Wurm
Biographic Data
| ID | 14751 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wurm |
| FAMILY NAME | Wurm |
| SIGNATURE | WURM |
| AFFILIATIONS | German Centre of Gerontology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6924-8299 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 126 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Historical Cohort Differences in Views on Aging in the US
This study compared equal age groups from two cohorts from the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) study surveyed at different times to characterize societal changes in measures of subjective age and age threshold. Two successive MIDUS cohorts were utilized (1995–1996 and 2011–2014; age range 25–74). Outcomes included subjective age (felt age and desired age) and age threshold. Following multiple imputations of missing data and balancing methods…
Subjective aging and cognitive aging across 15 years in middle-aged and older adults
Subjective aging predicts various developmental outcomes, including cognitive functioning. However, associations could be bidirectional. We focused on central dimensions of subjective aging (subjective age; self-perceptions of aging related to social losses, physical losses, and ongoing development) and investigated reciprocal longitudinal associations with perceptual-motor speed, both at the between-person level (i.e., Do individuals with more p…
Fear of Falling Carries Over into Overprotection in Old Age
Fear of falling might result in overprotection by one's social environment. In turn, feeling dependent could increase fear of falling. However, the association between fear of falling and perceived overprotection and its temporal order is unknown. This longitudinal study explores this potential mutual longitudinal association. This study presents secondary analyses from a larger trial. We tested the association between fear of falling and perceiv…
Associations of Agency and Communion With Domain-Specific Self-Perceptions of Aging
A large body of research indicates that self-perceptions of aging (SPA) play an important role for health in later life. Hence, more research on SPA and correlates is needed, especially in old age and poor health, where negative SPA tend to prevail. Recent studies identified personality as an important correlate of SPA in young-old and relatively healthy samples. Thus, we investigated cross-sectional associations of agency and communion with two …
Gain- but not loss-related self-perceptions of aging predict mortality over a period of 23 years
[Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported online in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology on Apr 25 2022 (see record 2022-56187-001). In the original article, there was an error in the third sentence in the Combined Model Comprising SPA Dimensions and SA section. The corrected sentence should read as: Again, an increase of gain-related SPA by 1 SD was related to a decrease in risk of death by 12%. All versions of this ar…
Subjective Aging and Incident Cardiovascular Disease
Consistent with the literature on subjective aging and cardiovascular risk factors, this large prospective study indicates that an older subjective age and negative SPA increase the risk of incident stroke and other cardiovascular diseases
Perceived somatic and affective barriers for self-efficacy and physical activity
According to Bandura's social-cognitive theory, perceptions of somatic and affective barriers are sources of self-efficacy. This longitudinal study compares general indicators of health barriers with measures of perceived somatic and affective barriers to predict self-efficacy and accelerometer-assessed physical activity in a subsample of n = 153 (selected at random from N = 310) community-dwelling German older adults. Perceived somatic and affec…
Cohort Profile
Population ageing and longevity - as observed in Germany - is not simply a phenomenon of an increasing number of old people: it also involves a range of qualitative and structural changes affecting older people. For this reason the German Federal Government, aiming to improve the quality of its monitoring efforts on older people in Germany, launched the German Ageing Survey (DEAS) in the mid 1990s, under the auspices of the Federal Ministry for F…
How do views on aging affect health outcomes in adulthood and late life? Explanations for an established connection
Response shift in self-rated health after serious health events in old age
Predictors of Self-Rated Health
The findings highlight the importance of considering the multidimensionality of SWB and the educational background of individuals for the study of SRH and indicate possible limits to adjustment to age-related declines in health
Short-Term Buffers, but Long-Term Suffers? Differential Effects of Negative Self-Perceptions of Aging Following Serious Health Events
People with more negative self-perceptions of aging may be mentally prepared for health events or may have habituated to health declines. Individuals with more positive self-perceptions, in contrast, may invest a lot in coping efforts immediately after the health event. Similarities to research on unrealistic optimism are discussed
The influence of subjective aging on health and longevity
Awareness of aging
Interactive effects of social support and social conflict on medication adherence in multimorbid older adults
Life satisfaction and feeling in control
Life satisfaction and control beliefs are established indicators of successful aging and predict mortality. However, it has not yet been examined whether they independently predict mortality or interact. We examined main and interaction effects using Cox proportional hazards models in a sample of older adults ( N = 1402; age range: 65-91). Only the interaction of life satisfaction and control beliefs significantly predicted mortality when control…
What do people include when they self-rate their health? Differential associations according to health status in community-dwelling older adults
