T Qu

Biographic Data

ID35568
NAMET Qu
GIVEN NAMEST
FAMILY NAMEQu
SIGNATUREQU T
AFFILIATIONSCornell University
ORCID0000-0002-5468-7376
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS4
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Enrollment and Compliance in an Ecological Momentary Assessment Study of Later Life

    Open AccessA R Roth, Jafnun Nudrat Jarin et al.ARTICLECAM2026

    This study addresses enrollment and compliance in ecological momentary assessment (EMA) research by focusing on a sample of older adults with varying levels of technological familiarity. This is noteworthy because contemporary EMA studies predominantly require participants to use smartphones to record data in real time. We employ a two-stage analysis where we estimate the probability of enrollment based on sociodemographic and research design att…

  • Later life social interactions in community spaces

    Open AccessM Fekete, T Qu et al.ARTICLESocial Forces2026

    Daily social interactions provide access to key social resources, yet little research has examined how these interactions vary across geographic space—particularly in later life. Using ecological momentary assessment data from a state-representative study of older adults in Indiana, we examine how interactions with different partners vary across a continuum of municipality population density. Further, we assess whether this variation is shaped by…

  • Social Connectedness of Older Adults During the Covid-19 Pandemic

    Open AccessB Cornwell, T Qu et al.ARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…2024Cited by: 1References: 4

    Objectives The coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has affected many aspects of social life, especially among older adults who may face cognitive impairments. Concerning this combination of circumstances, the study evaluates the degree to which data collection on social connectedness among older adults might be affected by the social complexities of the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods We use data from the National Social Life, Health and Agin…

  • A bridge too far? Social network structure as a determinant of depression in later life

    Open AccessT QuARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2024References: 55

  • I Love You to Death

    Open AccessB Cornwell, T QuARTICLEJournal of Health and Social…2024Cited by: 2References: 76

    Research on 'the widowhood effect' shows that mortality rates are greater among people who have recently lost a spouse. There are several medical and psychological explanations for this (e.g., 'broken heart syndrome') and sociological explanations that focus on spouses' shared social-environmental exposures. We expand on sociological perspectives by arguing that couples' social connections to others play a role in this phenomenon. Using panel dat…

  • Chronic illness and social network bridging in later life

    Open AccessT QuARTICLESocial Networks2023

  • Linked through the life course

    X Yan, T QuARTICLEChinese Sociological Review2022

    This study adopts a family life course perspective to explore the health implications of intrafamilial transmission of COVID-19, asking whether the positive diagnosis of specific core family members (i.e., spouse, parents, children) exacerbates COVID-19 patients' illness severity and whether this impact varies by patients' age or life-course stage. We draw on patient-level administrative data from the cities of Jinan and Shenzhen in China, where …

  • Tied Infections

    Open AccessX Yan, T Qu et al.ARTICLEAmerican Behavioral Scientist2021Cited by: 1References: 58

    Expanding on recent research on the transmission of COVID-19 via social networks, this article argues that exposure to familial and other close contacts who already have the disease may increase the severity of one's subsequent illness. We hypothesize that having family members or close contacts who were diagnosed with COVID-19 before one's own diagnosis exacerbates illness severity due to several potential mechanisms including changes in availab…