• Social Change and Social Inequality
  • Work, Family, and Gender
  • Health-Related and Sustainable Lifestyles
  • Quantitative Methods in Empirical Social Research

Dr. Miriam Trübner

Institute of Sociology
Research Unit of Sociology and Methods of Quantitative Social Research
Jakob-Welder-Weg 12
55128 Mainz
Room 03-450, Georg-Forster Building

Phone: +49 6131 39 21671
Fax: +49 6131 39 26157

E-mail:
truebner@uni-mainz.de
Since 2025Academic staff member at the Federal Institute for Population Research, FReDA Research Group—the Family Demographic Panel
Since 2023Research assistant at the Chair of Sociology and Methods of Quantitative Social Research at the University of Mainz (Prof. D. Natascha Nisic)

2024-2025		Interim professorship at the chair “Lifestyle and Socioeconomics of Private Households” at the University of Paderborn
2023-2024Research assistant in the third-party funded project “Acceptance of Naturopathy and Complementary Medicine in Germany” at the Chair of Sociology, especially Social Inequality at the University of Bamberg (Prof. Dr. Rasmus Hoffmann)
2020-2023Research assistant in the DFG project: “In the field of tension between need and acceptance – the demand for household-related and family-supporting services in Germany and in international comparison” at the Chair of Sociology and Methods of Quantitative Social Research at the University of Mainz (Prof. Dr. Natascha Nisic)
2020Doctorate in the subject of Sociology at the University of Bonn; subject of the doctoral dissertation: “Division of labor in couple households. A dyadic study of the distribution of tasks in partnerships”
2019-2020Research assistant in the DFG project: “In the field of tension between need and acceptance – the demand for household-related and family-supporting services in Germany and in international comparison” at the Chair of Lifestyle and Socioeconomics of the Private Household at the University of Paderborn (Prof. Dr. Natascha Nisic)
2011-2019Research assistant at the chair of empirical social research methods at the University of Bonn (Prof. Dr. Jörg Blasius)
2011Degree in economics from the University of Bonn. Topic of the diploma thesis: “Time Allocation and Happiness”
2011Master’s degree in North American Regional Studies from the University of Bonn. Topic of the master’s thesis: “Social capital and the transmission of education in American families: a quantitative analysis”
2005-2011Program of study in Economics with a focus on Statistics and Economic Policy at the University of Bonn
2004-2011Program of study in North American Regional Studies with minors in Political Science and Economics at the University of Bonn
  1. Seminar: Methoden der quantitativen empirischen Sozialforschung
    Instructor: Johanna Hoff; Sarah Mandrella; Dr. Jürgen Schiener; Dr. Frank Sinß; Dr. Miriam Trübner

SoSe 2026

Trübner, Miriam; Patzina, Alexander; Lehmann, Judith; Ortiz, Miriam; Kessler, Christian/Rasmus Hoffmann (2026): The Social Structure of Attitudes toward Conventional and Unconventional Medicine and Their Relation to Health Behavior. In: Journal of Health Psychology (online first). doi:10.1177/13591053261440268
Patzina, Alexander; Trübner, Miriam; Lehmann, Judith; Rasmus Hoffmann, and Christian Kessler (2025): Attitudes Toward Conventional and Non-Conventional Medical Approaches and Their Relationship to COVID-19 Vaccination: Insights from Germany. In: Vaccine, 61, 127403.
Trübner, Miriam; Patzina, Alexander; Lehmann, Judith; Brinkhaus, Benno; Kessler, Christian/Rasmus Hoffmann (2025): Health Information Seeking Behavior among Users of Traditional, Complementary, and Integrative Medicine (TCIM). In: BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 25(11): 111.
Lehmann, Judith; Trübner, Miriam; Patzina, Alexander; Jeitler, Michael: Kessler, Christian/Rasmus Hoffmann (2025): The willingness to transition to a more plant-based diet among omnivores: determinants and socioeconomic differences. In: Appetite 206(1): 107765.*
Trübner, Miriam and Natascha Nisic (2024): Sociocultural Barriers to Outsourcing Housework: Unraveling the Non-Use of Domestic Services. In: International Journal of Consumer Studies, 48(3), e13042. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijcs.13042
Nisic, Natascha, and Miriam Trübner (2023): “Doing Housework in Context: Dyadic Analyses of the Division of Domestic Labor in Contemporary Couples.” In: Journal of Family Issues, 45(6), 1378–1402.
Trübner, Miriam, Natascha Nisic, Alicia Dunker and Stefanie Kley (2022): Sustainable food consumption – a question of social differentiation? In: Social World, 73(4): 680-712.
Mergener, Alexandra and Miriam Trübner (2022): Social relations and employees’ rejection of Working from Home: A social exchange perspective. In: New Technology, Work and Employment, 37(3): 469-487.
Trübner, Miriam (2022): Conflicts over the Division of Domestic Labor: A Matter of Gender-Specific Expectations and Needs. In: Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 39(9): 2825-2846.
Trübner, Miriam (2021): The Dynamics of “neither agree nor disagree” in Attitudinal Questions. In: Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology 9(1): 51-72.
Trübner, Miriam (2020): Division of labor in couple households. A dyadic study of the division of labor in couples. Bonn Series of Empirical Social Research, Volume 3. Opladen, Berlin, Toronto: Verlag Barbara Budrich. (dissertation)
Trübner, Miriam and Andreas Mühlichen (2022): Big Data. In: Baur, Nina and Jörg Blasius (eds.): Handbuch der empirical social research, 3rd edition, Springer VS, pp. 179-193.
Trübner, Miriam (2022): Time use data. In: Baur, Nina and Jörg Blasius (eds.): Handbuch der empirical social research, 3rd edition, Springer VS, pp. 1405-1413.
Trübner, Miriam and Tobias Schmies (2022): Surveys of special populations. 2nd updated and expanded edition. In: Baur, Nina and Jörg Blasius (eds.): Handbuch der empirical social research, Springer VS, 3rd updated edition, pp. 1231-1245.