Giving and Taking -Differential Effects of Providing, Receiving and Anticipating Emotional Support on Quality of Life in Adults with Multiple Illnesses
Multimorbidity challenges quality of life (QoL) in old age. Anticipating and providing social support have been shown to promote QoL whereas receiving support often had detrimental effects. Little is known about which psychological processes explain these effects. This study examines the effects of receiving, anticipating and providing emotional support on QoL, with control beliefs and self-esteem as simultaneous mediators in an elderly multimorb…
Altwerden in Deutschland
Longitudinal Findings on Aging-Related Cognitions, Control Beliefs, and Health in Later Life
We examined the influence of individual views of aging on health changes in later life. We hypothesized that aging-related cognitions affect health changes irrespective of control beliefs and that the impact of aging-related cognitions on health is higher than for the reverse direction of causality. We based our analyses on data from the longitudinal part of the German Aging Survey (N = 1,286; participants were 40-85 years of age at baseline). Be…
Altwerden in Deutschland
Awareness of aging
Longitudinal Findings on Aging-Related Cognitions, Control Beliefs, and Health in Later Life
We examined the influence of individual views of aging on health changes in later life. We hypothesized that aging-related cognitions affect health changes irrespective of control beliefs and that the impact of aging-related cognitions on health is higher than for the reverse direction of causality. We based our analyses on data from the longitudinal part of the German Aging Survey (N = 1,286; participants were 40-85 years of age at baseline). Be…
Response shift in self-rated health after serious health events in old age
Life satisfaction and feeling in control
Life satisfaction and control beliefs are established indicators of successful aging and predict mortality. However, it has not yet been examined whether they independently predict mortality or interact. We examined main and interaction effects using Cox proportional hazards models in a sample of older adults ( N = 1402; age range: 65-91). Only the interaction of life satisfaction and control beliefs significantly predicted mortality when control…
Giving and Taking -Differential Effects of Providing, Receiving and Anticipating Emotional Support on Quality of Life in Adults with Multiple Illnesses
Multimorbidity challenges quality of life (QoL) in old age. Anticipating and providing social support have been shown to promote QoL whereas receiving support often had detrimental effects. Little is known about which psychological processes explain these effects. This study examines the effects of receiving, anticipating and providing emotional support on QoL, with control beliefs and self-esteem as simultaneous mediators in an elderly multimorb…
Gain- but not loss-related self-perceptions of aging predict mortality over a period of 23 years
[Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported online in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology on Apr 25 2022 (see record 2022-56187-001). In the original article, there was an error in the third sentence in the Combined Model Comprising SPA Dimensions and SA section. The corrected sentence should read as: Again, an increase of gain-related SPA by 1 SD was related to a decrease in risk of death by 12%. All versions of this ar…
Subjective Aging and Incident Cardiovascular Disease
Consistent with the literature on subjective aging and cardiovascular risk factors, this large prospective study indicates that an older subjective age and negative SPA increase the risk of incident stroke and other cardiovascular diseases
Short-Term Buffers, but Long-Term Suffers? Differential Effects of Negative Self-Perceptions of Aging Following Serious Health Events
People with more negative self-perceptions of aging may be mentally prepared for health events or may have habituated to health declines. Individuals with more positive self-perceptions, in contrast, may invest a lot in coping efforts immediately after the health event. Similarities to research on unrealistic optimism are discussed
Interactive effects of social support and social conflict on medication adherence in multimorbid older adults
Perceived somatic and affective barriers for self-efficacy and physical activity
According to Bandura's social-cognitive theory, perceptions of somatic and affective barriers are sources of self-efficacy. This longitudinal study compares general indicators of health barriers with measures of perceived somatic and affective barriers to predict self-efficacy and accelerometer-assessed physical activity in a subsample of n = 153 (selected at random from N = 310) community-dwelling German older adults. Perceived somatic and affec…
Altwerden in Deutschland
Longitudinal Findings on Aging-Related Cognitions, Control Beliefs, and Health in Later Life
We examined the influence of individual views of aging on health changes in later life. We hypothesized that aging-related cognitions affect health changes irrespective of control beliefs and that the impact of aging-related cognitions on health is higher than for the reverse direction of causality. We based our analyses on data from the longitudinal part of the German Aging Survey (N = 1,286; participants were 40-85 years of age at baseline). Be…
Altwerden in Deutschland
Giving and Taking -Differential Effects of Providing, Receiving and Anticipating Emotional Support on Quality of Life in Adults with Multiple Illnesses
Multimorbidity challenges quality of life (QoL) in old age. Anticipating and providing social support have been shown to promote QoL whereas receiving support often had detrimental effects. Little is known about which psychological processes explain these effects. This study examines the effects of receiving, anticipating and providing emotional support on QoL, with control beliefs and self-esteem as simultaneous mediators in an elderly multimorb…
