August 21, 2008
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Jutta Heckhausen

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Professor
Ph.D. University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Great Britain
Phone: (949) 824-5574
Office: 3381 Social Ecology II
Email: heckhaus@uci.edu
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General areas of interest are: life-span developmental psychology, motivational psychology, control behavior, and developmental regulation across the life span. My current focus of research is on developmental regulation during major life-course transitions, in particular the transition from school to work and to college.

Web Links of Research Sites

Selected Publications

  • Heckhausen, J. (in press). Globalization, social inequality, and individual agency in human development: Social change for better or worse? In: R. K. Silbereisen & X. Chen (Eds.). Social change and human development: Concepts and results. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
  • Poulin, M. J. & Heckhausen, J. (in press). Stressful events compromise control strivings during a major life transition. Motivation and Emotion.
  • Haase, C. M., Heckhausen, J., & Köller, O. (in press). Goal engagement in the school-to-work transition: Beneficial for all, particularly for girls. Journal of Research on Adolescence.
  • Chang, E. S., Greenberger, E., Chen, C., Heckhausen, J. & Farruggia, S. P. (in press). Non-parental adults as social resources in the transition to adulthood. Journal of Research on Adolescence.
  • Haynes, T. J., Heckhausen, J., Chipperfield, J. G., Newall, N. E., & Perry, R. P. (in press). Primary and secondary control strategies: Implications for health and well-being among older adults. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology.
  • Heckhausen, J. (in press). The motivation-volition divide and its resolution in action-phase models of behavioral and developmental regulation. Research in Human Development.
  • Heckhausen, J. & Heckhausen, H. (2008). Motivation and action. New York, NJ: Cambridge University Press.
  • Heckhausen, J. (2007). Soci(et)al scaffolding of individual growth across the life span. In: R. K. Silbereisen & R. M. Lerner (Eds.). Approaches to positive youth development (pp. 93-108). London, U.K.: Sage Publications.
  • Rook, K. S., Charles, S. T., & Heckhausen, J. (2007). Aging and health. In H. S. Freedman, & R. C. Silver (Eds.). Foundations of Health Psychology (pp. 234-262). Oxford University Press.
  • 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., Heckhausen, J., & M. Lachman (2006). Goal management across adulthood and old age: The adaptive value of primary and secondary control. In: D. Mroczek & T. Little (Eds.), Handbook of personality development (pp. 399-421). Hillsdale, N J: Erlbaum.
  • Lang, F. R., & Heckhausen, J. (2006). Motivation and interpersonal regulation across adulthood: Managing the challenges and constraints of social contexts. In: C. Hoare (Ed.) The Oxford handbook of adult development and learning (pp. 149-166). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
  • Heckhausen, J. (2005). Competence and motivation in adulthood and old age: Making the most of changing capacities and resources. In: A. Elliot & C. S. Dweck (Eds.) Handbook of competence and motivation (pp. 240-256). New York, NY: Guilford Press.
  • Heckhausen, J. & Heckhausen, H. (2005). Motivation und Handeln. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
  • Poulin, M., Haase, C., & Heckhausen, J. (2005). Engagement with and disengagement from goals across the life span: A comparison of two-process models of developmental regulation. In: W. Greve, K. Rothermund, & D. Wentura (Eds.), The adaptive self: Personal continuity and intentional self-development (pp. 1-19). Göttingen/New York: Hogrefe/Huber Publisher.
  • Heckhausen, J. (2005). Competence and motivation in adulthood and old age: Making the most of changing capacities and resources. In: A. Elliot & C. S. Dweck (Eds.) Handbook of competence and motivation (pp. 240-256). The Guilford Press.
  • Wrosch, C., Schulz, R. & Heckhausen, J. (2004). Health stresses and depressive symptomatology in the elderly: A control-process approach. Current Directions, 13, 17-20.
  • Heckhausen, J., & Farruggia, S. P. (2003). Developmental Regulation Across the Life Span: A Control-Theory Approach and Implications for Secondary Education. British Journal of Educational Psychology, Monograph Series II: Psychological Aspects of Education - Current Trends. Leicester: British Psychological Society.
  • 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. (2002). Developmental regulation of life-course transitions: A control theory approach. In L. Pulkkinen & A. Caspi (Eds.), Paths to successful development: Personality in the life course (pp. 257-280). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
  • Heckhausen, J. (2001). Adaptation and resilience in midlife. In M. E. Lachman (Ed.), Handbook of midlife development (pp. 345-394). New York: John Wiley.
  • 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., & Lachman, M. E.(2000). Primary and secondary control strategies for managing health and financial stress across adulthood. Psychology and Aging, 15, 387-399.
  • Heckhausen, J. (2000). Evolutionary perspectives on human motivation. In J. Heckhausen & P. Boyer (Eds.), Evolutionary psychology: Potential and limits of a Darwinian framework for the behavioral sciences [Special Issue]. American Behavioral Scientist, 43, 1015-1029.
  • Heckhausen, J. (Ed.). (2000). Motivational psychology of human development. Developing motivation and motivating development. Oxford, UK: Elsevier.
  • Heckhausen, J. (1999). Developmental regulation in adulthood: Age-normative and sociostructural constraints as adaptive challenges. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
  • 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.
  • Heckhausen, J., & Dweck, C. S. (Eds.). (1998). Motivation and self-regulation across the life span. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
  • Schulz, R., & Heckhausen, J. (1996). A life-span model of successful aging. American Psychologist, 51, 702-714.
  • Heckhausen, J., & Schulz, R. (1995). A life-span theory of control. Psychological Review, 102, 284-304.

 

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