J E Stokes
Biographic Data
| ID | 6381 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J E Stokes |
| GIVEN NAMES | J E |
| FAMILY NAME | Stokes |
| SIGNATURE | STOKES J E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Boston |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3630-0959 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 77 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Is There a Cognitive Footprint of Political Systems? The Case of Separation and Reunification of East and West Germany and Its Association With Later Life Cognitive Health
Germany’s division into the GDR (East) and FRG (West) in 1946, and subsequent reunification in 1989, had lasting impacts on individual life courses. While East-West differentials in physical health and mortality have been well-studied, cognitive health differences remain underexplored. This study examines cognitive trajectories among individuals living in the GDR and FRG, focusing on exposure duration and age at reunification. We find that former…
Chronic Diseases, Self-Rated Health, and Planned Retirement Age: The Moderating Role of Race and Ethnicity
This study examines the association between self-rated health (SRH) and chronic diseases on planned retirement age, and whether these relationships differ by race and ethnicity among adults 50 years and older in the US. Using the 2018 Health and Retirement Study ( N = 3,161), linear regression models assessed associations and tested race as a moderator. The results showed that respondents with poorer SRH reported an earlier planned retirement age…
Loss, inflammation, and cognition: Understanding the lifecourse impact of early life parental disruption
Longitudinal associations between congruence in dyadic care type and health-related quality of life among multiple chronic conditions patient–caregiver dyads
A Letter From the New Editor-in-Chief
An Investigation Into the Role of Attributions of Discrimination and Cognitive Functioning in Older Adults
ObjectiveLimited research has explored how the attributions of discrimination in later life are related to cognitive functioning.MethodsWe analyzed responses from 12,279 adults ages 65+ in the 2008 to 2018 waves of the Health and Retirement Study. Multilevel mixed models assessed whether cognitive functioning was associated with (1) everyday discrimination (without reference to attribution) and (2) frequency of 11 attributions of discrimination.R…
Relationship Satisfaction, Conflict, and Depressive Symptoms Among Same‐Gender and Mixed‐Gender Couples in Germany
Intimate relationships are key to promoting better mental health among the adult population. This includes not only one's own but also a partner's appraisal of the relationship. Because of the gendered nature of socialization and power dynamics, the association between dyadic relationship quality (satisfaction and conflict) and mental health (depressive symptoms) can be better understood by comparing men and women in same‐gender and mixed‐gender …
Mental Health Following Silver Splits: A Dyadic Approach to Depressive Symptoms
Objective Drawing on the stress generation model, emotional contagion theory, and gender‐as‐relational approach, this study adopts a dyadic approach to mental health following later‐life separation, or “silver splits” (i.e., partnership dissolution at or after age 50), and examines whether depressive symptoms in a partner before separation can be a stress factor, potentially leading to reduced depressive symptoms afterward , with a focus on gende…
Promoting Age Inclusivity in Higher Education: Campus Practices and Perceptions by Students, Faculty, and Staff
Exploring loneliness across widowhood and other marital statuses: A systematic review integrating insights from grief research
The vital role social relationships play in mental health and well-being has been well-documented. Disruption of an intimate bond through bereavement can be enduringly stressful, with loneliness featuring prominently, possibly compromising mental and physical health. We systematically reviewed studies examining loneliness across marital status groups, focusing on the widowed. The aim was to establish what is known about the prevalence of loneline…
Caregiving and Self-Esteem in Mid and Later Life: Is There Variation by Age, Parental Status, and Gender
Caregiving may prove either beneficial or harmful for caregiver well-being, depending on the circumstances surrounding care provision. Using data from the two most recent waves of the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States (MIDUS, 2004–2014; N = 1,100), we examine whether providing care for an adult at both time points (i.e., 8–10 years apart) is associated with changes to self-esteem over the ten-year period, in comparison w…
Relationships between Interpersonal Goals and Loneliness in Older Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study
Loneliness is linked to many physiological and psychological issues and disproportionately affects older adults. Interpersonal goals (compassion and self-image) are essential to interpersonal relationships; however, how they relate to loneliness in older adults is unknown. We investigated the impact of interpersonal goals on loneliness using the Ecosystem-Egosystem Theory of Social Motivation. This study, adopting a descriptive cross-sectional co…
Employment Dynamics Among Adult Children at the Onset of Parental Dementia: Variation by Sociodemographic Characteristics
The potential impact of parental ADRD on adult child employment is complex and should be considered in the context of sociodemographic factors
Neighborhood Social Cohesion and Loneliness in Mid- and Later Life: Are Benefits Contingent on Race/Ethnicity or Neighborhood Disorder
