Jutta Heckhausen
· Distinguished Professor of PsychologyUniversity of California, Irvine · Psychology
Active 1986–2026
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About
Jutta Heckhausen is a professor affiliated with the UCI School of Social Ecology. Her research focuses on lifespan development, motivation, and agency, particularly how individuals navigate societal constraints and personal goals across different life stages. She has contributed to understanding the development of life goals over the adult lifespan, the role of control strategies in managing health threats in older adults, and the motivational processes involved in aging, education, and health. Her work often integrates social-ecological perspectives and emphasizes the importance of individual agency in developmental regulation. Heckhausen has also explored topics such as successful aging at work, the impact of societal constraints on educational transitions, and the motivational aspects of health maintenance and recovery, making significant contributions to the fields of psychology and aging.
Research topics
- Computer Science
- Psychology
- Medicine
- Sociology
- Cognitive psychology
- Political Science
- Gerontology
- Physical therapy
- Physical medicine and rehabilitation
- Surgery
Selected publications
Understanding the effects of Covid-19 through a life course lens
Advances in Life Course Research · 2020 · 358 citations
Successful aging at work: A process model to guide future research and practice
Industrial and Organizational Psychology · 2020 · 176 citations
Senior authorCorrespondingAbstract Although aging workforces result in numerous practical challenges for organizations and societies, little research has focused on successful aging at work. The limited existent research has generated rather diverse conceptualizations of successful aging at work, which are often broad and difficult to operationalize in practice. Therefore, to advance research and practice, we offer a specific and practical conceptualization of successful aging at work by developing a process model, which…
A Feasibility Study of Expanded Home-Based Telerehabilitation After Stroke
Frontiers in Neurology · 2021 · 55 citations
Senior authorCorrespondingClinicaltrials.gov, # NCT03460587.
Motivation and Healthy Aging: A Heuristic Model
The Journals of Gerontology Series B · 2021 · 22 citations
Abstract Building on the seminal definition of “healthy aging” by the World Health Organization (WHO, 2015; 2020), we present a model of motivation and healthy aging that is aimed at identifying the central psychological constructs and processes for understanding what older persons value, and how they can attain and maintain these valued aspects of their lives. This model places goals at its center, and then proceeds from motivational processes of goal setting, pursuit, and disengagement, to con…
Motivation and Healthy Aging at Work
The Journals of Gerontology Series B · 2021 · 16 citations
The aims of this paper were to review theoretical and empirical research on motivation and healthy aging at work and to outline directions for future research and practical applications in this area. To achieve these goals, we first consider the World Health Organization's (WHO) definition of healthy aging in the context of paid employment and life-span development in the work domain. Second, we describe contemporary theoretical models and cumulative empirical findings on age, motivation, and he…
Frequent coauthors
- 46 shared
Jacob Shane
City University of New York
- 42 shared
Carsten Wrosch
Concordia University
- 26 shared
Paul B. Baltes
Max Planck Society
- 21 shared
Richard Schulz
University of Alberta
- 21 shared
Denis Gerstorf
German Institute for Economic Research
- 20 shared
Heinz Heckhausen
Max Planck Society
- 18 shared
Judith G. Chipperfield
University of Manitoba
- 17 shared
Raymond P. Perry
North Dakota State University
Education
Ph.D.
University of Strathclyde
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