J A Burr
Biographic Data
| ID | 2695 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J A Burr |
| GIVEN NAMES | J A |
| FAMILY NAME | Burr |
| SIGNATURE | BURR J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Boston |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4908-0518 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 81 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 582 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 81 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 16 |
Sensory Difficulty, Social and Physical Activity, and Dementia Risk Among Older Adults
ObjectivesSensory loss is associated with increased dementia risk, yet the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. This longitudinal study examined the association between self-reported sensory difficulty (vision, hearing, dual), social and physical activity, and dementia risk among older U.S. adults.MethodsData were drawn from the 2015-2020 National Health and Aging Trends Study ( N = 6,295). Discrete-time survival mediation models with a structur…
Childhood and Adulthood Social Relationships and Trajectories of Cognitive Function Among Older Chinese Adults
ObjectivesThis study investigates whether early-life and mid-life social relationships with family and friends shape the heterogeneity of later-life cognitive trajectories and whether household registration status moderates the associations.MethodsThe study uses data from 2011-2018 China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study ( N = 12,564). Cognitive function is assessed with a Chinese version of Telephone Interview for Cognition Status . Child…
Cognitive function and friendship network characteristics among older couples
Objectives This study explores the dyadic relationship between cognitive function and friendship characteristics among older married couples framed within the “linked lives” dimension of the life course perspective. The study also explores whether the dyadic consequences of cognitive function for friendship networks vary by gender. Methods The study uses the data from the 2014/2016 Health and Retirement Study (N = 2,944 dyads). Cognitive function…
Helping behaviors and cognitive function in later life: The impact of dynamic role transitions and dose changes
The Association Between LGBT Older Adults' Social Network Size, Composition and Emotional Wellbeing: The Mediating Role of Perceived Social Support
Few studies have examined the relationship between both the structural and functional aspects of LGBT older adults' social networks and their emotional wellbeing. Using data from a national sample of LGBT Americans aged 50 years and older, structural equation models were estimated to examine the mediating role of perceived social support for the relationship between social network size and composition and depressive symptoms and loneliness. Model…
The relationship between LGBT older adults' social network structure and function
Social prejudice, family nonacceptance, and lack of marriage or adoption rights often restrict the formation of conventional social ties among LGBT older adults. As a result, they often rely on families of choice constituted by other LGBT/age peers for support. Using a series of regression analyses with a national sample of LGBT older Americans, this study investigated how characteristics of social network structure (size and composition - LGBT v…
Social Contact, Social Participation, and Emotional Well-Being Among Older Adults During the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Roles of Giving and Receiving Social Support
This study examined whether social contact, social participation, and social support during the COVID-19 pandemic were associated with depression and anxiety. Data were taken from the 2020 COVID-19 Supplement of the National Health and Aging Trends Study ( N = 2,778). Depression and anxiety were regressed on social contact frequency, social participation, and social support. Path analyses were also performed. The results showed that in-person con…
Childhood and Midlife Cultural Awareness and Activity Engagement Among Korean Married Couples
Cultural activities and awareness can be valuable assets to enhance overall well-being in later life. Given the cross-spousal associations in cultural engagement among Korean middle-aged couples, both spouses' cultural resources need to be considered for the design of interventions and policies to cultivate cultural competence and promote cultural engagement in adulthood
Internet Use and Loneliness Among Urban and Non-Urban Chinese Older Adults: The Roles of Family Support, Friend Support, and Social Participation
This study shed light on our understanding of the relationship between internet use and loneliness among older adults in the Chinese context. Also, these findings suggested that digital interventions for loneliness should pay special attention to the different characteristics of urban and non-urban dwelling older Chinese adults
The Online Intergenerational Tutoring Program: Older Adults Using Technology to Improve Children’s Early Literacy Skills
Intergenerational tutoring programs can leverage technology to address the instructional needs of students. This study describes a novel online intergenerational tutoring program designed to target kindergarten students' literacy skills. Older adult volunteers delivered evidence-based instructional strategies via Zoom. The study used a two-group, quasi-experimental design with students assigned to an intervention (n = 23) or waitlist control (n =…
I Don’t Know Who Gets More Out of It, the Children or Us Tutors: The Online Intergenerational Tutoring Program