Findings show that neighborhood social cohesion matters for midlife and older adults' loneliness, but that this relationship varies by race/ethnicity and neighborhood disorder. As such, neighborhood racial/ethnic makeup and both social and objective neighborhood characteristics should be considered when designing interventions to reduce loneliness
Longitudinal Dyadic Associations Between Loneliness and Cognition Among Older Couples in the United States
Lonelier older adults displayed worse trajectories of episodic memory over time, yet poor memory did not precede changes to loneliness. Further, having a lonely partner was linked with poorer episodic memory 8 years later, indicating that both one's own and-to a lesser extent-a partner's emotional well-being may be consequential for maintaining cognitive functioning with age. Associations were more clearly established with episodic memory than wi…
Loneliness and HbA1c among older Irish couples: Retirement as life stage context
Loneliness is an important determinant of health and mortality among the aging population, including for cardiometabolic health. Yet research has largely focused on individual experiences of loneliness, rather than taking intimate relationships into account. However, recent studies have highlighted that loneliness of a partner may have implications for one's own health and well‐being as well. Indeed, this is particularly true among older couples,…
Cognitive Functioning, Gender, and Marital Quality Among Older Married Couples: A Dyadic Approach
This study examines associations of older husbands' and wives' cognitive functioning with both partners' marital quality. Generalized structural equation modeling analyzed data from 1,432 opposite-sex couples drawn from the 2016 wave of the Health and Retirement Study. Findings revealed that wives' poorer cognitive functioning was associated with wives reporting greater closeness and enjoyment of time with a spouse, whereas husbands' poorer cogni…
Grieving a Grandparent: The Importance of Gender and Multigenerational Relationships
Objective: This study examined adult grandchildren's experience of losing a grandparent in the context of a multigenerational family. Background: Although the death of a grandparent in adulthood is often an expected life event, this loss may still result in grief for adult grandchildren. Furthermore, bereavement is not merely an individual experience, but a family one. Characteristics of the relationship between bereaved adult grandchildren and t…
Dyadic Loneliness and Changes to HbA1c Among Older US Couples: The Role of Marital Support as Stress Buffer
Objectives: Both experiencing loneliness and having a lonely partner can be psychosocial stressors, with implications for health. Yet, marital support may buffer against the cardiometabolic effects of loneliness. This study examines (1) whether own and/or partner's loneliness predict changes in HbA1c over 4 years and (2) whether marital support moderates these effects. Methods: Actor-partner interdependence models analyzed data from 1,854 older c…
Trajectories of rural-urban disparities in biological risks for cardiovascular disease among Chinese middle-aged and older adults
Dyadic profiles of personality among older couples: Associations with marital quality
Understanding dyadic personality configurations and their associations with marital quality helps identify couples who are at high risk of marital strain. However, current research on personality similarity among spouses usually confounds couples with similarly positive and similarly negative personalities. This study aimed to (1) provide a clearer classification of dyadic personality profiles among older couples, (2) examine the associations bet…
For better or for worse: Marital status transitions and sexual life in middle and later life
Marital status and marital status transitions have known implications for adults' mental and physical quality of life. Less attention has been paid, however, to the implications of marital status and transitions for sexual quality of life, particularly among the aging population. The present study analyzed three-wave longitudinal data from the National Survey of Midlife Development in the U.S. (1995-2014) in order to examine the effects of marita…
Trajectories of perceived neighborhood quality across the life course: Sociodemographic determinants and implications for well-being
Do “His” and “Her” Marriages Influence One Another? Contagion in Personal Assessments of Marital Quality among Older Spouses over a Four-Year Span
Husbands and wives differ in their evaluations of marital quality, with “his” marriage typically proving better than “her” marriage. However, spouses’ perceptions of marital quality tend to be significantly correlated with one another. Prior research has addressed the existence and implications of gender differences in marital quality but has focused less on spouses’ similarities in their perceptions. In particular, prior studies have not examine…
Marital quality and loneliness in later life: A dyadic analysis of older married couples in Ireland
Loneliness is not merely an unpleasant experience but is harmful for older adults' health and well-being as well. While marriage buffers against loneliness in later life, even married adults experience loneliness, and aspects of adults' marriages may either protect against or actually foster loneliness among spouses. The current study analyzed dyadic data from 1,114 opposite-sex married Irish couples who participated in the initial wave of The Ir…
Race, Poverty and Child Protection Decision Making
