Gisela Trommsdorff

Gisela Trommsdorff (born December 24, 1941 in Münster ) is a German psychologist and sociologist and professor emeritus at the University of Konstanz . She is also a research professor at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) for the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), Berlin.

Career

Gisela Trommsdorff was born as the daughter of Prof. Fro Trommsdorff and his wife Irmgard geb. Eckert was born in 1941 and studied from 1963 at the Universities of Göttingen, FU Berlin, Chapel Hill (UNC) (Fulbright scholarship), Cologne and Mannheim. She was a research assistant at the New School of Social Research in 1967 . She did her doctorate in 1972 at the University of Mannheim and completed her habilitation there in 1975. From 1978 to 1987 she was a professor at RWTH Aachen University and from 1987 she held the chair for developmental psychology and cultural comparison at the University of Konstanz. She is currently head of the developmental psychology and cultural comparison work group at the University of Konstanz.

She is a member of numerous scientific advisory bodies, e. B. currently as Co-Director of the Research College Human Sciences at the University of Frankfurt; as deputy chairwoman of the advisory board for the German Institute for Japanese Studies Tokyo; the International Advisory Committee at Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan; of the scientific research advisory board of the PH Thurgau, Switzerland. From 1989 to 2006 she was Vice President and since 2006 she has been President of the German-Japanese Society for Social Sciences.

She is co-editor and advisory board member of numerous scientific journals (including the Cologne Journal for Sociology and Social Psychology; Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology; Asian Journal of Social Psychology; Child Studies in Diverse Contexts). She was a member of numerous selection and evaluation commissions (including the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; Volkswagen Foundation; Max Planck Evaluation Commission "Minerva Center for Youth Studies", Haifa; The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research; "Zukunft Schweiz" at the Swiss National Fund; Commission for Research into social and political change in the new federal states, KSPW; Society of Social Science Infrastructure Institutions, GESIS).

Research and Teaching

She is interested in a psychology that focuses on people in their developmental process and in their socio-cultural context. Her research area is the socio-emotional and prosocial development of children in different cultures; the relationships between generations; the socialization of values ​​and social change in different cultures. Trommsdorff combines approaches from developmental, social and cross-cultural psychology. She has carried out numerous research stays abroad, especially in East and Southeast Asian countries. a. with visiting professorships at the Institute for Statistical Mathematics and Keio University (Tokyo), Kansei University in Osaka and University in Nagoya, partly at the invitation of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science .

Honors

She is a member of the Academy of Non-Profit Sciences in Erfurt ; she was appointed research professor at DIW Berlin, and she has been awarded the Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Fonts (selection)

Magazine articles

• T. Heikamp, ​​G. Alessandri, M. Laguna, V. Petrovic, M. Caprara, G. Trommsdorff: Cross-cultural validation of the Positivity Scale in five European countries. In: Personality and Individual Differences. Volume 71, 2014, pp. 140-145. doi: 10.1016 / j.paid.2014.07.012
• T. Heikamp, ​​G. Trommsdorff, MD Druey, R. Hübner, A. v. Suchodoletz: Kindergarten children's attachment security, inhibitory control, and the internalization of rules of conduct. In: Frontiers in Psychology. 4. 2013. doi: 10.3389 / fpsyg.2013.00133
• M. Weis, T. Heikamp, ​​G. Trommsdorff: Gender differences in school achievement: The role of self-regulation. In: Frontiers in Psychology. 2013. doi: 10.3389 / fpsyg.2013.00442
• J. Ziehm, G. Trommsdorff, T. Heikamp, ​​SY Park: German and Korean mothers' sensitivity and related parenting beliefs. In: Frontiers in Psychology. Volume 4, 2013, p. 561. doi: 10.3389 / fpsyg.2013.00561 .
• S.-Y. Park, G. Trommsdorff, EG Lee: Korean mothers' intuitive theories regarding emotion socialization of their children. In: International Journal of Human Ecology. Volume 13, 2012, pp. 39-56.
• G. Trommsdorff: Development of agentic regulation in cultural context: The role of self and world views. In: Child Development Perspectives. Volume 6, 2012, pp. 19-26.
• G. Trommsdorff, PM Cole, T. Heikamp: Cultural variations in mothers' intuitive theories: A preliminary report on interviewing mothers of five nations about their socialization of children's emotions. In: Global Studies of Childhood. Volume 2, 2012, pp. 158-169.
• M. Friedlmeier, G. Trommsdorff: Are mother-child similarities in value orientations related to mothers' parenting? A comparative study of American and Romanian families with adolescents. In: The European Journal of Developmental Psychology. Volume 8, 2011, pp. 661-668.
• B. Mayer, G. Trommsdorff: Adolescents' value of children and their intentions to have children: A cross-cultural and multilevel analysis. In: Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. Volume 41, 2010, pp. 671-689.
• G. Trommsdorff: Culture and development of self-regulation. In: Personality and Social Psychology Compass. Volume 3, 2009, pp. 687-701.
• G. Trommsdorff: Development of agentic regulation in cultural context: The role of self and world views. In: Child Development Perspectives. Volume 6, 2012, pp. 19-26.
• G. Trommsdorff, W. Friedlmeier: Preschool girls 'distress and mothers' sensitivity in Japan and Germany. In: European Journal of Developmental Psychology. Volume 7, 2010, pp. 350-370.
• G. Trommsdorff, W. Friedlmeier, B. Mayer: Sympathy, distress, and prosocial behavior of preschool children in four cultures. In: International Journal of Behavioral Development. Volume 31, No. 3, 2007, pp. 284-293.

