Amy Horowitz
Biographic Data
| ID | 3789878 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amy Horowitz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amy |
| FAMILY NAME | Horowitz |
| SIGNATURE | HOROWITZ A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lighthouse Guild |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8696-0760 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 87 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Bernice Johnson Reagon (1942-2024)
Quentin Crisp wrote: “An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing” (Crisp [1968] 1997:189). Bernice Johnson Reagon, who entered her earthly journey on October 4, 1942, and transitioned to Ancestor-Spirit on July 16, 2024, makes manifest her own existential trajectory, voicing her coming into and remaining in this world. This meta-perspective on her next “installment” is not finality; it is an ongoing presence,…
Dan Ben-Amos (1934-2023)
Dan Ben-Amos of blessed memory, folklorist, teacher, and dear friend, passed away on March 26, 2023. He is survived by his wife, Batsheva Ben-Amos, his children, and grandchildren. He is remembered as a daring and rigorous scholar, a generous teacher and mentor, a brilliant storyteller, an engaged colleague, and a twinkle-eyed trickster known for his wry humor.As we write this memorial testimony, we hear Dan's voice engaging us in dialogue and re…
Bernice Johnson Reagon-In Celebration of Her Eightieth Birthday (October 4, 1942): A Preliminary Inquiry and Invitation to New Generations of Activist Scholars for Further Research
Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon is a groundbreaking contributor to the field of folklore studies. Reagon's career as a historian, folklorist, ethnomusicologist, founding participant in the Association of African and African American Folklorists, and founder and director of the Smithsonian Institution's Program in Black Culture provides a body of scholarly perspectives and interpretations for folklore studies that encompasses community-based renditions…
Developmental regulation with progressive vision loss: Use of control strategies and affective well-being
The present study addresses older adults' developmental regulation when faced with progressive and irreversible vision loss. We used the motivational theory of life span development as a conceptual framework and examined changes in older adults' striving for control over everyday goal achievement, and their association with affective well-being, in a sample of 364 older adults diagnosed with age-related macular degeneration. Using longitudinal da…
Change in Psychological Control in Visually Impaired Older Adults Over 2 Years: Role of Functional Ability and Depressed Mood
IADL plays an important role triggering a shift in adaptational strategies from selective control to CPC in visually impaired older adults and possibly other disabled populations
Mediterranean Israeli Music and the Politics of the Aesthetic
This title examines a pan-ethnic style of music created by North African and Middle Eastern Israeli musicians in the late twentieth century. The relocation of North African and Middle Eastern Jews to Israel in the 1950s and 1960s brought together communities from Egypt, Iraq, Kurdistan, Yemen, and many other Islamic countries, as well as their unique music styles. In the unstable, improvisatory spaces of transit camps, development towns, and poor…
Tackling Vision-Related Disability in Old Age: An Application of the Life-Span Theory of Control to Narrative Data
This study used the life-span theory of control (Heckhausen, J., & Schulz, R.) to examine adaptation to disability in old age. A narrative approach to data collection was used to assess the strategies employed by 364 older adults with macular degeneration to deal with daily challenges. Findings revealed a rich array of strategies. Compensatory Primary Control was reported by nearly all respondents, Compensatory Secondary Control by a majority, an…
Perceived Overprotection: Support Gone Bad
Findings indicate that support providers of older adults with visual impairment as well as vision rehabilitation service providers need to be aware of the detrimental impact of perceived overprotection
The Impact of Assistive Device Use on Disability and Depression Among Older Adults With Age-Related Vision Impairments
We propose that these differential effects result from the fact that optical devices optimize residual vision and thus allow for greater continuity in the way tasks are accomplished (i.e., reading still performed visually), whereas use of adaptive aids (e.g., talking books) involves learning new methods in order to compensate for lost functions and thus is not as desirable either functionally or psychologically
Good to have but not to use: Differential impact of perceived and received support on well-being
Research documents a positive association between perceived support availability and well-being in later life. Other work shows that actually receiving support can have negative effects. Instrumental support receipt may be negative for persons with chronic impairment as it may emphasize their inability to accomplish daily tasks. This study contrasted the impact of perceived and received affective and instrumental support on adaptation to chronic …
Dueling Nativities: Zehava Ben Sings Umm Kulthum
Stability and Change in Social Negativity in Later Life: Reducing Received While Maintaining Initiated Negativity
The differential pattern of stability and change over time in received versus initiated social negativity and their links to instrumental support suggest different origins for the initiation versus receipt of social negativity
Israeli Mediterranean Music: Straddling Disputed Territories
