Category: Ageing

Subjective ageing: conglomerate…

Carr, D., Freedman, V. A., Cornman, J. C., & Schwarz, N. (2014). Happy marriage, happy life? Marital quality and subjective well‐being in later life. Journal of Marriage and Family, 76(5), 930-948. https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.12133

Cohn-Schwartz, E., Segel-Karpas, D., & Ayalon, L. (2021). Longitudinal dyadic effects of aging self-perceptions on health. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 76(5), 900-909. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbaa082

Kim, Y. K., Kim, K., Neupert, S. D., & Boerner, K. (2021). Changes in married older adults’ self-perceptions of aging: The role of gender. Psychology and Aging, 36(3), 383. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000507

Schafer, M. H., & Shippee, T. P. (2010). Age identity in context: Stress and the subjective side of aging. Social Psychology Quarterly, 73(3), 245-264. https://doi.org/10.1177/0190272510379751

An open + fluid mindset…

Haslam, C., Jetten, J., Cruwys, T., Dingle, G., & Haslam, S. A. (2018). The new psychology of health: Unlocking the social cure. Routledge.

Jackson, J. J., Hill, P. L., Payne, B. R., Roberts, B. W., & Stine-Morrow, E. A. L. (2012). Can an old dog learn (and want to experience) new tricks? Cognitive training increases openness to experience in older adults. Psychology and Aging, 27(2), 286–292. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0025918

Lerner, R. M. (1984). On the nature of human plasticity. Cambridge University Press.

The Big Five (OCEAN) Personality test. https://bigfive-test.com/

Weiss, D. (2018). On the inevitability of aging: Essentialist beliefs moderate the impact of negative age stereotypes on older adults’ memory performance and physiological reactivity. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 73(6), 925-933. https://doi-org/10.1093/geronb/gbw087

Weiss, D., & Diehl, M. (2021). Measuring (non) essentialist beliefs about the process of aging. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 76(7), 1340-1348. https://doi-org/10.1093/geronb/gbaa113

Weiss, D., Job, V., Mathias, M., Grah, S., & Freund, A. M. (2016). The end is (not) near: Aging, essentialism, and future time perspective. Developmental psychology, 52(6), 996. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000115

Weiss, D., Reitz, A. K., & Stephan, Y. (2019). Is age more than a number? The role of openness and (non) essentialist beliefs about aging for how young or old people feel. Psychology and Aging, 34(5), 729. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000370

Biological + Psychosocial Ageing…

Ball, K., Berch, D. B., Helmers, K. F., Jobe, J. B., Leveck, M. D., Marsiske, Morris, J. N., Rebok, G. W., Smith, D. M., Tennstedt, S. L., Unverzagt, F. W., Willis, S. L., for the ACTIVE Study Group. (2002). Effects of cognitive training interventions with older adults: a randomized controlled trial. Jama, 288(18), 2271-2281.

Baumgart, M., Snyder, H. M., Carrillo, M. C., Fazio, S., Kim, H., & Johns, H. (2015). Summary of the evidence on modifiable risk factors for cognitive decline and dementia: a population-based perspective. Alzheimer’s & Dementia, 11(6), 718-726. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jalz.2015.05.016

Lachman, M. E., Lipsitz, L., Lubben, J., Castaneda-Sceppa, C., & Jette, A. M. (2018). When adults don’t exercise: Behavioral strategies to increase physical activity in sedentary middle-aged and older adults. Innovation in aging, 2(1), igy007.

Lindland, E., Fond, M., Haydon, A., & Kendall-Taylor, N. Gauging Aging. https://www.rrf.org/wp-content/uploads/Frameworks-Institute-Gauging-Aging.pdf

Olshansky, S. J., Perry, D., Miller, R. A., & Butler, R. N. (2007). Pursuing the longevity dividend: scientific goals for an aging world. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1114(1), 11-13. https://doi.org/10.1196/annals.1396.050

Roberts, B. W., & Mroczek, D. (2008). Personality trait change in adulthood. Current directions in psychological science, 17(1), 31-35. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8721.2008.00543.x

Schaie, K. W. (2005). Developmental influences on adult intelligence: The Seattle longitudinal study. Oxford University Press.