Some ethnic and racial minority groups, as well as families living in poverty, are overrepresented in the child welfare system. It is important to understand how issues of socio-economic status and race enter into child protection decisions. This research used a factorial survey method to look at the influence of race and poverty on child protection decision making. Participants were asked to make decisions about the severity of risk, service pro…
Marital quality and loneliness in later life: A dyadic analysis of older married couples in Ireland
Loneliness is not merely an unpleasant experience but is harmful for older adults' health and well-being as well. While marriage buffers against loneliness in later life, even married adults experience loneliness, and aspects of adults' marriages may either protect against or actually foster loneliness among spouses. The current study analyzed dyadic data from 1,114 opposite-sex married Irish couples who participated in the initial wave of The Ir…
Child Protection Decision Making: A Factorial Analysis Using Case Vignettes
This study explored decision making by child protection social workers in the province of British Columbia, Canada. A factorial survey method was used in which case vignettes were constructed by randomly assigning a number of key characteristics associated with decision making in child protection. Child protection social workers (n = 118) assessed case vignettes (n = 327) for risk, service provision, and importance of client contact. In British C…
The influence of intergenerational relationships on marital quality following the death of a parent in adulthood
Bereavement not only is an individual psychological experience but also has meaningful social and familial impacts. This article examines how relationship quality with both a deceased and a surviving parent influence adult children's marital quality over time and whether this differs by gender. Data were drawn from the Longitudinal Study of Generations, a study of three- and four-generation families from Southern California. The sample included m…
Do “His” and “Her” Marriages Influence One Another? Contagion in Personal Assessments of Marital Quality among Older Spouses over a Four-Year Span
Husbands and wives differ in their evaluations of marital quality, with “his” marriage typically proving better than “her” marriage. However, spouses’ perceptions of marital quality tend to be significantly correlated with one another. Prior research has addressed the existence and implications of gender differences in marital quality but has focused less on spouses’ similarities in their perceptions. In particular, prior studies have not examine…
Trajectories of perceived neighborhood quality across the life course: Sociodemographic determinants and implications for well-being
Dyadic profiles of personality among older couples: Associations with marital quality
Understanding dyadic personality configurations and their associations with marital quality helps identify couples who are at high risk of marital strain. However, current research on personality similarity among spouses usually confounds couples with similarly positive and similarly negative personalities. This study aimed to (1) provide a clearer classification of dyadic personality profiles among older couples, (2) examine the associations bet…
Neighborhood Social Cohesion and Loneliness in Mid- and Later Life: Are Benefits Contingent on Race/Ethnicity or Neighborhood Disorder
Findings show that neighborhood social cohesion matters for midlife and older adults' loneliness, but that this relationship varies by race/ethnicity and neighborhood disorder. As such, neighborhood racial/ethnic makeup and both social and objective neighborhood characteristics should be considered when designing interventions to reduce loneliness
Longitudinal Dyadic Associations Between Loneliness and Cognition Among Older Couples in the United States
Lonelier older adults displayed worse trajectories of episodic memory over time, yet poor memory did not precede changes to loneliness. Further, having a lonely partner was linked with poorer episodic memory 8 years later, indicating that both one's own and-to a lesser extent-a partner's emotional well-being may be consequential for maintaining cognitive functioning with age. Associations were more clearly established with episodic memory than wi…
Loneliness and HbA1c among older Irish couples: Retirement as life stage context
Loneliness is an important determinant of health and mortality among the aging population, including for cardiometabolic health. Yet research has largely focused on individual experiences of loneliness, rather than taking intimate relationships into account. However, recent studies have highlighted that loneliness of a partner may have implications for one's own health and well‐being as well. Indeed, this is particularly true among older couples,…
Dyadic Loneliness and Changes to HbA1c Among Older US Couples: The Role of Marital Support as Stress Buffer
Objectives: Both experiencing loneliness and having a lonely partner can be psychosocial stressors, with implications for health. Yet, marital support may buffer against the cardiometabolic effects of loneliness. This study examines (1) whether own and/or partner's loneliness predict changes in HbA1c over 4 years and (2) whether marital support moderates these effects. Methods: Actor-partner interdependence models analyzed data from 1,854 older c…
Trajectories of rural-urban disparities in biological risks for cardiovascular disease among Chinese middle-aged and older adults
For better or for worse: Marital status transitions and sexual life in middle and later life
