James Iveniuk
Biographic Data
| ID | 182064 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Iveniuk |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Iveniuk |
| SIGNATURE | IVENIUK J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0035-1201 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 83 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Time and the convoy model: Social network turnover and mental health in older adulthood
We found evidence for disparities in social network turnover by race, but no evidence that these disparities impact changes in depression. We conclude with implications for the convoy model and syntheses between convoy perspectives and theories of network advantage
Collaborative governance in “community energy planning: Insights from an intersectoral governance network in Durham Region, Canada
Can We Measure and Analyze Structural Racism in the Study of Health
In this paper, we critique the concept of structural racism as a determinant of health, as it is operationalized in quantitative research. Our review is not a defense of the concept but a critical examination. From this review, we share several different areas for methodological innovations, including identifying macro‐micro‐macro linkages, and measuring the absence of structural racism, versus assuming it is uniformly present in all social envir…
Prediabetes Progression and Reversion: Social Factors and Racial/Ethnic Differences
Linking the 1940 U.S. Census to the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project: Novel Opportunity to Understand the Effects of Early-Life Residential Environment on Cognitive Aging
Objectives The 1940 Census is a valuable resource for understanding various aspects of historical populations in the United States. Recently, the National Social Life, Health and Aging Project integrated 1940 Census data into its extensive data set, providing researchers with an opportunity to explore new avenues of life course investigation. We leverage the newly introduced measures of childhood residential environment and evaluate their potenti…
Addressing Cognitive Assessment Disparities Among Hispanic Adults: Adapting the MoCA-SA for Improved Accuracy and Accessibility Among Spanish Speakers
Objectives Hispanic adults display a higher likelihood of early-stage cognitive decline than their White counterparts yet receive fewer clinical diagnoses. This troubling trend highlights the significance of longitudinal surveys like the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP) in monitoring cognitive changes in aging Hispanics. Using NSHAP’s Rounds 2 and 3, we observed notable cognitive score differences between English and Spanis…
Race/Ethnicity and the Measurement of Cognition in the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project: Recommendations for Robustness
Objectives In this study, we examine the measurement of cognition in different racial/ethnic groups to move toward a less biased and more inclusive set of measures for capturing cognitive change and decline in older adulthood. Methods We use data from Round 2 (N = 3,377) and Round 3 (N = 4,777) of the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP) and examine the study’s Survey Adjusted version of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA-…
Disclosure of HIV-serodiscordant relationships and association with viral suppression: Results from the Positive Plus One study
BACKGROUND: Little is known about the effects of disclosure of HIV-serodiscordant relationships on clinical outcomes. We aimed to evaluate the effect of relationship disclosure on HIV viral suppression, and hypothesized that disclosure by HIV-positive and HIV-negative partners would be associated with viral suppression in the HIV-positive partner. METHODS: We conducted a Canadian national online and telephone-administered survey of HIV-positive a…
Social capital and HIV-serodiscordance: Disparities in access to personal and professional resources for HIV-positive and HIV-negative partners
As people living with HIV are living longer lives, they have a correspondingly greater opportunity to enjoy long-term romantic and sexual partnerships, including with persons who do not live with HIV ("serodiscordant" relationships). In these dyads, asymmetries may emerge in access to social resources between partners. In this paper we examined how serodiscordant couples access informal (interpersonal, such as family and friends) and formal (prac…
A national recruitment strategy for HIV-serodiscordant partners living in Canada for the Positive Plus One study: A mixed-methods study
Our findings provide important new information on and support the use of a multi-pronged approach to recruit HIV-positive and HIV-negative individuals involved in HIV-serodiscordant relationships in Canada. More creative strategies are needed to help index partners recruit their partner in relationships with lower satisfaction and shorter duration and further minimize the risk of "happy couple" bias
Takes Two to Tango: Cognitive Impairment and Sexual Activity in Older Individuals and Dyads
Sex with a partner, a fundamentally social activity, seems to be conserved in the face of cognitive limitation but masturbation, a solitary activity, does not. We argue that the intimate dyad plays an important role in conserving partnered sexual activity. Results can inform strategies to maintain the sexual well-being of older adults with cognitive impairment and their partners as part of overall strategies to improve quality of life
The Death of Confidants and Changes in Older Adults’ Social Lives
This study examines the consequences of confidant death for the social lives of older adults, testing hypotheses from socio-emotional selectivity theory and the hierarchical compensatory model. We draw upon longitudinal data from the National Social Life Health and Aging Project—a nationally representative survey of older adults ( N = 2,261). We employ ordinary least squares (OLS) and ordinal logistic regressions in the context of multiple imputa…
The psychosocial sources of sexual interest in older couples
