Judith G Chipperfield
Biographic Data
| ID | 764312 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Judith G Chipperfield |
| GIVEN NAMES | Judith G |
| FAMILY NAME | Chipperfield |
| SIGNATURE | CHIPPERFIELD J G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manitoba |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5047-9206 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 356 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Assisting students in debt to overcome academic setbacks with a cognitive-reframing motivation intervention
Adjustment and acceptance beliefs in achievement settings: Implications for student wellbeing
Attributional retraining: Promoting psychological wellbeing in older adults with compromised health
Older adults make up the largest portion of the population of physically inactive individuals. Health challenges, and psychological barriers (e.g., maladaptive causal attributions), contribute to reduced activity engagement and low perceived control. This pilot study tested an attributional retraining (AR) intervention designed to increase control-related outcomes in a physical activity context for older adults with compromised health. Using a ra…
A motivation perspective on achievement appraisals, emotions, and performance in an online learning environment
Cell phones and grades: Examining mediation by perceived control and anxiety
A healthy dose of realism: The role of optimistic and pessimistic expectations when facing a downward spiral in health
Paradoxical Effects of Perceived Control on Survival
These findings deepen the knowledge regarding the conditions under which PC is or is not adaptive, suggesting the consequences depend on age and the extent to which health is valued
The Detrimental Consequences of Overestimating Future Health in Late Life
Results suggest that repeatedly unmet health expectations may undermine motivational resources and accelerate late life declines in physical functioning
"Attributing heart attack and stroke to "Old Age: Implications for subsequent health outcomes among older adults
This study assessed the extent to which older adults attribute a recent heart attack/stroke to "old age," and examined consequences for subsequent lifestyle behavior and health-care service utilization. Community-dwelling adults ( N = 57, ages 73-98 years) were interviewed about their heart attack/stroke, and an objective health registry provided data on health-care utilization over a 3-year period. Endorsement of "old age" as a cause of heart at…
Conflicted Goal Engagement: Undermining Physical Activity and Health in Late Life
Employing health maintenance strategies that promote motivation-focused thinking but discourage goal-directed behaviors (conflicted engagement) may compromise physical activity and health among very old adults. Further research is needed to determine whether control-enhancing interventions promote harmonious goal engagement and better health among these high-risk individuals
Predicting stability and change in loneliness in later life
This study examined potential discriminators of groups of older adults showing different patterns of stability or change in loneliness over 5 years: those who became lonely, overcame loneliness, were persistently lonely, and were persistently not lonely. Discriminant function analysis results showed that the persistently lonely, compared with the persistently not lonely, were more often living alone, widowed, and experiencing poorer health and pe…
Attributional Retraining: Reducing the likelihood of failure
Age, Relative Autonomy and Change in Health Locus of Control Beliefs: A Longitudinal Study of Members of a Health-promotion Facility
Health locus of control (HLC) describes an individual's characteristic attribution of health outcomes to internal or external causes. This four-year longitudinal study examined changes in HLC beliefs among 124 members of a health-promotion facility, related to their age (22-81) and relative autonomy toward health-related goals. HLC beliefs changed with age as developmental theories of control striving would predict. Holding age aside, the pursuit…
Causal beliefs, social participation, and loneliness among older adults: A longitudinal study
Loneliness can be seen as a social failure subject to causal search: Why am I lonely? Why do I lack friends? According to attribution theory, answers to these questions can influence emotions, motivation, and behaviours. This study examined the relationships between various affiliative causal beliefs (i.e., beliefs about loneliness and friendship development), social participation, and loneliness among older adults (72+ years). Cross-sectional an…
Exploring the Commonalities Between Adaptive Resources and Self-Enhancement in Older Adults' Comparative Judgments of Physical Activity
Objective. This study examines the extent to which optimism, control beliefs and motivation, and downward social comparison contribute independently to the maintenance of older adults positive self-evaluations in a functional domain. Method. Adaptive resources/strategies and life satisfaction were measured in personal interviews with 164 community-dwelling older adults. Participants judged their physical activity compared with the average person …
Differential Determinants of Men's and Women's Everyday Physical Activity in Later Life
We consider reasons why poorer health might erode EPA for men (but not women) and why living alone might erode EPA for women (but not men)