Sexuality later in…

Estill, A., Mock, S. E., Schryer, E., & Eibach, R. P. (2018). The effects of subjective age and aging attitudes on mid-to-late-life sexuality. The Journal of Sex Research, 55(2), 146-151. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2017.1293603

Smith, L., Yang, L., Veronese, N., Soysal, P., Stubbs, B., & Jackson, S. E. (2019). Sexual activity is associated with greater enjoyment of life in older adults. Sexual Medicine, 7(1), 11-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esxm.2018.11.001

Srinivasan, S., Glover, J., Tampi, R. R., Tampi, D. J., & Sewell, D. D. (2019). Sexuality and the older adult. Current Psychiatry Reports, 21, 1-9. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11920-019-1090-4

Woet L. Gianotten, Jenna C. Alley & Lisa M. Diamond (2021). The health benefits of sexual expression. International Journal of Sexual Health, 33(4), 478-493, DOI: 10.1080/19317611.2021.1966564

World Health Organization (2002). Defining sexual health: Report of a technical consultation on sexual health.  http://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/publications/sexual_health/defining_sexual_health.pdf

Human ageing is…

Baltes, P. B. (1987). Theoretical propositions of life-span developmental psychology: On the dynamics between growth and decline. Developmental psychology, 23(5), 611. https://doi.org/10.1037/0012-1649.23.5.611.

Levy, B. (2009). Stereotype embodiment: A psychosocial approach to aging. Current directions in psychological science, 18(6), 332-336. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8721.2009.01662.x.

Tully-Wilson, C., Bojack, R., Millear, P. M., Stallman, H. M., Allen, A., & Mason, J. (2021). Self-perceptions of aging: A systematic review of longitudinal studies. Psychology and Aging, 36(7), 773. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000638.

Abnormal vs Normal Ageing

Levy, B. (2009). Stereotype Embodiment: A Psychosocial Approach to Aging. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 18(6), 332–336. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8721.2009.01662.x.

Nyberg, L., Boraxbekk, C.J., Sörman, D.E., Hansson, P., Herlitz, A., Kauppi, K., Ljungberg, J.K., Lövheim, H., Lundquist, A., Adolfsson, A.N. and Oudin, A. (2020). Biological and environmental predictors of heterogeneity in neurocognitive ageing: Evidence from Betula and other longitudinal studies. Ageing research reviews, 64, 101184. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.arr.2020.101184.

Rowe, J. W., & Kahn, R. L. (1987). Human aging: usual and successful. Science, 237(4811), 143-149. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.3299702

Rowe, J. W., & Kahn, R. L. (2015). Successful aging 2.0: Conceptual expansions for the 21st century. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 70(4), 593-596. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbv025.

Segal, D. L., Qualls, S. H., & Smyer, M. A. (2018). Aging and mental health. John Wiley & Sons.

Views on Ageing…

Brothers, A. F., & Diehl, M. (2017). Feasibility and efficacy of the AgingPlus program: Changing views on aging to increase engagement in physical activity. Journal of Aging and Physical Activity, 25, 402-411.

Stephan, Y., Sutin, A. R., & Terracciano, A. (2018). Subjective Age and Mortality in Three Longitudinal Samples. Psychosomatic medicine, 80(7), 659–664. https://doi.org/10.1097/PSY.0000000000000613.

Wurm, S., Diehl, M., Kornadt, A. E., Westerhof, G. J., & Wahl, H. W. (2017). How do views on aging affect health outcomes in adulthood and late life? Explanations for an established connection. Developmental Review, 46, 27-43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dr.2017.08.002.

Embodiment is biocultural…

Atkinson, M. (2010). Norbert Elias and the body. In B. S. Turner (Ed.), The Routledge handbook  of body studies (pp. 49-61). Routledge.

Bonini, L., Rotunno, C., Acuri, E., & Gallese, V. (2022). Mirror neurons 30 years later: Implications & applications. Trends in Cognitive Science, 26(9), 767-781. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2022.06.003

Davis, L. J. & Morris, D. (2013). The biocultures manifesto. In L. J. Davis, The end of normal: Identity in a biocultural era (pp. 121-127). (Reprinted from “Biocultures manifesto”, 2007, New Literary History, 38(3), 411-418. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20058015

Pitt-Taylor, V. (2010). Social brains and embodiment. In B. S. Turner (Ed.), The Routledge handbook  of body studies (pp. 171-182). Routledge.