Jun.-Prof. Dr. Fiona Rupprecht

Juniorprofessorin für Gerontopsychologie

fiona.rupprecht(at)rptu.de

+49 (0)6341 28031219

Raum: Campus H 8 

Sprechzeiten:  Donnerstags 10:00 – 11:00 Uhr (Anmeldung per E-Mail)

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Ausbildung 
2021                          Promotion in Psychologie (summa cum laude), Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 
Doktorarbeit: “Ideal Life Expectancy – The Determinants, Processes, and Consequences behind the Wish to Live a Long Life” (Betreuer: Prof. Dr. Frieder Lang) 
2018MSc in Psychologie, Universität Heidelberg
Masterarbeit: “Daily Felt Ages – Intraindividual Correlates, Interindividual Differences, and Relations to Global Representations of Felt Age” (Betreuerin: Dr. Laura I. Schmidt)
2016BSc in Psychologie, Universität Heidelberg
Bachelorarbeit: “Cross-Sectional Relations Between Personality Traits and Awareness of Aging” (Betreuer: Prof. Dr. Hans-Werner Wahl)
Akademische Positionen
seit 2025                       Juniorprofessorin für Gerontopsychologie, Fachbereich Psychologie, Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU)
2024 - 2025 Elternzeit
2018 - 2021Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeitern, Institut für Psychogerontologie, Fachbereich für Psychologie, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
2016Forschungsaufenthalt im Fachbereich Human Development and Family Studies, Colorado State University, Colorado, USA 
2014 - 2018Studentische Hilfskraft und Tutorin, Universität Heidelberg

 

Zeitschriftenartikel (mit peer-review) 
 

Radjenovic, S., Rupprecht, F. S., & Nikitin, J. (2025). Navigating life’s twists and turns: Characteristics of life events across adulthood. European Journal of Ageing, 22(2), doi.org/10.1007/10433-025-00838-0

Ristl, C., Korlat, S., Rupprecht, F. S., & Nikitin, J. (2025). Self-perceptions of aging and social goals. Psychology and Aging. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000881 

Rupprecht, F. S., de Paula Couto, M. C. P., Rothermund, K., & Nikitin, J. (2025). Maintaining a young self-concept: Feeling young or shifting age thresholds? European Journal of Ageing, 22(15). oi.org/10.1007/s10433-025-00851-3

Radjenovic, S., Rupprecht, F. S., & Nikitin, J. (2024). Establishing and maintaining social relationships during significant life events: The role of age. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Science, 79(11), gbae144. doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbae144

Rupprecht, F. S., & Schmidt*, L. I., Gabrian, M., Jansen, C.-P., Sieverding, M., & Wahl, H.-W. (2024). Intraindividual variability in subjective age its everyday correlates: Affect, stress, physical activity, sleep, and hours of sunshine. Innovation in Aging, igae067. https://doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igae067 

Nikitin, J., Luchetti, M., Alimanovic, N., Rupprecht, F. S., & Sutin, A. (2024). Are social interactions more meaningful in older adulthood? Psychology and Aging, 39(6), 599-607. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000827 

Goetz, T. G., Steiner, W., Graf, E., Stempfer, L., Ristl, C., Rupprecht, F. S., Donath, J. L., Botes, E., & Nikitin, J. (2024). Assessing psychological variables on mobile devices: An introduction to the experience sampling app ESM-Quest. Frontiers in  Psychology, 14:1271422. doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1271422

Sabatini, S., Rupprecht, F. S., Kaspar, R., Wahl, H.-W., Klusmann, V., Kornadt, A., Nikitin, 

J., Schönstein, A., Stephan, Y., Wettstein, M., Wurm, S., Diehl, M., & Wahl, H.-W. (2024). Successful aging and subjective aging: Toward a framework to research a neglected connection. The Gerontologist, gnae051. doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnae051

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(8), 824-836. doi.org/10.1037/pag0000783

Sabatini, S., Rupprecht, F. S., Diehl, M., Wahl, H.-W., Kaspar, O., 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(8), 837-853. doi.org/10.1037/pag0000784

de Paula Couto, M. C. P., Rupprecht, F. S., Nikitin, J., & Rothermund, K. (2023). Willingness to live under impairment: Factors associated with desired longevity. Innovation in Aging, 7(8), igad092https://oi.org/10.1093/geroni/igad092 

