Peng
Biographic Data
| ID | 52979 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peng |
| FAMILY NAME | Peng |
| SIGNATURE | PENG |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4049-4485 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 137 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Enrollment and Compliance in an Ecological Momentary Assessment Study of Later Life
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
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 Connections Over the Life Course: Appreciating Distinct Dimensions of Social Connections
Despite growing attention to the social isolation crisis in the U.S., it remains unclear whether Americans experience a decline in social connection with age. Given the complex nature of social connections, this study argues that we need to ask a different question – which domains of social connections decline with age. Using representative egocentric network data (Person-to-Person Health Interview; N = 2,603) to measure core discussion networks …
Social Connectedness and Cognitive Function in Later Life: GrimAge as an Epigenetic Mediating Pathway
Objectives To test whether epigenetic aging mediates associations between social connectedness and later cognitive function among U.S. older adults. Methods Using Health and Retirement Study data ( N = 1,574; mean age = 68.5), we modeled 2014 social connectedness as a latent factor (participation, isolation, loneliness), assessed four DNA methylation clocks in 2016 (DNAmGrimAge, DunedinPoAm, DNAmPhenoAge, Zhang), and cognition in 2018. Survey-wei…
Comparing Ecological Momentary Assessments and Time Diary Methods for Measuring Daily Life
A growing number of social scientists are using ecological momentary assessment (EMA) to observe how social forces operate in real time. However, the validity of EMA for measuring features of daily life—what people are doing, where, and with whom—remains uncertain. A key challenge is the lack of consensus across studies about how validity in EMA methods is defined and assessed. The authors address that gap by comparing EMA data (n = 1,174) with t…
Quality over Quantity: The Association Between Daily Social Interactions and Loneliness
Understanding what aspects of daily life protect against loneliness is increasingly important for promoting well-being among older adults. This study investigates how different types of everyday social interactions are associated with chronic loneliness. We analyze data that were collected via in-home surveys and an ecological momentary assessment module from a probability-based sample of 272 adults aged 55 and older residing in Indiana. Particip…
Bridging Social Capital Potential and Alzheimer’s Disease Mortality Rates
Geographic disparities in Alzheimer’s disease are often attributed to sociodemographic differences across communities or unequal access to opportunity structures whose use serves as protective mechanisms. Yet limited research considers the social dynamics between residents that are enabled by these opportunity structures. The authors adopt a population-level approach to evaluate how ethnoracial diversity and opportunity structures function jointl…
Where Is Social Connection Most Needed in Daily Life
In 2023, the US Surgeon General declared an “epidemic of loneliness and isolation.” This study asks: (RQ1) Where do daily social connections come from? (RQ2) Can people find alternative sources of social connection when access from a location is unavailable? Using 10 years of data from the American Time Use Survey, I find that the home is the largest source of social connections in daily life, followed by the workplace and third places. More impo…
Beyond weak ties in prison: An investigation of core support networks of incarcerated persons
Global semiconductor manufacturing equipment trade: A Perspective From a Complex Network
A Life Course Perspective on Cognitive Aging: The Interplay between Early and Later Life Stimulating Environments
A gap in the literature on social determinants of cognitive aging is the lack of focus on the interplay of cognitively stimulating environments across the life course. This study uses a life course perspective to propose and examine potential interaction and mediation effects between early and later life stimulating environments. Using rich cognitive assessments and egocentric network data from the state-representative Person to Person Health Int…
Exploring the Relationship of Leisure Travel with Loneliness, Depression, and Cognitive Function in Older Adults
Loneliness, depression, and cognitive decline are pressing concerns among older adults. This study examines the association between leisure travel participation and these health outcomes in older adults, aiming to provide further evidence of the benefits of leisure travel. Using nationally representative historical data from the 2006 household survey of the Health and Retirement Study, this study conducted a series of regression analyses to inves…
Travel and mind: A bidirectional analysis of travel participation and cognitive functioning among Americans over 50