What do people include when they self-rate their health? Differential associations according to health status in community-dwelling older adults
Interactive effects of social support and social conflict on medication adherence in multimorbid older adults
Life satisfaction and feeling in control
Life satisfaction and control beliefs are established indicators of successful aging and predict mortality. However, it has not yet been examined whether they independently predict mortality or interact. We examined main and interaction effects using Cox proportional hazards models in a sample of older adults ( N = 1402; age range: 65-91). Only the interaction of life satisfaction and control beliefs significantly predicted mortality when control…
The influence of subjective aging on health and longevity
Awareness of aging
Predictors of Self-Rated Health
The findings highlight the importance of considering the multidimensionality of SWB and the educational background of individuals for the study of SRH and indicate possible limits to adjustment to age-related declines in health
Short-Term Buffers, but Long-Term Suffers? Differential Effects of Negative Self-Perceptions of Aging Following Serious Health Events
People with more negative self-perceptions of aging may be mentally prepared for health events or may have habituated to health declines. Individuals with more positive self-perceptions, in contrast, may invest a lot in coping efforts immediately after the health event. Similarities to research on unrealistic optimism are discussed
Cohort Profile
Population ageing and longevity - as observed in Germany - is not simply a phenomenon of an increasing number of old people: it also involves a range of qualitative and structural changes affecting older people. For this reason the German Federal Government, aiming to improve the quality of its monitoring efforts on older people in Germany, launched the German Ageing Survey (DEAS) in the mid 1990s, under the auspices of the Federal Ministry for F…
How do views on aging affect health outcomes in adulthood and late life? Explanations for an established connection
Response shift in self-rated health after serious health events in old age
Perceived somatic and affective barriers for self-efficacy and physical activity
According to Bandura's social-cognitive theory, perceptions of somatic and affective barriers are sources of self-efficacy. This longitudinal study compares general indicators of health barriers with measures of perceived somatic and affective barriers to predict self-efficacy and accelerometer-assessed physical activity in a subsample of n = 153 (selected at random from N = 310) community-dwelling German older adults. Perceived somatic and affec…
Subjective Aging and Incident Cardiovascular Disease
Consistent with the literature on subjective aging and cardiovascular risk factors, this large prospective study indicates that an older subjective age and negative SPA increase the risk of incident stroke and other cardiovascular diseases
Associations of Agency and Communion With Domain-Specific Self-Perceptions of Aging
A large body of research indicates that self-perceptions of aging (SPA) play an important role for health in later life. Hence, more research on SPA and correlates is needed, especially in old age and poor health, where negative SPA tend to prevail. Recent studies identified personality as an important correlate of SPA in young-old and relatively healthy samples. Thus, we investigated cross-sectional associations of agency and communion with two …
Gain- but not loss-related self-perceptions of aging predict mortality over a period of 23 years
[Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported online in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology on Apr 25 2022 (see record 2022-56187-001). In the original article, there was an error in the third sentence in the Combined Model Comprising SPA Dimensions and SA section. The corrected sentence should read as: Again, an increase of gain-related SPA by 1 SD was related to a decrease in risk of death by 12%. All versions of this ar…
Fear of Falling Carries Over into Overprotection in Old Age
Fear of falling might result in overprotection by one's social environment. In turn, feeling dependent could increase fear of falling. However, the association between fear of falling and perceived overprotection and its temporal order is unknown. This longitudinal study explores this potential mutual longitudinal association. This study presents secondary analyses from a larger trial. We tested the association between fear of falling and perceiv…
Historical Cohort Differences in Views on Aging in the US
This study compared equal age groups from two cohorts from the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) study surveyed at different times to characterize societal changes in measures of subjective age and age threshold. Two successive MIDUS cohorts were utilized (1995–1996 and 2011–2014; age range 25–74). Outcomes included subjective age (felt age and desired age) and age threshold. Following multiple imputations of missing data and balancing methods…
Subjective aging and cognitive aging across 15 years in middle-aged and older adults
Subjective aging predicts various developmental outcomes, including cognitive functioning. However, associations could be bidirectional. We focused on central dimensions of subjective aging (subjective age; self-perceptions of aging related to social losses, physical losses, and ongoing development) and investigated reciprocal longitudinal associations with perceptual-motor speed, both at the between-person level (i.e., Do individuals with more p…
Medicine (16 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Aging and Gerontology Research (12 works) · Gerontology (11 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (10 works) · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (10 works) · Developmental psychology (8 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Optimism, Hope, and Well-being (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works)