PD Dr. Oliver Schilling

Deputy Department Chair

Education

• 1993 Diploma in Psychology, Heidelberg University
• 2004 Doctorate in Psychology, Heidelberg University
• 2009 Habilitation in Psychology (equivalent to a second Ph.D.), Heidelberg University

Research Interests

• Adaptivity of subjective well-being in advanced old age
• Terminal processes
• Multivariate statistical methods, in particular longitudinal structural
  equation models and multilevel models
   

 Selected Publications (in chronological order)

(complete list of publications enclosed in the vita)
 

• Schilling, O., Wahl, H.-W., & Oswald, F. (2011). Change in life satisfaction under chronic physical multi-morbidity in advanced old age: Potential and limits of adaptation. Journal of Happiness Studies, doi: 10.1007/s10902-011-9313-3
• Schilling, O., Wahl, H.-W., Horowitz, A., Reinhardt, J.P., & Boerner, K. (2011). The Adaptation dynamics of chronic functional impairment: What we can learn from older adults with vision loss. Psychology and Aging, 26, 203-213. doi: 10.1037/a0021127
• Schilling, O. & Wahl, H.-W. (2006). Modeling late life adaptation in affective well-being under a severe chronic health condition: The case of age-related macular degeneration. Psychology and Aging, 21, 703-714. doi: 10.1037/0882-7974.21.4.703
• Schilling, O. (2006). Development of life satisfaction in old age: Another view on the "paradox". Social Indicators Research, 75 , 241-271. doi: 10.1007/s11205-004-5297-2
• Schilling, O. (2005). Cohort- and age-related decline in elder's life satisfaction: is there really a paradox? European Journal of Ageing, 2, 254-263. doi: 10.1007/s10433-005-0016-7
   

Vita