Gizem Hülür
Biographic Data
| ID | 758750 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gizem Hülür |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gizem |
| FAMILY NAME | Hülür |
| SIGNATURE | HÜLÜR G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bonn |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9225-3878 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 77 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The relationship between momentary affect and working memory performance among older couples
Research has long been interested in links between affect and cognition. The goal of the present study was to understand associations between momentary working memory performance and individual and partner affect as well as moderators (neuroticism and relationship satisfaction) of these associations. We used data from an experience sampling study with 151 heterosexual older couples (⩾65 years old). Our results showed no evidence for associations …
Correlates of daily memory lapses in older adults: Results from an intensive-longitudinal study
Daily memory lapses in older adults are primarily related to between-person differences in cognitive performance, health, and age awareness, rather than short-term daily fluctuations. These findings suggest that stable individual differences, rather than day-to-day changes, are most predictive of daily memory lapses. Day-to-day variations in memory lapses may instead be influenced by factors not captured in the present study, such as fatigue, str…
Individual and dyadic correlates of emotion perception performance in older couples
Research has widely documented age differences among adults in the ability to identify facial emotion expressions from pictures. In the current study, we examine how emotion perception ability is related to cognitive abilities, empathy, and relationship satisfaction. We use data from 151 older couples (M age = 72.6 years, age range: 65–86 years) collected in Switzerland and Southern Germany in 2018 and 2019. Participants were assessed on their ab…
Longitudinal impact of transition to caregiving on cognitive functioning: A matched case-control study
Objectives Chronic stress has a strong theoretical link to poorer cognitive aging outcomes. Stress from caregiving, especially dementia caregiving, is associated with worse cognition; however, most prior studies have serious methodological limitations. We examined the longitudinal impact of caregiving transitions (including dementia caregiving) on cognition, compared to carefully matched non-caregiver controls, and the possible mediating role of …
Does physical and social neighborhood environment matter for two-year changes in functional abilities and cognitive function in the oldest old
Objectives While favorable physical neighborhood environments have been shown to benefit functional abilities (FA) and cognitive function (CF) in older adults, evidence on social aspects remains inconclusive. This study aimed to examine the role of both physical (quality, infrastructure, walkability) and social (place attachment, social cohesion) neighborhood characteristics for levels/changes in FA and CF among the oldest old, who were often und…
The role of individual and environmental socio-economic resources for cognitive change in very old age
Our findings suggest that individual socio-economic resources continue to be associated with better cognitive function in very old age, but are unrelated to short-term cognitive decline. In addition, there is some evidence for associations of baseline cognitive function and cognitive change with environmental factors over and above individual resources. Implications for future research are discussed
The relevance of perceived work environment and work activities for personality trajectories in midlife
OBJECTIVES: Work is an important developmental context in adulthood, yet little is known about how it contributes to personality trajectories in midlife. The present study examines how subjectively perceived work environment (autonomy, innovation, social integration, stress) and objectively measured work activities (activities related to information and people, physical/manual activities) are related to levels of Big Five personality traits at ag…
Routineness of Social Interactions Is Associated With Higher Affective Well-Being in Older Adults
A routine social life may increase older adults' affective well-being. Results are discussed in the context of activity engagement and time use in older age
The perceived quality of social interactions differs by modality and purpose: An event-contingent experience sampling study with older adults