Marital status and marital status transitions have known implications for adults' mental and physical quality of life. Less attention has been paid, however, to the implications of marital status and transitions for sexual quality of life, particularly among the aging population. The present study analyzed three-wave longitudinal data from the National Survey of Midlife Development in the U.S. (1995-2014) in order to examine the effects of marita…
Who Are the People in Your Neighborhood? Neighborhood Age Composition and Age Discrimination
Age discrimination is pervasive in the United States, yet little is known about the social contexts in which it occurs. Older persons spend much of their time in their neighborhoods, where a density of other older persons may protect against age discrimination. Extending group density theory to age, we analyze data from 1,561 older adults from the second wave of the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States, using neighborhood-l…
Rewriting age to overcome misaligned age and gender norms in later life
Race, Poverty and Child Protection Decision Making
Some ethnic and racial minority groups, as well as families living in poverty, are overrepresented in the child welfare system. It is important to understand how issues of socio-economic status and race enter into child protection decisions. This research used a factorial survey method to look at the influence of race and poverty on child protection decision making. Participants were asked to make decisions about the severity of risk, service pro…
Child Protection Decision Making: A Factorial Analysis Using Case Vignettes
This study explored decision making by child protection social workers in the province of British Columbia, Canada. A factorial survey method was used in which case vignettes were constructed by randomly assigning a number of key characteristics associated with decision making in child protection. Child protection social workers (n = 118) assessed case vignettes (n = 327) for risk, service provision, and importance of client contact. In British C…
The Age Composition of U.S. Neighborhoods
Rewriting age to overcome misaligned age and gender norms in later life
Who Are the People in Your Neighborhood? Neighborhood Age Composition and Age Discrimination
Age discrimination is pervasive in the United States, yet little is known about the social contexts in which it occurs. Older persons spend much of their time in their neighborhoods, where a density of other older persons may protect against age discrimination. Extending group density theory to age, we analyze data from 1,561 older adults from the second wave of the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States, using neighborhood-l…
The influence of intergenerational relationships on marital quality following the death of a parent in adulthood
Bereavement not only is an individual psychological experience but also has meaningful social and familial impacts. This article examines how relationship quality with both a deceased and a surviving parent influence adult children's marital quality over time and whether this differs by gender. Data were drawn from the Longitudinal Study of Generations, a study of three- and four-generation families from Southern California. The sample included m…
Do “His” and “Her” Marriages Influence One Another? Contagion in Personal Assessments of Marital Quality among Older Spouses over a Four-Year Span
Husbands and wives differ in their evaluations of marital quality, with “his” marriage typically proving better than “her” marriage. However, spouses’ perceptions of marital quality tend to be significantly correlated with one another. Prior research has addressed the existence and implications of gender differences in marital quality but has focused less on spouses’ similarities in their perceptions. In particular, prior studies have not examine…
Marital quality and loneliness in later life: A dyadic analysis of older married couples in Ireland
Loneliness is not merely an unpleasant experience but is harmful for older adults' health and well-being as well. While marriage buffers against loneliness in later life, even married adults experience loneliness, and aspects of adults' marriages may either protect against or actually foster loneliness among spouses. The current study analyzed dyadic data from 1,114 opposite-sex married Irish couples who participated in the initial wave of The Ir…
Trajectories of perceived neighborhood quality across the life course: Sociodemographic determinants and implications for well-being
Trajectories of rural-urban disparities in biological risks for cardiovascular disease among Chinese middle-aged and older adults
Dyadic profiles of personality among older couples: Associations with marital quality
Understanding dyadic personality configurations and their associations with marital quality helps identify couples who are at high risk of marital strain. However, current research on personality similarity among spouses usually confounds couples with similarly positive and similarly negative personalities. This study aimed to (1) provide a clearer classification of dyadic personality profiles among older couples, (2) examine the associations bet…
For better or for worse: Marital status transitions and sexual life in middle and later life
Marital status and marital status transitions have known implications for adults' mental and physical quality of life. Less attention has been paid, however, to the implications of marital status and transitions for sexual quality of life, particularly among the aging population. The present study analyzed three-wave longitudinal data from the National Survey of Midlife Development in the U.S. (1995-2014) in order to examine the effects of marita…
Cognitive Functioning, Gender, and Marital Quality Among Older Married Couples: A Dyadic Approach
