Tara L Gruenewald
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1565239 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Tara L Gruenewald |
| NOMBRES | Tara L |
| APELLIDO | Gruenewald |
| FIRMA | GRUENEWALD T L |
| AFILIACIONES | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3783-9171 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 381 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2000 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Sociodemographic Disparities in Positive Life Experiences
Positive life experiences and physical health
Engagement in positive experiences in everyday life has been associated with better long-term survival, but research assessing associations with other measures of long-term physical health is limited. In the current study, data collected from the Midlife in the US Study (N=1,182) in 2004-2017 were used to examine whether frequency of engagement in a range of positive experiences is associated with three domains of health (subjective, functional, …
Positive life experiences and mortality
Perceived neighborhood cohesion buffers Covid-19 impacts on mental health in a United States sample
Association Between Socioeconomic Status Mobility and Inflammation Markers Among White and Black Adults in the United States
OBJECTIVE: This article examines whether multidimensional indicators of objective and subjective socioeconomic status (SES) across the life course can be categorized into latent classes of SES mobility and tests the associations of these categories with inflammation markers among white and black adults. METHODS: Data are from 592 non-Hispanic white and 158 non-Hispanic black participants who completed both the baseline survey and biomarkers asses…
Social stratification and allostatic load
Social stratification is an important mechanism of human organization that helps to explain health differences between demographic groups commonly associated with socioeconomic gradients. Individuals, or group of individuals, with similar health profiles may have had different stratification experiences. This is particularly true as social stratification is a significant non-measurable source of systematic unobservable differences in both SES ind…
Dual Versus Single Parental Households and Differences in Maternal Mental Health and Child’s Overweight/Obesity
The psychological costs of social support imbalance
Psychological well-being benefits of receiving social support are well-established. Growing evidence also suggests parallel benefits of giving support. However, much less attention has been given to understanding the psychological correlates of imbalance in giving and receiving social support. We examined associations between social support (given, received, and imbalance) and psychological well-being in multiple relationship types (friends, fami…
Failure to Meet Generative Self-Expectations is Linked to Poorer Cognitive–Affective Well-Being
Greater feelings of generativity, and more positive expectations for future contributions, are associated cross-sectionally and over time with better affective well-being. Positive affect, social connectedness, and self-worth may partially explain why generative failure over time is linked to decreased life satisfaction
Advancing Research on Psychosocial Stress and Aging with the Health and Retirement Study
The HRS provides one of the most comprehensive assessments of psychosocial stress in existing population-based studies and offers the potential for a deeper understanding of how psychosocial factors are related to healthy aging trajectories. The next generation of research examining stress and trajectories of aging in the HRS should test complex longitudinal and mediational relationships, include contextual factors in analyses, and include more c…
Neighborhood cohesion, neighborhood disorder, and cardiometabolic risk
The Authors Reply
Everyday unfair treatment and multisystem biological dysregulation in African American adults
The results add to a growing literature on the effects of chronic bias and discrimination by demonstrating how such experiences are instantiated in downstream physiological systems. (PsycINFO Database Record
Discrimination and anger control as pathways linking socioeconomic disadvantage to allostatic load in midlife
Modeling Multisystem Physiological Dysregulation
OBJECTIVES: The purposes of this study were to compare the relative fit of two alternative factor models of allostatic load (AL) and physiological systems, and to test factor invariance across age and sex. METHODS: Data were from the Midlife in the United States II Biomarker Project, a large (n = 1255) multisite study of adults aged 34 to 84 years (56.8% women). Specifically, 23 biomarkers were included, representing seven physiological systems: …
Vigilance at home
Feeling unsafe in one's neighborhood is associated with poor health. This relation may be conferred through multiple pathways, including greater psychological distress and health behaviors that are associated with poorer health and perceptions of neighborhood safety. Women and older adults often report feeling less safe in their environments despite having a lower risk of victimization than men and younger adults, and it is unclear whether these …
Neighborhood features and physiological risk
Positive Expectations Regarding Aging Linked to More New Friends in Later Life
These results are the first to link overall expectations regarding aging to the social domain and suggest that the influence of perceptions of aging is not limited to physical or cognitive function
Early Life Adversity and Adult Biological Risk Profiles