The causal relationship between travel participation and cognitive function is complex and unclear in the literature. While some suggest travel protects cognitive health (social causation), others believe cognitive decline restricts travel ability (social withdrawal). This study aims to uncover which hypothesis prevails in this association. Utilizing data from 475 Americans in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) over a 6-year period from 2006 t…
End of the Asia-Pacific: Geoeconomics, belt and road and the Indo-Pacific
Streams of interactions: Social connectedness in daily life
The Effect of Digital Financial Inclusion on Relative Poverty Among Urban Households: A Case Study on China
New Structure, Traditional Essence: Patterns of Helping Non-Coresident Parents by Own and Sibling(s)’ Gender in China
As Chinese households are becoming smaller with increasing numbers of adult children and older parents living apart, the extent to which patterns of parental support reflect traditional gender dynamics is under debate. Integrating theories of sibling compensation with ceremonial giving, we tested whether helping non-coresident parents in China is affected by sibship size and how these patterns depend on own and sibling(s)’ gender using a sample o…
Random sampling of alters from networks: A promising direction in egocentric network research
Do subjective or objective cognitive measures better predict social network type among older adults
A large literature highlights the link between cognitive function and social networks in later life. Yet there remains uncertainty about the factors driving this relationship. In the present study, we use measures of subjective cognitive decline and clinical cognitive assessments on a sample of older adults to investigate whether the relationship between cognitive function and social networks is driven by psychosocial factors. We found a consiste…
What kinds of social networks protect older adults' health during a pandemic? The tradeoff between preventing infection and promoting mental health
Network recall among older adults with cognitive impairments
Non-Spousal Support, Marital Status, and Mortality Risk
Although family and friends play an important role in mortality risk in later life, these findings suggest that never married older adults exhibit a heightened dependence on support from non-spousal sources. Future research and policies should explore ways in which never married older adults can be integrated into a supportive social environment
Personal Network Bridging Potential Across Geographic Context
These findings suggest that the communities in which older adults live condition opportunities for accessing unique network resources. Additional research adopting a network perspective is needed to provide insight into geographic disparities occurring among the older population
How Widowhood and Gender Shape the Impact of Maternal Favoritism on Adult Children’s Psychological Well-Being
The quantitative and qualitative findings we present underscore how social structural positions-in this case, mother's marital status and child's gender-combine with social psychological processes to shape how parent-child relations affect children's well-being in adulthood
Social Networks and Cognitive Reserve: Network Structure Moderates the Association Between Amygdalar Volume and Cognitive Outcomes
Among participants who engaged in diverse and loosely connected social networks, the expected adverse cognitive effects of brain volume in regions implicated in socioemotional processing were attenuated. These findings suggest that cognitive stimulation achieved through social interaction with a diverse array of social relationships across multiple contexts may help promote cognitive reserve
Social Isolation and Loneliness Before and During the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Study of U.S. Adults Older Than 50
Despite an increase in physical isolation due to the social distancing policies, U.S. adults aged older than 50 stayed connected through digital contact and were resilient in protecting themselves from loneliness
A meta-analysis on the relation between reading and working memory
The purpose of this study was to determine the relation between reading and working memory (WM) in the context of 3 major theories: the domain-specificity theory (debate) of WM, the intrinsic cognitive load theory, and the dual process theory. A meta-analysis of 197 studies with 2026 effect sizes found a significant moderate correlation between reading and WM, r = .29, 95% CI [.27, .31]. Moderation analyses indicated that after controlling for pu…
Role of Perceived Maternal Favoritism and Disfavoritism in Adult Children’s Psychological Well-Being
The findings shed new light on the role of intergenerational relations in adult children's well-being in midlife by taking into consideration the respondents' direct reports of their perceptions of their mothers' favoritism and disfavoritism. Further, the findings provide evidence that the association between maternal differentiation and psychological well-being in adulthood is stronger in Black than in White families. These patterns suggest that…
The Effect of Digital Financial Inclusion on Relative Poverty Among Urban Households: A Case Study on China
Conflict with Mothers and Siblings During Caregiving: Differential Costs for Black and White Adult Children
