Becca R Levy

Datos Biográficos

ID3926410
NOMBREBecca R Levy
NOMBRESBecca R
APELLIDOLevy
FIRMALEVY B R
AFILIACIONESYale School of Public Health
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS25
TOTAL DE CITAS251
TOTAL COMO AUTOR25
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2001
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2023
ÍNDICE H6

  • Societal impact on older persons' chronic pain

    Open AccessBenjamin R Levy, Becca R Levy et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2023Citada por: 1Referencias: 35

  • Ageism Amplifies Cost and Prevalence of Health Conditions

    Open AccessBenjamin R Levy, Becca R Levy et al.ARTICLEThe Gerontologist2020

    BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The persistent status of ageism as one of the least acknowledged forms of prejudice may be due in part to an absence of quantifying its costs in economic terms. In this study, we calculated the costs of ageism on health conditions for all persons aged 60 years or older in the United States during 1 year. RESEARCH DESIGN AND MATERIALS: The ageism predictors were discrimination aimed at older persons, negative age stereot…

  • Self-Acceptance and Interdependence Promote Longevity

    Open AccessReuben Ng, Heather Allore et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2020

    We explored psychosocial pathways to longevity, specifically, the association between psychological well-being and mortality in a 20-year prospective cohort study of 7626 participants. As hypothesized, high self-acceptance and interdependence were associated with decreased mortality risk, controlling for other psychological components (purpose, positive relations, growth, mastery) and potential confounders: personality, depression, self-rated hea…

  • Aging in Times of the Covid-19 Pandemic

    Open AccessL Ayalon, Amy L Chasteen et al.ARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…2020Citada por: 74Referencias: 2

  • Active coping shields against negative aging self-stereotypes contributing to psychiatric conditions

    Open AccessBenjamin R Levy, Becca R Levy et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2019Citada por: 3Referencias: 28

  • Positive Aging Views in the General Population Predict Better Long-Term Cognition for Elders in Eight Countries

    Open AccessEmma B Smith, Mahesh M Desai et al.ARTICLEJournal of Aging and Health2018Citada por: 1Referencias: 3

    Objective: Much of the literature on aging cognitive health has focused on individual determinants, rather than societal ones; in contrast, this study examined whether country-level age status predicts cognitive performance of older individuals over time. Method: Eight countries were examined using a novel combination of country-level age status data from the European Social Survey and individual-level data from the Survey on Health, Ageing, and …

  • Retirement as Meaningful

    Open AccessReuben Ng, Heather Allore et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social Issues2016Citada por: 10Referencias: 39

    Studies examining the association between retirement and health have produced mixed results. This may be due to previous studies treating retirement as merely a change in job status rather than a transition associated with stereotypes or societal beliefs (e.g., retirement is a time of mental decline or retirement is a time of growth). To examine whether these stereotypes are associated with health, we studied retirement stereotypes and survival o…

  • A chapter a day

    Open AccessAvni Bavishi, Martin D Slade et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2016Citada por: 14Referencias: 15

  • Reactivity to a Spouse’s Interpersonal Suffering in Late Life Marriage

    Open AccessHannah‐Rose Mitchell, Hannah-Rose Mitchell et al.ARTICLEJournal of Aging and Health2015Referencias: 12

    Spouses' interpersonal suffering may negatively affect both men and women's cardiovascular health, and older husbands may be particularly affected

  • Lower prevalence of psychiatric conditions when negative age stereotypes are resisted

    Open AccessBenjamin R Levy, Becca R Levy et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2014Citada por: 9Referencias: 22

  • Increased longevity from viewing retirement positively

    Open AccessDEEPAK C LAKRA, Reuben Ng et al.ARTICLEAgeing and Society2012Citada por: 3Referencias: 16

    Studies of the relationship between retirement and subsequent health, including longevity, have produced mixed findings. One reason may be that these studies have not taken attitudes toward retirement into account. In the current study we examined whether attitudes toward retirement can impact longevity. The cohort consisted of 394 participants who were followed for 23 years. As predicted, participants with positive attitudes toward retirement at…

  • Health Advantages of Ethnic Density for African American and Mexican American Elderly Individuals

    Kimberly J Alvarez, Benjamin R Levy et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2012Citada por: 1Referencias: 19

    Research suggests that greater ethnic density correlates with worse health among African Americans but better health among Hispanic Americans. These conflicting patterns may arise from Hispanic American samples being older than African American samples. We found that among 2367 Mexican American and 2790 African American participants older than 65 years, ethnic density predicted lower rates of cardiovascular disease and cancer, adjusting for covar…

  • Residual stigma

    Open AccessBenjamin R Levy, Becca R Levy et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2012Citada por: 4Referencias: 19

  • Influence of Valentine's Day and Halloween on Birth Timing

    Open AccessBenjamin R Levy, Becca R Levy et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2011Citada por: 3Referencias: 9

  • Age Stereotypes Held Earlier in Life Predict Cardiovascular Events in Later Life

    Open AccessBenjamin R Levy, Becca R Levy et al.ARTICLEPsychological Science2009

    When older individuals apply negative age stereotypes to themselves, they can adversely influence a wide range of outcomes (Levy, Slade, Kunkel, & Kasl, 2002). These outcomes include a greater cardiovascular response to stress and worse health behaviors, such as higher tobacco use (Levy, Hausdorff, Hencke, & Wei, 2000; Levy & Myers, 2004), both of which have been linked to the risk of cardiovascular events (Jiang et al., 1996).

  • The stereotype-matching effect

    Benjamin R Levy, Becca R Levy et al.ARTICLEPsychology and Aging2009

    Older individuals assimilate, and are targeted by, contradictory positive and negative age stereotypes. It was unknown whether the influence of stereotype valence is stronger when the stereotype content corresponds to the outcome domain. We randomly assigned older individuals to either positive-cognitive, negative-cognitive, positive-physical, or negative-physical subliminal-age-stereotype groups and assessed cognitive and physical outcomes. As p…

  • Causal Thinking After a Tsunami Wave

    Open AccessBenjamin R Levy, Becca R Levy et al.ARTICLEJournal of Religion and Health2009

  • Rigidity as a Predictor of Older Persons' Aging Stereotypes and Aging Self-Perceptions

    Open AccessBenjamin R Levy, Becca R LevyARTICLESocial Behavior and Personality…2008

    Rigidity has been previously associated with the propensity of dominant group members to target stigmatized groups with negative stereotypes. It was considered in this study whether or not rigidity predicts that members of a stigmatized group, the elderly will target their own group with negative aging stereotypes; and, if so, whether these stereotypes predict aging self-perceptions, or thinking about themselves growing old. As expected (1) older…

  • Opposing Trends of Religious Attendance and Religiosity in Predicting Elders’ Functional Recovery after an Acute Myocardial Infarction

    Open AccessKathryn R Martin, Becca Levy et al.ARTICLEJournal of Religion and Health2006

  • Re‐Vision of Older Television Characters

    Open AccessMargie M Donlon, Ori Ashman et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social Issues2005Citada por: 6Referencias: 16

    This study examines whether greater television exposure predicts older individuals' more negative images of aging, and whether an intervention based on maintaining a television diary of viewing impressions will increase their awareness of the stereotypical and infrequent manner in which elders are presented. Seventy‐six individuals, aged 60 to 92, participated. As expected, all participants showed a correspondence between greater television expos…

  • Preventive health behaviors influenced by self-perceptions of aging

    Open AccessBenjamin R Levy, Becca R Levy et al.ARTICLEPreventive Medicine2004

  • Mind Matters

    Benjamin R Levy, Becca R LevyARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…2003Citada por: 72Referencias: 13

    In the first part of this article, a wide range of research is drawn upon to describe the process by which aging stereotypes are internalized in younger individuals and then become self-stereotypes when individuals reach old age. The second part consists of a review of the author's cross-cultural, experimental, and longitudinal research that examines the cognitive and physical effects of aging self-stereotypes. The final section presents suggesti…

  • Implicit Ageism

    Benjamin R Levy, Becca R Levy et al.CHAPTERAgeism2002

  • Longevity increased by positive self-perceptions of aging

    Benjamin R Levy, Becca R Levy et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…2002Citada por: 50Referencias: 42

  • Eradication of Ageism Requires Addressing the Enemy Within

    Benjamin R Levy, Becca R LevyARTICLEThe Gerontologist2001

    Decision Editor: Laurence G. Branch, PhD Dr. Palmore 2001 Ageism Survey is a much-needed contribution toward creating awareness about a form of prejudice and discrimination that has been largely ignored by our society. However, the survey omits measuring two components of ageism that have emerged from a series of recent findings. These studies have found that ageism can operate (a) implicitly, or without awareness, and (b) in the form of aging se…