Collective self-esteem and the onset of chronic conditions and reduced activity in a longitudinal study of aging
Academic optimistic bias: Implications for college student performance and well-being
Perceived control and emotions: Interactive effects on performance in achievement settings
Detrimental Effects of Falling on Health and Well-being in Later Life: The Mediating Roles of Perceived Control and Optimism
Falling is common among older adults, often resulting in decreased functional ability and quality of life. To understand processes underlying the fall/health and well-being relationship, it is important to identify psychosocial mediators. The current study examined the impact of falling on subsequent physical health, negative emotions and physical activity among 231 young-old (<85) and old-old (85+) community-dwelling adults, and the mediating ef…
Stability in Perceived Control: Implications for Health among Very Old Community-Dwelling Adults
Our findings suggest that health and well-being among very old individuals may be compromised by fluctuating levels of PC, or conversely, that stability in PC enhances health
A Longitudinal Analysis of Discrete Negative Emotions and Health-Services Use in Elderly Individuals
The interactions indicate the importance of negative emotions and the larger social and developmental context in health care services use among elderly individuals
Discrete Emotions in Later Life
More positivity than negativity is demonstrated in this analysis of discrete emotions among 353 community-dwelling individuals from 72 to 99 years old. A complexity in positive emotions was displayed, with more happiness, contentment, and gratitude reported than frustration, sadness, and anger. Our results also imply that another individual's presence may elicit negative emotions such as anger and guilt, whereas perceptions of support may elicit …
Two views of self-rated general health status
Compensating for Losses in Perceived Personal Control Over Health: A Role for Collective Self-Esteem in Healthy Aging
Collective self-esteem (CSE) refers to an individual's self-evaluation of his or her social identity. We speculate that a positive social identity, or high CSE, facilitates accommodation to negative health-related circumstances in later life, especially when one feels unable to alter these circumstances directly. Accordingly, we hypothesized that CSE would be associated with fewer chronic conditions and greater perceived health for those with low…
Two views of self-rated general health status
Perceived control in relation to socioeconomic and behavioral resources for health
Causal beliefs, social participation, and loneliness among older adults: A longitudinal study
Loneliness can be seen as a social failure subject to causal search: Why am I lonely? Why do I lack friends? According to attribution theory, answers to these questions can influence emotions, motivation, and behaviours. This study examined the relationships between various affiliative causal beliefs (i.e., beliefs about loneliness and friendship development), social participation, and loneliness among older adults (72+ years). Cross-sectional an…
Self-Perceptions of Health: A Prospective Analysis of Mortality, Control, and Health
A growing number of studies show that self-perceptions of health are an important predictor of mortality. The present study was designed to extend this research by examining the relation between health perceptions and a range of other outcome measures besides mortality, including control beliefs and morbidity. The results show that older adults who rated their health as "bad/poor" and "fair" were more than twice as likely to die within three to t…
Remaining Active in Later Life: The Role of Locus of Control in Seniors' Leisure Activity Participation, Health, and Life Satisfaction
Although the physical and psychological benefits of feeling in control are well-documented in the research literature, the mechanisms that account for these effects have received less attention. The present study was designed to examine the potential mediating role of exercising and participation in nonphysical leisure activities, such as attending cultural events, involvement in volunteer organizations, and so on, in the relation between perceiv…
Predicting stability and change in loneliness in later life
This study examined potential discriminators of groups of older adults showing different patterns of stability or change in loneliness over 5 years: those who became lonely, overcame loneliness, were persistently lonely, and were persistently not lonely. Discriminant function analysis results showed that the persistently lonely, compared with the persistently not lonely, were more often living alone, widowed, and experiencing poorer health and pe…
Gender Differences in the Relationship Between Marital Status Transitions and Life Satisfaction in Later Life
This study examined life satisfaction among individuals who had undergone a transition in marital status and those whose marital status remained stable over a 7-year period. In particular, using data from a large-scale, longitudinal study we assessed life satisfaction as measured in 1983 and 1990 among 2,180 men and women between the ages of 67 and 102. Groups of individuals were identified on the basis of whether a spouse was present or absent a…
Perceived Barriers in Coping with Health Problems: A Twelve-Year Longitudinal Study of Survival among Elderly Individuals