Older adults increasingly use digital technologies to communicate with others. The goal of the present study is to understand the role of interaction modality for the perceived quality of social interactions. We use data from 118 participants (age: M = 72 years, SD = 5, range = 65 to 94; 40% women), who reported on their social interactions (quality [valence, social relatedness, calmness, meaningfulness], modality [face-to-face in-person, telepho…
The role of work and retirement in adult development and aging
Music Engagement and Episodic Memory Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults: A National Longitudinal Analysis
The results of this study suggest that engaging in both passive and active music engagement may be superior to engaging with music only passively or actively and that engaging in music both ways may be able to protect against age-related declines in episodic memory. Future research should examine whether community-based music engagement interventions can affect this trajectory of decline
The Role of Relationship Conflict for Momentary Loneliness and Affect in the Daily Lives of Older Couples
Background: Intimate partner relationships foster individuals' well-being throughout the lifespan. However, dissatisfying or conflict-laden relationships can have a detrimental impact on well-being and relationship quality. The majority of older adults live together with a spouse/partner, and intimate relationships are one of the most important social contexts in their daily lives. Purpose: Expanding on previous research, we examined the role of …
Not “The More The Merrier”: Diminishing Returns to Daily Face-To-Face Social Interaction Frequency for Well-Being in Older Age
Our findings suggest the benefits of social interactions on well-being exhibit diminishing returns. Social interactions may play a bigger role in older adults with less satiation for desire to belong and a limited future time perspective. We discuss these findings in terms of the belongingness hypothesis and the socioemotional selectivity theory
Alternating time spent on social interactions and solitude in healthy older adults
Time spent on being with others (social interactions) and being alone (solitude) in day to day life might reflect older adults' agentic regulatory strategies to balance the needs to belong and to conserve energy. Motivated from a joint lifespan psychological and social relationship theoretical perspective, this study examined how time spent on social interactions and solitude alternatively unfolds within individuals in daily life, relating to ind…
Internet Adoption in Older Adults: Findings from the Health and Retirement Study
Being able to use the Internet is becoming increasingly important in today's digitized society. Evidence suggests that older adults are at risk of being left behind by technological developments. We examined Internet adoption in older adults in relation to sociodemographic, health, cognitive, social, and personality factors. We used data from the Health and Retirement Study (n = 5,949; 61 percent women; age: M = 72 years, standard deviation [SD] …
Affect contagion in daily life is mediated by perceptions of partner affect: An experience-sampling study with older couples
Intimate relationship partners dynamically covary in their affective states. One mechanism through which intimate relationship partners experience and shape each other's affective states is affect contagion, that is, the spread of affective states from one person to another. Most studies on affect contagion in daily life focused on younger couples. Also, the degree to which social-cognitive processes are involved in everyday affect contagion rema…
Change in Episodic Memory With Spousal Loss: The Role of Social Relationships
Our findings suggest that social networks, social activities, and loneliness are related to levels of cognitive function at the time of spousal loss and that social relationships can buffer negative effects of spousal loss on cognitive function. Implications for future research are discussed
Daily social interactions and well-being in older adults: The role of interaction modality
Associations between social relationships and well-being are widely documented across the lifespan, including in older age. Older adults increasingly use digital communication technologies. In the present study, we examine the role of social interactions for older adults' daily well-being with a focus on three interaction modalities (face-to-face, telephone, and digital). Specifically, we examine (a) whether people who are more socially active th…
Rethinking social relationships in old age: Digitalization and the social lives of older adults.
