Laura Buchinger
LIFE Berlin
External LIFE Fellow from 2020 to 2023, Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) Berlin
Dr. phil.
Dissertation defended at Freie Universität Berlin in November 2023
Life Goals Across Adulthood and Old Age: Associations With Personality and Well-Being
(Advisors: David Richter & Gert Wagner)
Selected Publications
Buchinger, L., Entringer, T. M., Richter, D., Wagner, G. G., Gerstorf, D., & Bleidorn, W. (2024). Codevelopment of life goals and the big five personality traits across adulthood and old age. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 126(2), 346–368. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000477
Buchinger, L., Wahring, I. V., Ram, N., Hoppmann, C. A., Heckhausen, J., & Gerstorf, D. (2024). Kids or no kids? Life goals in one’s 20s predict midlife trajectories of well-being. Psychology and Aging, 39(8), 897–914. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000862
Buchinger, L., Richter, D., & Heckhausen, J. (2022). The development of life goals over the adult lifespan. Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 77(5), 905–915. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbab154