Martha K Mcclintock
Biographic Data
| ID | 182066 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martha K Mcclintock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martha K |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcclintock |
| SIGNATURE | MCCLINTOCK M K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 148 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Sex Differences in Sexual Motivation Among U.S. Residents 57–85 Years of Age
Sexual motivation includes proceptivity (mental or physical pursuit of sexual gratification) and receptivity (openness to having sex initiated by someone else). The roles of these two components are not well understood in older adults past reproductive age. We quantify these components and their associations with sexual activity along with differences in sex, age, partner status, health, reproductive steroids and other demographic variables colle…
Prediabetes Progression and Reversion: Social Factors and Racial/Ethnic Differences
Transitioning an In-Person Survey of Older Adults to Multimode Data Collection
Objectives The first 3 rounds of the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP) were in-person. Preparing for Round Four (R4), NSHAP began developing ways to collect complex questionnaire and biomeasure data remotely. R4 was scheduled to begin in 2020, but due to the coronavirus pandemic, NSHAP delayed R4 data collection and instead conducted a study on respondents’ experiences during the pandemic, as well as pretests to strengthen N…
Can early caucus improve a community mediation model? Counteracting stressors prior to joint session
This investigation tests whether adding an early caucus (EC) before joint session is beneficial or detrimental to the mediation process. Parties and mediators were asked open‐ended questions about the use of EC to evaluate its benefits and costs. Party and mediator responses were overwhelmingly positive. In addition, there was no evidence of potential costs of EC, increasing mediator bias or impinging on time for joint session. Most responses sho…
Can Digital Communication Protect Against Depression for Older Adults With Hearing and Vision Impairment During Covid-19
Among communication modalities, video calling had a protective effect against depressive feelings for people with sensory impairment during social isolation. Improving access to and usability of video communication for older adults with sensory impairment could be a strategy to improve their mental health
Sexuality in Older Couples: Individual and Dyadic Characteristics
Sexual Motivation
The Utility and Dynamics of Salivary Sex Hormone Measurements in the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project, Wave 2
NSHAP Waves 1 and 2 are the first U.S. probability sample studies to measure these 4 salivary sex hormones simultaneously, providing individual profiles 5 years apart. Wave 2 data demonstrate differences by gender and trends by age that are similar to those found in other saliva-based and serum-based studies of free steroid levels. The differences between waves arising from the change in assay laboratory need to be adjusted in future longitudinal…
Sensory Function: Insights From Wave 2 of the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project
Sensory function declines across age groups, with notable gender differences for hearing and light touch. Further analysis of sensory measures from NSHAP Wave 2 may provide important information on how sensory declines are related to health, social function, quality of life, morbidity, and mortality in this nationally representative sample of older adults
Using and Interpreting Mental Health Measures in the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project
NSHAP's mental health measures were successfully integrated into the project's survey and showed acceptable external reliability as well as moderately stable individual characteristics across the 5 years between Waves 1 and 2. Depressive symptoms and unhappiness may form a mental health cluster in the elderly, distinct from anxiety symptoms, perceived stress, and felt loneliness. Gender differences in age-specific patterns of mental health were e…
Field Survey Measures of Olfaction: The Olfactory Function Field Exam (Offe)
Population-based field research on human olfaction has been limited by a lack of feasible assessment tools. Previous olfactory survey research has measured only odor identification, with no research being done on odor detection (i.e., a person's sensitivity to detect a particular odor). Laboratory studies suggest that deficits in both aspects of olfactory function may be related to physical health, mental health and cognition, social function, in…
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…
Social Isolation and Adult Mortality: The Role of Chronic Inflammation and Sex Differences
The health and survival benefits of social embeddedness have been widely documented across social species, but the underlying biophysiological mechanisms have not been elucidated in the general population. We assessed the process by which social isolation increases the risk for all-cause and chronic disease mortality through proinflammatory mechanisms. Using the 18-year mortality follow-up data ( n = 6,729) from the National Health and Nutrition …
Targeting Health Disparities: A Model Linking Upstream Determinants To Downstream Interventions
Certain social/environmental factors put some groups at extraordinary risk for adverse health outcomes, creating health disparities. We present a downward causal model, originating at the population level and ending at disease, with psychological and behavioral responses linking the two. This approach identifies how specific social environments "get under the skin" to cause disease, illustrated with the disparity in mortality from aggressive prem…
Reciprocal Affiliation Among Adolescent Rats During a Mild Group Stressor Predicts Mammary Tumors and Lifespan