Co-development of Couples’ Life Satisfaction in Transition to Retirement: A Longitudinal Dyadic Perspective
Retirement is not a uniform period of transition, but is shaped by the multidimensional context in which life unfolds. Moreover, life satisfaction can be shaped in response to life transitions experienced by close others
The role of perceived work environment and work activities in midlife cognitive change
Previous research documented positive associations between cognitively stimulating work and levels of cognitive performance, while longitudinal associations are less clear. We used 20-year longitudinal data from the Interdisciplinary Longitudinal Study of Adult Development and Aging (ILSE) to examine the role of perceived work environment (autonomy, innovation, social integration, and stress) and work activities derived from an occupational datab…
Adult development and aging in historical context
Human functioning and development are shaped by sociocultural contexts and by the historical changes that occur in these contexts. Over the last century, sociocultural changes such as increases in early life education have profoundly reshaped normative developmental sequences. In this article, we first briefly review how history-graded changes have influenced levels of objective performance and subjective evaluations among older adults and conclu…
Social Integration and Terminal Decline in Life Satisfaction Among Older Japanese
This study suggests that social integration plays a protective role in late-life well-being and that sustaining an active social life and supportive social interactions may help mitigate terminal decline in well-being
The More We Are in Control, the Merrier? Partner Perceived Control and Negative Affect in the Daily Lives of Older Couples
We discuss possible mechanisms and underlying pathways of how perceived control may help both partners downregulate their negative emotions in daily life. We close by considering conceptual and practical implications
Terminal change across facets of affective experience and domain satisfaction: Commonalities, differences, and bittersweet emotions at the end of life
General well-being is known to deteriorate sharply at the end of life. However, it is an open question how rates of terminal change differ across affective and evaluative facets of well-being and if individual difference correlates operate in facet-specific ways. We examined how discrete affective states (happy, angry, fearful, sad) and satisfaction with key life domains (health, leisure, family) change as people approach death and how difference…
Daily social interactions and well-being in older adults: The role of interaction modality
Associations between social relationships and well-being are widely documented across the lifespan, including in older age. Older adults increasingly use digital communication technologies. In the present study, we examine the role of social interactions for older adults' daily well-being with a focus on three interaction modalities (face-to-face, telephone, and digital). Specifically, we examine (a) whether people who are more socially active th…
Not “The More The Merrier”: Diminishing Returns to Daily Face-To-Face Social Interaction Frequency for Well-Being in Older Age
Our findings suggest the benefits of social interactions on well-being exhibit diminishing returns. Social interactions may play a bigger role in older adults with less satiation for desire to belong and a limited future time perspective. We discuss these findings in terms of the belongingness hypothesis and the socioemotional selectivity theory
Adult development and aging in historical context
Human functioning and development are shaped by sociocultural contexts and by the historical changes that occur in these contexts. Over the last century, sociocultural changes such as increases in early life education have profoundly reshaped normative developmental sequences. In this article, we first briefly review how history-graded changes have influenced levels of objective performance and subjective evaluations among older adults and conclu…
Analyzing Dyadic Data Using Grid-Sequence Analysis: Interdyad Differences in Intradyad Dynamics
Methodologically, grid-sequence analysis extends the toolbox of techniques for analysis of dyadic experience sampling data. Substantively, we identify patterns of dyad-level microdynamics that may serve as new markers of risk/protective factors and potential points for intervention in older adults' proximal context
Historical improvements in well-being do not hold in late life: Birth- and death-year cohorts in the United States and Germany
One key objective of lifespan research is to examine how individual development is shaped by the historical time people live in. Secular trends favoring later-born cohorts on fluid cognitive abilities have been widely documented, but findings are mixed for well-being. It remains an open question whether secular increases in well-being seen in earlier phases of life also manifest in the last years of life. To examine this possibility, we made use …
The perceived quality of social interactions differs by modality and purpose: An event-contingent experience sampling study with older adults
Older adults increasingly use digital technologies to communicate with others. The goal of the present study is to understand the role of interaction modality for the perceived quality of social interactions. We use data from 118 participants (age: M = 72 years, SD = 5, range = 65 to 94; 40% women), who reported on their social interactions (quality [valence, social relatedness, calmness, meaningfulness], modality [face-to-face in-person, telepho…
