and Culture (pp. 535-553). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. pdf
Hamm, J. M., Perry, R. P., Chipperfield, J. G., Stewart, T. L., & Heckhausen, J. (2015). Motivation-focused thinking: Buffering against stress-related physical symptoms and depressive symptomatology. Psychology and Health, 30, 1326-1345.Hamm et al. Online learning 2019. ???
Villarreal, B. J., Heckhausen, J., Lessard, J. Greenberger, E., & Chen, C. (2015). High-school seniors’ short-term educational expectations: Do the costs of failing one’s expectations outweigh the benefits of ambitious expectations? Journal of Adolescence, 45, 327-340. pdf
Hamm, J. M., Chipperfield, J. G., Perry, R. P., Heckhausen, J., & Mackenzie, C. S. (2014). Conflicted goal engagement: Undermining physical activity and health in late life. The Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences., 69, 1-10. pdf
Heckhausen, J. (2014). Motivational affordances in school versus work contexts advantage different individuals: A possible explanation for domain-differential gender gaps. In: J. S. Eccles, & I. Schoon (Eds.),Gender differences in aspirations and attainment (pp. 346-362). London, UK: Cambridge University Press. pdf
Gerstorf, D., Heckhausen, J., Ram, N., Infurna, F. J., Schupp, J., & Wagner, G. G. (2014). Perceived personal control buffers terminal decline in well-being. Psychology and Aging, 29, 612-625. pdf
Heckhausen, J., Chang, E. E., Greenberger, E., Chen, C. (2013). Striving for educational and career goals during the transition after high school: What is beneficial? Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 42, 1385-1398. pdf
Steward, T. L., Chipperfield, J. G., Ruthig, J. C., Heckhausen, J. (2013). Downward social comparison and subjective well-being in late life: The moderating role of perceived control. Aging and Mental Health, 17, 375-385. pdf
Heckhausen, J., Wrosch, C., Schulz, R. (2013). A lines-of-defense model for managing health threats: A review. Gerontology, 59, 438-447.HeckWroSchu_LoD_2013 ???
Hamm, J. M., Steward, T. L., Perry, R. P., Clifton, R. A., Chipperfield, J. G., Heckhausen, J. (2013). Sustaining primary control striving for achievement goals during challenging developmental transitions: The role of secondary control strategies. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 35, 286-297. pdf
Haase, C., Heckhausen, J., Wrosch, C. (2013). Developmental regulation across the life span: Toward a new synthesis. Developmental Psychology, 49, 964-972. pdf
Shane, J., Heckhausen, J. (2013). University students’ causal conceptions about social mobility: Diverging pathways for believers in personal merit and luck. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 82, 10-19. pdf
Grümer, S., Silbereisen, R. K., Heckhausen, J. (2013) Subjective well-being in times of social change: Congruence of control strategies and perceived control. International Journal of Psychology, 48, 1246-1259. pdf
Shane, J., Heckhausen, J. (2012). Motivational self-regulation in the work domain: Congruence of individuals’ control striving and the control potential in their developmental ecologies. Research in Human Development, 9, 337-357. pdf
Shane, J., Heckhausen, J., Lessard, J., Chen, C., & Greenberger, E. (2012). Career-related goal pursuit among post-high school youth: Relations between personal control beliefs and control strivings. Motivation and Emotion, 36, 159-169. pdf
Haase, C., Poulin, M., & Heckhausen, J. (2012). Happiness as a motivator: Positive affect predicts primary control striving for career and educational goals. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38, 1093-1104. pdf
Heckhausen, J. (2011). Agency and control striving across the lifespan. In: K. Fingerman, C. Berg, T. Antonucci, and J. Smith (Eds.). Handbook of lifespan psychology (pp. 183-212). New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company.