OBJECTIVES: To determine whether there is a relationship between early life adversity (ELA) and biological parameters known to predict health risks and to examine the extent to which circumstances in midlife mediate this relationship. METHODS: We analyzed data on 1180 respondents from the biomarker subsample of the second wave of the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States. ELA assessments were based on childhood socioeconomic…
The Baltimore Experience Corps Trial
Results provide the first-ever, large-scale experimental demonstration that participation in an intergenerational civic engagement program can positively alter self-perceptions of generativity in older adulthood
Increases in Lifestyle Activities as a Result of Experience Corps® Participation
Protective Factors for Adults From Low-Childhood Socioeconomic Circumstances
OBJECTIVE: Low socioeconomic status (SES) early in life is one of the most well-established social predictors of poor health. However, little is understood about why some adults who grew up in low-SES environments do not have poor health outcomes. This study examined whether the psychological characteristic of "shift-and-persist" protects adults from the physiological risks of growing up in low-SES households. Shift-and-persist consists of refram…
Contributing to Others, Contributing to Oneself
Findings indicate that greater perceptions of generativity are associated with more favorable trajectories of physical functioning and longevity over time in older adults
History of socioeconomic disadvantage and allostatic load in later life
Socio‐economic differentials in peripheral biology
This chapter focuses on evidence linking socio‐economic status (SES) to “downstream” peripheral biology. Drawing on the concept of allostatic load, we examine evidence linking lower SES with greater cumulative physiological toll on multiple major biological regulatory systems over the life course. We begin by reviewing evidence linking lower SES to poorer trajectories of aging in multiple, individual physiological systems, followed by evidence of…
Cumulative biological risk and socio-economic differences in mortality
History of socioeconomic disadvantage and allostatic load in later life
Everyday unfair treatment and multisystem biological dysregulation in African American adults
The results add to a growing literature on the effects of chronic bias and discrimination by demonstrating how such experiences are instantiated in downstream physiological systems. (PsycINFO Database Record
Neighborhood cohesion, neighborhood disorder, and cardiometabolic risk
Association of socioeconomic status with inflammation markers in black and white men and women in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (Cardia) study
The Baltimore Experience Corps Trial
Results provide the first-ever, large-scale experimental demonstration that participation in an intergenerational civic engagement program can positively alter self-perceptions of generativity in older adulthood
Neighborhood features and physiological risk
Perceived neighborhood cohesion buffers Covid-19 impacts on mental health in a United States sample
Feelings of Usefulness to Others, Disability, and Mortality in Older Adults
We examined feelings of usefulness to others as a predictor of disability and mortality risk in a sample of older adults (aged 70-79 years) from the MacArthur Study of Successful Aging. We examined participants' perceptions of their usefulness to friends and family, measured at a baseline interview, as a predictor of subsequent increases in self-reported mobility disability, the onset of difficulty in performing activities of daily living, or mor…
Contributing to Others, Contributing to Oneself
Findings indicate that greater perceptions of generativity are associated with more favorable trajectories of physical functioning and longevity over time in older adults
Discrimination and anger control as pathways linking socioeconomic disadvantage to allostatic load in midlife
Positive Expectations Regarding Aging Linked to More New Friends in Later Life
These results are the first to link overall expectations regarding aging to the social domain and suggest that the influence of perceptions of aging is not limited to physical or cognitive function
Productive Activities and Development of Frailty in Older Adults
Though high-functioning older adults who participate in productive activities are less likely to become frail, after adjusting for age, disability, and cognitive function, only volunteering is associated with a lower cumulative odds of frailty
Advancing Research on Psychosocial Stress and Aging with the Health and Retirement Study
The HRS provides one of the most comprehensive assessments of psychosocial stress in existing population-based studies and offers the potential for a deeper understanding of how psychosocial factors are related to healthy aging trajectories. The next generation of research examining stress and trajectories of aging in the HRS should test complex longitudinal and mediational relationships, include contextual factors in analyses, and include more c…
The psychological costs of social support imbalance
Psychological well-being benefits of receiving social support are well-established. Growing evidence also suggests parallel benefits of giving support. However, much less attention has been given to understanding the psychological correlates of imbalance in giving and receiving social support. We examined associations between social support (given, received, and imbalance) and psychological well-being in multiple relationship types (friends, fami…
