Frank M Ahern

Biographic Data

ID217211
NAMEFrank M Ahern
GIVEN NAMESFrank M
FAMILY NAMEAhern
SIGNATUREAHERN F M
AFFILIATIONSPennsylvania State University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS2
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1983
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2006
H-INDEX1

  • The Role of Medication Use and Health on the Decision to Quit Drinking Among Older Adults

    Open AccessKristine E Pringle, Debra A Heller et al.ARTICLEJournal of Aging and Health2006

    These findings support the hypothesis that elderly quit drinking in response to ill health. Results have implications for alcohol interventions in older adults and underscore the importance of separating former drinkers from lifetime abstainers in the study of alcohol-health relationships

  • Origins of Individual Differences in Episodic Memory in the Oldest-Old: A Population-Based Study of Identical and Same-Sex Fraternal Twins Aged 80 and Older

    B Johansson, K Whitfield et al.ARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…1999Cited by: 1References: 2

    The relative importance of genetic and environmental influences on episodic memory in very late life was studied using a quantitative genetic approach. Identical (n = 125) and same-sex fraternal (n = 157) twin pairs, aged 80 and older (mean age = 83.3; SD = 3.1) and without a diagnosis of dementia were tested with seven memory measures: (1-2) Digit Span Forward and Backwards, (3) Prose Recall, (4) Thurstone's picture memory test, and the Memory i…

  • Few smokers know their cigarettes have filter vents

    Lynn T Kozlowski, Erica Lynne White et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health1998References: 6

    Few smokers know their cigarettes have filter vents. L T Kozlowski, E L White, C T Sweeney, B A Yost, F M Ahern, and M E GoldbergCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.88.4.681-a Published Online: October 07, 2011

  • Smokers are unaware of the filter vents now on most cigarettes: Results of a national survey

    Lynn T Kozlowski, Margaret Goldberg et al.ARTICLETobacco Control1996

    Smokers are generally unaware of the presence and function of filter vents-a major design feature subject to behavioural blocking by smokers and now present on most cigarettes in the United States. Smokers and policy-makers need to be informed about the presence of filter vents and how vent blocking increases tar and nicotine yields from ostensibly very low-yield cigarettes

  • Assessment and Control of Nonresponse Bias in a Survey of Medicine Use by the Elderly

    KELLY M GROTZINGER, Bruce Stuart et al.ARTICLEMedical Care1994

    Health services research based on survey data is subject to potentially serious selection bias because observations are typically available only for survey respondents. This study describes a method of assessing and controlling for selection bias in the context of a survey of prescription and over-the-counter drug use by the elderly. A random sample of 6,500 Pennsylvania Medicare enrollees was sent a questionnaire regarding medicine use, insuranc…

  • Rurality and Prescription Drug Utilization among the Elderly: An Archival Study

    Open AccessDan Lago, Bruce Stuart et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Rural Health1993

    Despite documentation that rural elderly have reduced access to both primary care and specialist physician services, there have been very few studies comparing rural and urban patterns of prescription drug use. This is unfortunate, because prescription drugs are the most commonly used type of health care by the elderly. This research merged claims data for a random sample of 18,641 enrolled elderly in the Pennsylvania Pharmaceutical Assistance Co…

  • Cultural Factors as Explanations for Ethnic Group Differences in Alcohol Use in Hawaii

    Ronald C Johnson, Craig T Nagoshi et al.ARTICLEJournal of Psychoactive Drugs1987

    (1987). Cultural Factors as Explanations for Ethnic Group Differences in Alcohol Use in Hawaii. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs: Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 67-75

  • Galton's data a century later

    Ronald C Johnson, Gerald E Mcclearn et al.ARTICLEAmerican Psychologist1985

    A century ago, Francis Galton obtained data from thousands of individuals on a variety of sensory, psychomotor, and physical attributes. A sub- stantial portion of these data has remained unana- tyzed. In this article, we report on the reliability of the measures, developmental trends in mean scores, correlations of the measures with age, correlations among measures, occupational differences in scores, and sibling correlations. Test-retest correl…

  • Age and Group-Specific Cohort Effects on Personality Test Scores: A Study of Three Hawaiian Populations

    Open AccessRonald C Johnson, Frank M Ahern et al.ARTICLEJournal of Cross-Cultural…1985Cited by: 1References: 13

    There has been substantial social change in Hawaii in recent decades, with amount of change varying across ethnic groups and probably across sexes as well. If cohort effects have substantial influences on differences in personality test scores across age groups, then group-specific cohort effects should influence the magnitude of age correlations. We report correlations of personality test scores with age separately for members of three ethnic gr…

  • Family background, cognitive ability, and personality as predictors of educational and occupational attainment

    Ronald C Johnson, Craig T Nagoshi et al.ARTICLEBiodemography and Social Biology1983References: 12

    The addition of personality measures to measures of family background and of cognitive ability substantially increased prediction of the educational attainment of middle‐aged males and females. The addition of personality measures to measures of family background, cognitive ability, and own educational attainment substantially increased the prediction of the occupational attainment of middle‐aged males. Despite some differences, results generally…