Almar A L Kok
Biographic Data
| ID | 4593520 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Almar A L Kok |
| GIVEN NAMES | Almar A L |
| FAMILY NAME | Kok |
| SIGNATURE | KOK A A L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Amsterdam UMC, Location VUmc, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6398-2484 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Finding a balance
Older adults who have had a major depressive disorder (MDD) have a high risk of relapse. Although risk factors for depression have been researched extensively, less is known about protective factors, and what experiences might strengthen subsequent resilience and help to prevent relapse. Therefore, this qualitative study explored factors of resilience in older adults who recovered from MDD and did not relapse across at least six years. Twenty-fiv…
The Disability Paradox? Trajectories of Well-Being in Older Adults With Functional Decline
Objectives: The 'disability paradox' (DP) suggests that most older adults maintain subjective well-being (SWB) despite functional decline. However, this may depend the SWB component: positive affect (PA), negative/depressed affect (NA/DA) or life satisfaction (LS). We assessed trajectories of these components in older adults with substantial functional decline. Methods: Data originated from the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam ( N = 2545) obser…
Long-Term Impact of Hurricane Sandy Exposure on Positive and Negative Affect
Findings suggest that psychological effects may persist years after natural disasters and that more effective interventions may be needed during and after a disaster. While social support is critical to positive and negative affect in general, its buffering effects when disaster strikes may be limited
The mental health impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on people with and without depressive, anxiety, or obsessive-compulsive disorders
Changes in the role of explanatory factors for socioeconomic inequalities in physical performance
Inequalities in smoking, binge alcohol use, emotional support and mastery may have become more important for explaining SIH in recent cohorts of middle-aged adults. Policies that aim to reduce socioeconomic inequalities may need to adapt their targets of intervention to changing mechanisms in order to reduce SIH
Capturing Subjective Age, Subjective Life Expectancy, and Their Links With Older Adults’ Health
Objectives: This study compares the associations of two subjective lifetime perspectives, subjective age (SA) and subjective life expectancy (SLE), with physical performance, self-rated health, and depressive symptoms. Methods: 64 91-year-old participants were selected from three waves of the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam (2008/09, 2011/12, 2015/16; n = 1822 participants, n = 3500 observations) that included graphical and numerical measures …
Steeling or Sensitizing? A Longitudinal Examination of How Ongoing Accumulation of Negative Life Events Affects Depressive Symptoms in Older Adults
As a population, older adults appear to become more resilient against new stressors as they accumulate experience in dealing with negative life events. Findings on mastery tentatively suggest that accepting limits to one's own control over life circumstances may foster a steeling effect
Psychosocial and Health-Related Factors Associated With Discordance Between 13-Year Trajectories of Self-Reported Functional Limitations and Performance-Based Physical Functioning in Old Age
Objective: The objective of this study was to examine correlates of discordance between 13-year trajectories of self-reported functional limitations and performance-based physical functioning in older adults. Method: We included 2,135 participants from the population-based Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam, the Netherlands, followed across 1995-2008. Self-reported functional limitations included six (instrumental) activities of daily living. Per…
Longitudinal Examination of Emotional Functioning in Older Adults After Spousal Bereavement
An increase in emotional loneliness was the most commonly observed change after spousal bereavement. This highlights the central role of emotional loneliness in depression after bereavement
Factors across life associated with remaining free from functional limitations despite lifelong exposure to socioeconomic adversity
BACKGROUND: There are substantial socioeconomic inequalities in functional limitations in old age. Resilience may offer new insights into these inequalities by identifying constellations of factors that protect some individuals from developing functional limitations despite socioeconomic adversity. METHODS: Data from 1973 participants in the Medical Research Council National Survey of Health and Development (Great Britain), followed from birth un…
Sociaal-economische ongelijkheden in ‘succesvol ouder worden’
Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community
The impact of conscientiousness, mastery, and work circumstances on subsequent absenteeism in employees with and without affective disorders
Affective disorders may particularly severely affect work functioning of employees who are highly conscientious or face high psychological job demands. Adjusting working conditions to their individual needs may prevent excessive work absence
