Prof. Dr. Jenny Wagner

• Differential lifespan development as well as conditions and processes of personality development from late childhood to old age
• Interplay of personality development and the successful mastery of educational transitions as well as the general adaptation to and development in educational contexts
• Social relationships and relationship regulation across the lifespan
• Methodological challenges, such as intra- versus inter-individual differences and change, modeling developmental trajectories

Brandt, N. D., Drewelies, J., Willis, S. L., Schaie, K. W., Ram., N., Gerstorf, D., & Wagner, J. (in press). Acting like a baby boomer? Cohort differences across half a century in personality levels and change in adulthood and old age. Psychological Science.

Israel*, A., Brandt*, N. D., Spengler, M., Göllner, R., Nagengast, B., Lüdtke, O., Trautwein, U., & Wagner, J. (in press.). The Longitudinal Interplay of School Experiences and Personality in Adolescence. European Journal of Personality. (* shared first authorship)

Brandt, N. D., Israel, A., Becker, M., & Wagner, J., (2021). The joint power of personality and motivation dynamics for occupational success: Bridging two largely separated fields. European Journal of Personality.

Wieczorek, L.L., Mueller, S., Lüdtke, O., & Wagner, J. (2021). What Makes a Pleasant Social Experience? The Role of Social Interaction Behaviors and Perceptions in Daily Personal-Relationship Associations. European Journal of Personality.

Wagner, J., Orth, U., Bleidorn, W., Hopwood, C. J., & Kandler, C. (2020). Towards an Integrative Model of Sources of Personality Stability and Change. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 29, 438-444. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721420924751

Bleidorn, W., Hopwood, C. J., Back, M. D., Denissen, J. J. A., Hennecke, M., Jokela, M., Kandler, C., Lucas, R. E., Luhmann, M., Orth, U., Roberts, B. W., Wagner, J., Wrzus, C., & Zimmermann, J. (2020). Longitudinal Experience-Wide Association Studies-A Framework for Studying Personality Change: Personality change. European Journal of Personality. https://doi.org/10.1002/per.2247

Bleidorn, W., Hill, P.L., … Wagner, J., … & Roberts, B.W. (2019). The policy relevance of personality traits. American Psychologist, 74, 1056–1067.

Deventer, J., Wagner, J., Lüdtke, O., & Trautwein, U. (2019). Are personality traits and relationship characteristics reciprocally related? Longitudinal analyses of codevelopment in the transition out of high school and beyond. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 116, 331-347. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000191

Mueller, S., Ram, N., Conroy, D. E., Pincus, A. L., Gerstorf, D., & Wagner, J. (2019). Happy Like a Fish in Water? The Role of Personality–Situation Fit for Momentary Happiness in Social Interactions across the Adult Lifespan. European Journal of Personality, 33(3), 298–316. https://doi.org/10.1002/per.2198

Mueller, S., Wagner, J., Wagner, G.G., Ram, N., & Gerstorf, D. (2018). How far reaches the power of personality? Personality predictors of terminal decline in well-being. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 116, 634-650.

Wagner, J., Lüdtke, O., & Robitzsch, A. (2019). Does personality become more stable with age? Disentangling state and trait effects for the big five across the life span using local structural equation modeling. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 116, 666-680.

Mueller, S., Wagner, J., Smith, J., Voelkle, M. C., & Gerstorf, D. (2018). The Interplay of Personality and Functional Health in Old and Very Old Age: Dynamic Within-Person Interrelations Across up to 13 Years. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 115, 1127-1147. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000173

Wagner, J., Lüdtke, O., Robitzsch, A., Göllner, R., & Trautwein, U. (2018). Self-esteem development in the school context: The roles of intrapersonal and interpersonal social predictors. Journal of Personality, 86, 481–497. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12330

Wagner, J., Ram, N., Smith, J., & Gerstorf, D. (2016). Personality trait development at the end of life: Antecedents and correlates of mean-level trajectories. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 111, 411-429. doi: 10.1037/pspp0000071

Hutteman, R., Nestler, S., Wagner, J., Egloff, B. & Back, M. D. (2015). Wherever I may roam: Processes of self-esteem development from adolescence to emerging adulthood in the context of international student exchange. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 108, 767-783. doi: 10.1037/pspp0000015

Wagner, J., Becker, M., Lüdtke, O., & Trautwein, U. (2015). The first partnership experience and personality development: Assessing the causal effect of (starting a) first partnership in young adulthood. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 6, 455-463.

Wagner, J., Lüdtke, O., Roberts, B. W. & Trautwein, U. (2014). Who belongs to me? Social relationship and personality characteristics in the transition to young adulthood. European Journal of Personality, 28, 586-603. doi: 10.1002/per.1974

Wagner, J., Gerstorf, D., Hoppmann, C., & Luszcz, M. (2013). The nature and correlates of self-esteem trajectories in late life. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 105:139-53. doi: 10.1037/a0032279.

Wagner, J., Lüdtke, O., Jonkmann, K., & Trautwein, U. (2013). Cherish yourself: Longitudinal patterns and conditions of self-esteem change in the transition to young adulthood. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 104, 148-163. doi: 10.1037/a0029680

Wrzus, C., Hänel, M., Wagner, J., & Neyer, F. J. (2013). The change of social networks across the life span: A meta-analysis on associations with normative life events. Psychological Bulletin, 1, 53-80. doi: 10.1037/a0028601

Back, M. D., Baumert, A., Denissen, J. J. A., Hartung, F.-M., Penke, L., Schmukle, S. C., Schönbrodt, F. D., Schröder-Abé, M., Vollmann, M., Wagner, J., & Wrzus, C. (2011). PERSOC: A unified framework for understanding the dynamic interplay of personality and social relationships. European Journal of Personality, 25, 90-107.