Israeli Mediterranean music is a contemporary hybrid music genre created by Mizrahim-African and Asian Israeli Jews with roots in Islamic countries. Israeli Mediterranean music integrates the disparate musical styles that flourished in the new state. The music made its retail debut in cassette form amidst vegetables and household appliances in Tel Aviv's outdoor marketplaces. Initially rejected by the Eurocentric Israeli music industry because it…
Crossroads: Southern Routes. Music of the American South
Good to have but not to use: Differential impact of perceived and received support on well-being
Research documents a positive association between perceived support availability and well-being in later life. Other work shows that actually receiving support can have negative effects. Instrumental support receipt may be negative for persons with chronic impairment as it may emphasize their inability to accomplish daily tasks. This study contrasted the impact of perceived and received affective and instrumental support on adaptation to chronic …
Israeli Mediterranean Music: Straddling Disputed Territories
Israeli Mediterranean music is a contemporary hybrid music genre created by Mizrahim-African and Asian Israeli Jews with roots in Islamic countries. Israeli Mediterranean music integrates the disparate musical styles that flourished in the new state. The music made its retail debut in cassette form amidst vegetables and household appliances in Tel Aviv's outdoor marketplaces. Initially rejected by the Eurocentric Israeli music industry because it…
Perceived Overprotection: Support Gone Bad
Findings indicate that support providers of older adults with visual impairment as well as vision rehabilitation service providers need to be aware of the detrimental impact of perceived overprotection
Stability and Change in Social Negativity in Later Life: Reducing Received While Maintaining Initiated Negativity
The differential pattern of stability and change over time in received versus initiated social negativity and their links to instrumental support suggest different origins for the initiation versus receipt of social negativity
Bernice Johnson Reagon-In Celebration of Her Eightieth Birthday (October 4, 1942): A Preliminary Inquiry and Invitation to New Generations of Activist Scholars for Further Research
Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon is a groundbreaking contributor to the field of folklore studies. Reagon's career as a historian, folklorist, ethnomusicologist, founding participant in the Association of African and African American Folklorists, and founder and director of the Smithsonian Institution's Program in Black Culture provides a body of scholarly perspectives and interpretations for folklore studies that encompasses community-based renditions…
Dan Ben-Amos (1934-2023)
Dan Ben-Amos of blessed memory, folklorist, teacher, and dear friend, passed away on March 26, 2023. He is survived by his wife, Batsheva Ben-Amos, his children, and grandchildren. He is remembered as a daring and rigorous scholar, a generous teacher and mentor, a brilliant storyteller, an engaged colleague, and a twinkle-eyed trickster known for his wry humor.As we write this memorial testimony, we hear Dan's voice engaging us in dialogue and re…
Developmental regulation with progressive vision loss: Use of control strategies and affective well-being
The present study addresses older adults' developmental regulation when faced with progressive and irreversible vision loss. We used the motivational theory of life span development as a conceptual framework and examined changes in older adults' striving for control over everyday goal achievement, and their association with affective well-being, in a sample of 364 older adults diagnosed with age-related macular degeneration. Using longitudinal da…
Bernice Johnson Reagon (1942-2024)
Quentin Crisp wrote: “An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing” (Crisp [1968] 1997:189). Bernice Johnson Reagon, who entered her earthly journey on October 4, 1942, and transitioned to Ancestor-Spirit on July 16, 2024, makes manifest her own existential trajectory, voicing her coming into and remaining in this world. This meta-perspective on her next “installment” is not finality; it is an ongoing presence,…
Tackling Vision-Related Disability in Old Age: An Application of the Life-Span Theory of Control to Narrative Data
This study used the life-span theory of control (Heckhausen, J., & Schulz, R.) to examine adaptation to disability in old age. A narrative approach to data collection was used to assess the strategies employed by 364 older adults with macular degeneration to deal with daily challenges. Findings revealed a rich array of strategies. Compensatory Primary Control was reported by nearly all respondents, Compensatory Secondary Control by a majority, an…
The Impact of Assistive Device Use on Disability and Depression Among Older Adults With Age-Related Vision Impairments
We propose that these differential effects result from the fact that optical devices optimize residual vision and thus allow for greater continuity in the way tasks are accomplished (i.e., reading still performed visually), whereas use of adaptive aids (e.g., talking books) involves learning new methods in order to compensate for lost functions and thus is not as desirable either functionally or psychologically
Crossroads: Southern Routes. Music of the American South
Israeli Mediterranean Music: Straddling Disputed Territories
Israeli Mediterranean music is a contemporary hybrid music genre created by Mizrahim-African and Asian Israeli Jews with roots in Islamic countries. Israeli Mediterranean music integrates the disparate musical styles that flourished in the new state. The music made its retail debut in cassette form amidst vegetables and household appliances in Tel Aviv's outdoor marketplaces. Initially rejected by the Eurocentric Israeli music industry because it…