Sexual activity with one's partner is an important component of well-being and is linked to physical, emotional, and cognitive health. However, it is unclear why some older adults are more interested in sex and some less so. Their own characteristics, those of their partner, and characteristics of the relationship may all be important. We define sexual interest as consisting both of the motivation to seek sex with a partner and willingness to hav…
Compensatory Conscientiousness Redux: A Direct Replication of Roberts, Smith, Jackson, and Edmonds (2009)
The present study attempted to closely replicate Roberts, Smith, Jackson, and Edmonds (2009) who found, in part, a compensatory effect such that individuals with spouses higher in conscientiousness reported higher self-rated health and fewer physical limitations in the Health and Retirement Study. Using similarly structured data from the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project ( N = 953), the current study found results largely consistent…
Social Networks, Role-Relationships, and Personality in Older Adulthood
Personality traits impact the strength of social network ties in older adulthood. However, traits may have minimal impact on network size. The consequences of personality also appear to be largely consistent across different social relationships
Sexuality in Older Couples: Individual and Dyadic Characteristics
Does disorder get “into the head” and “under the skin”? Layered contexts and bi-directional associations
Religious Influence on Older Americans’ Sexual Lives: A Nationally-Representative Profile
Heterosexuality
Personality Measures in the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project
Researchers will be able to make use of NSHAP's personality battery to examine a range of social, biological, and psychological factors at older ages, in light of individuals' general traits. We recommend models which allow for cross-loadings
The Onset of Depression During the Great Recession: Foreclosure and Older Adult Mental Health
Objectives. We examined neighborhood-level foreclosure rates and their association with onset of depressive symptoms in older adults. Methods. We linked data from the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (2005–2006 and 2010–2011 waves), a longitudinal, nationally representative survey, to data on zip code–level foreclosure rates, and predicted the onset of depressive symptoms using logit-linked regression. Results. Multiple stages of t…
Marital Conflict in Older Couples: Positivity, Personality, and Health
The authors examine the implications of health and personality characteristics for late-life marital conflict using data from the 2010-2011 wave of the National Social Life Health and Aging Project, a nationally representative study with data on both partners in 955 marital and cohabitational dyads. Using these data, they relate characteristics of husbands to characteristics of their wives and vice versa. Wives with husbands in fair or poor physi…
Structural Bridging Network Position is Associated with HIV Status in a Younger Black Men Who Have Sex with Men Epidemic
The seventh signification of Sindbad: The “Greeking” of Sindbad from the Arabian nights to Disney
The Western world, especially America, has had a longstanding interest in re-interpreting the character of Sindbad. After providing a historical context for Sindbad's entry into Western consciousness, this paper will describe and analyze the way in which Sindbad has been transformed by his reinterpreters. The first half will describe the circumstances surrounding the translation of the Nights, revealing the loss of cultural context and cultural c…
Neighborhood stressors and cardiovascular health: Crime and C-reactive protein in Dallas, USA
Neighborhood stressors and cardiovascular health: Crime and C-reactive protein in Dallas, USA
The Onset of Depression During the Great Recession: Foreclosure and Older Adult Mental Health
Objectives. We examined neighborhood-level foreclosure rates and their association with onset of depressive symptoms in older adults. Methods. We linked data from the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (2005–2006 and 2010–2011 waves), a longitudinal, nationally representative survey, to data on zip code–level foreclosure rates, and predicted the onset of depressive symptoms using logit-linked regression. Results. Multiple stages of t…
Marital Conflict in Older Couples: Positivity, Personality, and Health
The authors examine the implications of health and personality characteristics for late-life marital conflict using data from the 2010-2011 wave of the National Social Life Health and Aging Project, a nationally representative study with data on both partners in 955 marital and cohabitational dyads. Using these data, they relate characteristics of husbands to characteristics of their wives and vice versa. Wives with husbands in fair or poor physi…
Sexuality in Older Couples: Individual and Dyadic Characteristics
The psychosocial sources of sexual interest in older couples
Sexual activity with one's partner is an important component of well-being and is linked to physical, emotional, and cognitive health. However, it is unclear why some older adults are more interested in sex and some less so. Their own characteristics, those of their partner, and characteristics of the relationship may all be important. We define sexual interest as consisting both of the motivation to seek sex with a partner and willingness to hav…
Personality Measures in the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project
Researchers will be able to make use of NSHAP's personality battery to examine a range of social, biological, and psychological factors at older ages, in light of individuals' general traits. We recommend models which allow for cross-loadings
Social Networks, Role-Relationships, and Personality in Older Adulthood
Personality traits impact the strength of social network ties in older adulthood. However, traits may have minimal impact on network size. The consequences of personality also appear to be largely consistent across different social relationships
Does disorder get “into the head” and “under the skin”? Layered contexts and bi-directional associations
Religious Influence on Older Americans’ Sexual Lives: A Nationally-Representative Profile