Co-development of Couples’ Life Satisfaction in Transition to Retirement: A Longitudinal Dyadic Perspective
Retirement is not a uniform period of transition, but is shaped by the multidimensional context in which life unfolds. Moreover, life satisfaction can be shaped in response to life transitions experienced by close others
The Role of Relationship Conflict for Momentary Loneliness and Affect in the Daily Lives of Older Couples
Background: Intimate partner relationships foster individuals' well-being throughout the lifespan. However, dissatisfying or conflict-laden relationships can have a detrimental impact on well-being and relationship quality. The majority of older adults live together with a spouse/partner, and intimate relationships are one of the most important social contexts in their daily lives. Purpose: Expanding on previous research, we examined the role of …
Developmental associations between short-term variability and long-term changes: Intraindividual correlation of positive and negative affect in daily life and cognitive aging
Conceptual notions and empirical evidence suggest that the intraindividual correlation (iCorr) of positive affect (PA) and negative affect (NA) is a meaningful characteristic of affective functioning. PA and NA are typically negatively correlated within-person. Previous research has found that the iCorr of PA and NA is relatively stable over time within individuals, that it differs across individuals, and that a less negative iCorr is associated …
Alternating time spent on social interactions and solitude in healthy older adults
Time spent on being with others (social interactions) and being alone (solitude) in day to day life might reflect older adults' agentic regulatory strategies to balance the needs to belong and to conserve energy. Motivated from a joint lifespan psychological and social relationship theoretical perspective, this study examined how time spent on social interactions and solitude alternatively unfolds within individuals in daily life, relating to ind…
Social Integration and Terminal Decline in Life Satisfaction Among Older Japanese
This study suggests that social integration plays a protective role in late-life well-being and that sustaining an active social life and supportive social interactions may help mitigate terminal decline in well-being
The More We Are in Control, the Merrier? Partner Perceived Control and Negative Affect in the Daily Lives of Older Couples
We discuss possible mechanisms and underlying pathways of how perceived control may help both partners downregulate their negative emotions in daily life. We close by considering conceptual and practical implications
Terminal change across facets of affective experience and domain satisfaction: Commonalities, differences, and bittersweet emotions at the end of life
General well-being is known to deteriorate sharply at the end of life. However, it is an open question how rates of terminal change differ across affective and evaluative facets of well-being and if individual difference correlates operate in facet-specific ways. We examined how discrete affective states (happy, angry, fearful, sad) and satisfaction with key life domains (health, leisure, family) change as people approach death and how difference…
The role of individual and environmental socio-economic resources for cognitive change in very old age
Our findings suggest that individual socio-economic resources continue to be associated with better cognitive function in very old age, but are unrelated to short-term cognitive decline. In addition, there is some evidence for associations of baseline cognitive function and cognitive change with environmental factors over and above individual resources. Implications for future research are discussed
Change in Episodic Memory With Spousal Loss: The Role of Social Relationships
Our findings suggest that social networks, social activities, and loneliness are related to levels of cognitive function at the time of spousal loss and that social relationships can buffer negative effects of spousal loss on cognitive function. Implications for future research are discussed
The role of perceived work environment and work activities in midlife cognitive change
Previous research documented positive associations between cognitively stimulating work and levels of cognitive performance, while longitudinal associations are less clear. We used 20-year longitudinal data from the Interdisciplinary Longitudinal Study of Adult Development and Aging (ILSE) to examine the role of perceived work environment (autonomy, innovation, social integration, and stress) and work activities derived from an occupational datab…
Developmental associations between short-term variability and long-term changes: Intraindividual correlation of positive and negative affect in daily life and cognitive aging
Conceptual notions and empirical evidence suggest that the intraindividual correlation (iCorr) of positive affect (PA) and negative affect (NA) is a meaningful characteristic of affective functioning. PA and NA are typically negatively correlated within-person. Previous research has found that the iCorr of PA and NA is relatively stable over time within individuals, that it differs across individuals, and that a less negative iCorr is associated …
Historical improvements in well-being do not hold in late life: Birth- and death-year cohorts in the United States and Germany
