apl. Prof. Dr. Oliver Schilling
Research Fellow -
Psychological Aging Research
Examinations Board
(Vorsitz)
(Vorsitz)
Fachrat
(Akademische Mitarbeiter*innen)
(Akademische Mitarbeiter*innen)
Contact
- Email: oliver.schilling@psychologie.uni-heidelberg.de
- Phone: +49 6221 54-8104
- Office Hours: By Appointment
- LSF Profile
Address
Room: R 019a
Bergheimer StraĂe 20
69115 Heidelberg
Research interest:
- Old and very old age: Terminal change, adaptation to age-associated loss, subjective wellbeing
- Microlongitudinal research (daily diary studies, ambulatory assessments, etc.)
- Statistical methods: longitudinal data analysis
Current research projects:
- The Nature and Long-term Predictors of Short-term Within-Context and Across-Context Variability in Four Major Life Domains â A Multi-Domain Extension of the EMIL Project
- Daily Affect Dynamics in Very Old Age Across Time: The Role of Vulnerabilities but Also Strengths
Entire list of publications: Google Scolar
 Recent publications:
- Hartung, J., Stahlhofen, L., Schilling, O.K., Wahl, H.-W., & HĂźlĂźr, G. (2024). Do early midlife work characteristics predict 20-year change in control beliefs? Psychology and Aging. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1037/pag0000830
- Lßcke, A. J., Schilling, O. K., Kunzmann, U., Gerstorf, D., Katzorreck-Gierden, M., Hoppmann, C. A., Luong, G., Wagner, G. G., Riediger, M., & Wrzus, C. (2024). Neuroticism, emotional stress reactivity and recovery in daily life: Examining extraversion and openness as moderators. Journal of Research in Personality. doi: 10.1016/j.jrp.2024.104474
- Kaspar, R., Schilling, O. K., Diehl, M., Gerstorf, D., Rupprecht, F. S., Sabatini, S., & Wahl, H.-W. (2023). Differences in self-perceptions of aging across the adult lifespan: The sample case of awareness of age-related gains and losses. Psychology and Aging, 38, 824â836. doi: 10.1037/pag0000783
- Sabatini, S., Rupprecht, F. S., Diehl, M., Wahl, H.-W., Kaspar, R., Schilling, O. K., & Gerstorf, D. (2023). Levels of awareness of age-related gains and losses throughout adulthood and their developmental correlates. Psychology and Aging, 38, 837â853. doi: 10.1037/pag0000784
- Gerstorf, D., Schilling, O. K., Pauly, T., Katzorreck, M., LĂźcke, A. J., Wahl, H.-W., Kunzmann, U., Hoppmann, C. A., & Ram, N. (2023). Long-term aging trajectories of the accumulation of disease burden as predictors of daily affect dynamics and stressor reactivity. Psychology and Aging, 38, 763â777. doi: 10.1037/pag0000779
- Kunzmann, U., Nestler, S., LĂźcke, A. J., Katzorreck, M., Hoppmann, C. A., Wahl, H.-W., Schilling, O., & Gerstorf, D. (2023). Three facets of emotion regulation in old and very old age: Strategy use, effectiveness, and variability. Emotion. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1037/emo0001269
- LĂźcke, A. J., Wrzus, C., Gerstorf, D., Kunzmann, U., Katzorreck, M., Hoppmann, C., & Schilling, O. K. (2022). Bidirectional links of daily sleep quality and duration with pain and self-rated health in older adultsâ daily lives, The Journals of Gerontology: Series A. Advanced access publication. doi: 10.1093/gerona/glac192
- Rupprecht, F. S., Sabatini, S., Diehl, M., Gerstorf, D., Kaspar, R., Schilling, O. K. & Wahl, H.-W.(2022). Awareness of age-related change in the context of major life events. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 13: 954048. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.954048
- LĂźcke, A. J., Wrzus, C., Gerstorf, D., Kunzmann, U., Katzorreck, M., Kolodziejczak, K., Ram, N., Hoppmann, C., & Schilling, O. K. (2022). Good nightâgood day? Bidirectional links of daily sleep quality with negative affect and stress reactivity in old age. Psychology and Aging.