The Online Intergenerational Tutoring Program addresses a service delivery gap in schools because older adult volunteers expand schools’ capacity to implement evidence-based instruction with students in need of individual support. Tutoring includes dialogic reading with digital books and Tutoring Buddy, a web-based program used to improve children’s letter sound fluency. Developed during the school closures resulting from COVID-19, the program us…
Hukou Status and Cognitive Function Among Older Chinese Adults: Does Support from Friends Matter
The findings suggested that agricultural hukou status reflects the effects of accumulated disadvantage across the life course with negative consequences for late-life cognition. The cognitive health disparities between agricultural and non-agricultural residents may be reduced in the context of a higher level of friend support, supporting a stress buffering hypothesis
Online engagement, resilience, and loneliness among older people during the Covid-19 pandemic
Friendship in Later Life: A Pathway Between Volunteering Hours and Depressive Symptoms
Our findings underscored the role of volunteering in generating and maintaining friendships, as well as for friendships as a pathway between volunteer hours and depressive symptoms. Providing opportunities to maintain and grow friendships in later life may be a possible intervention strategy for older adults at risk of depression
Adult children's achievements and ageing parents’ depressive symptoms in China
This study examined the association between adult children's achievements and ageing parents’ depressive symptoms in China. The research topic was examined within the contexts of one-child and multiple-children families in rural and urban China. Older adults (aged 60–113, N = 8,450; nested within 462 communities/villages) from the 2013 China Longitudinal Ageing Social Survey provided information about themselves and their adult children ( N = 22,…
Age and Cohort Trends in Formal Volunteering and Informal Helping in Later Life: Evidence From the Health and Retirement Study
Formal volunteering holds great importance for the recipients of volunteer services, individuals who volunteer, and the wider society. However, how much recent birth cohorts volunteer in middle and late adulthood compared with earlier birth cohorts is not well understood. Even less well-known are the age and cohort trends in informal helping provided to friends and neighbors in later adulthood. Using longitudinal data from the Health and Retireme…
Early Child–Parent Relationship Quality and Cognitive Function in Older Rural Chinese Adults: The Mediating Role of Educational Attainment
Objectives: Framed within a life course perspective and cognitive reserve theory, this study examined the mediating role of educational attainment for the association between child-parent relationships during childhood and cognitive function among older adults in rural China. Methods: Data were obtained from three waves of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study ( N = 9809). We employed latent growth curve modeling to test the associat…
Friendship and Cognitive Functioning Among Married and Widowed Chinese Older Adults
The results implied that friendship is important for maintaining cognitive functioning in later life and widowed older Chinese adults may benefit more from friendship in its relationship to cognitive functioning than married older Chinese adults. Further, one potential pathway linking friendship to cognitive functioning may be through depression; however, more research is needed to support this finding. Intervention programs aimed at building fri…
Depressive Symptoms Among Rural “Left-Behind” Older Adults: A Test of the High Outmigration Penalty Hypothesis
Rural outmigration may have deepened existing intercommunity health disparities among older adults. Policies should be developed to address community-level factors negatively associated with the well-being of older Chinese adults living in high outmigration and less wealthy rural communities
Psychological Pathways Linking Parent–Child Relationships to Objective and Subjective Sleep Among Older Adults
This study provided evidence for psychological pathways linking parent-child relationships and older parents' subjective sleep. The findings have implications for health professionals and family counselors who help people with sleep problems and relationship difficulties
Take a sad song and make it better: Spousal activity limitations, caregiving, and depressive symptoms among couples
Volunteering, polygenic risk for Alzheimer's disease, and cognitive functioning among older adults
Parent–Child Relationships and Aging Parents’ Sleep Quality: A Comparison of One-Child and Multiple-Children Families in China
Objectives: This study examined the associations between parent-child relationships and sleep difficulty among older parents in the context of Chinese multiple-children and one-child families. Methods: Using the 2014 China Longitudinal Aging Social Survey , this study analyzed older parents' ( N = 8,450) reports of sleep quality and relationships with each of children. Results: Results from multivariate logistic regression models showed that livi…
Adult Children’s Daily Experiences With Parental Advice: The Importance of Life Problems and Relationship Quality
Indeed, parental advice is not "the more the better," especially when the advice is unsolicited. This study highlights the importance of perceptions of family support for emerging adults' well-being
Longitudinal associations between parent-child relationship quality and insomnia for aging parents: The mediating role of depressive symptoms