Book contributions

• G. Trommsdorff: Cultural roots of values, morals, and religious orientations in adolescent development. In: LA Jensen (Ed.): The Oxford Handbook of Human Development and Culture: an Interdisciplinary perspective. Oxford Library of Psychology, Oxford 2015, pp. 377-395.
• G. Trommsdorff: Funding channels for interdisciplinary research in the human sciences. In: G. Trommsdorff, WR Assmann (Hrsg.): Promote research. Using the example of quality of life in a cultural context. UVK Verlag, Konstanz 2015, pp. 1–11.
• G. Trommsdorff: Individual and cultural differences in quality of life, satisfaction and happiness. In: G. Trommsdorff, WR Assmann (Hrsg.): Promote research. Using the example of quality of life in a cultural context. UVK Verlag, Konstanz 2015, pp. 125–148.
• G. Trommsdorff: Cultural roots of values, morals, and religious orientations in adolescent development. In: LA Jensen (Ed.): The Oxford Handbook of human development and culture: An interdisciplinary perspective. (Online publication) 2014.
• G. Trommsdorff, T. Heikamp: Socialization of emotions and emotion regulation in cultural context. In: S. Barnow, N. Balkir (eds.): Cultural variations in psychopathology: From practice to research. Hogrefe, 2013, pp. 67-92.
• G. Trommsdorff: Cross-cultural perspectives on adolescents' religiosity and family orientation. In: G. Trommsdorff, X. Chen (Ed.): Values, religion, and culture in adolescent development. Cambridge University Press, New York 2012, pp. 341-369.
• G. Trommsdorff: Cultural perspectives on values ​​and religion in adolescent development: A conceptual overview and synthesis. In: G. Trommsdorff, X. Chen (Ed.): Values, religion, and culture in adolescent development. Cambridge University Press, New York 2012, pp. 3-45.
• F. Rothbaum, G. Trommsdorff: Do roots and wings complement or oppose one another? The socialization of relatedness and autonomy in cultural context. In: JE Grusec, P. Hastings (eds.): The handbook of socialization. The Guilford Press, New York 2007, pp. 461-489.
• G. Trommsdorff, H.-J. Kornadt: Parent-child relations in cross-cultural perspective. In: L. Kuczynski (Ed.): Handbook of dynamics in parent-child relations. Sage, London 2003, pp. 271-306.
• G. Trommsdorff, F. Rothbaum: Development of emotion regulation in cultural context. In: M. Vandekerckhove, C. v. Scheve, S. Ismer, S. Jung, S. Kronast (Eds.): Regulating emotions: Culture, social necessity, and biological inheritance. Blackwell, Malden, MA 2008, pp. 85-120.

Edited works

• G. Trommsdorff, WR Assmann (Ed.): Promote research. Using the example of quality of life in a cultural context. UVK Verlag, Konstanz 2015.
• G. Endruweit, G. Trommsdorff, N. Burzan (Ed.): Dictionary of Sociology. UVK, Constance 2014.
• G. Trommsdorff, X.-Y. Chen (Ed.): Values, religion, and culture in adolescent development. Cambridge University Press, New York 2012.
• G. Trommsdorff, H.-J. Kornadt (Hrsg.): Encyclopedia of Psychology: Topic C Theory and Research, Series VII Comparative Cultural Psychology. Volume 1: Theories and methods in comparative cultural and cultural psychological research. Hogrefe, Göttingen 2007.
• G. Trommsdorff, H.-J. Kornadt (Hrsg.): Encyclopedia of Psychology: Topic C Theory and Research, Series VII Comparative Cultural Psychology. Volume 2: Experiencing and acting in a cultural context. Hogrefe, Göttingen 2007.
• G. Trommsdorff, H.-J. Kornadt (Hrsg.): Encyclopedia of Psychology: Topic C Theory and Research, Series VII Comparative Cultural Psychology. Volume 3: Fields of application of comparative cultural psychology. Hogrefe, Göttingen 2007.
• G. Trommsdorff, B. Nauck (Eds.): The value of children in cross-cultural perspective. Case studies from eight societies. Pabst Science, Lengerich 2005.
• G. Trommsdorff, G. Endruweit (Hrsg.): Dictionary of Sociology. 2nd Edition. Lucius & Lucius, Stuttgart 2002.

Web links

• Prof. Dr. Gisela Trommsdorff (Homepage at the University of Konstanz)
• Works by and about Gisela Trommsdorff  in the German Digital Library