Hösch°, H. S., Rupprecht, F. S., & Lang, F. R. (2023). Psychological obsolescence and subjective remaining life expectancy are predictors of generativity in a six-year longitudinal study. Journal of Adult Development  30, 359-368. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10804-023-09441-y 

Sabatini, S., Dritschel, B., Rupprecht, F. S., Ukoumunne, O. C., Ballard, C., Brooker, H., Creese, B., Corbett, A., Hampshire, A., Aarsland, D., & Clare, L. (2023). Rumination moderates the longitudinal associations of awareness of age-related change with depressive and anxiety symptoms. Aging & Mental Health, 27(9), 1711-1719.https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2023.2176820 

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 of Psychiatry.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.954048

Nikitin, J., Rupprecht, F. S., & Ristl, C. (2022). Experiences of solitude in adulthood and old age. The role of autonomy. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 46(6), 510-519. https://doi.org/10.1177/01650254221117498 

Kim-Knauss, Y., Lang, F. R., Rupprecht, F. S., Martin, K., & Fung, H. H. (2022).  COVID-19 worries predict aging preparation: Culture- and domain-specific perspectives. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Science, 77(10), 1803-1813. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbac078 

Rupprecht, F. S., Martin, K., Kamin, S. T., & Lang, F. R. (2022). COVID-19 and perceiving finitude: Associations with future time perspective, death anxiety, and ideal life expectancy. Psychology and Aging, 37(2), 260-271. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000661 

Rupprecht, F. S., Martin, K., & Lang, F. R. (2022). Aging-related fears and their associations with ideal life expectancy. European Journal of Ageing, 19, 587-597. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10433-021-00661-3 

Bellingtier, J. A., Rupprecht, F. S., Neupert, S. D., & Lang, F. R. (2021). Daily experiences of subjective age discordance and well-being. Psychology and Aging, 36(6), 744-751. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000621 

Lang, F. R., & Rupprecht, F. S. (2021). Perceived personal deadlines for late-life preparation across adulthood. European Journal of Ageing, 18, 227-238. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10433-020-00581-8 

Ungar, N., Rupprecht, F. S., Steindorf, K., Wiskemann, J., & Sieverding, M. (2021). Worse or even better than expected? Outcome expectancies and behavioral experiences in the context of physical activity among cancer patients. Journal of Health Psychology, 26(5), 659-671. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105319832345 

Rupprecht, F. S., & Lang, F. R. (2020). Personal ideals of aging and longevity: The role of subjective discordances. Psychology and Aging, 35, 385-396. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000455 

Lang, F. R., & Rupprecht, F. S. (2019). Motivation for longevity across the life span: An emerging issue. Innovation in Aging, 3(2), igz014. https://doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz014 

Rupprecht, F. S., Dutt, A. J., Wahl, H.-W., & Diehl, M. K. (2019). The role of personality in becoming aware of age-related changes. GeroPsych, 32, 57-67. https://doi.org/10.1024/1662-9647/a000204 

Dutt, A. J., Wahl, H.-W., & Rupprecht, F. S. (2018). Mindful vs. mind full: Processing strategies moderate the association between subjective aging experiences and depressive symptoms. Psychology and Aging, 33, 630-642.https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000245 

 

Buchkapitel

Bellingtier, J. A., & Rupprecht, F. S. (2025). Analyzing intensive longitudinal data in emerging adult research: A beginner’s guide to multilevel and dynamic structural equation modeling. In: A. Sorgente, S. Claxton, J. Schwab, & R. Vosylys. Flourishing   as a Scholar: Research Methods for the Study of Emerging Adulthood (pp. 296-326). Oxford University Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197677797.003.0016 

Rupprecht, F. S., & Lang, F. R. (2022). Subjective views on longevity. In: A. Shrira, Y. Palgi, & M. Diehl (Eds.), Subjective Views of Aging (pp. 77-95). Springer. 

Lang, F. R., & Rupprecht, F. S. (2019). Time perspective across adulthood. In: D. Gu & M. E. Dupre (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69892-2