Race and Ethnic Variation in Norms of Filial Responsibility among Older Persons
Race and ethnic diversity in attachment to the norms of intergenerational filial responsibility is examined in a sample of older persons drawn from the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH). The findings show that older Blacks and Hispanics are more likely than older non-Hispanic Whites to agree that each generation should provide coresidence assistance when needed. In terms of attitudes about exchanging financial aid, there tend to b…
Productive Activities And Subjective Well-Being Among Older Adults: The Influence Of Number Of Activities And Time Commitment
Productive aging and civic participation
From Paid Worker to Volunteer: Leaving the Paid Workforce and Volunteering in Later Life
Numerous role shifts occur between the ages of 55 and 74 as individuals typically relinquish paid work and some family roles and make choices about how to use their expanding discretionary time. Using data from the first two waves of the Americans' Changing Lives survey we examine the association between paid work status and formal and informal volunteer activity. No evidence for an association between paid work status and informal volunteering i…
Religious Homogeneity and Metropolitan Suicide Rates
Productive Activity Clusters Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults: Intersecting Forms and Time Commitments
This measurement strategy provides a foundation for future research into how experts can employ productive activity clusters to understand better well-being across the life course. This is important because our results show that many activities do not occur independently but rather are linked in patterned ways
Socioeconomic Status Across the Life Course and Cognitive Function Among Older Adults: An Examination of the Latency, Pathways, and Accumulation Hypotheses
Childhood SES and adult SES both had relationships with cognitive status and, to a lesser degree, change in cognition in later life
Caregiving and Volunteering: Are Private and Public Helping Behaviors Linked
Our results provide support for the hypothesis that caregivers are embedded in networks that provide them with more opportunities for volunteering. Additional research on the motivations for volunteering and greater attention to the context and hierarchy of caregiving and volunteering are needed
Racial Differences in Health and Health Care Service Utilization in Later Life: The Effect of Socioeconomic Status
In this paper we examine the hypothesis that health differences between Blacks and Whites in later life are related to socioeconomic status. Using the 1984 panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation, we construct four measures of health and two measures of health care service utilization. Multivariate analyses show that the racial differences are eliminated in some measures of health and health care service utilization after holding …
Infant mortality: A multi-level analysis of individual and community risk factors
Ethnic Living Arrangements: Cultural Convergence or Cultural Minifestation
Journal Article Ethnic Living Arrangements: Cultural Convergence or Cultural Minifestation? Get access Jeffrey A. Burr, Jeffrey A. Burr State University of New York at Buffalo Direct correspondence to Jeffrey A. Burr, 430 Park Hall, Department of Sociology, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jan E. Mutchler Jan E. Mutchler State University of New York at Buffalo Search for …
The living arrangements of unmarried elderly hispanic females
In this paper we examine the influence of cultural preferences on living arrangements for a sample of older unmarried Hispanic and non-Hispanic white females. We develop a conceptual framework composed of three sets of factors: availability of kin, economic and health feasibility, and cultural desirability. Our analyses show that household living arrangements among Hispanic and non-Hispanic females are more similar when we control for these three…
Black Suicide in U.S. Metropolitan Areas: An Examination of the Racial Inequality and Social Integration-Regulation Hypotheses
Journal Article Black Suicide in U.S. Metropolitan Areas: An Examination of the Racial Inequality and Social Integration-Regulation Hypotheses Get access Jeffrey A. Burr, Jeffrey A. Burr State University of New York at Buffalo Direct correspondence to Jeffrey A. Burr, Department of Sociology, 430 Park Hall, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford …
Pathways to Labor Force Exit: Work Transitions and Work Instability
The purpose of this study is to examine alternative pathways to labor force exit among older men. Based on the life course perspective, we distinguish between crisp exits from the labor force, which are characterized as being unidirectional, and blurred transition patterns, which include repeated exists, entrances, and unemployment spells. Using longitudinal data from the 1984 Survey of Income and Program Participation, we find that one-quarter o…
A longitudinal analysis of household and nonhousehold living arrangements in later life
Most explanatory models of living arrangements in later life link the decision process surrounding choice of living arrangement to personal resources such as income and health. Applications of these models, however, are based for the most part on crosssectional rather than longitudinal data. In this paper we examine living arrangements in later life among the nonmarried population aged 55 and over, using data from the Survey of Income and Program…
The demography of disability and the effects of immigrant history: Older Asians in the United States