The Effects of Life Events and Socioeconomic Position in Childhood and Adulthood on Successful Aging
SEP and particular stressful life events are largely, but not entirely independent predictors of SA. We found that high and low SEP may increase exposure to particular events that negatively affect SA. Findings suggest that low (childhood) SEP and stressful life events are interrelated factors that may limit individual opportunities to age successfully
Socioeconomic inequalities in a 16-year longitudinal measurement of successful ageing
BACKGROUND: This study examines to what extent education, occupation and income are associated with the multidimensional process of successful ageing, encompassing trajectories of physical, mental and social functioning in old age. METHODS: We employed 16-year longitudinal data from 2095 participants aged 55-85 years at baseline in the Dutch, nationally representative Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam. For 9 indicators of successful ageing, sepa…
Longitudinal Examination of Emotional Functioning in Older Adults After Spousal Bereavement
An increase in emotional loneliness was the most commonly observed change after spousal bereavement. This highlights the central role of emotional loneliness in depression after bereavement
The Effects of Life Events and Socioeconomic Position in Childhood and Adulthood on Successful Aging
SEP and particular stressful life events are largely, but not entirely independent predictors of SA. We found that high and low SEP may increase exposure to particular events that negatively affect SA. Findings suggest that low (childhood) SEP and stressful life events are interrelated factors that may limit individual opportunities to age successfully
The Disability Paradox? Trajectories of Well-Being in Older Adults With Functional Decline
Objectives: The 'disability paradox' (DP) suggests that most older adults maintain subjective well-being (SWB) despite functional decline. However, this may depend the SWB component: positive affect (PA), negative/depressed affect (NA/DA) or life satisfaction (LS). We assessed trajectories of these components in older adults with substantial functional decline. Methods: Data originated from the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam ( N = 2545) obser…
Steeling or Sensitizing? A Longitudinal Examination of How Ongoing Accumulation of Negative Life Events Affects Depressive Symptoms in Older Adults
As a population, older adults appear to become more resilient against new stressors as they accumulate experience in dealing with negative life events. Findings on mastery tentatively suggest that accepting limits to one's own control over life circumstances may foster a steeling effect
Socioeconomic inequalities in a 16-year longitudinal measurement of successful ageing
BACKGROUND: This study examines to what extent education, occupation and income are associated with the multidimensional process of successful ageing, encompassing trajectories of physical, mental and social functioning in old age. METHODS: We employed 16-year longitudinal data from 2095 participants aged 55-85 years at baseline in the Dutch, nationally representative Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam. For 9 indicators of successful ageing, sepa…
Finding a balance
Older adults who have had a major depressive disorder (MDD) have a high risk of relapse. Although risk factors for depression have been researched extensively, less is known about protective factors, and what experiences might strengthen subsequent resilience and help to prevent relapse. Therefore, this qualitative study explored factors of resilience in older adults who recovered from MDD and did not relapse across at least six years. Twenty-fiv…
Psychosocial and Health-Related Factors Associated With Discordance Between 13-Year Trajectories of Self-Reported Functional Limitations and Performance-Based Physical Functioning in Old Age
Objective: The objective of this study was to examine correlates of discordance between 13-year trajectories of self-reported functional limitations and performance-based physical functioning in older adults. Method: We included 2,135 participants from the population-based Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam, the Netherlands, followed across 1995-2008. Self-reported functional limitations included six (instrumental) activities of daily living. Per…
The Effects of Life Events and Socioeconomic Position in Childhood and Adulthood on Successful Aging
SEP and particular stressful life events are largely, but not entirely independent predictors of SA. We found that high and low SEP may increase exposure to particular events that negatively affect SA. Findings suggest that low (childhood) SEP and stressful life events are interrelated factors that may limit individual opportunities to age successfully
Socioeconomic inequalities in a 16-year longitudinal measurement of successful ageing
BACKGROUND: This study examines to what extent education, occupation and income are associated with the multidimensional process of successful ageing, encompassing trajectories of physical, mental and social functioning in old age. METHODS: We employed 16-year longitudinal data from 2095 participants aged 55-85 years at baseline in the Dutch, nationally representative Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam. For 9 indicators of successful ageing, sepa…
