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Jacqui Smith

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ID3583256
NOMEJacqui Smith
PRENOMESJacqui
SOBRENOMESmith
ASSINATURASMITH J
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of Michigan
ORCID0000-0002-6499-103X
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TOTAL DE OBRAS52
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES397
TOTAL COMO AUTOR52
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1979
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H11
  • Tracking Divergence of Objective and Subjective Health Across Age and Historical Time

    Open Access•Rinseo Park, Denis Gerstorf et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2026

    Influential work in the gerontological literature in the 1990s has demonstrated that the discrepancy between objective and subjective evaluations of health increases with age. It is an open question though whether the direction and size of the age gradient in the discrepancies has changed over historical time. In this study, we examine cohort differences in age-related divergences in health evaluations using two markers of objective health (illne…

  • Interpersonal, Community, and Societal Stressors Mediate Black–White Memory Disparities

    Open Access•E P Morris, Jordan D Palms et al.•ARTICLE•The Journals of Gerontology…•2024•Citada por: 1•Referências: 10

    Elements of structural racism may contribute to cognitive disparities via disproportionate stress experiences at multiple contextual levels among Black older adults. Future research should consider multilevel protective factors that buffer against negative impacts of racism on health

  • Relocation Later in Life and Contact Frequency With Friends

    Open Access•Joonyoung Cho, Jacqui Smith•ARTICLE•Research on Aging•2023

    We examined changes in the frequencies of in-person, telephone, and written or email contact with friends in older adults who move short or longer distances. 3820 adults aged 50 years or older were included from a nationally representative sample from the Health and Retirement Study. Using ordinal logistic regression, we found differential effects of geographical distances on the in-person, telephone, and write or email contact with friends. Spec…

  • Changes in childhood caregiving impressions among middle‐aged and older adults

    Open Access•W J Chopik, J Oh et al.•ARTICLE•Personal Relationships•2023•Referências: 13

    Childhood experiences and impressions are important for individuals' health and well‐being—they often set the stage for how people approach relationships across the lifespan and how they make sense of their relational worlds. However, impressions of these experiences are likely not static and can change over time, even years after these experiences happened. The current study examined how impressions of parental relationships in childhood changed…

  • The Impact of Caregiving History on Later-Life Self-Perceptions of Aging

    Open Access•Rita Xiaochen Hu, Marina Larkina et al.•ARTICLE•The Journals of Gerontology…•2023•Citada por: 1•Referências: 8

    The study provides insight into potential life-course precursors of SPA and highlights the importance of conceptualizing caregiving history as a complex life experience that might affect an individual's SPA later in life

  • Early-life Health as a Lifelong Precursor of Self-Related Views of Aging in Later Life

    Open Access•Jacqui Smith, Marina Larkina et al.•ARTICLE•The Journals of Gerontology…•2020•Referências: 3

    This study provides new insight into potential early-life precursors of self-evaluations of aging. In particular, childhood diagnoses of chronic illness enhance negative SPA up to 50 years later. Non-normative experiences related to poor health in childhood are lifelong foundations for socioeconomic status, health, and for self-related beliefs about age and aging

  • Multigenerational Households During Childhood and Trajectories of Cognitive Functioning Among U.S. Older Adults

    Open Access•Haena Lee, Lindsay H Ryan et al.•ARTICLE•The Journals of Gerontology…•2020•Citada por: 3•Referências: 9

    Objectives Family structure in childhood influences early brain development and cognitive performance in adulthood. Much less is known about its long-term impact on later-life cognitive functioning. We extend the two-generation family structure approach to investigate the potential contribution of living with grandparents in multigenerational households to differences in cognitive functioning at older ages. Methods Data were drawn from 9 waves of…

  • Changes in optimism and pessimism in response to life events

    Open Access•W J Chopik, J Oh et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Research in Personality•2020•Citada por: 5•Referências: 89

  • The interplay of personality and functional health in old and very old age

    Swantje Mueller, Jenny Wagner et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2018•Citada por: 1