Using data from the 2000 U.S. census, we compare the older Asian population with U.S.-born, non-Hispanic whites with respect to three indicators of disability. Insofar as any Asian “advantage” in health vis-à-vis whites exists among the population aged 65 and over, our evidence suggests that it occurs primarily among the U.S.-born segments of this population. We also investigate how differences in disability levels among Asian immigrant groups ar…
Work Transitions and Health in Later Life
Our results suggest that continued work may have limited appeal for men who are prepared for retirement, even when they are in excellent health
Stress-buffering effects of volunteering on salivary cortisol: Results from a daily diary study
English Language Skills, Ethnic Concentration, and Household Composition: Older Mexican Immigrants
The authors discuss the implications of their findings and point out possible avenues for further research
Female labor force participation and suicide
Revisiting the pathways to retirement: A latent structure model of the dynamics of transition from work to retirement
A dynamic latent structure model of the work–retirement transition process was identified, focusing on transitions of work and retirement status for men and women aged 51–74 years. Using the Health and Retirement Study data (1998–2004), latent transition analysis was used to identify a best fitting model capturing work–retirement statuses in four samples defined by age and sex. The prevalence of each status was described and the dynamic transitio…
Patterns of Residential Crowding among Hispanics in Later Life: Immigration, Assimilation, and Housing Market Factors
The forces that shape household composition and access to housing among older Hispanics appear to result in higher levels of residential crowding for this population
Racial Mix and Industrial Productivity
The relationship between the racial composition of the work force in an industrial category and that industry's level of productivity is explored. The logic of the major theories of labor-force behavior implies that a large minority labor-force presence will be negatively correlated with an industry's level of productivity because of the relatively weak attachment to the work force of such groups as blacks and women. After exploring information a…
Social Activities, Incident Cardiovascular Disease, and Mortality: Health Behaviors Mediation
Social activity is a modifiable behavior that may be considered a potential health intervention
Residential independence among older persons: Community and individual factors
Racial Mix and Industrial Productivity
The relationship between the racial composition of the work force in an industrial category and that industry's level of productivity is explored. The logic of the major theories of labor-force behavior implies that a large minority labor-force presence will be negatively correlated with an industry's level of productivity because of the relatively weak attachment to the work force of such groups as blacks and women. After exploring information a…
Sociodemographic and Marital Heterogamy Influences on the Decision for Voluntary Sterilization
Frank D. Bean, Dorie G. Williams, Wolfgang Opitz, Jeffrey A. Burr, Katherine Trent, Sociodemographic and Marital Heterogamy Influences on the Decision for Voluntary Sterilization, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 49, No. 2 (May, 1987), pp. 465-476
Racial Occupational Inequality, 1940-1980: A Research Note on the Impact of the Changing Regional Distribution of the Black Population
Aggregate occupational inequality between white and black men declined at the national level in each decade between 1940 and 1980. In the 1940s and 1950s, these reductions were produced by the movement of the black population out of the South and into other regions and did not reflect improvements in relative opportunities for blacks within regions. In the 1960s and 1970s, reductions in occupational inequality resulted primarily from improvements…
The retrospective construction of metropolitan areas for longitudinal analysis: An application to racial occupational inequality
Racial Occupational Inequality in Southern Metropolitan Areas, 1940--1980: Revisiting the Visibility-Discrimiration Hypothesis
Journal Article Racial Occupational Inequality in Southern Metropolitan Areas, 1940—1980: Revisiting the Visibility-Discrimiration Hypothesis Get access Jeffrey A. Burr, Jeffrey A. Burr State University of New York at Buffalo Direct correspondence to Jeffrey A. Burr, 430 Park Hall, Department of Sociology, SUNY-Buffalo, Amherst, NY 14260. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Omer R. Galle, Omer R. Galle The Uni…
A longitudinal analysis of household and nonhousehold living arrangements in later life
Most explanatory models of living arrangements in later life link the decision process surrounding choice of living arrangement to personal resources such as income and health. Applications of these models, however, are based for the most part on crosssectional rather than longitudinal data. In this paper we examine living arrangements in later life among the nonmarried population aged 55 and over, using data from the Survey of Income and Program…
Racial Occupational Inequality in Southern Metropolitan Areas, 1940-1980: Revisiting the Visibility-Discrimination Hypothesis
Jeffrey A. Burr, Omer R. Galle, Mark A. Fossett, Racial Occupational Inequality in Southern Metropolitan Areas, 1940-1980: Revisiting the Visibility-Discrimination Hypothesis, Social Forces, Vol. 69, No. 3 (Mar., 1991), pp. 831-850
Racial Differences in Health and Health Care Service Utilization in Later Life: The Effect of Socioeconomic Status