This study highlights ways in which the experiences of caregivers reflect broader patterns of differences between Black and White families in both intergenerational cohesion and health disparities in midlife
What kinds of social networks protect older adults' health during a pandemic? The tradeoff between preventing infection and promoting mental health
A meta-analysis on the relation between fluid intelligence and reading/mathematics: Effects of tasks, age, and social economics status
This study aimed to determine the relations between fluid intelligence (Gf) and reading/mathematics and possible moderators. A meta-analysis of 680 studies involving 793 independent samples and more than 370,000 participants found that Gf was moderately related to reading, r = .38, 95% CI [.36, .39], and mathematics, r = .41, 95% CI [.39, 44]. Synthesis on the longitudinal correlations showed that Gf and reading/mathematics predicted each other i…
The Long Arm of Maternal Differential Treatment: Effects of Recalled and Current Favoritism on Adult Children’s Psychological Well-Being
Taken together, the findings from this investigation reflect principles of theories of social comparison and the life course in that both perceptions of current MDT and MDT recalled from childhood affect children's well-being in midlife. These findings contribute to a growing body of literature highlighting the role of within-family differences in parent-child relationships on well-being across the life course
End of the Asia-Pacific: Geoeconomics, belt and road and the Indo-Pacific
My Pride and Joy? Predicting Favoritism and Disfavoritism in Mother-Adult Child Relations
In this article, we compare predictors of mothers' differentiation among their adult children regarding emotional closeness, pride, conflict, and disappointment. We distinguish between predictors of relational (closeness, conflict) and evaluative (pride, disappointment) dimensions of favoritism and disfavoritism. Multilevel modeling using data collected from 381 older mothers regarding their relationships with 1,421 adult children indicated that …
Streams of interactions: Social connectedness in daily life
How Widowhood and Gender Shape the Impact of Maternal Favoritism on Adult Children’s Psychological Well-Being
The quantitative and qualitative findings we present underscore how social structural positions-in this case, mother's marital status and child's gender-combine with social psychological processes to shape how parent-child relations affect children's well-being in adulthood
Social Networks and Cognitive Reserve: Network Structure Moderates the Association Between Amygdalar Volume and Cognitive Outcomes
Among participants who engaged in diverse and loosely connected social networks, the expected adverse cognitive effects of brain volume in regions implicated in socioemotional processing were attenuated. These findings suggest that cognitive stimulation achieved through social interaction with a diverse array of social relationships across multiple contexts may help promote cognitive reserve
Maternal Differential Treatment and Psychological Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Marital Tension and Sibling Tension
The evaluation of the stress proliferation process of maternal favoritism and disfavoritism can help us to understand the difference in effects across various dimensions of MDT. This study contributes to the literature on social relationships as social determinants of health by investigating how intergenerational relationships are connected to other family relationships to affect family members' health
Travel and mind: A bidirectional analysis of travel participation and cognitive functioning among Americans over 50
The causal relationship between travel participation and cognitive function is complex and unclear in the literature. While some suggest travel protects cognitive health (social causation), others believe cognitive decline restricts travel ability (social withdrawal). This study aims to uncover which hypothesis prevails in this association. Utilizing data from 475 Americans in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) over a 6-year period from 2006 t…
Personal Network Bridging Potential Across Geographic Context
These findings suggest that the communities in which older adults live condition opportunities for accessing unique network resources. Additional research adopting a network perspective is needed to provide insight into geographic disparities occurring among the older population
Examining the mutual relations between language and mathematics: A meta-analysis
42, 95% CI [.40, .44]. Moderation and partial correlation analyses revealed the following: (a) more complicated language and mathematics skills were associated with stronger relations between language and mathematics; after partialing out working memory and intelligence, rapid automatized naming showed the strongest relation to numerical knowledge; (b) the relation between language and mathematics was stronger among native language speakers than …
A Life Course Perspective on Cognitive Aging: The Interplay between Early and Later Life Stimulating Environments