    Conceptual and empirical work has long suggested that personality and health are closely intertwined later in life. Little is known, however, about the nature and direction of time-ordered associations between the 2 domains within-persons. We applied continuous time auto- and cross-effects models to up to 6 waves of 13-year longitudinal data from the Berlin Aging Study (N = 516, M = 84.92, SD = 8.66, age range 70 to 103) and examined time-ordered…

  • Positive Self-Perceptions of Aging and Lower Rate of Overnight Hospitalization in the US Population Over Age 50

    Jennifer K Sun, Eric S Kim et al.•ARTICLE•Psychosomatic Medicine•2017

    OBJECTIVE: The aging of the baby boomer generation has led to an unprecedented rise in the number of US adults reaching old age, prompting an urgent call for innovative and cost-effective ways to address the increasing health care needs of the aging population. Studying the role of psychosocial factors on health care use could offer insight into how to minimize hospitalizations among older adults. METHODS: We use prospective data from a subsample…

  • Work-Hour Trajectories and Depressive Symptoms Among Midlife and Older Married Couples

    Wylie H Wan, Toni C Antonucci et al.•ARTICLE•Work Aging and Retirement•2017•Referências: 14

    Life course theories highlight the importance of understanding psychological health of aging individuals in context. Work and marriage are influential contexts in later life that are increasingly relevant because both spouses of many households work and individuals are delaying retirement. Although there is extensive literature on predictors of depressive symptoms, incorporating life course histories of work and social contexts has been a critica…

  • Activity Engagement Among Older Adult Spousal Caregivers

    Open Access•Tara L Queen, Jonathan Butner et al.•ARTICLE•The Journals of Gerontology…•2017•Citada por: 2•Referências: 5

    Caregivers' declines in participation in physical activities may be an important indicator for preservation of health and management of caregiving stress

  • Health and Social–Physical Environment Profiles Among Older Adults Living Alone

    Open Access•Sojung Park, Jacqui Smith et al.•ARTICLE•The Journals of Gerontology…•2017•Citada por: 1

    Findings regarding the range of both health and social-physical environmental profiles as well as the associations between person-environment profiles combinations (fit) and depressive symptomatology have important policy and intervention implications

  • Activity Engagement and Activity-Related Experiences

    Nathan J Newton, Nicky J Newton et al.•ARTICLE•The Journals of Gerontology…•2016•Citada por: 3•Referências: 7

    Results are discussed in light of the value of including personality in, and its contribution to, studies of activity engagement in later life. In addition, the need to acknowledge the complexity of the concept of activity engagement in future research is highlighted

  • Successful Aging as the Intersection of Individual Resources, Age, Environment, and Experiences of Well-being in Daily Activities

    Shannon T Mejia, Lindsay H Ryan et al.•ARTICLE•The Journals of Gerontology…•2016•Citada por: 3•Referências: 5

    A cumulative index allows for gradations in resources that can be compensated for by external factors such as person-environment congruence. This index could guide policy and interventions to enhance resources in vulnerable subgroups and diminish inequalities in successful aging outcomes

  • Linked Lives

    Johanna Drewelies, W J Chopik et al.•ARTICLE•The Journals of Gerontology…•2016•Citada por: 3•Referências: 5

    Objectives: Mastery beliefs are known to contribute to healthy aging. However, it is an open question whether individual mastery-health associations impact the health of close long-term partners. Method: We applied actor-partner interdependence models to 4-wave, 6-year longitudinal dyadic data from married and cohabitating partners in the Health and Retirement Study (N = 1,981 partners; age at baseline: M = 67 years, SD = 8.93, range 50-94 years)…

  • Personality trait development at the end of life

    Open Access•Jenny Wagner, Nilam Ram et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2016•Citada por: 5

    Empirical evidence over the past 20 years has documented that key aspects of personality traits change during adulthood. However, it is essentially an open question whether and how traits change at the very end of life and what role health, cognitive performance, perceived control, and social factors play in those changes. To examine these questions, we applied growth models to 13-year longitudinal data obtained from now-deceased participants in …

