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Overview

Maike Luhmann is affiliated with Ruhr University Bochum in Germany and has contributed extensively to the field of psychology, with a focus on social, experimental, and clinical psychology. Their research spans a variety of subfields and topics addressing psychological well-being, mental health, and personality traits.

Their publication record includes works in prominent journals, particularly the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, where they have published 10 papers. Other frequent publication venues include the European Journal of Personality, PLoS ONE, PsycTESTS Dataset, and the Journal of Research in Personality.

Luhmann's research primarily covers several key topics:

  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Personality Traits and Psychology
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics

They have coauthored multiple papers with several researchers, including Peter Haehner, Susanne Buecker, Ina Faßbender, Julia Krasko, and Jaap J. A. Denissen, highlighting a collaborative research approach.

Some of the recent papers associated with or thematically related to their research interests are:

  • "Loneliness and the Big Five Personality Traits: A Meta-Analysis," 2020, European Journal of Personality
  • "Post-traumatic growth as positive personality change: Challenges, opportunities, and recommendations," 2020, Journal of Personality
  • "Loneliness from young adulthood to old age: Explaining age differences in loneliness," 2020, International Journal of Behavioral Development
  • "Is loneliness in emerging adults increasing over time? A preregistered cross-temporal meta-analysis and systematic review," 2021, Psychological Bulletin
  • "The development of loneliness through adolescence and young adulthood: Its nature, correlates, and midlife outcomes," 2020, Developmental Psychology

Their broad engagement with psychological well-being and personality underscores a multidisciplinary interest that connects social and clinical aspects of psychology with health outcomes and behavioral interventions.

Best Publications

  • Subjective well-being and adaptation to life events: a meta-analysis.

    Maike Luhmann;Wilhelm Hofmann;Michael Eid;Richard E. Lucas

  • Age differences in loneliness from late adolescence to oldest old age.

    Maike Luhmann;Louise C. Hawkley

  • Yes, But Are They Happy? Effects of Trait Self‐Control on Affective Well‐Being and Life Satisfaction

    Wilhelm Hofmann;Maike Luhmann;Rachel R Fisher;Kathleen D. Vohs

  • Subjective Well-Being and Academic Achievement: A Meta-Analysis

    Susanne Bücker;Sevim Nuraydin;Bianca A. Simonsmeier;Michael Schneider

  • What Drives Adult Personality Development? A Comparison of Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Evidence:

    Jule Specht;Wiebke Bleidorn;Jaap J. A. Denissen;Marie Hennecke

  • Loneliness and the Big Five Personality Traits: A Meta–Analysis:

    Susanne Buecker;Marlies Maes;Jaap J. A. Denissen;Maike Luhmann

  • Social connectedness as a source and consequence of meaning in life

    Olga Stavrova;Maike Luhmann

  • Is loneliness in emerging adults increasing over time? A preregistered cross-temporal meta-analysis and systematic review.

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  • The Prospective Effect of Life Satisfaction on Life Events

    Maike Luhmann;Richard E. Lucas;Michael Eid;Ed Diener

  • Transactions between life events and personality traits across the adult lifespan

    Jaap J. A. Denissen;Maike Luhmann;Joanne M. Chung;Wiebke Bleidorn

  • Studying Changes in Life Circumstances and Personality: It's About Time

    Maike Luhmann;Ulrich Orth;Jule Specht;Christian Kandler

  • Post-traumatic growth as positive personality change: Challenges, opportunities, and recommendations.

    Eranda Jayawickreme;Frank J. Infurna;Kinan Alajak;Laura E.R. Blackie

  • The policy relevance of personality traits

    Wiebke Bleidorn;Patrick L. Hill;Mitja D. Back;Jaap J. A. Denissen

  • Does it really feel the same? Changes in life satisfaction following repeated life events.

    Maike Luhmann;Michael Eid

  • Loneliness from young adulthood to old age: Explaining age differences in loneliness:

    Louise C. Hawkley;Susanne Buecker;Till Kaiser;Maike Luhmann

  • Time frames and the distinction between affective and cognitive well-being.

    Maike Luhmann;Louise C. Hawkley;Michael Eid;John T. Cacioppo

  • The Development of loneliness through adolescence and young adulthood: Its nature, correlates, and midlife outcomes

    Tilmann von Soest;Maike Luhmann;Denis Gerstorf

  • Development of loneliness in midlife and old age: Its nature and correlates.

    Tilmann von Soest;Maike Luhmann;Thomas Hansen;Denis Gerstorf

  • On the consistency of personality types across adulthood: latent profile analyses in two large-scale panel studies.

    Jule Specht;Maike Luhmann;Christian Geiser

  • Stability and variability in the relationship between subjective well-being and income

    Maike Luhmann;Ulrich Schimmack;Michael Eid

  • A dimensional taxonomy of perceived characteristics of major life events.

    Maike Luhmann;Ina Fassbender;Mark Alcock;Peter Haehner

  • Is the association between various emotion-regulation skills and mental health mediated by the ability to modify emotions? Results from two cross-sectional studies

    Matthias Berking;Christine Poppe;Maike Luhmann;Peggilee Wupperman;Peggilee Wupperman

  • Openness to experience and culture-openness transactions across the lifespan

    Ted Schwaba;Maike Luhmann;Jaap Denissen;Joanne Mee Hae Chung

Frequent Co-Authors

Jaap J. A. Denissen
Jaap J. A. Denissen Utrecht University
Michael Eid
Michael Eid Freie Universität Berlin
Wiebke Bleidorn
Wiebke Bleidorn University of Zurich
Richard E. Lucas
Richard E. Lucas Michigan State University
Louise C. Hawkley
Louise C. Hawkley University of Chicago
Ulrich Orth
Ulrich Orth University of Bern
John T. Cacioppo
John T. Cacioppo University of Chicago
Wolff Schlotz
Wolff Schlotz Max Planck Society
Brent W. Roberts
Brent W. Roberts University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Markus Jokela
Markus Jokela University of Helsinki

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