Addressing Cognitive Assessment Disparities Among Hispanic Adults: Adapting the MoCA-SA for Improved Accuracy and Accessibility Among Spanish Speakers
Objectives Hispanic adults display a higher likelihood of early-stage cognitive decline than their White counterparts yet receive fewer clinical diagnoses. This troubling trend highlights the significance of longitudinal surveys like the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP) in monitoring cognitive changes in aging Hispanics. Using NSHAP’s Rounds 2 and 3, we observed notable cognitive score differences between English and Spanis…
Takes Two to Tango: Cognitive Impairment and Sexual Activity in Older Individuals and Dyads
Sex with a partner, a fundamentally social activity, seems to be conserved in the face of cognitive limitation but masturbation, a solitary activity, does not. We argue that the intimate dyad plays an important role in conserving partnered sexual activity. Results can inform strategies to maintain the sexual well-being of older adults with cognitive impairment and their partners as part of overall strategies to improve quality of life
Linking the 1940 U.S. Census to the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project: Novel Opportunity to Understand the Effects of Early-Life Residential Environment on Cognitive Aging
Objectives The 1940 Census is a valuable resource for understanding various aspects of historical populations in the United States. Recently, the National Social Life, Health and Aging Project integrated 1940 Census data into its extensive data set, providing researchers with an opportunity to explore new avenues of life course investigation. We leverage the newly introduced measures of childhood residential environment and evaluate their potenti…
Race/Ethnicity and the Measurement of Cognition in the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project: Recommendations for Robustness
Objectives In this study, we examine the measurement of cognition in different racial/ethnic groups to move toward a less biased and more inclusive set of measures for capturing cognitive change and decline in older adulthood. Methods We use data from Round 2 (N = 3,377) and Round 3 (N = 4,777) of the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP) and examine the study’s Survey Adjusted version of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA-…
The Consumption of Conservation: Ecotourism in Costa Rica
Ecotourism has put pressure on the Costa Rican peasant not only to get a job in the ecotourism industry, but also participate in the ideology of nature-as-aesthetic - that is, the view that nature is a spectacle that must be experienced for its authenticity in a world where unchecked consumption has destroyed much of the "pristine" natural world. Costa Rica, which still has much of its rain forests, stands in a position to sidestep global trends …
The seventh signification of Sindbad: The “Greeking” of Sindbad from the Arabian nights to Disney
The Western world, especially America, has had a longstanding interest in re-interpreting the character of Sindbad. After providing a historical context for Sindbad's entry into Western consciousness, this paper will describe and analyze the way in which Sindbad has been transformed by his reinterpreters. The first half will describe the circumstances surrounding the translation of the Nights, revealing the loss of cultural context and cultural c…
Neighborhood stressors and cardiovascular health: Crime and C-reactive protein in Dallas, USA
Structural Bridging Network Position is Associated with HIV Status in a Younger Black Men Who Have Sex with Men Epidemic
Personality Measures in the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project
Researchers will be able to make use of NSHAP's personality battery to examine a range of social, biological, and psychological factors at older ages, in light of individuals' general traits. We recommend models which allow for cross-loadings
The Onset of Depression During the Great Recession: Foreclosure and Older Adult Mental Health
Objectives. We examined neighborhood-level foreclosure rates and their association with onset of depressive symptoms in older adults. Methods. We linked data from the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (2005–2006 and 2010–2011 waves), a longitudinal, nationally representative survey, to data on zip code–level foreclosure rates, and predicted the onset of depressive symptoms using logit-linked regression. Results. Multiple stages of t…
Marital Conflict in Older Couples: Positivity, Personality, and Health
The authors examine the implications of health and personality characteristics for late-life marital conflict using data from the 2010-2011 wave of the National Social Life Health and Aging Project, a nationally representative study with data on both partners in 955 marital and cohabitational dyads. Using these data, they relate characteristics of husbands to characteristics of their wives and vice versa. Wives with husbands in fair or poor physi…
Heterosexuality
Does disorder get “into the head” and “under the skin”? Layered contexts and bi-directional associations
Religious Influence on Older Americans’ Sexual Lives: A Nationally-Representative Profile
Compensatory Conscientiousness Redux: A Direct Replication of Roberts, Smith, Jackson, and Edmonds (2009)
The present study attempted to closely replicate Roberts, Smith, Jackson, and Edmonds (2009) who found, in part, a compensatory effect such that individuals with spouses higher in conscientiousness reported higher self-rated health and fewer physical limitations in the Health and Retirement Study. Using similarly structured data from the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project ( N = 953), the current study found results largely consistent…
Social Networks, Role-Relationships, and Personality in Older Adulthood
Personality traits impact the strength of social network ties in older adulthood. However, traits may have minimal impact on network size. The consequences of personality also appear to be largely consistent across different social relationships
Sexuality in Older Couples: Individual and Dyadic Characteristics
