Contact information
- Margund Rohr (phone: +49 (0)9131 / 85 26512)
Room 3.106, office hours: Wed, 2:00-4:00 p.m.
Address
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Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg
Institute of Psychogerontology
Naegelsbachstraße 25
D-91052 Erlangen
Germany
Research
Research Interests
- Lifespan Psychology
- Intergenerational relationships and communication
- Health and social relationships
- Personality and relationships in the context of care
- Well-being and life satisfaction of aged people in institutional settings
Research Projects
- GesA - Health and Autonomy in Old Age
- VW - Research Project "Age-ing as future enterprise" (Z-ALT, Prof. Dr. F. R. Lang, Prof. Dr. Gert G. Wagner)
Teachings
- Emotion and Cognition (SS 2010)
- Partnership und Sexuality in Old Age (2007/08; SS 2010)
- Personality and social relationships across life span (2008/09; B.Sc. 2009)
- Counseling caregivers of family members with dementia (Université du Luxembourg, 03/2009)
- Culture and social relationships from a lifespan perspective (SS 2009)
- Considering facets of life in nursing homes (2008)
- Process of scientific work: empirical research and presentation (2008; 2008/09)
- Intergenerational Communication (2007)
- Intervention: Practice of Working with Cognitive Impaired People (2007)
Curriculum Vitae
| since 2007 | Research assistant and PhD student | Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Institute of Psychogerontology (Prof. Dr. F. R. Lang) |
| 2006 | Diploma in Psychology | University of Trier |
| Thesis "Assertiveness in the Nursing Home - a Vignette Approach Examining the Evaluation of Assertiveness in Dependence on the Protagonist's Gender" (Instructors: Prof. Dr. S.-H. Filipp and Dr. A.-K. Mayer) | ||
| 2004 - 2006 | Employee at the Gerontological Counseling Center | Vereinigte Hospitien Trier (Director: Dipl.-Psych. C. Lukas) |
| 2003 - 2004 | Participant of the ISEP Exchange Program (2 sem.) Department of Psychology; emphasis on Gerontology |
University of Kansas, USA |
| 1997 - 2000 | Occupational training in occupational therapy | Weiterbildungsakademie Dresden, Außenstelle Görlitz |
Publications, Conference and Workshop Presentations
Lang, F.R., Rohr, M.K., & Wagner, J. (in press). Motivation und Entwicklungsregulation. In F. Lang, M. Pinquart & Martin, M. (Hrsg.), Lehrbuch Psychologie: Entwicklungspsychologie Band 2. Göttingen: Hogrefe.
Rohr, M.K.& Lang, F.R. (in press). Soziale Beziehungen. In F. Lang, M. Pinquart & Martin, M. (Hrsg.), Lehrbuch Psychologie: Entwicklungspsychologie Band 2. Göttingen: Hogrefe.
Wagner, J., Rohr, M.K., & Lang, F.R. (in press). Individuelles Alternserleben in Ost und West. Erscheint in I. Ostner & P. Krause (Hrsg.), " ... was zusammen gehört ... Eine sozialwissenschaftliche Bilanzierung des Vereinigungsprozesses"
Lang, F.R., Rohr, M.K., & Williger, B. (in press). Modeling Success in Lifespan Psychology - The Principles of Selection, Optimization, and Compensation. To appear in: K. Fingerman, C. Berg, T. Antonucci, & J. Smith (Eds.). Handbook of Lifespan Development. New York: Springer Publishing Company.
Rohr, M.K. & Lang, F.R. (2009). Relationship Regulation in the Transition to Family Caregiving. Poster presented at the 62nd Annual Scientific Meeting of The Gerontological Society of America, Atlanta, GA, USA, November, 2009.
Rohr, M.K. & Lang, F.R. (2009). Aging well together -- a mini-review. Gerontology, 55, 333-343.
Lang, F.R., Rohr, M.K., & Wagner, J. (2009). Miteinander gut altern: Zur Psychologie sozialer Beziehungen im Alter. Talk given at the "Jahrestagung der Sektion für sozial- und verhaltenswissenschaftliche Gerontologie (III) der DGGG", Dortmund, September, 2009.
Rohr, M.K. & Lang, F. R. (2009). Who plans to give to care to whom? The role of personality and relationship regulation within the transition to care - A pilot study. Talk given at the Workshop on "Intergenerational Relations - Society, Family and Individual Perspectives", Luxembourg, June, 2009.
Rohr, M.K., Rupprecht, R., & Lang, F. R. (2008). Psychosocial conditions of frailty. Talk given at the Joint Congress of DGG/ÖGGG and DGGG/SGG, Potsdam, FRG, December 2008.
Rohr, M.K. & Lang, F.R. (2008). Caregiving and Personality: What are Potential Sources of Caregiving Satisfaction? Poster presented at the XXIX. International Congress of Psychology (ICP), Berlin, Germany, July, 2008.
