Research Interests

• Volunteering
• Housing, nursing care and integrated health care in older persons.
• Health-related development in older persons in changing contexts.
• Social relations of older persons in changing contexts.
• Age specific interventions fostering health behavior change in multimorbid as well as healthy populations.

Current Research Projects

• FWS: German Survey on Volunteering (Funded by the German Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth).
• DEAS: German Ageing Survey (Funded by the German Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth).
• PREFER I-II: Personal Resources of Elderly People With Multiple Illnesses: Fortification of Effective Health Behaviour (Funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research: 01ET0702). PREFER I-II is a project of the research consortium “Autonomy Despite Multimorbidty in Old Age (AMA)”.
• FLARE-BSA: Fostering Lifelong Autonomy and Resources in Europe: Behavior and Successful Aging (Funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research: 01ET0801).

Biography

• 2001 Diploma (M.A.) in Psychology (Dresden University of Technology)
• 2005 Dr. phil. (Ph.D.) in Psychology (Freie Universität Berlin)
• 2006 Margret M. Baltes Doctoral Dissertation Award (American Psychological Association Division 20: Adult Development and Aging)
• 2009 Guest Scientist Universität Zürich
• 2010 Guest Scientist Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
• since 2011 research scientist at German Centre of Gerontology, Berlin

Selected Publications

• Wahl, H.-W., Tesch-Römer, C. & Ziegelmann, J. P. (Eds.). (2012). Angewandte Gerontologie: Interventionen für ein gutes Altern in 100 Schlüsselbegriffen. [Applied gerontology: Interventions for healthy ageing in 100 key terms]. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer.
• Gellert, P., Ziegelmann, J. P., Warner, L. & Schwarzer, R. (2011). Physical activity intervention in older adults: does a participating partner make a difference? European Journal of Ageing, 8, 211–219.
• Gellert, P., Ziegelmann, J. P., Lippke, S., & Schwarzer, R. (in press). Future time perspective and health behaviors: Temporal framing of self-regulatory processes in physical exercise and dietary behaviors. Annals of Behavioral Medicine.
• Gellert, P., Ziegelmann, J. P., & Schwarzer, R. (in press). Affective and health-related outcome expectancies for physical activity in older adults. Psychology & Health.
• Reuter, T., Ziegelmann, J. P., Wiedemann, A. U., Lippke, S., Schüz, B., & Aiken, L. S. (2010). Planning Bridges the Intention-Behavior Gap: Age Makes a Difference and Strategy Use Explains Why. Psychology & Health, 25, S. 873-887.
• Ziegelmann, J. P., & Lippke, S. (Eds.). (2009). Theory-based approaches to stress and coping: Emerging themes and contemporary research. [Special issue]. European Psychologist, 14(1).
• Ziegelmann, J. P., & Lippke, S. (2007a). Planning and strategy use in health behavior change: A life span view. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 14, 30-39.
• Ziegelmann, J. P., & Lippke, S. (2007b). Use of Selection, Optimization, and Compensation strategies in health self-regulation: Interplay with resources and successful development. Journal of Aging and Health, 19, 500-518.
• Ziegelmann, J. P., Luszczynska, A., Lippke, S., & Schwarzer, R. (2007). Are goal intentions or implementation intentions better predictors of health behavior? A longitudinal study in orthopedic rehabilitation. Rehabilitation Psychology, 52, 97-102.
• Ziegelmann, J. P., Lippke, S. & Schwarzer, R. (2006a). Adoption and maintenance of physical activity: Planning interventions in young, middle-aged, and older adults. Psychology & Health, 21, 145-163.
• Ziegelmann, J. P., Lippke, S. & Schwarzer, R. (2006b). Subjective residual life expectancy in health self-regulation. Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 61, 195-201.

A complete list can be found here or at www.ziegelmann.org.

Committees/Scientific Organisations/Membership

• International Advisory Board: British Journal of Health Psychology (BJHP)
• Scientific Advisory Board: Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie (ZfGG)
• Participant of the task forces „Healthy Ageing“ and „Environments of Ageing“ funded by the European Commission (A roadmap for ageing research: FUTURAGE).
• Memberships: German Society of Gerontology and Geriatrics (DGGG), German Society of Psychology (DGPs), Gerontological Society of America (GSA), International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP).