Ursula M Staudinger
Biographic Data
| ID | 266998 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ursula M Staudinger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ursula M |
| FAMILY NAME | Staudinger |
| SIGNATURE | STAUDINGER U M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3833-4340 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 195 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Modifiable Resources and Resilience in Racially and Ethnically Diverse Older Women: Implications for Health Outcomes and Interventions
Introduction : Resilience-which we define as the "ability to bounce back from stress"-can foster successful aging among older, racially and ethnically diverse women. This study investigated the association between psychological resilience in the Women's Health Initiative Extension Study (WHI-ES) and three constructs defined by Staudinger's 2015 model of resilience and aging: (1) perceived stress, (2) non-psychological resources, and (3) psycholog…
Acute Effects of a Perturbation-Based Balance Training on Cognitive Performance in Healthy Older Adults: A Pilot Study
Aging is accompanied by an alteration in the capacity to ambulate, react to external balance perturbations, and resolve cognitive tasks. Perturbation-based balance training has been used to induce adaptations of gait stability and reduce fall risk. The compensatory reactions generated in response to external perturbations depend on the activation of specific neural structures. This suggests that training balance recovery reactions should show acu…
Sociohistorical Change in Urban Older Adults’ Perceived Speed of Time and Time Pressure
These findings document sociohistorical trends toward greater perceived time pressure and reduced heterogeneity in perceived speed of time among later-born urban adults. Conceptualizations of social acceleration should thus consider the whole adult life span
Healthy retirement begins at school: Educational differences in the health outcomes of early transitions into retirement
The literature on socio-economic variations in the association between retirement timing and health is inconclusive and largely limited to the moderating role of occupation. By selecting the sample case of Mexico where a sizeable number of older adults have no or very little formal education, this study allows the moderating role of education to be tested properly. Drawing on panel data for 2,430 individuals age 50 and over from the Mexican Healt…
Older adults’ integration in the labour market: A global view
What governs labour force participation in later life and why is it so different across countries? Health and labour force participation in older ages are not strongly linked, but we observe a large variation across countries in old-age labour force participation. This points to the important role of country-specific regulations governing pension receipt and old-age labour force participation. In addition to the statutory eligibility age for a pe…
The positive plasticity of adult development: Potential for the 21st century
We are living longer than ever before in human history. But longer lives are at the same time a gift and a challenge for individuals and society alike. Longer lives highlight an extraordinary feature of the human species and, that is, the capacity to intentionally or unintentionally positively modify their own development and aging. This positive plasticity of human development and aging is based on the fact that human aging is neither biological…
Neural processing of arousing emotional information is associated with executive functioning in older adults
Evidence suggests that reduced bottom-up processing due to aging-related brain deterioration needs to be considered when trying to understand how cognitive resources and processing arousing emotional information are associated in old age. Moreover, cognitive resources have been shown to decrease in older adults while high interindividual variability in cognitive functioning at higher ages is one of the hallmarks of cognitive aging research. It ha…
Productive activity patterns among 60–70-year-old retirees in Germany
The phase of retirement has been steadily growing since the 1950s. Rules and regulations related to retirement have been changing. Recent cohorts have reached this phase in better health than previous ones. Until recently, retirement has been rather void of societal expectations, leaving room for individual decisions regarding amount and type of activity. Thus, investigating activity patterns displayed during this life phase, their predictors and…
Alter und Altern: Ein Interdisziplinärer Studientext Zur Gerontologie
From Snapshots to Movies: The Association Between Retirement Sequences and Aging Trajectories in Limitations to Perform Activities of Daily Living
The conventional model in which people completely retire from a full-time job at normative ages and the widely promoted new conventional model of late retirement are both associated with better functioning than early labor force disengagement. But unconventional models, where older adults keep partially engaged with the labor force are also significantly associated with better functioning. These findings call attention to more research on potenti…
Trends and determinants of the Flynn effect in cognitive functioning among older individuals in 10 European countries
BACKGROUND: Although cognitive performance levels in old age have increased in most countries, recent evidence documents a slowing down or even decline in cohort gains in highly developed countries. The aim of this study was to assess trends and determinants in secular cohort gains in cognitive functioning among older individuals and whether cohort gains are levelling off in most advanced countries. METHODS: Data for individuals aged between 50 a…
