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Manfred Diehl 

Professor,
Director of the Center on Aging

Manfred Diehl

Education:  

  • Ph.D., Human Development and Family Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, 1991.
  • M.S., Psychology (Areas of specialization: Clinical and Developmental Psychology), Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Federal Republic of Germany, 1984.

Recent Positions:

  • 2006-present, Professor, Human Development and Family Studies; Director, Center on Aging, Colorado State University.
  •  2004-2006, Associate Professor of Psychology with Tenure (Graduate Faculty), Department of Psychology, University of Florida.
  • 2003-2004, Assistant Professor of Psychology (Graduate Faculty), Department of Psychology, University of Florida.
  • 2000-2003, Assistant Professor (Graduate Faculty), Institute on Aging, Department of Health Policy and Epidemiology, University of Florida.
  • 1996-2000, Assistant Professor (Graduate Faculty), Department of Psychology, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.

Recent Awards and Grants:

  • 2006, Fellow, Division 20: Adult Development and Aging, American Psychological Association (APA).
  • 2004-2008, Subcontract PI/Co-Investigator, Cognitive-Emotional Integration in Adulthood and Aging.  Principal Investigators: Drs. Gisela Labouvie-Vief and Mark Lumley, Wayne State University. Funding agency: National Institute on Aging (R01 AG09203). 
  • 2003, Mentor of the Leighton Cluff Award winner in gerontology (undergraduate award for best research paper), Center for Gerontological Studies, University of Florida.
  • 2003-2005, Co-Investigator, ACTIVE Phase II: UF/WSU Field Site. Principal Investigator: Dr. Michael Marsiske, Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, University of Florida. Funding agency: National Institute on Aging (U01 AG014276). 
  • 2003-2005, Co-Investigator, Night Alert Prompting System, Phase II.  Principal Investigator: Dr. Meredeth Rowe, Department of Adult and Elderly Nursing, College of Nursing, University of Florida.  Funding agency: National Institute for Nursing Research (R42 NR04952-02A2)
  • 2002-2006, Principal Investigator, Self-Concept Organization across the Adult Life Span. Independent investigator award funded by the National Institute on Aging and the National Cancer Institute (R01 AG/CA21147). 
  • 2002, Member-at-large (elected) of the Executive Committee, Division 20: Adult Development and Aging, American Psychological Association (APA).
  • 2001, Recipient of the Margret M. Baltes Early Career Award in Behavioral and Social Gerontology, Gerontological Society of America (GSA).
  • 2001, Fellow, Behavioral and Social Sciences Section, Gerontological Society of America (GSA).
  • 2001, Participant of the American Psychological Association (APA) Advanced Training Institute in Longitudinal Methods, Modeling and Measurement in Contemporary Psychological Research, University of Virginia.

Selected Publications:

  • Diehl, M. (2006). Development of self-representations in adulthood.  In D. Mroczek & T. Little (Eds.), Handbook of personality development (pp. 373-398). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
  • Diehl, M., & Berg, K. M. (2006).  Personality and involvement in leisure activities during the Third Age: Findings from the Ohio Longitudinal Study. In J. B. James & P. Wink (Eds.), Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics: Vol. 26. The crown of life: Dynamics of the early postretirement period (pp. 211-226). New York: Springer.
  • Diehl, M., & Dark-Freudeman, A. (2006). The analytic template in the psychology of aging. In D. J. Sheets, D. B. Bradley, & J. Hendricks (Eds.), Enduring questions and changing perspectives in gerontology (pp. 93-129). New York: Springer.
  • Diehl, M., Jacobs, L. M., & Hastings, C. T. (2006).  Temporal stability and authenticity of self-representations in adulthood. Journal of Adult Development, 13, 10-22.
  • Diehl, M., Semegon, A. B., & Schwarzer, R. (2006). Assessing attention control in goal pursuit: A component of dispositional self-regulation. Journal of Personality Assessment, 86, 306-317.
  • Diehl, M., Marsiske, M., Horgas, A., Rosenberg, A., Saczynski, J., & Willis, S. L. (2005). The Revised Observed Tasks of Daily Living: A performance-based assessment of everyday problem solving. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 24, 211-230.
  • Diehl, M., Owen, S. K., & Youngblade, L. M. (2004).  Agency and communion attributes in adults' spontaneous self-representations. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 28, 1-15.
  • Diehl, M., & Willis, S. L. (2003).  Everyday competence and everyday problem solving in aging adults: Role of the physical and social context. In H.-W. Wahl, R. Scheidt, & P. Windley (Eds.), Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics: Vol. 23. Aging in context: Socio-physical environments (pp. 130-166). New York: Springer.
  • Diehl, M., Hastings, C. T., & Stanton, J. M. (2001). Self-concept differentiation across the adult life span. Psychology and Aging, 16, 643-654.
  • Labouvie-Vief, G., & Diehl, M. (2000).  Cognitive complexity and cognitive-affective integration: Related or separate domains of adult development? Psychology and Aging, 15, 490-504.
  • Labouvie-Vief, G., Diehl, M., Tarnowski, A., & Shen, J. (2000).  Age differences in adult personality: Findings from the United States and China. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 55B, P4-P17.
  • Diehl, M. (1999). Self-development in adulthood and aging: The role of critical life events. In C. D. Ryff & V. W. Marshall (Eds.), The self and society in aging processes (pp. 150-183). New York: Springer.
  • Diehl, M. (1998). Everyday competence in later life: Current status and future directions. The Gerontologist,38, 422-433.
  • Diehl, M., Elnick, A. B., Bourbeau, L., & Labouvie-Vief, G. (1998). Adult attachment styles: Their relations to family context and personality. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 1656-1669.
  • Diehl, M., Coyle, N., & Labouvie-Vief, G. (1996). Age and sex differences in strategies of coping and defense across the life span.  Psychology and Aging, 11, 127-139.
  • Diehl, M., Willis, S. L., & Schaie, K. W. (1995). Everyday problem solving in older adults: Observational assessment and cognitive correlates. Psychology and Aging, 10, 478-491.

 


 

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