OBJECTIVE: Although the detrimental physical health effects of social isolation have been known for three decades, the answers to how and why social relationships generally improve health remain elusive. Social relationships are not always beneficial, and we examined a structural dimension that may bring about their salubrious effects: affiliative reciprocity during a stressor. METHODS: In a lifespan study, female rats lived with their sisters an…
Mammary Cancer and Social Interactions: Identifying Multiple Environments That Regulate Gene Expression Throughout the Life Span
Now that the human genome has been sequenced, along with those of major animal models, there is an urgent need to define those environments that interact with genes. The traditional view focuses on ways that gene products interact with the nuclear environment to regulate cell function, causing the physiologic changes, behaviors, and diseases manifest throughout development and aging. Although this view is essential, it is equally essential to und…
Women's sexual experience during the menstrual cycle: Identification of the sexual phase by noninvasive measurement of luteinizing hormone
Imprecise measures of ovulation obscure the relationship between women's sexuality and the menstrual cycle, as does studying women with different contraceptive goals in different social contexts. Here we present a novel noninvasive method to precisely pinpoint the preovulatory surge of Luteinizing Hormone (LH), demarcating hormonally distinct cycle phases with greater than 95% reliability. Women were more sexually active on days prior to and incl…
Lonely traits and concomitant physiological processes: The MacArthur social neuroscience studies
The Magical Age of 10
Multilevel integrative analyses of human behavior: Social neuroscience and the complementing nature of social and biological approaches
Social and biological explanations traditionally have been cast as incompatible, but advances in recent years have revealed a new view synthesized from these 2 very different levels of analysis. The authors review evidence underscoring the complementing nature of social and biological levels of analysis and how the 2 together can foster understanding of the mechanisms underlying complex behavior and the mind. Specifically, they review the utility…
Whither Menstrual Synchrony
The initial report of menstrual synchrony indicated that social interactions among groups of women could regulate their ovarian cycles. The initial focus on menstrual synchrony was just the beginning of a discovery process, not all facets of the whole phenomenon. Menstrual synchrony was similar to an archeologist finding a fossilized tooth, which demonstrated the existence of a prehistoric creature. Menstrual synchrony could have turned out to be…
Rethinking Puberty: The Development of Sexual Attraction
tinct and significant studies have pointed to the age of 10 as the mean age of first sexual attrac tion?well before puberty, which is typically defined as the age when the capacity to procreate is attained (Timiras, 1972). These findings are at odds with previous
Estimating Oneʼs Own Systolic Blood Pressure: Effects of Feedback Training
This study was aimed at discovering the ability of subjects to estimate absolute levels of systolic blood pressure after feedback of daily blood pressure information. Twenty-one subjects were studied who had shown a variation of at least +/- 20 mm Hg in systolic pressure during 8 days of base-line measurements. Subjects' estimates were found to be moderately accurate even before any specific blood pressure information feedback was given (mean err…
Menstrual Synchrony and Suppression
The Magical Age of 10
Multilevel integrative analyses of human behavior: Social neuroscience and the complementing nature of social and biological approaches
Social and biological explanations traditionally have been cast as incompatible, but advances in recent years have revealed a new view synthesized from these 2 very different levels of analysis. The authors review evidence underscoring the complementing nature of social and biological levels of analysis and how the 2 together can foster understanding of the mechanisms underlying complex behavior and the mind. Specifically, they review the utility…
Using and Interpreting Mental Health Measures in the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project
NSHAP's mental health measures were successfully integrated into the project's survey and showed acceptable external reliability as well as moderately stable individual characteristics across the 5 years between Waves 1 and 2. Depressive symptoms and unhappiness may form a mental health cluster in the elderly, distinct from anxiety symptoms, perceived stress, and felt loneliness. Gender differences in age-specific patterns of mental health were e…
Women's sexual experience during the menstrual cycle: Identification of the sexual phase by noninvasive measurement of luteinizing hormone
Imprecise measures of ovulation obscure the relationship between women's sexuality and the menstrual cycle, as does studying women with different contraceptive goals in different social contexts. Here we present a novel noninvasive method to precisely pinpoint the preovulatory surge of Luteinizing Hormone (LH), demarcating hormonally distinct cycle phases with greater than 95% reliability. Women were more sexually active on days prior to and incl…
Social Isolation and Adult Mortality: The Role of Chronic Inflammation and Sex Differences
The health and survival benefits of social embeddedness have been widely documented across social species, but the underlying biophysiological mechanisms have not been elucidated in the general population. We assessed the process by which social isolation increases the risk for all-cause and chronic disease mortality through proinflammatory mechanisms. Using the 18-year mortality follow-up data ( n = 6,729) from the National Health and Nutrition …
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 Utility and Dynamics of Salivary Sex Hormone Measurements in the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project, Wave 2