  • Changes in Optimism Are Associated With Changes in Health Over Time Among Older Adults

    Open Access•W J Chopik, Eric S Kim et al.•ARTICLE•Social Psychological and…•2015

    Little is known about how optimism differs by age and changes over time, particularly among older adults. Even less is known about how changes in optimism are related to changes in physical health. We examined age differences and longitudinal changes in optimism in 9,790 older adults over a 4-year period. We found an inverted U-shaped pattern between optimism and age both cross-sectionally and longitudinally, such that optimism generally increase…

  • Methodological Aspects of Subjective Life Expectancy

    Sung-Hee Lee, Sunghee Lee et al.•ARTICLE•The Journals of Gerontology…•2015•Citada por: 5•Referências: 14

    Overall, SLE is not free from culture-specific reporting heterogeneity. This warrants further research about its culture-relevant measurement mechanisms

  • Life Satisfaction and Frequency of Doctor Visits

    Eric S Kim, Nansook Park et al.•ARTICLE•Psychosomatic Medicine•2014

    OBJECTIVE: Identifying positive psychological factors that reduce health care use may lead to innovative efforts that help build a more sustainable and high-quality health care system. Prospective studies indicate that life satisfaction is associated with good health behaviors, enhanced health, and longer life, but little information about the association between life satisfaction and health care use is available. We tested whether higher life sa…

  • Snapshots of Mixtures of Affective Experiences in a Day

    Open Access•Jacqui Smith, Lindsay H Ryan et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Population Ageing•2014•Citada por: 3•Referências: 10

  • Perceived neighbourhood social cohesion and myocardial infarction

    Eric S Kim, Armani M Hawes et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Epidemiology and…•2014•Citada por: 4•Referências: 40

    BACKGROUND: The main strategy for alleviating heart disease has been to target individuals and encourage them to change their health behaviours. Although important, emphasis on individuals has diverted focus and responsibility away from neighbourhood characteristics, which also strongly influence people's behaviours. Although a growing body of research has repeatedly demonstrated strong associations between neighbourhood characteristics and cardi…

  • Cohort differences in the marriage-health relationship for midlife women

    Open Access•Nathan J Newton, Nicky J Newton et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2014•Citada por: 8•Referências: 50

  • Age and time-to-death trajectories of change in indicators of cognitive, sensory, physical, health, social, and self-related functions

    Denis Gerstorf, Nilam Ram et al.•ARTICLE•Developmental Psychology•2013•Citada por: 19•Referências: 8

    Mortality-related processes are known to modulate late-life change in cognitive abilities, but it is an open question whether and how precipitous declines with impending death generalize to other domains of functioning. We investigated this notion by using 13-year longitudinal data from now-deceased participants in the Berlin Aging Study (N = 439; 70-103 years at first occasion; M = 87 years). Using time metrics of chronological age and time-to-d…

  • Aging in a Cultural Context

    P Clarke, Philippa J Clarke et al.•ARTICLE•The Journals of Gerontology…•2011•Citada por: 9•Referências: 21

    These results emphasize the importance of carefully considering cross-national differences in the disablement process as a result of cultural variation in underlying psychosocial resources. This paper highlights the role of culture in shaping health across adults aging in different sociopolitical contexts

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  • Social Network Types Among Older Adults

    Katherine L Fiori, Jacqui Smith et al.•ARTICLE•The Journals of Gerontology…•2007•Citada por: 69•Referências: 4

    Theories of social relations suggest that individuals' personal networks reflect multiple aspects of relationships, and that different constellations are more or less supportive of well-being. Using data from the Berlin Aging Study (N = 516; age, M = 85 years), we derived network types that reflect information about structure, function, and quality, and we examined their association with well-being. A cluster analysis revealed six network types: …

  • Self-Perceptions of Aging

    Anna Kleinspehn-Ammerlahn, Dana Kotter‐Grühn et al.•ARTICLE•The Journals of Gerontology…•2008•Citada por: 43•Referências: 9