This study examines associations of older husbands' and wives' cognitive functioning with both partners' marital quality. Generalized structural equation modeling analyzed data from 1,432 opposite-sex couples drawn from the 2016 wave of the Health and Retirement Study. Findings revealed that wives' poorer cognitive functioning was associated with wives reporting greater closeness and enjoyment of time with a spouse, whereas husbands' poorer cogni…
Grieving a Grandparent: The Importance of Gender and Multigenerational Relationships
Objective: This study examined adult grandchildren's experience of losing a grandparent in the context of a multigenerational family. Background: Although the death of a grandparent in adulthood is often an expected life event, this loss may still result in grief for adult grandchildren. Furthermore, bereavement is not merely an individual experience, but a family one. Characteristics of the relationship between bereaved adult grandchildren and t…
Dyadic Loneliness and Changes to HbA1c Among Older US Couples: The Role of Marital Support as Stress Buffer
Objectives: Both experiencing loneliness and having a lonely partner can be psychosocial stressors, with implications for health. Yet, marital support may buffer against the cardiometabolic effects of loneliness. This study examines (1) whether own and/or partner's loneliness predict changes in HbA1c over 4 years and (2) whether marital support moderates these effects. Methods: Actor-partner interdependence models analyzed data from 1,854 older c…
Loneliness and HbA1c among older Irish couples: Retirement as life stage context
Loneliness is an important determinant of health and mortality among the aging population, including for cardiometabolic health. Yet research has largely focused on individual experiences of loneliness, rather than taking intimate relationships into account. However, recent studies have highlighted that loneliness of a partner may have implications for one's own health and well‐being as well. Indeed, this is particularly true among older couples,…
Caregiving and Self-Esteem in Mid and Later Life: Is There Variation by Age, Parental Status, and Gender
Caregiving may prove either beneficial or harmful for caregiver well-being, depending on the circumstances surrounding care provision. Using data from the two most recent waves of the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States (MIDUS, 2004–2014; N = 1,100), we examine whether providing care for an adult at both time points (i.e., 8–10 years apart) is associated with changes to self-esteem over the ten-year period, in comparison w…
Relationships between Interpersonal Goals and Loneliness in Older Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study
Loneliness is linked to many physiological and psychological issues and disproportionately affects older adults. Interpersonal goals (compassion and self-image) are essential to interpersonal relationships; however, how they relate to loneliness in older adults is unknown. We investigated the impact of interpersonal goals on loneliness using the Ecosystem-Egosystem Theory of Social Motivation. This study, adopting a descriptive cross-sectional co…
Employment Dynamics Among Adult Children at the Onset of Parental Dementia: Variation by Sociodemographic Characteristics
The potential impact of parental ADRD on adult child employment is complex and should be considered in the context of sociodemographic factors
Neighborhood Social Cohesion and Loneliness in Mid- and Later Life: Are Benefits Contingent on Race/Ethnicity or Neighborhood Disorder
Findings show that neighborhood social cohesion matters for midlife and older adults' loneliness, but that this relationship varies by race/ethnicity and neighborhood disorder. As such, neighborhood racial/ethnic makeup and both social and objective neighborhood characteristics should be considered when designing interventions to reduce loneliness
Longitudinal Dyadic Associations Between Loneliness and Cognition Among Older Couples in the United States
Lonelier older adults displayed worse trajectories of episodic memory over time, yet poor memory did not precede changes to loneliness. Further, having a lonely partner was linked with poorer episodic memory 8 years later, indicating that both one's own and-to a lesser extent-a partner's emotional well-being may be consequential for maintaining cognitive functioning with age. Associations were more clearly established with episodic memory than wi…
Promoting Age Inclusivity in Higher Education: Campus Practices and Perceptions by Students, Faculty, and Staff
Exploring loneliness across widowhood and other marital statuses: A systematic review integrating insights from grief research
The vital role social relationships play in mental health and well-being has been well-documented. Disruption of an intimate bond through bereavement can be enduringly stressful, with loneliness featuring prominently, possibly compromising mental and physical health. We systematically reviewed studies examining loneliness across marital status groups, focusing on the widowed. The aim was to establish what is known about the prevalence of loneline…
A Letter From the New Editor-in-Chief
An Investigation Into the Role of Attributions of Discrimination and Cognitive Functioning in Older Adults
ObjectiveLimited research has explored how the attributions of discrimination in later life are related to cognitive functioning.MethodsWe analyzed responses from 12,279 adults ages 65+ in the 2008 to 2018 waves of the Health and Retirement Study. Multilevel mixed models assessed whether cognitive functioning was associated with (1) everyday discrimination (without reference to attribution) and (2) frequency of 11 attributions of discrimination.R…
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