Laura Buchinger

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., Wahring, I., Ram, N., Hoppmann, C. A., Heckhausen, J., & Gerstorf, D. (in press). Kids or no kids? Life goals in one’s 20s predict midlife trajectories of well-being. Psychology and Aging.

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., 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