Increases in Lifestyle Activities as a Result of Experience Corps® Participation
Diverse pathways to positive and negative affect in adulthood and later life
Recursive partitioning is an analytic technique that is useful for identifying complex combinations of conditions that predict particular outcomes as well as for delineating multiple subgroup differences in how such factors work together. As such, the methodology is well suited to multidisciplinary, life course inquiry in which the goal is to integrate many interacting influences and understand subgroup variation. The authors conducted recursive …
Failure to Meet Generative Self-Expectations is Linked to Poorer Cognitive–Affective Well-Being
Greater feelings of generativity, and more positive expectations for future contributions, are associated cross-sectionally and over time with better affective well-being. Positive affect, social connectedness, and self-worth may partially explain why generative failure over time is linked to decreased life satisfaction
Increased Mortality Risk in Older Adults With Persistently Low or Declining Feelings of Usefulness to Others
Older adults with persistently low perceived usefulness or feelings of usefulness that decline to a low level may be a vulnerable group with increased risk for poor health outcomes in later life
Positive life experiences and mortality
Biobehavioral responses to stress in females
The human stress response has been characterized, both physiologically and behaviorally, as "fight-or-flight." Although fight-or-flight may characterize the primary physiological responses to stress for both males and females, we propose that, behaviorally, females' responses are more marked by a pattern of "tend-and-befriend." Tending involves nurturant activities designed to protect the self and offspring that promote safety and reduce distress…
Psychological resources, positive illusions, and health
Psychological beliefs such as optimism, personal control, and a sense of meaning are known to be protective of mental health. Are they protective of physical health as well? The authors " present a program of research that has tested the implications of cognitive adaptation theory, and research on positive illusions for the relation of positive beliefs to disease progression among men infected with HIV. The investigations have revealed that even …
Acute Threat to the Social Self
OBJECTIVE: Our Social Self Preservation Theory asserts that situations which threaten the "social self" (ie, one's social value or standing) elicit increased feelings of low social worth (eg, shame), decrements in social self-esteem, and increases in cortisol, a hormone released by the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. To test our theoretical premise, cognitive, emotional, and physiological responses to the performance of laboratory stressor t…
When the Social Self Is Threatened
Our program of research focuses on shame as a key emotional response to “social self” threats (i.e., social evaluation or rejection). We propose that shame may orchestrate specific patterns of psychobiological changes under these conditions. A series of studies demonstrates that acute threats to the social self increase proinflammatory cytokine activity and cortisol and that these changes occur in concert with shame. Chronic social self threats a…
Cumulative biological risk and socio-economic differences in mortality
Affirmation of Personal Values Buffers Neuroendocrine and Psychological Stress Responses
Stress is implicated in the development and progression of a broad array of mental and physical health disorders. Theory and research on the self suggest that self-affirming activities may buffer these adverse effects. This study experimentally investigated whether affirmations of personal values attenuate physiological and psychological stress responses. Eighty-five participants completed either a value-affirmation task or a control task prior t…
Social Integration Is Associated With Fibrinogen Concentration in Elderly Men
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to determine whether social integration is associated with plasma concentrations of fibrinogen in an elderly population. METHODS: Participants (ages 70-79; n = 375 men and 425 women) were part of the MacArthur Successful Aging Study, a longitudinal study from three community-based cohorts in the United States, who have relatively high physical and cognitive functioning. Social integration was measured us…
Feelings of Usefulness to Others, Disability, and Mortality in Older Adults
We examined feelings of usefulness to others as a predictor of disability and mortality risk in a sample of older adults (aged 70-79 years) from the MacArthur Study of Successful Aging. We examined participants' perceptions of their usefulness to friends and family, measured at a baseline interview, as a predictor of subsequent increases in self-reported mobility disability, the onset of difficulty in performing activities of daily living, or mor…
Increased Mortality Risk in Older Adults With Persistently Low or Declining Feelings of Usefulness to Others
Older adults with persistently low perceived usefulness or feelings of usefulness that decline to a low level may be a vulnerable group with increased risk for poor health outcomes in later life
Diverse pathways to positive and negative affect in adulthood and later life
Recursive partitioning is an analytic technique that is useful for identifying complex combinations of conditions that predict particular outcomes as well as for delineating multiple subgroup differences in how such factors work together. As such, the methodology is well suited to multidisciplinary, life course inquiry in which the goal is to integrate many interacting influences and understand subgroup variation. The authors conducted recursive …