A gap in the literature on social determinants of cognitive aging is the lack of focus on the interplay of cognitively stimulating environments across the life course. This study uses a life course perspective to propose and examine potential interaction and mediation effects between early and later life stimulating environments. Using rich cognitive assessments and egocentric network data from the state-representative Person to Person Health Int…
Role of Perceived Maternal Favoritism and Disfavoritism in Adult Children’s Psychological Well-Being
The findings shed new light on the role of intergenerational relations in adult children's well-being in midlife by taking into consideration the respondents' direct reports of their perceptions of their mothers' favoritism and disfavoritism. Further, the findings provide evidence that the association between maternal differentiation and psychological well-being in adulthood is stronger in Black than in White families. These patterns suggest that…
The Long Arm of Maternal Differential Treatment: Effects of Recalled and Current Favoritism on Adult Children’s Psychological Well-Being
Taken together, the findings from this investigation reflect principles of theories of social comparison and the life course in that both perceptions of current MDT and MDT recalled from childhood affect children's well-being in midlife. These findings contribute to a growing body of literature highlighting the role of within-family differences in parent-child relationships on well-being across the life course
My Pride and Joy? Predicting Favoritism and Disfavoritism in Mother-Adult Child Relations
In this article, we compare predictors of mothers' differentiation among their adult children regarding emotional closeness, pride, conflict, and disappointment. We distinguish between predictors of relational (closeness, conflict) and evaluative (pride, disappointment) dimensions of favoritism and disfavoritism. Multilevel modeling using data collected from 381 older mothers regarding their relationships with 1,421 adult children indicated that …
Conflict with Mothers and Siblings During Caregiving: Differential Costs for Black and White Adult Children
This study highlights ways in which the experiences of caregivers reflect broader patterns of differences between Black and White families in both intergenerational cohesion and health disparities in midlife
A meta-analysis on the relation between reading and working memory
The purpose of this study was to determine the relation between reading and working memory (WM) in the context of 3 major theories: the domain-specificity theory (debate) of WM, the intrinsic cognitive load theory, and the dual process theory. A meta-analysis of 197 studies with 2026 effect sizes found a significant moderate correlation between reading and WM, r = .29, 95% CI [.27, .31]. Moderation analyses indicated that after controlling for pu…
Older mother's health and adult children's education: Conceptualization of adult children's education and mother-child relationships
This study joins and extends an emerging body of work examining the association between adult children's education and their parents' health by (1) providing a conceptual treatment of adult children's education, (2) examining the link between adult children's education and older mothers' physical and mental health, and (3) investigating whether mother-child relationships moderate the association between children's education and mothers' health. D…
Maternal Differential Treatment and Psychological Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Marital Tension and Sibling Tension
The evaluation of the stress proliferation process of maternal favoritism and disfavoritism can help us to understand the difference in effects across various dimensions of MDT. This study contributes to the literature on social relationships as social determinants of health by investigating how intergenerational relationships are connected to other family relationships to affect family members' health
A meta-analysis on the relation between fluid intelligence and reading/mathematics: Effects of tasks, age, and social economics status
This study aimed to determine the relations between fluid intelligence (Gf) and reading/mathematics and possible moderators. A meta-analysis of 680 studies involving 793 independent samples and more than 370,000 participants found that Gf was moderately related to reading, r = .38, 95% CI [.36, .39], and mathematics, r = .41, 95% CI [.39, 44]. Synthesis on the longitudinal correlations showed that Gf and reading/mathematics predicted each other i…
Representation of Social Actors in Financial times Report on China’s Panda Diplomacy
Communicators have a range of referential options to represent individuals and groups, who in Critical Discourse Analysis are often termed “social actors” or “participants”. These choices allow communicators to place people in the social world and highlight certain aspects of their identity while downplaying others. Choosing one social category instead of another means foregrounding certain features and backgrounding others, leading to different …
Examining the mutual relations between language and mathematics: A meta-analysis
42, 95% CI [.40, .44]. Moderation and partial correlation analyses revealed the following: (a) more complicated language and mathematics skills were associated with stronger relations between language and mathematics; after partialing out working memory and intelligence, rapid automatized naming showed the strongest relation to numerical knowledge; (b) the relation between language and mathematics was stronger among native language speakers than …