Wisdom and Psychosocial Functioning in Later Life
We investigated the connection between wisdom‐related performance, personality, and generativity to further the understanding of how they are interrelated. Our sample consisted of 163 men and women 68–77 years of age, mostly White, and predominantly middle class. Wisdom was assessed with the performance‐based B erlin W isdom P aradigm, with the remaining measures being mostly self‐report. As hypothesized, on the zero‐order level, wisdom‐related p…
Baltes, Paul B (1939–2006)
Distract or reappraise? Age-related differences in emotion-regulation choice
Does aging impact strategy choice with regard to regulating negative emotions? Based on the assumption that older adults are highly motivated to quickly defuse negative states, we predicted that older adults, relative to young adults, would show an increased preference for distraction (a cognitive disengagement strategy) over reappraisal (a cognitive engagement strategy) in the face of negative material. A stronger preference for distraction, in …
Age differences in achievement goals and motivational characteristics of work in an ageing workforce
This study reviews theory and results from developmental psychology to examine age differences in workplace achievement goals. We investigated whether goal level decreases with age and, by comparing the relative strength of different goals within individuals, we examined whether dominant achievement goals are related to age. In a large sample of employees (N=747), older workers' higher affective commitment and intrinsic motivation compensated for…
Zooming in on Life Events: Is Hedonic Adaptation Sensitive to the Temporal Distance from the Event
Relationship Between Age and Promotion Orientation Depends on Perceived Older Worker Stereotypes
Results suggest that the negative relationship between age and promotion orientation depends on contextual factors such as POWS
Psychological Wisdom Research: Commonalities and Differences in a Growing Field
Wisdom represents a fruitful topic for psychological investigations for at least two reasons. First, the study of wisdom emphasizes the search for the continued optimization and the further cultural evolution of the human condition. Second, it exemplifies the collaboration of cognitive, emotional, and motivational processes. The growth and scope of psychological wisdom research over the past few decades demonstrate that it is possible to investig…
Interactive Minds – A Paradigm for the Study of the Social-Interactive Nature of Human Cognition and its Lifespan Development
After a brief review of historical and contemporary trends in the study of the social-interactive nature of cognition, a definition of the interactive minds paradigm is presented. Cognition is social-interactive in nature in at least three respects (a) its cultural evolution as well as its ontogeny, (b) its activation and application, and (c) its recognition. But is it true that two heads are better than one? An empirical interactive minds paradi…
Self-Evaluation Processes in Life Satisfaction: Uncovering Measurement Non-Equivalence and Age-Related Differences
The portrayal of older people in prime time television series: The match with gerontological evidence
Empirical studies in several disciplines including sociology, psychology and communications science have investigated images of older people in the mass media, but analyses to date have failed systematically to apply gerontological concepts and to compare the portrayal of old age with ‘real-world’ evidence. A model of older people's internal and external resources was used to assess the portrayal of older people in prime-time television drama ser…
Correlates of Wisdom‐Related Performance in Adolescence and Adulthood: Age‐Graded Differences in “Paths” Toward Desirable Development
Across time and cultures, wisdom has been nominated as the ideal endpoint of development. Evidence suggests that the beginnings of wisdom are observed in adolescence. But are the correlates of wisdom‐related performance in adolescence different from those in adulthood because of differences in developmental status? To answer this question, heterogeneous samples of German adolescents ( N =148, 14–20 years) and adults ( N =143, 35–75 years) respond…
Seeds of wisdom: Adolescents' knowledge and judgment about difficult life problems
The present study examined adolescents' wisdom-related knowledge and judgment with a heterogeneous sample of 146 adolescents (ages 14-20 years) and a comparison sample of 58 young adults (ages 21-37 years). Participants responded to difficult and ill-defined life dilemmas; expert raters evaluated these responses along 5 wisdom criteria. Our findings confirmed that in contrast to adulthood, adolescence is a major period for normative age-graded de…
Wisdom: A metaheuristic (pragmatic) to orchestrate mind and virtue toward excellence
Lifespan Psychology: Theory and Application to Intellectual Functioning
The focus of this review is on theory and research of lifespan (lifespan developmental) psychology. The theoretical analysis integrates evolutionary and ontogenetic perspectives on cultural and human development across several levels of analysis. Specific predictions are advanced dealing with the general architecture of lifespan ontogeny, including its directionality and age-differential allocation of developmental resources into the three major …
Wisdom: A metaheuristic (pragmatic) to orchestrate mind and virtue toward excellence
