M Powell Lawton
Biographic Data
| ID | 1646866 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Powell Lawton |
| GIVEN NAMES | M Powell |
| FAMILY NAME | Lawton |
| SIGNATURE | LAWTON M P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Philadelphia Fire Department |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1962 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Symptoms, Affects, and Self-Rated Health
Patients may possess a subjective trajectory of health-an awareness of changes in symptoms and affect. This trajectory may constitute an important component of SRH and help to explain its ability to predict health outcomes
Time Use Research in the Social Sciences
Valuation of Life
VOL is a cognitive-affective schema whose function as a mediator and moderator between health and end-of-life decisions deserves further research
Affect and Quality of Life
The importance of assessing both amount of behavior (objective) and its quality (subjective) when measuring QOL was demonstrated. Although external engagement bears a closer relationship to PA than to negative, the dual-channel model relating locus of stimulation differentially to PA and depression requires modification
Personality and Affective Correlates of Leisure Activity Participation by Older People
Participation by older people in leisure activities was studied cross-sectionally in relation to hypothesized personality and affective correlates. Specifically, a dual-channel conception guided the design of the study and the analysis of the data. Two hypotheses expressed basic assertions of the dual-channel conception. First, a set of outwardly-oriented dimensions of affect experiencing were expected to be related to high levels of leisure acti…
Dimensions of affective experience in three age groups.
In Search of Psychological Benefits
This study assessed the short-term psychological effects of an exercise training program for 267 healthy elderly volunteers randomly assigned to either a bicycle group that trained three times a week for 4 months or an attention control group that met once a week during the 4-month period. A second aim was to identify predictors of favorable change in either physiological performance in stress-test parameters or in behavioral attributes at the co…
Residential environment and self-directedness among older people
Residential environment and self-directedness among older people
Research on the environmental psychology of later life has produced data and theoretical advances that have been incorporated into the design of nursing homes and housing, neighborhood planning, housing policy, and housing-related services for older people. The applications of knowledge have been particularly useful in compensating for behaviors impaired by the physical illnesses that become more prevalent with aging. Some research has also docum…
The Elderly in Context
Older people must be understood in terms of changes that occur both in themselves and in the world around them. The transactions between older people and their environments are discussed in terms of the support-autonomy dialectic and specific behaviors involving environmental reactivity and proactivity. Three examples of research are discussed to illustrate how autonomy is maintained on one level while necessary support is accepted on another lev…
Policy Analysis and the Aging
Community Housing Choices for Older Americans
Community Supports for the Aged
This paper examines the concept of community alternatives to institutions for older people from the theoretical vantage point of the need to optimize the mix of challenge and support in matching the residential environment to individual need. Research is reviewed on the characteristics of people inhabiting different types of residential environments and on the impacts such environments have on older people. A variety of residential types (planned…
Social Areas And The Wellbeing Of Tenants In Housing For The Elderly
The relationships between objective neighborhood characteristics and the wellbeing of 2421 elderly federally-assisted housing tenants were investigated. Six factors were derived from the 1970 Census characteristics of the social areas in which 150 housing projects were located. Social-area factors accounted for significant proportions of variance in tenant activity participation, housing satisfaction, friendship behavior, and motility, but not fa…
Leisure Activities for the Aged
Leisure-time activities are discussed within the broader context of use of time, where both discretionary and obligatory uses are seen as meaningful to the individual. Comparisons of time use among people of different ages and the content of older people's days are discussed. Older people's choices of activities are seen as determined by the social values prevalent in their earlier years, their practice over a lifetime in various pursuits, change…
Planning and Managing Housing for the Elderly
Similarity and propinquity in friendship formation
Psychological services to the elderly
Ecology and the aging process.
Neurochemical Changes in Brains of Albino Rats Resulting from Avoidance Learning
To observe the effects of avoidance training on the brain chemistry of trained rats, 36 Wistar albino rats, 60—75 days old, were run in an automated straight-runway maze. 12 Ss received limited avoidance training followed immediately by extinction training for the avoidance response. 12 other Ss received limited avoidance training only, and 12 is acted as non-trained controls. Following training, each S's brain was removed and sectioned into thre…
Influence of Donor-Recipient Brain Transfers on Avoidance Learning
The brain extracts from donor animals, trained on intermittent punishment avoidance tasks, were transferred by intraperitoneal injections to naive recipients. Two types of control conditions were used, (1) the brain extracts from untrained donors were injected into naive recipients and (2) water injections were given to naive Ss. The recipient animals also received intermittent punishment-avoidance (running) training. Measurements were made of ex…
Psychosocial Aspects of Cigarette Smoking
Similarity and propinquity in friendship formation
Personality and Affective Correlates of Leisure Activity Participation by Older People
Participation by older people in leisure activities was studied cross-sectionally in relation to hypothesized personality and affective correlates. Specifically, a dual-channel conception guided the design of the study and the analysis of the data. Two hypotheses expressed basic assertions of the dual-channel conception. First, a set of outwardly-oriented dimensions of affect experiencing were expected to be related to high levels of leisure acti…
Symptoms, Affects, and Self-Rated Health
Patients may possess a subjective trajectory of health-an awareness of changes in symptoms and affect. This trajectory may constitute an important component of SRH and help to explain its ability to predict health outcomes
Leisure Activities for the Aged
Leisure-time activities are discussed within the broader context of use of time, where both discretionary and obligatory uses are seen as meaningful to the individual. Comparisons of time use among people of different ages and the content of older people's days are discussed. Older people's choices of activities are seen as determined by the social values prevalent in their earlier years, their practice over a lifetime in various pursuits, change…
Valuation of Life