NSHAP Waves 1 and 2 are the first U.S. probability sample studies to measure these 4 salivary sex hormones simultaneously, providing individual profiles 5 years apart. Wave 2 data demonstrate differences by gender and trends by age that are similar to those found in other saliva-based and serum-based studies of free steroid levels. The differences between waves arising from the change in assay laboratory need to be adjusted in future longitudinal…
Field Survey Measures of Olfaction: The Olfactory Function Field Exam (Offe)
Population-based field research on human olfaction has been limited by a lack of feasible assessment tools. Previous olfactory survey research has measured only odor identification, with no research being done on odor detection (i.e., a person's sensitivity to detect a particular odor). Laboratory studies suggest that deficits in both aspects of olfactory function may be related to physical health, mental health and cognition, social function, in…
Sensory Function: Insights From Wave 2 of the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project
Sensory function declines across age groups, with notable gender differences for hearing and light touch. Further analysis of sensory measures from NSHAP Wave 2 may provide important information on how sensory declines are related to health, social function, quality of life, morbidity, and mortality in this nationally representative sample of older adults
Transitioning an In-Person Survey of Older Adults to Multimode Data Collection
Objectives The first 3 rounds of the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP) were in-person. Preparing for Round Four (R4), NSHAP began developing ways to collect complex questionnaire and biomeasure data remotely. R4 was scheduled to begin in 2020, but due to the coronavirus pandemic, NSHAP delayed R4 data collection and instead conducted a study on respondents’ experiences during the pandemic, as well as pretests to strengthen N…
Can Digital Communication Protect Against Depression for Older Adults With Hearing and Vision Impairment During Covid-19
Among communication modalities, video calling had a protective effect against depressive feelings for people with sensory impairment during social isolation. Improving access to and usability of video communication for older adults with sensory impairment could be a strategy to improve their mental health
Whither Menstrual Synchrony
The initial report of menstrual synchrony indicated that social interactions among groups of women could regulate their ovarian cycles. The initial focus on menstrual synchrony was just the beginning of a discovery process, not all facets of the whole phenomenon. Menstrual synchrony was similar to an archeologist finding a fossilized tooth, which demonstrated the existence of a prehistoric creature. Menstrual synchrony could have turned out to be…
Menstrual Synchrony and Suppression
Estimating Oneʼs Own Systolic Blood Pressure: Effects of Feedback Training
This study was aimed at discovering the ability of subjects to estimate absolute levels of systolic blood pressure after feedback of daily blood pressure information. Twenty-one subjects were studied who had shown a variation of at least +/- 20 mm Hg in systolic pressure during 8 days of base-line measurements. Subjects' estimates were found to be moderately accurate even before any specific blood pressure information feedback was given (mean err…
Rethinking Puberty: The Development of Sexual Attraction
tinct and significant studies have pointed to the age of 10 as the mean age of first sexual attrac tion?well before puberty, which is typically defined as the age when the capacity to procreate is attained (Timiras, 1972). These findings are at odds with previous
Whither Menstrual Synchrony
The initial report of menstrual synchrony indicated that social interactions among groups of women could regulate their ovarian cycles. The initial focus on menstrual synchrony was just the beginning of a discovery process, not all facets of the whole phenomenon. Menstrual synchrony was similar to an archeologist finding a fossilized tooth, which demonstrated the existence of a prehistoric creature. Menstrual synchrony could have turned out to be…
Lonely traits and concomitant physiological processes: The MacArthur social neuroscience studies
The Magical Age of 10
Multilevel integrative analyses of human behavior: Social neuroscience and the complementing nature of social and biological approaches
Social and biological explanations traditionally have been cast as incompatible, but advances in recent years have revealed a new view synthesized from these 2 very different levels of analysis. The authors review evidence underscoring the complementing nature of social and biological levels of analysis and how the 2 together can foster understanding of the mechanisms underlying complex behavior and the mind. Specifically, they review the utility…
Women's sexual experience during the menstrual cycle: Identification of the sexual phase by noninvasive measurement of luteinizing hormone
Imprecise measures of ovulation obscure the relationship between women's sexuality and the menstrual cycle, as does studying women with different contraceptive goals in different social contexts. Here we present a novel noninvasive method to precisely pinpoint the preovulatory surge of Luteinizing Hormone (LH), demarcating hormonally distinct cycle phases with greater than 95% reliability. Women were more sexually active on days prior to and incl…
Mammary Cancer and Social Interactions: Identifying Multiple Environments That Regulate Gene Expression Throughout the Life Span
Now that the human genome has been sequenced, along with those of major animal models, there is an urgent need to define those environments that interact with genes. The traditional view focuses on ways that gene products interact with the nuclear environment to regulate cell function, causing the physiologic changes, behaviors, and diseases manifest throughout development and aging. Although this view is essential, it is equally essential to und…
Targeting Health Disparities: A Model Linking Upstream Determinants To Downstream Interventions