The psychosocial sources of sexual interest in older couples
Sexual activity with one's partner is an important component of well-being and is linked to physical, emotional, and cognitive health. However, it is unclear why some older adults are more interested in sex and some less so. Their own characteristics, those of their partner, and characteristics of the relationship may all be important. We define sexual interest as consisting both of the motivation to seek sex with a partner and willingness to hav…
The Death of Confidants and Changes in Older Adults’ Social Lives
This study examines the consequences of confidant death for the social lives of older adults, testing hypotheses from socio-emotional selectivity theory and the hierarchical compensatory model. We draw upon longitudinal data from the National Social Life Health and Aging Project—a nationally representative survey of older adults ( N = 2,261). We employ ordinary least squares (OLS) and ordinal logistic regressions in the context of multiple imputa…
Takes Two to Tango: Cognitive Impairment and Sexual Activity in Older Individuals and Dyads
Sex with a partner, a fundamentally social activity, seems to be conserved in the face of cognitive limitation but masturbation, a solitary activity, does not. We argue that the intimate dyad plays an important role in conserving partnered sexual activity. Results can inform strategies to maintain the sexual well-being of older adults with cognitive impairment and their partners as part of overall strategies to improve quality of life
Social capital and HIV-serodiscordance: Disparities in access to personal and professional resources for HIV-positive and HIV-negative partners
As people living with HIV are living longer lives, they have a correspondingly greater opportunity to enjoy long-term romantic and sexual partnerships, including with persons who do not live with HIV ("serodiscordant" relationships). In these dyads, asymmetries may emerge in access to social resources between partners. In this paper we examined how serodiscordant couples access informal (interpersonal, such as family and friends) and formal (prac…
A national recruitment strategy for HIV-serodiscordant partners living in Canada for the Positive Plus One study: A mixed-methods study
Our findings provide important new information on and support the use of a multi-pronged approach to recruit HIV-positive and HIV-negative individuals involved in HIV-serodiscordant relationships in Canada. More creative strategies are needed to help index partners recruit their partner in relationships with lower satisfaction and shorter duration and further minimize the risk of "happy couple" bias
Disclosure of HIV-serodiscordant relationships and association with viral suppression: Results from the Positive Plus One study
BACKGROUND: Little is known about the effects of disclosure of HIV-serodiscordant relationships on clinical outcomes. We aimed to evaluate the effect of relationship disclosure on HIV viral suppression, and hypothesized that disclosure by HIV-positive and HIV-negative partners would be associated with viral suppression in the HIV-positive partner. METHODS: We conducted a Canadian national online and telephone-administered survey of HIV-positive a…
Linking the 1940 U.S. Census to the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project: Novel Opportunity to Understand the Effects of Early-Life Residential Environment on Cognitive Aging
Objectives The 1940 Census is a valuable resource for understanding various aspects of historical populations in the United States. Recently, the National Social Life, Health and Aging Project integrated 1940 Census data into its extensive data set, providing researchers with an opportunity to explore new avenues of life course investigation. We leverage the newly introduced measures of childhood residential environment and evaluate their potenti…
Addressing Cognitive Assessment Disparities Among Hispanic Adults: Adapting the MoCA-SA for Improved Accuracy and Accessibility Among Spanish Speakers
Objectives Hispanic adults display a higher likelihood of early-stage cognitive decline than their White counterparts yet receive fewer clinical diagnoses. This troubling trend highlights the significance of longitudinal surveys like the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP) in monitoring cognitive changes in aging Hispanics. Using NSHAP’s Rounds 2 and 3, we observed notable cognitive score differences between English and Spanis…
Race/Ethnicity and the Measurement of Cognition in the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project: Recommendations for Robustness
Objectives In this study, we examine the measurement of cognition in different racial/ethnic groups to move toward a less biased and more inclusive set of measures for capturing cognitive change and decline in older adulthood. Methods We use data from Round 2 (N = 3,377) and Round 3 (N = 4,777) of the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP) and examine the study’s Survey Adjusted version of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA-…
Collaborative governance in “community energy planning: Insights from an intersectoral governance network in Durham Region, Canada
Can We Measure and Analyze Structural Racism in the Study of Health
In this paper, we critique the concept of structural racism as a determinant of health, as it is operationalized in quantitative research. Our review is not a defense of the concept but a critical examination. From this review, we share several different areas for methodological innovations, including identifying macro‐micro‐macro linkages, and measuring the absence of structural racism, versus assuming it is uniformly present in all social envir…
Prediabetes Progression and Reversion: Social Factors and Racial/Ethnic Differences
Psychology (19 works) · Medicine (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Gerontology (11 works) · Developmental psychology (10 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (9 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Demography (7 works) · Personality (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works)