VOL is a cognitive-affective schema whose function as a mediator and moderator between health and end-of-life decisions deserves further research
Affect and Quality of Life
The importance of assessing both amount of behavior (objective) and its quality (subjective) when measuring QOL was demonstrated. Although external engagement bears a closer relationship to PA than to negative, the dual-channel model relating locus of stimulation differentially to PA and depression requires modification
In Search of Psychological Benefits
This study assessed the short-term psychological effects of an exercise training program for 267 healthy elderly volunteers randomly assigned to either a bicycle group that trained three times a week for 4 months or an attention control group that met once a week during the 4-month period. A second aim was to identify predictors of favorable change in either physiological performance in stress-test parameters or in behavioral attributes at the co…
Community Supports for the Aged
This paper examines the concept of community alternatives to institutions for older people from the theoretical vantage point of the need to optimize the mix of challenge and support in matching the residential environment to individual need. Research is reviewed on the characteristics of people inhabiting different types of residential environments and on the impacts such environments have on older people. A variety of residential types (planned…
Psychosocial Aspects of Cigarette Smoking
Influence of Donor-Recipient Brain Transfers on Avoidance Learning
The brain extracts from donor animals, trained on intermittent punishment avoidance tasks, were transferred by intraperitoneal injections to naive recipients. Two types of control conditions were used, (1) the brain extracts from untrained donors were injected into naive recipients and (2) water injections were given to naive Ss. The recipient animals also received intermittent punishment-avoidance (running) training. Measurements were made of ex…
Neurochemical Changes in Brains of Albino Rats Resulting from Avoidance Learning
To observe the effects of avoidance training on the brain chemistry of trained rats, 36 Wistar albino rats, 60—75 days old, were run in an automated straight-runway maze. 12 Ss received limited avoidance training followed immediately by extinction training for the avoidance response. 12 other Ss received limited avoidance training only, and 12 is acted as non-trained controls. Following training, each S's brain was removed and sectioned into thre…
Ecology and the aging process.
Psychological services to the elderly
Similarity and propinquity in friendship formation
Leisure Activities for the Aged
Leisure-time activities are discussed within the broader context of use of time, where both discretionary and obligatory uses are seen as meaningful to the individual. Comparisons of time use among people of different ages and the content of older people's days are discussed. Older people's choices of activities are seen as determined by the social values prevalent in their earlier years, their practice over a lifetime in various pursuits, change…
Planning and Managing Housing for the Elderly
Social Areas And The Wellbeing Of Tenants In Housing For The Elderly
The relationships between objective neighborhood characteristics and the wellbeing of 2421 elderly federally-assisted housing tenants were investigated. Six factors were derived from the 1970 Census characteristics of the social areas in which 150 housing projects were located. Social-area factors accounted for significant proportions of variance in tenant activity participation, housing satisfaction, friendship behavior, and motility, but not fa…
Community Supports for the Aged
This paper examines the concept of community alternatives to institutions for older people from the theoretical vantage point of the need to optimize the mix of challenge and support in matching the residential environment to individual need. Research is reviewed on the characteristics of people inhabiting different types of residential environments and on the impacts such environments have on older people. A variety of residential types (planned…
Community Housing Choices for Older Americans
Policy Analysis and the Aging
The Elderly in Context
Older people must be understood in terms of changes that occur both in themselves and in the world around them. The transactions between older people and their environments are discussed in terms of the support-autonomy dialectic and specific behaviors involving environmental reactivity and proactivity. Three examples of research are discussed to illustrate how autonomy is maintained on one level while necessary support is accepted on another lev…
Residential environment and self-directedness among older people
Residential environment and self-directedness among older people
Research on the environmental psychology of later life has produced data and theoretical advances that have been incorporated into the design of nursing homes and housing, neighborhood planning, housing policy, and housing-related services for older people. The applications of knowledge have been particularly useful in compensating for behaviors impaired by the physical illnesses that become more prevalent with aging. Some research has also docum…
Dimensions of affective experience in three age groups.
In Search of Psychological Benefits
This study assessed the short-term psychological effects of an exercise training program for 267 healthy elderly volunteers randomly assigned to either a bicycle group that trained three times a week for 4 months or an attention control group that met once a week during the 4-month period. A second aim was to identify predictors of favorable change in either physiological performance in stress-test parameters or in behavioral attributes at the co…
Personality and Affective Correlates of Leisure Activity Participation by Older People
Participation by older people in leisure activities was studied cross-sectionally in relation to hypothesized personality and affective correlates. Specifically, a dual-channel conception guided the design of the study and the analysis of the data. Two hypotheses expressed basic assertions of the dual-channel conception. First, a set of outwardly-oriented dimensions of affect experiencing were expected to be related to high levels of leisure acti…
Affect and Quality of Life
The importance of assessing both amount of behavior (objective) and its quality (subjective) when measuring QOL was demonstrated. Although external engagement bears a closer relationship to PA than to negative, the dual-channel model relating locus of stimulation differentially to PA and depression requires modification
Valuation of Life
VOL is a cognitive-affective schema whose function as a mediator and moderator between health and end-of-life decisions deserves further research
Time Use Research in the Social Sciences
Symptoms, Affects, and Self-Rated Health
Patients may possess a subjective trajectory of health-an awareness of changes in symptoms and affect. This trajectory may constitute an important component of SRH and help to explain its ability to predict health outcomes
Psychology (20 works) · Medicine (14 works) · Gerontology (10 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Gerontology (7 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (7 works) · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies (7 works) · Aging and Gerontology Research (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works)