Seeds of wisdom: Adolescents' knowledge and judgment about difficult life problems
The present study examined adolescents' wisdom-related knowledge and judgment with a heterogeneous sample of 146 adolescents (ages 14-20 years) and a comparison sample of 58 young adults (ages 21-37 years). Participants responded to difficult and ill-defined life dilemmas; expert raters evaluated these responses along 5 wisdom criteria. Our findings confirmed that in contrast to adulthood, adolescence is a major period for normative age-graded de…
The portrayal of older people in prime time television series: The match with gerontological evidence
Empirical studies in several disciplines including sociology, psychology and communications science have investigated images of older people in the mass media, but analyses to date have failed systematically to apply gerontological concepts and to compare the portrayal of old age with ‘real-world’ evidence. A model of older people's internal and external resources was used to assess the portrayal of older people in prime-time television drama ser…
Perspectives on Socioemotional Selectivity in Late Life: How Personality and Social Context Do (and Do Not) Make a Difference
This research extends earlier cross-sectional findings suggesting that although social network sizes were smaller in very old age as compared to old age, the number of emotionally close relationships in the network did not distinguish age groups. In a representative sample of community dwelling and institutionalized adults, aged 70 to 104 years, we explored whether such indication of socioemotional selectivity was related to personality character…
Predictors of subjective physical health and global well-being: Similarities and differences between the United States and Germany
Author: Staudinger, Ursula M. et al.; Genre: Journal Article; Issued: 1999; Keywords: BASE; ; Title: Predictors of subjective physical health and global well-being similarities and differences between the United States and Germany
Interactive minds: A facilitative setting for wisdom-related performance
Correlates of Wisdom‐Related Performance in Adolescence and Adulthood: Age‐Graded Differences in “Paths” Toward Desirable Development
Across time and cultures, wisdom has been nominated as the ideal endpoint of development. Evidence suggests that the beginnings of wisdom are observed in adolescence. But are the correlates of wisdom‐related performance in adolescence different from those in adulthood because of differences in developmental status? To answer this question, heterogeneous samples of German adolescents ( N =148, 14–20 years) and adults ( N =143, 35–75 years) respond…
Relationship Between Age and Promotion Orientation Depends on Perceived Older Worker Stereotypes
Results suggest that the negative relationship between age and promotion orientation depends on contextual factors such as POWS
From Snapshots to Movies: The Association Between Retirement Sequences and Aging Trajectories in Limitations to Perform Activities of Daily Living
The conventional model in which people completely retire from a full-time job at normative ages and the widely promoted new conventional model of late retirement are both associated with better functioning than early labor force disengagement. But unconventional models, where older adults keep partially engaged with the labor force are also significantly associated with better functioning. These findings call attention to more research on potenti…
Zooming in on Life Events: Is Hedonic Adaptation Sensitive to the Temporal Distance from the Event
The Aging of Intelligence: Potential and Limits
The aging of intelligence features a paradox including both growth and decline in performance, as well as latent potential and aging-related limits to further growth. Two resolutions to the paradox are offered. First, because of the dual-process nature of intelligence—fluid mechanics versus crystallized pragmatics—there is the possibility of differing life-span trajectories characterized by a decline in the mechanics and select growth in the prag…
Healthy retirement begins at school: Educational differences in the health outcomes of early transitions into retirement
The literature on socio-economic variations in the association between retirement timing and health is inconclusive and largely limited to the moderating role of occupation. By selecting the sample case of Mexico where a sizeable number of older adults have no or very little formal education, this study allows the moderating role of education to be tested properly. Drawing on panel data for 2,430 individuals age 50 and over from the Mexican Healt…
Older adults’ integration in the labour market: A global view
What governs labour force participation in later life and why is it so different across countries? Health and labour force participation in older ages are not strongly linked, but we observe a large variation across countries in old-age labour force participation. This points to the important role of country-specific regulations governing pension receipt and old-age labour force participation. In addition to the statutory eligibility age for a pe…
The positive plasticity of adult development: Potential for the 21st century
We are living longer than ever before in human history. But longer lives are at the same time a gift and a challenge for individuals and society alike. Longer lives highlight an extraordinary feature of the human species and, that is, the capacity to intentionally or unintentionally positively modify their own development and aging. This positive plasticity of human development and aging is based on the fact that human aging is neither biological…
Trends and determinants of the Flynn effect in cognitive functioning among older individuals in 10 European countries
BACKGROUND: Although cognitive performance levels in old age have increased in most countries, recent evidence documents a slowing down or even decline in cohort gains in highly developed countries. The aim of this study was to assess trends and determinants in secular cohort gains in cognitive functioning among older individuals and whether cohort gains are levelling off in most advanced countries. METHODS: Data for individuals aged between 50 a…
Self-Evaluation Processes in Life Satisfaction: Uncovering Measurement Non-Equivalence and Age-Related Differences
Productive activity patterns among 60–70-year-old retirees in Germany
The phase of retirement has been steadily growing since the 1950s. Rules and regulations related to retirement have been changing. Recent cohorts have reached this phase in better health than previous ones. Until recently, retirement has been rather void of societal expectations, leaving room for individual decisions regarding amount and type of activity. Thus, investigating activity patterns displayed during this life phase, their predictors and…
The Aging of Intelligence: Potential and Limits
The aging of intelligence features a paradox including both growth and decline in performance, as well as latent potential and aging-related limits to further growth. Two resolutions to the paradox are offered. First, because of the dual-process nature of intelligence—fluid mechanics versus crystallized pragmatics—there is the possibility of differing life-span trajectories characterized by a decline in the mechanics and select growth in the prag…
Lebenserfahrung und Lebenssinn
Interactive minds: A facilitative setting for wisdom-related performance
Cultural Psychology and the Art of Life: Some Thoughts on the Work of Ernst E. Boesch
The goal of this commentary is to explore what Ernst Boesch's thinking has to offer to succeeding generations of psychologists and to ask where current psychological theory building suggests potentially fruitful complementation. To reach these two goals first some of the central features of Boesch's approach to psychology are highlighted. Second, research examples from current psychological research are presented which can be related to Boesch's …
Perspectives on Socioemotional Selectivity in Late Life: How Personality and Social Context Do (and Do Not) Make a Difference
This research extends earlier cross-sectional findings suggesting that although social network sizes were smaller in very old age as compared to old age, the number of emotionally close relationships in the network did not distinguish age groups. In a representative sample of community dwelling and institutionalized adults, aged 70 to 104 years, we explored whether such indication of socioemotional selectivity was related to personality character…
Lifespan Psychology: Theory and Application to Intellectual Functioning
The focus of this review is on theory and research of lifespan (lifespan developmental) psychology. The theoretical analysis integrates evolutionary and ontogenetic perspectives on cultural and human development across several levels of analysis. Specific predictions are advanced dealing with the general architecture of lifespan ontogeny, including its directionality and age-differential allocation of developmental resources into the three major …
Predictors of subjective physical health and global well-being: Similarities and differences between the United States and Germany
Author: Staudinger, Ursula M. et al.; Genre: Journal Article; Issued: 1999; Keywords: BASE; ; Title: Predictors of subjective physical health and global well-being similarities and differences between the United States and Germany
Wisdom: A metaheuristic (pragmatic) to orchestrate mind and virtue toward excellence
Seeds of wisdom: Adolescents' knowledge and judgment about difficult life problems
The present study examined adolescents' wisdom-related knowledge and judgment with a heterogeneous sample of 146 adolescents (ages 14-20 years) and a comparison sample of 58 young adults (ages 21-37 years). Participants responded to difficult and ill-defined life dilemmas; expert raters evaluated these responses along 5 wisdom criteria. Our findings confirmed that in contrast to adulthood, adolescence is a major period for normative age-graded de…
Correlates of Wisdom‐Related Performance in Adolescence and Adulthood: Age‐Graded Differences in “Paths” Toward Desirable Development
Across time and cultures, wisdom has been nominated as the ideal endpoint of development. Evidence suggests that the beginnings of wisdom are observed in adolescence. But are the correlates of wisdom‐related performance in adolescence different from those in adulthood because of differences in developmental status? To answer this question, heterogeneous samples of German adolescents ( N =148, 14–20 years) and adults ( N =143, 35–75 years) respond…
The portrayal of older people in prime time television series: The match with gerontological evidence
Empirical studies in several disciplines including sociology, psychology and communications science have investigated images of older people in the mass media, but analyses to date have failed systematically to apply gerontological concepts and to compare the portrayal of old age with ‘real-world’ evidence. A model of older people's internal and external resources was used to assess the portrayal of older people in prime-time television drama ser…
Interactive Minds – A Paradigm for the Study of the Social-Interactive Nature of Human Cognition and its Lifespan Development