Gerontologists have become increasingly concerned about the long-term implications of perceived barriers to health, the most often studied barrier being perceived loss of control. Using data from a large-scale longitudinal project, the Aging in Manitoba Studies, the present study (N= 4,317) examined perceived barriers in the management of health problems. Three types of perceived health barriers (PHBs) were considered: control barriers (perceived…
Incongruence between Health Perceptions and Health Problems: Implications for Survival among Seniors
Subjective ratings of health are not always congruent with other health indices. The present study explored the congruence/incongruence between subjective overall health ratings and diseases/health problems as reported by elderly individuals. The goals were to consider the prevalence of health congruence/incongruence among seniors and to examine whether congruence/incongruence relates to mortality. Overall, it was found that incongruence was more…
The Interactive Effect of Perceived Control and Functional Status on Health and Mortality among Young-Old and Old-Old Adults
The effect of perceived control on health has been examined extensively in the gerontological literature. A question that has received little attention, however, is whether perceived control affords similar benefits to all other adults. In a longitudinal study we examined the effect of perceived control, in combination with functional status and age, on perceived health, morbidity, hospitalization, and mortality. The analyses showed that perceive…
Discrete Emotions in Later Life
More positivity than negativity is demonstrated in this analysis of discrete emotions among 353 community-dwelling individuals from 72 to 99 years old. A complexity in positive emotions was displayed, with more happiness, contentment, and gratitude reported than frustration, sadness, and anger. Our results also imply that another individual's presence may elicit negative emotions such as anger and guilt, whereas perceptions of support may elicit …
Primary and Secondary Control-Enhancing Strategies: Implications for Health in Later Life
The findings may indicate that primary-control strategies have positive health implications for the young-old but that these same strategies become detrimental to health in late life. The findings could further suggest that compensatory secondary-control strategies become increasingly more adaptive in late life
Perceived Control as a Buffer in the Use of Health Care Services
Gerontologists are increasingly interested in the notion of perceived personal control because such perceptions can be threatened by age-related changes such as declining health and the loss of loved ones. Although a great deal is known about the central role of perceived control in healthy, successful aging, less is known about its potential role in specific contexts such as the use of health services. Our study examined the link between perceiv…
Birth order and activity level in children
Etude longitudinale, de la naissance a 7 ans, mettant a l'epreuve chez 7018 enfants l'existence d'une relation negative entre l'ordre de naissance et le niveau d'activite motrice
Academic optimistic bias: Implications for college student performance and well-being
Stability in Perceived Control: Implications for Health among Very Old Community-Dwelling Adults
Our findings suggest that health and well-being among very old individuals may be compromised by fluctuating levels of PC, or conversely, that stability in PC enhances health
"Attributing heart attack and stroke to "Old Age: Implications for subsequent health outcomes among older adults
This study assessed the extent to which older adults attribute a recent heart attack/stroke to "old age," and examined consequences for subsequent lifestyle behavior and health-care service utilization. Community-dwelling adults ( N = 57, ages 73-98 years) were interviewed about their heart attack/stroke, and an objective health registry provided data on health-care utilization over a 3-year period. Endorsement of "old age" as a cause of heart at…
Detrimental Effects of Falling on Health and Well-being in Later Life: The Mediating Roles of Perceived Control and Optimism
Falling is common among older adults, often resulting in decreased functional ability and quality of life. To understand processes underlying the fall/health and well-being relationship, it is important to identify psychosocial mediators. The current study examined the impact of falling on subsequent physical health, negative emotions and physical activity among 231 young-old (<85) and old-old (85+) community-dwelling adults, and the mediating ef…
Collective self-esteem and the onset of chronic conditions and reduced activity in a longitudinal study of aging
Perceived Adequacy of Instrumental Assistance: Implications for Well-Being in Later Life
Beginning with the premise that care recipients' perceptions of inadequate help may have long-term negative consequences, this study examined whether seniors' perceptions related to patterns of well-being over a 12-year period. Patterns of change in physical health (i.e., number of chronic health conditions, self-rated health), psychological well-being (i.e., life satisfaction), and independence (i.e., functional and instrumental) were compared f…
Attributional Retraining: Reducing the likelihood of failure
A healthy dose of realism: The role of optimistic and pessimistic expectations when facing a downward spiral in health
Perceived control and emotions: Interactive effects on performance in achievement settings