One key objective of lifespan research is to examine how individual development is shaped by the historical time people live in. Secular trends favoring later-born cohorts on fluid cognitive abilities have been widely documented, but findings are mixed for well-being. It remains an open question whether secular increases in well-being seen in earlier phases of life also manifest in the last years of life. To examine this possibility, we made use …
Analyzing Dyadic Data Using Grid-Sequence Analysis: Interdyad Differences in Intradyad Dynamics
Methodologically, grid-sequence analysis extends the toolbox of techniques for analysis of dyadic experience sampling data. Substantively, we identify patterns of dyad-level microdynamics that may serve as new markers of risk/protective factors and potential points for intervention in older adults' proximal context
The More We Are in Control, the Merrier? Partner Perceived Control and Negative Affect in the Daily Lives of Older Couples
We discuss possible mechanisms and underlying pathways of how perceived control may help both partners downregulate their negative emotions in daily life. We close by considering conceptual and practical implications
Terminal change across facets of affective experience and domain satisfaction: Commonalities, differences, and bittersweet emotions at the end of life
General well-being is known to deteriorate sharply at the end of life. However, it is an open question how rates of terminal change differ across affective and evaluative facets of well-being and if individual difference correlates operate in facet-specific ways. We examined how discrete affective states (happy, angry, fearful, sad) and satisfaction with key life domains (health, leisure, family) change as people approach death and how difference…
Social Integration and Terminal Decline in Life Satisfaction Among Older Japanese
This study suggests that social integration plays a protective role in late-life well-being and that sustaining an active social life and supportive social interactions may help mitigate terminal decline in well-being
Rethinking social relationships in old age: Digitalization and the social lives of older adults.
Co-development of Couples’ Life Satisfaction in Transition to Retirement: A Longitudinal Dyadic Perspective
Retirement is not a uniform period of transition, but is shaped by the multidimensional context in which life unfolds. Moreover, life satisfaction can be shaped in response to life transitions experienced by close others
The role of perceived work environment and work activities in midlife cognitive change
Previous research documented positive associations between cognitively stimulating work and levels of cognitive performance, while longitudinal associations are less clear. We used 20-year longitudinal data from the Interdisciplinary Longitudinal Study of Adult Development and Aging (ILSE) to examine the role of perceived work environment (autonomy, innovation, social integration, and stress) and work activities derived from an occupational datab…
Adult development and aging in historical context
Human functioning and development are shaped by sociocultural contexts and by the historical changes that occur in these contexts. Over the last century, sociocultural changes such as increases in early life education have profoundly reshaped normative developmental sequences. In this article, we first briefly review how history-graded changes have influenced levels of objective performance and subjective evaluations among older adults and conclu…
Internet Adoption in Older Adults: Findings from the Health and Retirement Study
Being able to use the Internet is becoming increasingly important in today's digitized society. Evidence suggests that older adults are at risk of being left behind by technological developments. We examined Internet adoption in older adults in relation to sociodemographic, health, cognitive, social, and personality factors. We used data from the Health and Retirement Study (n = 5,949; 61 percent women; age: M = 72 years, standard deviation [SD] …
Affect contagion in daily life is mediated by perceptions of partner affect: An experience-sampling study with older couples
Intimate relationship partners dynamically covary in their affective states. One mechanism through which intimate relationship partners experience and shape each other's affective states is affect contagion, that is, the spread of affective states from one person to another. Most studies on affect contagion in daily life focused on younger couples. Also, the degree to which social-cognitive processes are involved in everyday affect contagion rema…
Change in Episodic Memory With Spousal Loss: The Role of Social Relationships
Our findings suggest that social networks, social activities, and loneliness are related to levels of cognitive function at the time of spousal loss and that social relationships can buffer negative effects of spousal loss on cognitive function. Implications for future research are discussed
Daily social interactions and well-being in older adults: The role of interaction modality
Associations between social relationships and well-being are widely documented across the lifespan, including in older age. Older adults increasingly use digital communication technologies. In the present study, we examine the role of social interactions for older adults' daily well-being with a focus on three interaction modalities (face-to-face, telephone, and digital). Specifically, we examine (a) whether people who are more socially active th…