Stability and Change in Social Negativity in Later Life: Reducing Received While Maintaining Initiated Negativity
The differential pattern of stability and change over time in received versus initiated social negativity and their links to instrumental support suggest different origins for the initiation versus receipt of social negativity
Dueling Nativities: Zehava Ben Sings Umm Kulthum
Perceived Overprotection: Support Gone Bad
Findings indicate that support providers of older adults with visual impairment as well as vision rehabilitation service providers need to be aware of the detrimental impact of perceived overprotection
The Impact of Assistive Device Use on Disability and Depression Among Older Adults With Age-Related Vision Impairments
We propose that these differential effects result from the fact that optical devices optimize residual vision and thus allow for greater continuity in the way tasks are accomplished (i.e., reading still performed visually), whereas use of adaptive aids (e.g., talking books) involves learning new methods in order to compensate for lost functions and thus is not as desirable either functionally or psychologically
Good to have but not to use: Differential impact of perceived and received support on well-being
Research documents a positive association between perceived support availability and well-being in later life. Other work shows that actually receiving support can have negative effects. Instrumental support receipt may be negative for persons with chronic impairment as it may emphasize their inability to accomplish daily tasks. This study contrasted the impact of perceived and received affective and instrumental support on adaptation to chronic …
Tackling Vision-Related Disability in Old Age: An Application of the Life-Span Theory of Control to Narrative Data
This study used the life-span theory of control (Heckhausen, J., & Schulz, R.) to examine adaptation to disability in old age. A narrative approach to data collection was used to assess the strategies employed by 364 older adults with macular degeneration to deal with daily challenges. Findings revealed a rich array of strategies. Compensatory Primary Control was reported by nearly all respondents, Compensatory Secondary Control by a majority, an…
Mediterranean Israeli Music and the Politics of the Aesthetic
This title examines a pan-ethnic style of music created by North African and Middle Eastern Israeli musicians in the late twentieth century. The relocation of North African and Middle Eastern Jews to Israel in the 1950s and 1960s brought together communities from Egypt, Iraq, Kurdistan, Yemen, and many other Islamic countries, as well as their unique music styles. In the unstable, improvisatory spaces of transit camps, development towns, and poor…
Change in Psychological Control in Visually Impaired Older Adults Over 2 Years: Role of Functional Ability and Depressed Mood
IADL plays an important role triggering a shift in adaptational strategies from selective control to CPC in visually impaired older adults and possibly other disabled populations
Developmental regulation with progressive vision loss: Use of control strategies and affective well-being
The present study addresses older adults' developmental regulation when faced with progressive and irreversible vision loss. We used the motivational theory of life span development as a conceptual framework and examined changes in older adults' striving for control over everyday goal achievement, and their association with affective well-being, in a sample of 364 older adults diagnosed with age-related macular degeneration. Using longitudinal da…
Bernice Johnson Reagon-In Celebration of Her Eightieth Birthday (October 4, 1942): A Preliminary Inquiry and Invitation to New Generations of Activist Scholars for Further Research
Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon is a groundbreaking contributor to the field of folklore studies. Reagon's career as a historian, folklorist, ethnomusicologist, founding participant in the Association of African and African American Folklorists, and founder and director of the Smithsonian Institution's Program in Black Culture provides a body of scholarly perspectives and interpretations for folklore studies that encompasses community-based renditions…
Dan Ben-Amos (1934-2023)
Dan Ben-Amos of blessed memory, folklorist, teacher, and dear friend, passed away on March 26, 2023. He is survived by his wife, Batsheva Ben-Amos, his children, and grandchildren. He is remembered as a daring and rigorous scholar, a generous teacher and mentor, a brilliant storyteller, an engaged colleague, and a twinkle-eyed trickster known for his wry humor.As we write this memorial testimony, we hear Dan's voice engaging us in dialogue and re…
Bernice Johnson Reagon (1942-2024)
Quentin Crisp wrote: “An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing” (Crisp [1968] 1997:189). Bernice Johnson Reagon, who entered her earthly journey on October 4, 1942, and transitioned to Ancestor-Spirit on July 16, 2024, makes manifest her own existential trajectory, voicing her coming into and remaining in this world. This meta-perspective on her next “installment” is not finality; it is an ongoing presence,…
Psychology (8 works) · History (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Aging and Gerontology Research (5 works) · Art (5 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Gerontology (4 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (4 works) · Older Adults Driving Studies (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works)