Compensating for Losses in Perceived Personal Control Over Health: A Role for Collective Self-Esteem in Healthy Aging
Collective self-esteem (CSE) refers to an individual's self-evaluation of his or her social identity. We speculate that a positive social identity, or high CSE, facilitates accommodation to negative health-related circumstances in later life, especially when one feels unable to alter these circumstances directly. Accordingly, we hypothesized that CSE would be associated with fewer chronic conditions and greater perceived health for those with low…
Attributional retraining: Promoting psychological wellbeing in older adults with compromised health
Older adults make up the largest portion of the population of physically inactive individuals. Health challenges, and psychological barriers (e.g., maladaptive causal attributions), contribute to reduced activity engagement and low perceived control. This pilot study tested an attributional retraining (AR) intervention designed to increase control-related outcomes in a physical activity context for older adults with compromised health. Using a ra…
Birth order and activity level in children
Etude longitudinale, de la naissance a 7 ans, mettant a l'epreuve chez 7018 enfants l'existence d'une relation negative entre l'ordre de naissance et le niveau d'activite motrice
Perceived Barriers in Coping with Health Problems: A Twelve-Year Longitudinal Study of Survival among Elderly Individuals
Gerontologists have become increasingly concerned about the long-term implications of perceived barriers to health, the most often studied barrier being perceived loss of control. Using data from a large-scale longitudinal project, the Aging in Manitoba Studies, the present study (N= 4,317) examined perceived barriers in the management of health problems. Three types of perceived health barriers (PHBs) were considered: control barriers (perceived…
Incongruence between Health Perceptions and Health Problems: Implications for Survival among Seniors
Subjective ratings of health are not always congruent with other health indices. The present study explored the congruence/incongruence between subjective overall health ratings and diseases/health problems as reported by elderly individuals. The goals were to consider the prevalence of health congruence/incongruence among seniors and to examine whether congruence/incongruence relates to mortality. Overall, it was found that incongruence was more…
Seniors' Attributions for Task Performance Difficulties: Implications for Feelings of Task Efficacy
Some seniors face difficulties carrying out simple everyday tasks such as opening containers and turning doorknobs. This study began with the premise that seniors' appraisals about such difficulties may have consequences for feelings of task efficacy (e.g., feelings of control and optimism). Attributions to poor product design (an external/environmental factor) and to limitations (an internal/personal factor) were considered in addition to joint …
Perceived Adequacy of Instrumental Assistance: Implications for Well-Being in Later Life
Beginning with the premise that care recipients' perceptions of inadequate help may have long-term negative consequences, this study examined whether seniors' perceptions related to patterns of well-being over a 12-year period. Patterns of change in physical health (i.e., number of chronic health conditions, self-rated health), psychological well-being (i.e., life satisfaction), and independence (i.e., functional and instrumental) were compared f…
Remaining Active in Later Life: The Role of Locus of Control in Seniors' Leisure Activity Participation, Health, and Life Satisfaction
Although the physical and psychological benefits of feeling in control are well-documented in the research literature, the mechanisms that account for these effects have received less attention. The present study was designed to examine the potential mediating role of exercising and participation in nonphysical leisure activities, such as attending cultural events, involvement in volunteer organizations, and so on, in the relation between perceiv…
The Interactive Effect of Perceived Control and Functional Status on Health and Mortality among Young-Old and Old-Old Adults
The effect of perceived control on health has been examined extensively in the gerontological literature. A question that has received little attention, however, is whether perceived control affords similar benefits to all other adults. In a longitudinal study we examined the effect of perceived control, in combination with functional status and age, on perceived health, morbidity, hospitalization, and mortality. The analyses showed that perceive…
Primary and Secondary Control-Enhancing Strategies: Implications for Health in Later Life
The findings may indicate that primary-control strategies have positive health implications for the young-old but that these same strategies become detrimental to health in late life. The findings could further suggest that compensatory secondary-control strategies become increasingly more adaptive in late life
Self-Perceptions of Health: A Prospective Analysis of Mortality, Control, and Health
A growing number of studies show that self-perceptions of health are an important predictor of mortality. The present study was designed to extend this research by examining the relation between health perceptions and a range of other outcome measures besides mortality, including control beliefs and morbidity. The results show that older adults who rated their health as "bad/poor" and "fair" were more than twice as likely to die within three to t…