    The present study examined time-related change in felt age, physical age, and satisfaction with aging in old age and covariates of this change. Using 6-year-longitudinal data from the Berlin Aging Study (age range = 70-104 years), we found that individuals' felt age remained on average about 13 years below their actual age over time, whereas they reported a decreasing discrepancy between physical and actual age and a decrease in aging satisfactio…

  • Health and Well–Being in the Young Old and Oldest Old

    Open Access•Jacqui Smith, Markus Borchelt et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Social Issues•2002•Citada por: 31

    Most individuals experience a decline in health status during old age. Paradoxically, there are proposals that older adults nevertheless maintain a positive sense of well–being, an indicator of successful aging. Data from the Berlin Aging Study (BASE: Baltes & Mayer, 1999), a locally representative sample of men and women aged 70 to 100+ ( N = 516, M = 85 years), suggest that cumulative health–related chronic life strains set a constraint on the …

  • The Fascination of Wisdom

    Open Access•Paul B Baltes, Jacqui Smith•ARTICLE•Perspectives on Psychological…•2008•Citada por: 23•Referências: 1

    Wisdom has intrigued both scholars and laypersons since antiquity. On the one hand, its seemingly ethereal yet obvious qualities are timeless and universal. On the other hand, these same qualities are evolving and responsive to historical and cultural change. Novel societal and personal dilemmas emerge over time, and the ways and means to deal with recurring dilemmas are revisited and updated with prudence. Building on philosophical analyses of t…

  • Testing-the-limits and the study of adult age differences in cognitive plasticity of a mnemonic skill

    Reinhold Kliegl, Jacqui Smith et al.•ARTICLE•Developmental Psychology•1989•Citada por: 22•Referências: 4

    Investigated the range and limits of cognitive reserve capacity as a general approach to the understanding of age differences in cognitive functioning. Testing-the-limits is proposed as a research strategy, Data are reported from 2 training studies involving old (65 to 83 years old) and young adults (19 to 29 years old). The training, designed to engineer an expertise in serial word recall, involved instruction and practice in the Method of Loci.…

  • Age and time-to-death trajectories of change in indicators of cognitive, sensory, physical, health, social, and self-related functions

    Denis Gerstorf, Nilam Ram et al.•ARTICLE•Developmental Psychology•2013•Citada por: 19•Referências: 8

    Mortality-related processes are known to modulate late-life change in cognitive abilities, but it is an open question whether and how precipitous declines with impending death generalize to other domains of functioning. We investigated this notion by using 13-year longitudinal data from now-deceased participants in the Berlin Aging Study (N = 439; 70-103 years at first occasion; M = 87 years). Using time metrics of chronological age and time-to-d…

  • Wisdom-related knowledge

    Jacqui Smith, Paul B Baltes•ARTICLE•Developmental Psychology•1990•Citada por: 19•Referências: 4

    A research framework and method are presented in which wisdom is conceived as experts knowledge about fundamental life matters. As illustration, discourse about normative and nonnormative life-planning problems associated with different life phases were examined. Verbal think-aloud protocols, collected from 60 Ss (25-35, 40-50, and 60-81 years of age) were scored on the wisdom criteria by trained raters

  • Well-being affects changes in perceptual speed in advanced old age

    Denis Gerstorf, Martin Lövdén et al.•ARTICLE•Developmental Psychology•2007•Citada por: 17•Referências: 9

    This study examined competing hypotheses about dynamic cross-domain associations between perceptual speed and well-being in advanced old age. We applied the bivariate dual change score model (J. J. McArdle & F. Hamagami, 2001) to 13-year incomplete longitudinal data from the Berlin Aging Study (P. B. Baltes & K. U. Mayer, 1999; N=516, 70-103 years at T1, M=85 years). Reports of well-being were found to influence subsequent decline in perceptual s…

  • On the locus and process of magnification of age differences during mnemonic training