Certain social/environmental factors put some groups at extraordinary risk for adverse health outcomes, creating health disparities. We present a downward causal model, originating at the population level and ending at disease, with psychological and behavioral responses linking the two. This approach identifies how specific social environments "get under the skin" to cause disease, illustrated with the disparity in mortality from aggressive prem…
Reciprocal Affiliation Among Adolescent Rats During a Mild Group Stressor Predicts Mammary Tumors and Lifespan
OBJECTIVE: Although the detrimental physical health effects of social isolation have been known for three decades, the answers to how and why social relationships generally improve health remain elusive. Social relationships are not always beneficial, and we examined a structural dimension that may bring about their salubrious effects: affiliative reciprocity during a stressor. METHODS: In a lifespan study, female rats lived with their sisters an…
Social Isolation and Adult Mortality: The Role of Chronic Inflammation and Sex Differences
The health and survival benefits of social embeddedness have been widely documented across social species, but the underlying biophysiological mechanisms have not been elucidated in the general population. We assessed the process by which social isolation increases the risk for all-cause and chronic disease mortality through proinflammatory mechanisms. Using the 18-year mortality follow-up data ( n = 6,729) from the National Health and Nutrition …
The Utility and Dynamics of Salivary Sex Hormone Measurements in the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project, Wave 2
NSHAP Waves 1 and 2 are the first U.S. probability sample studies to measure these 4 salivary sex hormones simultaneously, providing individual profiles 5 years apart. Wave 2 data demonstrate differences by gender and trends by age that are similar to those found in other saliva-based and serum-based studies of free steroid levels. The differences between waves arising from the change in assay laboratory need to be adjusted in future longitudinal…
Sensory Function: Insights From Wave 2 of the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project
Sensory function declines across age groups, with notable gender differences for hearing and light touch. Further analysis of sensory measures from NSHAP Wave 2 may provide important information on how sensory declines are related to health, social function, quality of life, morbidity, and mortality in this nationally representative sample of older adults
Using and Interpreting Mental Health Measures in the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project
NSHAP's mental health measures were successfully integrated into the project's survey and showed acceptable external reliability as well as moderately stable individual characteristics across the 5 years between Waves 1 and 2. Depressive symptoms and unhappiness may form a mental health cluster in the elderly, distinct from anxiety symptoms, perceived stress, and felt loneliness. Gender differences in age-specific patterns of mental health were e…
Field Survey Measures of Olfaction: The Olfactory Function Field Exam (Offe)
Population-based field research on human olfaction has been limited by a lack of feasible assessment tools. Previous olfactory survey research has measured only odor identification, with no research being done on odor detection (i.e., a person's sensitivity to detect a particular odor). Laboratory studies suggest that deficits in both aspects of olfactory function may be related to physical health, mental health and cognition, social function, in…
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…
Sexual Motivation
Sexuality in Older Couples: Individual and Dyadic Characteristics
Can Digital Communication Protect Against Depression for Older Adults With Hearing and Vision Impairment During Covid-19
Among communication modalities, video calling had a protective effect against depressive feelings for people with sensory impairment during social isolation. Improving access to and usability of video communication for older adults with sensory impairment could be a strategy to improve their mental health
Can early caucus improve a community mediation model? Counteracting stressors prior to joint session
This investigation tests whether adding an early caucus (EC) before joint session is beneficial or detrimental to the mediation process. Parties and mediators were asked open‐ended questions about the use of EC to evaluate its benefits and costs. Party and mediator responses were overwhelmingly positive. In addition, there was no evidence of potential costs of EC, increasing mediator bias or impinging on time for joint session. Most responses sho…
Transitioning an In-Person Survey of Older Adults to Multimode Data Collection
Objectives The first 3 rounds of the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP) were in-person. Preparing for Round Four (R4), NSHAP began developing ways to collect complex questionnaire and biomeasure data remotely. R4 was scheduled to begin in 2020, but due to the coronavirus pandemic, NSHAP delayed R4 data collection and instead conducted a study on respondents’ experiences during the pandemic, as well as pretests to strengthen N…
Sex Differences in Sexual Motivation Among U.S. Residents 57–85 Years of Age
Sexual motivation includes proceptivity (mental or physical pursuit of sexual gratification) and receptivity (openness to having sex initiated by someone else). The roles of these two components are not well understood in older adults past reproductive age. We quantify these components and their associations with sexual activity along with differences in sex, age, partner status, health, reproductive steroids and other demographic variables colle…
Prediabetes Progression and Reversion: Social Factors and Racial/Ethnic Differences
Psychology (21 works) · Medicine (16 works) · Developmental psychology (10 works) · Internal Medicine (7 works) · Internal Medicine (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Hormone (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Demography (5 works)