Psychobiological Responses to Social Self Threat
A growing body of research suggests that threats to the social self, or threats to one's social esteem, acceptance, or status, can elicit a coordinated response, including increases in self-conscious emotion, cortisol, and proinflammatory cytokine activity. These psychobiological changes may have important benefits under certain acute contexts, including providing a signaling function for detecting social threat, initiating biological processes t…
Productive Activities and Development of Frailty in Older Adults
Though high-functioning older adults who participate in productive activities are less likely to become frail, after adjusting for age, disability, and cognitive function, only volunteering is associated with a lower cumulative odds of frailty
Association of socioeconomic status with inflammation markers in black and white men and women in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (Cardia) study
Socio‐economic differentials in peripheral biology
This chapter focuses on evidence linking socio‐economic status (SES) to “downstream” peripheral biology. Drawing on the concept of allostatic load, we examine evidence linking lower SES with greater cumulative physiological toll on multiple major biological regulatory systems over the life course. We begin by reviewing evidence linking lower SES to poorer trajectories of aging in multiple, individual physiological systems, followed by evidence of…
Modeling multisystem biological risk in young adults
Although much prior research has focused on identifying the roles of major regulatory systems in health risks, the concept of allostatic load (AL) focuses on the importance of a more multisystems view of health risks. How best to operationalize allostatic load, however, remains the subject of some debate. We sought to test a hypothesized metafactor model of allostatic load composed of a number of biological system factors, and to investigate mode…
Early Life Adversity and Inflammation in African Americans and Whites in the Midlife in the United States Survey
Objectives: To determine whether early life adversity (ELA) was predictive of inflammatory markers and to determine the consistency of these associations across racial groups. Methods: We analyzed data from 177 African Americans and 822 whites aged 35 to 86 years from two preliminary subsamples of the Midlife in the United States biomarker study. ELA was measured via retrospective self-report. We used multivariate linear regression models to exam…
Protective Factors for Adults From Low-Childhood Socioeconomic Circumstances
OBJECTIVE: Low socioeconomic status (SES) early in life is one of the most well-established social predictors of poor health. However, little is understood about why some adults who grew up in low-SES environments do not have poor health outcomes. This study examined whether the psychological characteristic of "shift-and-persist" protects adults from the physiological risks of growing up in low-SES households. Shift-and-persist consists of refram…
Contributing to Others, Contributing to Oneself
Findings indicate that greater perceptions of generativity are associated with more favorable trajectories of physical functioning and longevity over time in older adults
History of socioeconomic disadvantage and allostatic load in later life
Increases in Lifestyle Activities as a Result of Experience Corps® Participation
Early Life Adversity and Adult Biological Risk Profiles
OBJECTIVES: To determine whether there is a relationship between early life adversity (ELA) and biological parameters known to predict health risks and to examine the extent to which circumstances in midlife mediate this relationship. METHODS: We analyzed data on 1180 respondents from the biomarker subsample of the second wave of the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States. ELA assessments were based on childhood socioeconomic…
The Baltimore Experience Corps Trial
Results provide the first-ever, large-scale experimental demonstration that participation in an intergenerational civic engagement program can positively alter self-perceptions of generativity in older adulthood
Modeling Multisystem Physiological Dysregulation
OBJECTIVES: The purposes of this study were to compare the relative fit of two alternative factor models of allostatic load (AL) and physiological systems, and to test factor invariance across age and sex. METHODS: Data were from the Midlife in the United States II Biomarker Project, a large (n = 1255) multisite study of adults aged 34 to 84 years (56.8% women). Specifically, 23 biomarkers were included, representing seven physiological systems: …
Vigilance at home
Feeling unsafe in one's neighborhood is associated with poor health. This relation may be conferred through multiple pathways, including greater psychological distress and health behaviors that are associated with poorer health and perceptions of neighborhood safety. Women and older adults often report feeling less safe in their environments despite having a lower risk of victimization than men and younger adults, and it is unclear whether these …
Neighborhood features and physiological risk
Psychology (37 obras) · Medicine (30 obras) · Gerontology (24 obras) · Health disparities and outcomes (21 obras) · Demography (15 obras) · Developmental psychology (15 obras) · Psychiatry (14 obras) · Population (13 obras) · Social Psychology (12 obras) · Allostatic load (11 obras)