    Reinhold Kliegl, Jacqui Smith et al.•ARTICLE•Developmental Psychology•1990•Citada por: 14•Referências: 4

    The focus of this study was on developmental reserve capacity in old age as revealed by testing-thelimits. We examined (a) the time course of training-related magnification of age differences in serial word recall and (b) predictability of training gains by pretest individual differences in cognitive abilities. In 20 sessions, young (n = 18) and old (n = 19) adults were taught to recall lists of 30 words using the Method of Loci. Age differences …

  • Psychological Predictors of Mortality in Old Age

    H Maier, Jacqui Smith•ARTICLE•The Journals of Gerontology…•1999•Citada por: 13•Referências: 9

    Cox regression models examined associations between 17 indicators of psychological functioning (intellectual abilities, personality, subjective well-being, and social relations) and mortality. The sample (N = 516, age range 70-103 years) comprised participants in the Berlin Aging Study assessed between 1990 and 1993. By 1996, 50% had died. Eleven indicators were identified as mortality risk factors at the zero-order level and six when age was con…

  • Perceiving Control

    Ute Kunzmann, Todd D Little et al.•ARTICLE•The Journals of Gerontology…•2002•Citada por: 11•Referências: 11

    Although control beliefs are thought to be pivotal contributors to emotional well-being in old age, questions remain about the specific and long-term emotional implications of different types of control beliefs. We examined three generalized beliefs about control (personal control over desirable outcomes, personal responsibility for undesirable outcomes, perceived others' control) and their associations with emotional well-being (positive and neg…

  • Aging in a Cultural Context

    P Clarke, Philippa J Clarke et al.•ARTICLE•The Journals of Gerontology…•2011•Citada por: 9•Referências: 21

    These results emphasize the importance of carefully considering cross-national differences in the disablement process as a result of cultural variation in underlying psychosocial resources. This paper highlights the role of culture in shaping health across adults aging in different sociopolitical contexts

  • The Dynamics of Possible Selves in Old Age

    Jacqui Smith, Alexandra M Freund•ARTICLE•The Journals of Gerontology…•2002•Citada por: 9•Referências: 2

    Future-oriented motives are thought to be cast off in old age. Transcripts of the hopes and fears of participants in the 4-year longitudinal sample of the Berlin Aging Study (N = 206, 70-100+ years) were coded for central domains and motives (e.g., gain, maintenance, avoiding loss) and evaluated for the amount and direction of change. Domains of personal characteristics, health, and social relationships predominated together with gain motives. Ov…

  • Differences Between Men and Women in Social Relations, Resource Deficits, and Depressive Symptomatology During Later Life in Four Nations

    Open Access•Toni C Antonucci, Jennifer E Lansford et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Social Issues•2002•Citada por: 9

    This article examines gender differences in social relations and resource deficits in France ( N = 553), Germany ( N = 516), Japan ( N = 491), and the United States ( N = 514). These data, from regionally representative samples, indicate few gender differences in quantity or quality of social relations, but that women are more likely than men to experience widowhood, illness, and financial strain. In all countries, more deficits and more negative…

  • Cohort differences in the marriage-health relationship for midlife women

    Open Access•Nathan J Newton, Nicky J Newton et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2014•Citada por: 8•Referências: 50

  • Positive and Negative Affect in Very Old Age

    Derek M Isaacowitz, Jacqui Smith•ARTICLE•The Journals of Gerontology…•2003•Citada por: 8•Referências: 8

    The current study examined two issues involving the relationship between age and affect in very old age using data from men and women (aged 70 to 100+ years, M = 85 years) in the Berlin Aging Study (BASE). The first issue was whether unique effects of age on positive and negative affect remained after we controlled for other variables that would be expected to relate to affect in late life. We found no unique effects of age after we controlled fo…