Advance online publication. doi: 10.1037/pag0000704
- Stahlhofen, L., Hartung, J., Schilling, O., Wahl, H.âW., & HĂźlĂźr, G. (2022). The relevance of perceived work environment and work activities for personality trajectories in midlife. Journal of Personality, 00, 1â20. doi: 10.1111/jopy.12776Â
- Kunzmann, U., Katzorreck, M., Wieck, C., Schilling, O. K., LĂźcke, A. J., & Gerstorf, D. (2022). Emotion regulation in old and very old age. Emotion. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1037/emo0001075
- Kornadt, A. E., Pauly, T., Schilling, O. K., Kunzmann, U., Katzorreck, M., LĂźcke, A. J., Hoppmann, C. A., Gerstorf, D., & Wahl, H.-W. (2022). Momentary subjective age is associated with perceived and physiological stress in the daily lives of old and very old adults. Psychology and Aging. Advance online publication. doi: 0.1037/pag0000711
- Wettstein, M., Schilling, O. K., & Wahl, H.-W. (2022). Trajectories of pain in very old age: The role of eudaimonic well-being and personality. Frontiers in Pain Research, 3 , 807179. doi: 10.3389/fpain.2022.807179
- Frenkel, M. O., Pollak, K. M. , Schilling, O., Voigt, L., Fritzsching, B., Wrzus, C., Egger-Lampl, S., Merle, U., Weigand, M. A., & Mohr, S. (2022). Stressors faced by healthcare professionals and coping strategies during the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. PLoS ONE, 17 , e0261502. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0261502
- Schilling, O. K., Wettstein, M., & Wahl, H.-W. (2022). Associations of well-being levels, changes and within-person variability with late-life all-cause mortality across 12 years: Contrasting hedonic vs. eudaimonic well-being among very old adults. Frontiers in Psychology , 12 , 750891. doi:
10.3389/fpsyg.2021.750891
- LĂźcke, A. J., Gerstorf, D., Kunzmann, U., Katzorreck, M., Schmiedek, F., Hoppmann, C., & Schilling, O. K. (2022). Between-person and within-person associations of sleep and working-memory in the everyday lives of old and very old adults: Initial level, learning, and variability. Sleep, 45 (1), zsab279. doi: 10.1093/sleep/zsab279Â
- Schilling, O. K., Gerstorf, D., LĂźcke, A. J., Katzorreck, M., Wahl, H.-W., Diehl, M., & Kunzmann, U. (2022). Emotional reactivity to daily stressors: Does stressor pile-up within a day matter for young-old and very old adults? Psychology and Aging, 37, 149â162. doi:Â 10.1037/pag0000667
Selected past publications:
- Schilling, O. K., Deeg, D. J. H., &. Huisman, M. (2018). Affective well-being in the last years of life: The role of health decline. Psychology and Aging, 33, 739-753. doi: 10.1037/pag0000279
- Schilling, O. K. (2016). Distance-to-death research in geropsychology. In: N.A. Pachana (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Geropsychology . Singapore: Springer Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-287-080-3_125-1
- Schilling, O. K., Wahl, H.-W., Boerner, K., Horowitz, A., Reinhardt, J. P., Cimarolli, V. R., Brennan-Ing, M., & Heckhausen, J. (2016). Developmental regulation with progressive vision loss: Use of control strategies and affective well-being. Developmental Psychology . doi: 10.1037/pag0000099
- Schilling, O. K. & Diehl, M. (2014). Reactivity to stressor pile-up in adulthood: Effects on daily negative and positive affect. Psychology and Aging , 29 , 72-83. doi: 10.1037/a0035500
- Schilling, O. K., Wahl, H.-W., & Wiegering, S. (2013). Affective development in advanced old age: Analyses of terminal change in positive and negative affect. Developmental Psychology , 49 , 1011-1020. doi: 10.1037/a0028775
- Schilling, O. K. & 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. K. (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