Network recall among older adults with cognitive impairments
Non-Spousal Support, Marital Status, and Mortality Risk
Although family and friends play an important role in mortality risk in later life, these findings suggest that never married older adults exhibit a heightened dependence on support from non-spousal sources. Future research and policies should explore ways in which never married older adults can be integrated into a supportive social environment
Personal Network Bridging Potential Across Geographic Context
These findings suggest that the communities in which older adults live condition opportunities for accessing unique network resources. Additional research adopting a network perspective is needed to provide insight into geographic disparities occurring among the older population
How Widowhood and Gender Shape the Impact of Maternal Favoritism on Adult Children’s Psychological Well-Being
The quantitative and qualitative findings we present underscore how social structural positions-in this case, mother's marital status and child's gender-combine with social psychological processes to shape how parent-child relations affect children's well-being in adulthood
Social Networks and Cognitive Reserve: Network Structure Moderates the Association Between Amygdalar Volume and Cognitive Outcomes
Among participants who engaged in diverse and loosely connected social networks, the expected adverse cognitive effects of brain volume in regions implicated in socioemotional processing were attenuated. These findings suggest that cognitive stimulation achieved through social interaction with a diverse array of social relationships across multiple contexts may help promote cognitive reserve
Social Isolation and Loneliness Before and During the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Study of U.S. Adults Older Than 50
Despite an increase in physical isolation due to the social distancing policies, U.S. adults aged older than 50 stayed connected through digital contact and were resilient in protecting themselves from loneliness
New Structure, Traditional Essence: Patterns of Helping Non-Coresident Parents by Own and Sibling(s)’ Gender in China
As Chinese households are becoming smaller with increasing numbers of adult children and older parents living apart, the extent to which patterns of parental support reflect traditional gender dynamics is under debate. Integrating theories of sibling compensation with ceremonial giving, we tested whether helping non-coresident parents in China is affected by sibship size and how these patterns depend on own and sibling(s)’ gender using a sample o…
Random sampling of alters from networks: A promising direction in egocentric network research
Do subjective or objective cognitive measures better predict social network type among older adults
A large literature highlights the link between cognitive function and social networks in later life. Yet there remains uncertainty about the factors driving this relationship. In the present study, we use measures of subjective cognitive decline and clinical cognitive assessments on a sample of older adults to investigate whether the relationship between cognitive function and social networks is driven by psychosocial factors. We found a consiste…
What kinds of social networks protect older adults' health during a pandemic? The tradeoff between preventing infection and promoting mental health
The Effect of Digital Financial Inclusion on Relative Poverty Among Urban Households: A Case Study on China
Exploring the Relationship of Leisure Travel with Loneliness, Depression, and Cognitive Function in Older Adults
Loneliness, depression, and cognitive decline are pressing concerns among older adults. This study examines the association between leisure travel participation and these health outcomes in older adults, aiming to provide further evidence of the benefits of leisure travel. Using nationally representative historical data from the 2006 household survey of the Health and Retirement Study, this study conducted a series of regression analyses to inves…
Travel and mind: A bidirectional analysis of travel participation and cognitive functioning among Americans over 50
The causal relationship between travel participation and cognitive function is complex and unclear in the literature. While some suggest travel protects cognitive health (social causation), others believe cognitive decline restricts travel ability (social withdrawal). This study aims to uncover which hypothesis prevails in this association. Utilizing data from 475 Americans in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) over a 6-year period from 2006 t…
End of the Asia-Pacific: Geoeconomics, belt and road and the Indo-Pacific
Streams of interactions: Social connectedness in daily life
Psychology (23 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (17 works) · Developmental psychology (14 works) · Cognition (10 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (10 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Gerontology (7 works) · Cognitive psychology (6 works)