  • Well-being and health from age 70 to 100

    Open Access•Jacqui Smith•ARTICLE•European Review•2001•Citada por: 8

    An individual's personal sense of well-being (SWB) is an indicator of psychological adjustment and successful ageing. Health and functional capacity are viewed as important sources of life quality in old age but very little is known about their effects on SWB over time. Can older individuals maintain SWB despite declining health? Longitudinal data from the Berlin Aging Study, a locally representative sample of men and women aged 70 to 100+, indic…

  • Differential Psychological Ageing

    Open Access•Jacqui Smith, Paul B Baltes•ARTICLE•Ageing and Society•1993•Citada por: 8•Referências: 55

    Theoretical positions which argue for age-related and individual variation in profiles of psychological functioning and patterns of predictive relationships are reviewed in the context of the three domains investigated by the Psychology Unit of the Berlin Aging Study (BASE): intelligence and cognition, self and personality, and social relationships. To illustrate the potential of BASE, we report initial data for a small set of variables from thes…

  • Linking Possible Selves and Behavior

    Christiane A Hoppmann, Denis Gerstorf et al.•ARTICLE•The Journals of Gerontology…•2007•Citada por: 6•Referências: 6

    We used time-sampling information from a subsample of the Berlin Aging Study (N=83; M=81.1 years) to investigate the link between possible selves in three domains (health, everyday cognition, and social relations) and performance of daily activities. In the domains of health and social relations, hoped-for selves were associated with higher probabilities of performing daily activities in those domains. There were no associations in the cognitive …

  • Content and Function of the Self-Definition in Old and Very Old Age

    Alexandra M Freund, Jacqui Smith•ARTICLE•The Journals of Gerontology…•1999•Citada por: 6•Referências: 15

    Spontaneous self-definition was investigated in a heterogeneous sample of N = 516 participants of the Berlin Aging Study, aged between 70 and 103 years. The content of the self-definition revealed that old and very old persons view themselves as active and present-oriented. The self-definition also reflected an inward orientation, and central themes of life-review, health, and family. Participants generated more positive than negative evaluations…

  • Changes in optimism and pessimism in response to life events

    Open Access•W J Chopik, J Oh et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Research in Personality•2020•Citada por: 5•Referências: 89

  • Personality trait development at the end of life

    Open Access•Jenny Wagner, Nilam Ram et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2016•Citada por: 5

    Empirical evidence over the past 20 years has documented that key aspects of personality traits change during adulthood. However, it is essentially an open question whether and how traits change at the very end of life and what role health, cognitive performance, perceived control, and social factors play in those changes. To examine these questions, we applied growth models to 13-year longitudinal data obtained from now-deceased participants in …

  • Methodological Aspects of Subjective Life Expectancy

    Sung-Hee Lee, Sunghee Lee et al.•ARTICLE•The Journals of Gerontology…•2015•Citada por: 5•Referências: 14

    Overall, SLE is not free from culture-specific reporting heterogeneity. This warrants further research about its culture-relevant measurement mechanisms

  • Perceived neighbourhood social cohesion and myocardial infarction

    Eric S Kim, Armani M Hawes et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Epidemiology and…•2014•Citada por: 4•Referências: 40

    BACKGROUND: The main strategy for alleviating heart disease has been to target individuals and encourage them to change their health behaviours. Although important, emphasis on individuals has diverted focus and responsibility away from neighbourhood characteristics, which also strongly influence people's behaviours. Although a growing body of research has repeatedly demonstrated strong associations between neighbourhood characteristics and cardi…

  • Multigenerational Households During Childhood and Trajectories of Cognitive Functioning Among U.S. Older Adults

    Open Access•Haena Lee, Lindsay H Ryan et al.•ARTICLE•The Journals of Gerontology…•2020•Citada por: 3•Referências: 9

    Objectives Family structure in childhood influences early brain development and cognitive performance in adulthood. Much less is known about its long-term impact on later-life cognitive functioning. We extend the two-generation family structure approach to investigate the potential contribution of living with grandparents in multigenerational households to differences in cognitive functioning at older ages. Methods Data were drawn from 9 waves of…

  • ‘Girls Can Be Doctors … Can't They?’