Sociaal-economische ongelijkheden in ‘succesvol ouder worden’
Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community
The impact of conscientiousness, mastery, and work circumstances on subsequent absenteeism in employees with and without affective disorders
Affective disorders may particularly severely affect work functioning of employees who are highly conscientious or face high psychological job demands. Adjusting working conditions to their individual needs may prevent excessive work absence
Psychosocial and Health-Related Factors Associated With Discordance Between 13-Year Trajectories of Self-Reported Functional Limitations and Performance-Based Physical Functioning in Old Age
Objective: The objective of this study was to examine correlates of discordance between 13-year trajectories of self-reported functional limitations and performance-based physical functioning in older adults. Method: We included 2,135 participants from the population-based Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam, the Netherlands, followed across 1995-2008. Self-reported functional limitations included six (instrumental) activities of daily living. Per…
Longitudinal Examination of Emotional Functioning in Older Adults After Spousal Bereavement
An increase in emotional loneliness was the most commonly observed change after spousal bereavement. This highlights the central role of emotional loneliness in depression after bereavement
Factors across life associated with remaining free from functional limitations despite lifelong exposure to socioeconomic adversity
BACKGROUND: There are substantial socioeconomic inequalities in functional limitations in old age. Resilience may offer new insights into these inequalities by identifying constellations of factors that protect some individuals from developing functional limitations despite socioeconomic adversity. METHODS: Data from 1973 participants in the Medical Research Council National Survey of Health and Development (Great Britain), followed from birth un…
The mental health impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on people with and without depressive, anxiety, or obsessive-compulsive disorders
Changes in the role of explanatory factors for socioeconomic inequalities in physical performance
Inequalities in smoking, binge alcohol use, emotional support and mastery may have become more important for explaining SIH in recent cohorts of middle-aged adults. Policies that aim to reduce socioeconomic inequalities may need to adapt their targets of intervention to changing mechanisms in order to reduce SIH
Capturing Subjective Age, Subjective Life Expectancy, and Their Links With Older Adults’ Health
Objectives: This study compares the associations of two subjective lifetime perspectives, subjective age (SA) and subjective life expectancy (SLE), with physical performance, self-rated health, and depressive symptoms. Methods: 64 91-year-old participants were selected from three waves of the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam (2008/09, 2011/12, 2015/16; n = 1822 participants, n = 3500 observations) that included graphical and numerical measures …
Steeling or Sensitizing? A Longitudinal Examination of How Ongoing Accumulation of Negative Life Events Affects Depressive Symptoms in Older Adults
As a population, older adults appear to become more resilient against new stressors as they accumulate experience in dealing with negative life events. Findings on mastery tentatively suggest that accepting limits to one's own control over life circumstances may foster a steeling effect
The Disability Paradox? Trajectories of Well-Being in Older Adults With Functional Decline
Objectives: The 'disability paradox' (DP) suggests that most older adults maintain subjective well-being (SWB) despite functional decline. However, this may depend the SWB component: positive affect (PA), negative/depressed affect (NA/DA) or life satisfaction (LS). We assessed trajectories of these components in older adults with substantial functional decline. Methods: Data originated from the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam ( N = 2545) obser…
Long-Term Impact of Hurricane Sandy Exposure on Positive and Negative Affect
Findings suggest that psychological effects may persist years after natural disasters and that more effective interventions may be needed during and after a disaster. While social support is critical to positive and negative affect in general, its buffering effects when disaster strikes may be limited
Finding a balance
Older adults who have had a major depressive disorder (MDD) have a high risk of relapse. Although risk factors for depression have been researched extensively, less is known about protective factors, and what experiences might strengthen subsequent resilience and help to prevent relapse. Therefore, this qualitative study explored factors of resilience in older adults who recovered from MDD and did not relapse across at least six years. Twenty-fiv…
Psychology (12 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Psychiatry (8 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (7 works) · Population (7 works) · Gerontology (6 works) · Longitudinal study (6 works) · Aging and Gerontology Research (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works)