Dr. Lena Söldner

Vita

• Interim National Team Lead and Postdoctoral Researcher, Technical University of Munich, School of Social Sciences and Technology, Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) since 01/2025
• Doctoral studies in psychology (dissertation title: “The Early Ontogeny of the Moral-Self Concept,” summa cum laude, 01/2020 – 07/2024).
• Research assistant at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Department of Psychology (01/2020 – 10/2024)
• Master's degree in psychology at Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg (09/2016 – 09/2019)
• Research assistant at the Chair of Medical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Medical Sociology, and Rehabilitation Sciences at JMU Würzburg (07/2014 - 08/2018)
• Bachelor's degree in Psychology at Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg (04/2013 – 07/2016)

Research Interests

• Educational equity
• Social and emotional development
• Self-concept
• Foreign language proficiency

Activities

• PISA 2025 management representative
• PISA 2025 Foreign Language Assessment
• PISA 2025 Emotion & Motivation
• MapIE – Scientific collaboration in EU project

Selected Publications

• Campos, D. G., Koskinen, A., Munkácsy, B., Rolfe, V., Patsis, P., Tóth, E., Söldner, L.... & Vainikainen, M. P. (2025). Educational inequalities in Europe: A scoping review of longitudinal studies in K-12 education. Studies in Educational Evaluation, 87, 101523. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stueduc.2025.101523
• Söldner, L., & Paulus, M. (2025). The Moral Self in Formation: Caregiver Emotional Availability and Early Prosocial Behavior Predict Preschoolers' Moral Self-Concept. Developmental Psychology. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/dev0001902
• Söldner, L., & Paulus, M. (2024). Preschool children’s moral self-concept relates to their guilt-related behaviour. European Journal of Developmental Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405629.2024.2411970➚
• Söldner, L., & Paulus, M. (2024). I help, therefore, I am? – A registered report on longitudinal inter-relations of the three-dimensional moral self-concept and prosocial behaviours in preschool children. British Journal of Developmental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjdp.12464➚
• Christner, N., Sticker, R. M., Söldner, L., Mammen, M., & Paulus, M. (2020). Prevention for oneself or others? Psychological and social factors that explain social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Health Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105320980793➚

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