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

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

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

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.