Haase, C., Silbereisen, R. K., & Heckhausen, J. (2011). The interplay of occupational motivation and well-being during the transition from university to work. Developmental Psychology. pdf
Mackay, J., Charles, S. T., Kemp, B., & Heckhausen, J. (2011). Goal striving and maladaptive coping in adults living with spinal cord injury: Associations with affective well-being. Journal of Aging and Health, 23, 158-176. pdf
Tomasik, M., Silbereisen, R. K., & Heckhausen, J. (2010). Is it adaptive to disengage from demands of social change? Adjustment to developmental barriers in opportunity-deprived regions. Motivation and Emotion, 34, 384-398. pdf
Hall, N. C., Chipperfield, J. G., Heckhausen, J., & Perry, R. P. (2010). Control striving in older adults with serious health problems: A 9-year longitudinal study of survival, health, and well-being. Psychology and Aging, 25, 432-445. pdf
Heckhausen, J., Wrosch, C., & Schulz, R. (2010). A motivational theory of lifespan development. Psychological Review, 117, 32-60. pdf
Heckhausen, J. (2010). Globalization, social inequality, and individual agency in human development: Social change for better or worse? (pp. 148-163). In: R. K. Silbereisen & X. Chen (Eds.). Social change and human development: Concepts and results. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Chang, E. S., Heckhausen, J., Greenberger, E., & Chen, C. (2010). Shared agency with parents for educational goals: Ethnic differences and implications for college adjustment. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 39, 1293-1304.
Chang, E. S., Greenberger, E., Chen, C., Heckhausen, J. & Farruggia, S. P. (2010). Non-parental adults as social resources in the transition to adulthood. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 20, 1-18.
Heckhausen, J., & Chang, E. S. (2009). Can ambition help overcome social inequality in the transition to adulthood? Individual agency and societal opportunities in Germany and the United States. Research in Human Development, 6, 1-17.
Tomasik, M. J., Hardy, S., Haase, C. M., & Heckhausen, J. (2009). Adaptive adjustment of vocational aspirations among German youths during the transition from school to work. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 74,38-46. pdf
Sorkin, D. H., Rook, K. S., Heckhausen, J., & Billimek, J. (2009). Predicting changes in older adults’ interpersonal control strivings. International Journal of Aging and Human Development.
Haynes, T. J., Heckhausen, J., Chipperfield, J. G., Newall, N. E., & Perry, R. P. (2009). Primary and secondary control strategies: Implications for health and well-being among older adults. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology 28, 165-195.
Chung, W. Y., Chen, C., Greenberger, E., & Heckhausen, J. (2009). A cross-ethnic study of adolescents’ depressed mood and the erosion of parental warmth during the transition to young adulthood. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 19, 359-379.
Haase, C. M., Heckhausen, J., & Koeller, O. (2008). Goal engagement in the school-to-work transition: Beneficial for all, particularly for girls. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 18, 671-698.
Poulin, M. J. & Heckhausen, J. (2007). Stressful events compromise control strivings during a major life transition. Motivation and Emotion, 31,300-311.
Heckhausen, J. (2007). The motivation-volition divide and its resolution in action-phase models of behavioral and developmental regulation. Research in Human Development, 4, 163-180.
Chang, E. S., Chen, C., Greenberger, E., Dooley, D., & Heckhausen, J. (2006). What do they want in life? The life goals of a multi-ethnic, multi-generational sample of high-school seniors. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 35, 321-332.
Wrosch, C., Schulz, R. & Heckhausen, J. (2004). Health stresses and depressive symptomatology in the elderly: A control-process approach. Current Directions, 13, 17-20.
Boerner, K. & Heckhausen, J. (2003). To have and have not: Adaptive bereavement by transforming mental ties to the deceased. Death Studies, 27, 199-226.
Heckhausen, J., & Tomasik, M. (2002). Get an apprenticeship before school is out: How German adolescents adjust vocational aspirations when getting close to a developmental deadline. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 60, 199-219.
Wrosch, C., Schulz, R., & Heckhausen, J. (2002). Health stresses and depressive symptomatology in the elderly: The importance of health engagement control strategies. Health Psychology, 21, 340-348.
Wrosch, C., & Heckhausen, J. (2002). Perceived control of life regrets: Good for young and bad for old adults.Psychology and Aging, 17, 340-350.
Heckhausen, J., Wrosch, C., & Fleeson, W. (2001). Developmental regulation before and after a developmental deadline: The sample case of “biological clock” for child-bearing. Psychology and Aging, 16, 400-413.
Lang, F. R., & Heckhausen, J. (2001). Perceived control over development and subjective well-being: Differential benefits across adulthood. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81, 509 – 523.
Wrosch, C., & Heckhausen, J. (1999). Control processes before and after passing a developmental deadline: Activation and deactivation of intimate relationship goals. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77, 415-427. pdf
Schulz, R., & Heckhausen, J. (1996). A life-span model of successful aging. American Psychologist, 51, 702-714. pdf
Heckhausen, J., & Schulz, R. (1995). A life-span theory of control. Psychological Review, 102, 284-304. pdf