After a brief review of historical and contemporary trends in the study of the social-interactive nature of cognition, a definition of the interactive minds paradigm is presented. Cognition is social-interactive in nature in at least three respects (a) its cultural evolution as well as its ontogeny, (b) its activation and application, and (c) its recognition. But is it true that two heads are better than one? An empirical interactive minds paradi…
Self-Evaluation Processes in Life Satisfaction: Uncovering Measurement Non-Equivalence and Age-Related Differences
Psychological Wisdom Research: Commonalities and Differences in a Growing Field
Wisdom represents a fruitful topic for psychological investigations for at least two reasons. First, the study of wisdom emphasizes the search for the continued optimization and the further cultural evolution of the human condition. Second, it exemplifies the collaboration of cognitive, emotional, and motivational processes. The growth and scope of psychological wisdom research over the past few decades demonstrate that it is possible to investig…
Relationship Between Age and Promotion Orientation Depends on Perceived Older Worker Stereotypes
Results suggest that the negative relationship between age and promotion orientation depends on contextual factors such as POWS
Zooming in on Life Events: Is Hedonic Adaptation Sensitive to the Temporal Distance from the Event
Baltes, Paul B (1939–2006)
Distract or reappraise? Age-related differences in emotion-regulation choice
Does aging impact strategy choice with regard to regulating negative emotions? Based on the assumption that older adults are highly motivated to quickly defuse negative states, we predicted that older adults, relative to young adults, would show an increased preference for distraction (a cognitive disengagement strategy) over reappraisal (a cognitive engagement strategy) in the face of negative material. A stronger preference for distraction, in …
Age differences in achievement goals and motivational characteristics of work in an ageing workforce
This study reviews theory and results from developmental psychology to examine age differences in workplace achievement goals. We investigated whether goal level decreases with age and, by comparing the relative strength of different goals within individuals, we examined whether dominant achievement goals are related to age. In a large sample of employees (N=747), older workers' higher affective commitment and intrinsic motivation compensated for…
Wisdom and Psychosocial Functioning in Later Life
We investigated the connection between wisdom‐related performance, personality, and generativity to further the understanding of how they are interrelated. Our sample consisted of 163 men and women 68–77 years of age, mostly White, and predominantly middle class. Wisdom was assessed with the performance‐based B erlin W isdom P aradigm, with the remaining measures being mostly self‐report. As hypothesized, on the zero‐order level, wisdom‐related p…
Alter und Altern: Ein Interdisziplinärer Studientext Zur Gerontologie
From Snapshots to Movies: The Association Between Retirement Sequences and Aging Trajectories in Limitations to Perform Activities of Daily Living
The conventional model in which people completely retire from a full-time job at normative ages and the widely promoted new conventional model of late retirement are both associated with better functioning than early labor force disengagement. But unconventional models, where older adults keep partially engaged with the labor force are also significantly associated with better functioning. These findings call attention to more research on potenti…
Trends and determinants of the Flynn effect in cognitive functioning among older individuals in 10 European countries
BACKGROUND: Although cognitive performance levels in old age have increased in most countries, recent evidence documents a slowing down or even decline in cohort gains in highly developed countries. The aim of this study was to assess trends and determinants in secular cohort gains in cognitive functioning among older individuals and whether cohort gains are levelling off in most advanced countries. METHODS: Data for individuals aged between 50 a…
Neural processing of arousing emotional information is associated with executive functioning in older adults
Evidence suggests that reduced bottom-up processing due to aging-related brain deterioration needs to be considered when trying to understand how cognitive resources and processing arousing emotional information are associated in old age. Moreover, cognitive resources have been shown to decrease in older adults while high interindividual variability in cognitive functioning at higher ages is one of the hallmarks of cognitive aging research. It ha…
Productive activity patterns among 60–70-year-old retirees in Germany
The phase of retirement has been steadily growing since the 1950s. Rules and regulations related to retirement have been changing. Recent cohorts have reached this phase in better health than previous ones. Until recently, retirement has been rather void of societal expectations, leaving room for individual decisions regarding amount and type of activity. Thus, investigating activity patterns displayed during this life phase, their predictors and…
Psychology (28 works) · Aging and Gerontology Research (20 works) · Developmental psychology (15 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Medicine (12 works) · Gerontology (11 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Cognition (10 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (9 works) · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (9 works)