In this paper we examine the hypothesis that health differences between Blacks and Whites in later life are related to socioeconomic status. Using the 1984 panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation, we construct four measures of health and two measures of health care service utilization. Multivariate analyses show that the racial differences are eliminated in some measures of health and health care service utilization after holding …
The living arrangements of unmarried elderly hispanic females
In this paper we examine the influence of cultural preferences on living arrangements for a sample of older unmarried Hispanic and non-Hispanic white females. We develop a conceptual framework composed of three sets of factors: availability of kin, economic and health feasibility, and cultural desirability. Our analyses show that household living arrangements among Hispanic and non-Hispanic females are more similar when we control for these three…
Migration and metropolitan opportunity structures: A demographic response to racial inequality
Ethnic Living Arrangements: Cultural Convergence or Cultural Minifestation
Journal Article Ethnic Living Arrangements: Cultural Convergence or Cultural Minifestation? Get access Jeffrey A. Burr, Jeffrey A. Burr State University of New York at Buffalo Direct correspondence to Jeffrey A. Burr, 430 Park Hall, Department of Sociology, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jan E. Mutchler Jan E. Mutchler State University of New York at Buffalo Search for …
Rethinking measures of migration: On the decomposition of net migration
Metropolitan social structure, labor markets, and fertility
Ecos catulianos en los poemas de Prudencio
As predicted by the Deterioration model, the findings showed that chronic diseases and functional impairment are associated with older adults feeling older by challenging the psychological resource of sense of control. Appropriate interventions for dealing with health challenges and preserving sense of control may help prevent the adverse downstream effects of older subjective age
Racial opportunity structures and black fertility
Racial fertility differences: The role of female employment and education in wanted and unwanted childbearing
This paper employs data from a merged sample of the National Surveys of Family Growth to examine how female employment status conditions the relationship between education and wanted and unwanted births among African American and white women. A rationale is presented for why a minority group status hypothesis that posits lower fertility among more highly educated African American women as compared to similar white women might find support in the …
Labor Force Transitions among Older African American and White Men
Using a life-course/opportunity-cost framework, we study racial differences in labor force behavior among African American and white men aged 55 to 69. A multifaceted measure of labor force behavior is examined within a longitudinal framework. We perform the analyses with a merged sample of the 1984 and 1985 Survey of Income and Program Participation, and we find that the most stable status is not working, followed by full-time, part-time, and un…
Pathways to Labor Force Exit: Work Transitions and Work Instability
The purpose of this study is to examine alternative pathways to labor force exit among older men. Based on the life course perspective, we distinguish between crisp exits from the labor force, which are characterized as being unidirectional, and blurred transition patterns, which include repeated exists, entrances, and unemployment spells. Using longitudinal data from the 1984 Survey of Income and Program Participation, we find that one-quarter o…
Changes in geographic proximity between parents and their adult children
We examine how characteristics of both parents and their adult children condition the changes in intergenerational geographic proximity. Using panel data from the US National Survey of Families and Households, we employ multinomial logistic regression techniques to examine the impact of the joint effects of each generation's structural characteristics on the likelihood of changes in distance between the target persons. Our results show that an in…
Female labor force participation and suicide
Religious Homogeneity and Metropolitan Suicide Rates
Infant mortality: A multi-level analysis of individual and community risk factors
Work Transitions and Health in Later Life
Our results suggest that continued work may have limited appeal for men who are prepared for retirement, even when they are in excellent health
Black Suicide in U.S. Metropolitan Areas: An Examination of the Racial Inequality and Social Integration-Regulation Hypotheses
Journal Article Black Suicide in U.S. Metropolitan Areas: An Examination of the Racial Inequality and Social Integration-Regulation Hypotheses Get access Jeffrey A. Burr, Jeffrey A. Burr State University of New York at Buffalo Direct correspondence to Jeffrey A. Burr, Department of Sociology, 430 Park Hall, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford …
Race and Ethnic Variation in Norms of Filial Responsibility among Older Persons
Race and ethnic diversity in attachment to the norms of intergenerational filial responsibility is examined in a sample of older persons drawn from the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH). The findings show that older Blacks and Hispanics are more likely than older non-Hispanic Whites to agree that each generation should provide coresidence assistance when needed. In terms of attitudes about exchanging financial aid, there tend to b…
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