Category: Biocultures

Bioecological theory…

Bronfenbrenner, U. (1979). The Ecology of Human Development: Experiments by Nature and Design. Harvard University Press.

Navarro, J. L., Stephens, C., Rodrigues, B. C., Walker, I. A., Cook, O., O’Toole, L., Hayes, N., & Tudge, J. R. H. (2022). Bored of the rings: Methodological and analytic approaches to operationalizing Bronfenbrenner’s PPCT model in research practice. Journal of Family Theory & Review, 14(2), 233-253.

Tudge, J. R., Merçon-Vargas, E. A., & Payir, A. (2022). Urie Bronfenbrenner’s bioecological theory: Its development, core concepts, and critical issues. In K. Adamson, A. Few-Demo, C. M. Proulx & K. Roy (Eds.), Sourcebook of family theories and methodologies: A dynamic approach (pp. 235-254). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

What’s your coping…

Attia, P. peterattiamd.com

Bellingtier, J. A., & Neupert, S. D. (2018). Negative aging attitudes predict greater reactivity to daily stressors in older adults. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 73(7), 1155-1159.

Bellingtier, J. A., Neupert, S. D., & Kotter-Grühn, D. (2017). The combined effects of daily stressors and major life events on daily subjective ages. Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 72(4), 613-621

Guidi, J., Lucente, M., Sonino, N., & Fava, G. A. (2020). Allostatic load and its impact on health: a systematic review. Psychotherapy and psychosomatics, 90(1), 11-27

Huberman, A. hubermanlab.com

Kato, T. (2015). Frequently used coping scales: A meta‐analysis. Stress and Health, 31(4), 315-323.

LePera, N. theholisticpsychologist.com

Perel, E. esterperel.com

Resilience & Coping Styles Questionnaires. PositivePsychology.com

Wear + Tear = Allostatic Load

Bodner, E., Shrira, A., Hoffman, Y., & Bergman, Y. S. (2021). Day-to-day variability in subjective age and ageist attitudes and their association with depressive symptoms. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 76(5), 836-844.

Guidi, J., Lucente, M., Sonino, N., & Fava, G. A. (2020). Allostatic load and its impact on health: a systematic review. Psychotherapy and psychosomatics, 90(1), 11-27

Juster, R. P., Bizik, G., Picard, M., Arsenault-Lapierre, G., Sindi, S., Trepanier, L., Marin, M-F., Wan, N., Sekerovic, Z., Lord, C., Fiocco, A. J., Plusquellec, P., McEwen, B. S., & Lupien, S. J. (2011). A transdisciplinary perspective of chronic stress in relation to psychopathology throughout life span development. Development and psychopathology, 23(3), 725-776.

McEwen, B. S. (2009). Physiology and Neurobiology of Stress and Adaptation: Central Role of the Brain . Physiological reviews, 87(3), 873-904

Stephan, Y., Caudroit, J., & Chalabaev, A. (2011). Subjective health and memory self-efficacy as mediators in the relation between subjective age and life satisfaction among older adults. Aging & mental health, 15(4), 428-436

Impact of trauma + PTSD

Cherry, K. E. (Ed.). (2015). Traumatic stress and long-term recovery: Coping with disasters and other negative life events. Springer.

Diener, E., & Fujita, F. (1995). Resources, personal strivings, and subjective well-being: a nomothetic and idiographic approach. Journal of personality and social psychology, 68(5), 926. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.68.5.926

Hoffman, Y. S., Shrira, A., Cohen-Fridel, S., Grossman, E. S., & Bodner, E. (2016). Posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms as a function of the interactive effect of subjective age and subjective nearness to death. Personality and Individual Differences, 102, 245-251. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2016.07.017

Palgi, Y., Gelkopf, M., & Berger, R. (2015). The inoculating role of previous exposure to potentially traumatic life events on coping with prolonged exposure to rocket attacks: A lifespan perspective. Psychiatry Research, 227(2-3), 296-301. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2015.03.020

Palgi, Y., Shrira, A., Avidor, S., Hoffman, Y., Bodner, E., & Ben-Ezra, M. (2019). Understanding the long-term connections between posttraumatic stress, subjective age, and successful aging among midlife and older adults. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 10(1), 1583523. https://doi.org/10.1080/20008198.2019.1583523

Turner, P. K., Runtz, M. G., & Galambos, N. L. (1999). Sexual abuse, pubertal timing, and subjective age in adolescent girls: A research note. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 17(2), 111-118. https://doi.org/10.1080/02646839908409091

Motivational Interviewing…

Berman, A. H., Beckman, M. & Lindqvist, H (2020). Motivational interviewing interventions (Part III, 45). In Hagger, M. S., Cameron, L. D., Hamilton, K., Hankonen, N., & Lintunen, T. (Eds.). The handbook of behavior change. Cambridge University Press.

Conway, M.S., & D., Haggar (2020). Imagery, visualization, and mental simulation interventions (Part III, 33). In Hagger, M. S., Cameron, L. D., Hamilton, K., Hankonen, N., & Lintunen, T. (Eds.). The handbook of behavior change. Cambridge University Press.

Frost, H., Campbell, P., Maxwell, M., O’Carroll, R. E., Dombrowski, S. U., Williams, B., Cheyne, H., Coles, E., & Pollock, A. (2018). Effectiveness of motivational interviewing on adult behaviour change in health and social care settings: a systematic review of reviews. PloS one, 13(10). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0204890

Miller, W. R. (1983). Motivational interviewing with problem drinkers. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 11(2), 147-172.

Miller, W. R., & Rose, G. S. (2009). Toward a theory of motivational interviewing. American psychologist, 64(6), 527. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0141347300006583

Shingleton, R. M., & Palfai, T. P. (2016). Technology-delivered adaptations of motivational interviewing for health-related behaviors: A systematic review of the current research. Patient education and counseling, 99(1), 17-35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2015.08.005

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.