Not “The More The Merrier”: Diminishing Returns to Daily Face-To-Face Social Interaction Frequency for Well-Being in Older Age
Our findings suggest the benefits of social interactions on well-being exhibit diminishing returns. Social interactions may play a bigger role in older adults with less satiation for desire to belong and a limited future time perspective. We discuss these findings in terms of the belongingness hypothesis and the socioemotional selectivity theory
Alternating time spent on social interactions and solitude in healthy older adults
Time spent on being with others (social interactions) and being alone (solitude) in day to day life might reflect older adults' agentic regulatory strategies to balance the needs to belong and to conserve energy. Motivated from a joint lifespan psychological and social relationship theoretical perspective, this study examined how time spent on social interactions and solitude alternatively unfolds within individuals in daily life, relating to ind…
The role of work and retirement in adult development and aging
Music Engagement and Episodic Memory Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults: A National Longitudinal Analysis
The results of this study suggest that engaging in both passive and active music engagement may be superior to engaging with music only passively or actively and that engaging in music both ways may be able to protect against age-related declines in episodic memory. Future research should examine whether community-based music engagement interventions can affect this trajectory of decline
The Role of Relationship Conflict for Momentary Loneliness and Affect in the Daily Lives of Older Couples
Background: Intimate partner relationships foster individuals' well-being throughout the lifespan. However, dissatisfying or conflict-laden relationships can have a detrimental impact on well-being and relationship quality. The majority of older adults live together with a spouse/partner, and intimate relationships are one of the most important social contexts in their daily lives. Purpose: Expanding on previous research, we examined the role of …
The relevance of perceived work environment and work activities for personality trajectories in midlife
OBJECTIVES: Work is an important developmental context in adulthood, yet little is known about how it contributes to personality trajectories in midlife. The present study examines how subjectively perceived work environment (autonomy, innovation, social integration, stress) and objectively measured work activities (activities related to information and people, physical/manual activities) are related to levels of Big Five personality traits at ag…
Routineness of Social Interactions Is Associated With Higher Affective Well-Being in Older Adults
A routine social life may increase older adults' affective well-being. Results are discussed in the context of activity engagement and time use in older age
The perceived quality of social interactions differs by modality and purpose: An event-contingent experience sampling study with older adults
Older adults increasingly use digital technologies to communicate with others. The goal of the present study is to understand the role of interaction modality for the perceived quality of social interactions. We use data from 118 participants (age: M = 72 years, SD = 5, range = 65 to 94; 40% women), who reported on their social interactions (quality [valence, social relatedness, calmness, meaningfulness], modality [face-to-face in-person, telepho…
Longitudinal impact of transition to caregiving on cognitive functioning: A matched case-control study
Objectives Chronic stress has a strong theoretical link to poorer cognitive aging outcomes. Stress from caregiving, especially dementia caregiving, is associated with worse cognition; however, most prior studies have serious methodological limitations. We examined the longitudinal impact of caregiving transitions (including dementia caregiving) on cognition, compared to carefully matched non-caregiver controls, and the possible mediating role of …
Does physical and social neighborhood environment matter for two-year changes in functional abilities and cognitive function in the oldest old
Objectives While favorable physical neighborhood environments have been shown to benefit functional abilities (FA) and cognitive function (CF) in older adults, evidence on social aspects remains inconclusive. This study aimed to examine the role of both physical (quality, infrastructure, walkability) and social (place attachment, social cohesion) neighborhood characteristics for levels/changes in FA and CF among the oldest old, who were often und…
The role of individual and environmental socio-economic resources for cognitive change in very old age
Our findings suggest that individual socio-economic resources continue to be associated with better cognitive function in very old age, but are unrelated to short-term cognitive decline. In addition, there is some evidence for associations of baseline cognitive function and cognitive change with environmental factors over and above individual resources. Implications for future research are discussed
Psychology (24 works) · Aging and Gerontology Research (19 works) · Developmental psychology (19 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (16 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Cognition (10 works) · Affect (linguistics (8 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Psychiatry (7 works)