Dr. Anja Blumenthal

Research Interests

• Psychosocial development and promotion of positive development across the lifespan with a special focus on youth and early adulthood
  
  
• Evaluation of school-based intervention programs
  
  
• Conditions and indicators of successful implementation of evidence-based intervention programs in the school context
  
  
• Longitudinal research and analysis methods

Qualifications

• 2013    Ph.D. in Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
• 2007    Diploma in Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin

Professional Positions

• since 2018
  Research Associate at the Departments of Psychology and Developmental Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
  
  
• 2012 - 2017
  Research Associate at the Department of Developmental Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
  
  
• 2007 - 2012
  Research Associate at the Collaborative Research Center 580 (SFB 580): Social developments in post-socialist societies - Discontinuity, tradition, structural formation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
  
  
• 2003 - 2007
  Student Research Assistant, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin

Publications

• Weichold, K. & Blumenthal, A. (2018). Problemverhalten. In A. Lohaus. Entwicklungspsychologie des Jugendalters (S. 169-196). Springer Verlag.
  
  
• Weichold, K. & Blumenthal, A. (2018). Prävention und Entwicklungsförderung im Jugendalter. In P. Titzmann & B. Gniewosz, (Hrsg.). Handbuch Jugend (S. 526-543). Stuttgart: Kohlhammer.
  
  
• Weichold, K. & Blumenthal, A. (2016). Long-term effects of the Life Skills program IPSY on substance use: Results of a 4.5yr. longitudinal study. Prevention Science, 17, 13-23.
  
  
• Blumenthal, A., Silbereisen, R. K., Pastorelli, C. & Castellani, V. (2015). Academic and social adjustment during adolescence as precursors of work-related uncertainties in early adulthood. Swiss Journal of Psychology, 74, 159-168.