Perceived Control as a Buffer in the Use of Health Care Services
Gerontologists are increasingly interested in the notion of perceived personal control because such perceptions can be threatened by age-related changes such as declining health and the loss of loved ones. Although a great deal is known about the central role of perceived control in healthy, successful aging, less is known about its potential role in specific contexts such as the use of health services. Our study examined the link between perceiv…
Gender Differences in the Relationship Between Marital Status Transitions and Life Satisfaction in Later Life
This study examined life satisfaction among individuals who had undergone a transition in marital status and those whose marital status remained stable over a 7-year period. In particular, using data from a large-scale, longitudinal study we assessed life satisfaction as measured in 1983 and 1990 among 2,180 men and women between the ages of 67 and 102. Groups of individuals were identified on the basis of whether a spouse was present or absent a…
Perceived control in relation to socioeconomic and behavioral resources for health
Compensating for Losses in Perceived Personal Control Over Health: A Role for Collective Self-Esteem in Healthy Aging
Collective self-esteem (CSE) refers to an individual's self-evaluation of his or her social identity. We speculate that a positive social identity, or high CSE, facilitates accommodation to negative health-related circumstances in later life, especially when one feels unable to alter these circumstances directly. Accordingly, we hypothesized that CSE would be associated with fewer chronic conditions and greater perceived health for those with low…
Discrete Emotions in Later Life
More positivity than negativity is demonstrated in this analysis of discrete emotions among 353 community-dwelling individuals from 72 to 99 years old. A complexity in positive emotions was displayed, with more happiness, contentment, and gratitude reported than frustration, sadness, and anger. Our results also imply that another individual's presence may elicit negative emotions such as anger and guilt, whereas perceptions of support may elicit …
Two views of self-rated general health status
Stability in Perceived Control: Implications for Health among Very Old Community-Dwelling Adults
Our findings suggest that health and well-being among very old individuals may be compromised by fluctuating levels of PC, or conversely, that stability in PC enhances health
A Longitudinal Analysis of Discrete Negative Emotions and Health-Services Use in Elderly Individuals
The interactions indicate the importance of negative emotions and the larger social and developmental context in health care services use among elderly individuals
Academic optimistic bias: Implications for college student performance and well-being
Perceived control and emotions: Interactive effects on performance in achievement settings
Detrimental Effects of Falling on Health and Well-being in Later Life: The Mediating Roles of Perceived Control and Optimism
Falling is common among older adults, often resulting in decreased functional ability and quality of life. To understand processes underlying the fall/health and well-being relationship, it is important to identify psychosocial mediators. The current study examined the impact of falling on subsequent physical health, negative emotions and physical activity among 231 young-old (<85) and old-old (85+) community-dwelling adults, and the mediating ef…
Exploring the Commonalities Between Adaptive Resources and Self-Enhancement in Older Adults' Comparative Judgments of Physical Activity
Objective. This study examines the extent to which optimism, control beliefs and motivation, and downward social comparison contribute independently to the maintenance of older adults positive self-evaluations in a functional domain. Method. Adaptive resources/strategies and life satisfaction were measured in personal interviews with 164 community-dwelling older adults. Participants judged their physical activity compared with the average person …
Differential Determinants of Men's and Women's Everyday Physical Activity in Later Life
We consider reasons why poorer health might erode EPA for men (but not women) and why living alone might erode EPA for women (but not men)
Collective self-esteem and the onset of chronic conditions and reduced activity in a longitudinal study of aging
Causal beliefs, social participation, and loneliness among older adults: A longitudinal study
Loneliness can be seen as a social failure subject to causal search: Why am I lonely? Why do I lack friends? According to attribution theory, answers to these questions can influence emotions, motivation, and behaviours. This study examined the relationships between various affiliative causal beliefs (i.e., beliefs about loneliness and friendship development), social participation, and loneliness among older adults (72+ years). Cross-sectional an…
Attributional Retraining: Reducing the likelihood of failure
Psychology (36 works) · Social Psychology (24 works) · Medicine (23 works) · Aging and Gerontology Research (21 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (21 works) · Gerontology (20 works) · Social Psychology (18 works) · Developmental psychology (17 works) · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (14 works) · Demography (10 works)