    Open Access•Graeme Russell, Jacqui Smith•ARTICLE•Australian Journal of Social Issues•1979

    The present study reports occupational aspirations for a group of 7, 10 and 15 year old children. The sample consisted of 262 girls and 187 boys from government schools located in three Sydney suburbs, which were rated 4 on a seven‐point suburban status scale. The overwhelming majority of both boys and girls aspired to occupations which either could be considered to be stereotypic of, or are dominated by, their own sex. Boys said they wanted to b…

  • Why do males and females differ? Children's beliefs about sex differences

    Open Access•Jacqui Smith, Graeme Russell•ARTICLE•Sex Roles•1984•Referências: 2

  • Testing-the-limits and the study of adult age differences in cognitive plasticity of a mnemonic skill

    Reinhold Kliegl, Jacqui Smith et al.•ARTICLE•Developmental Psychology•1989•Citada por: 22•Referências: 4

    Investigated the range and limits of cognitive reserve capacity as a general approach to the understanding of age differences in cognitive functioning. Testing-the-limits is proposed as a research strategy, Data are reported from 2 training studies involving old (65 to 83 years old) and young adults (19 to 29 years old). The training, designed to engineer an expertise in serial word recall, involved instruction and practice in the Method of Loci.…

  • On the locus and process of magnification of age differences during mnemonic training

    Reinhold Kliegl, Jacqui Smith et al.•ARTICLE•Developmental Psychology•1990•Citada por: 14•Referências: 4

    The focus of this study was on developmental reserve capacity in old age as revealed by testing-thelimits. We examined (a) the time course of training-related magnification of age differences in serial word recall and (b) predictability of training gains by pretest individual differences in cognitive abilities. In 20 sessions, young (n = 18) and old (n = 19) adults were taught to recall lists of 30 words using the Method of Loci. Age differences …

  • Wisdom-related knowledge

    Jacqui Smith, Paul B Baltes•ARTICLE•Developmental Psychology•1990•Citada por: 19•Referências: 4

    A research framework and method are presented in which wisdom is conceived as experts knowledge about fundamental life matters. As illustration, discourse about normative and nonnormative life-planning problems associated with different life phases were examined. Verbal think-aloud protocols, collected from 60 Ss (25-35, 40-50, and 60-81 years of age) were scored on the wisdom criteria by trained raters

  • Differential Psychological Ageing

    Open Access•Jacqui Smith, Paul B Baltes•ARTICLE•Ageing and Society•1993•Citada por: 8•Referências: 55

    Theoretical positions which argue for age-related and individual variation in profiles of psychological functioning and patterns of predictive relationships are reviewed in the context of the three domains investigated by the Psychology Unit of the Berlin Aging Study (BASE): intelligence and cognition, self and personality, and social relationships. To illustrate the potential of BASE, we report initial data for a small set of variables from thes…

  • Content and Function of the Self-Definition in Old and Very Old Age

    Alexandra M Freund, Jacqui Smith•ARTICLE•The Journals of Gerontology…•1999•Citada por: 6•Referências: 15

    Spontaneous self-definition was investigated in a heterogeneous sample of N = 516 participants of the Berlin Aging Study, aged between 70 and 103 years. The content of the self-definition revealed that old and very old persons view themselves as active and present-oriented. The self-definition also reflected an inward orientation, and central themes of life-review, health, and family. Participants generated more positive than negative evaluations…

  • Psychological Predictors of Mortality in Old Age

    H Maier, Jacqui Smith•ARTICLE•The Journals of Gerontology…•1999•Citada por: 13•Referências: 9

    Cox regression models examined associations between 17 indicators of psychological functioning (intellectual abilities, personality, subjective well-being, and social relations) and mortality. The sample (N = 516, age range 70-103 years) comprised participants in the Berlin Aging Study assessed between 1990 and 1993. By 1996, 50% had died. Eleven indicators were identified as mortality risk factors at the zero-order level and six when age was con…

  • Is age-related stability of subjective well-being a paradox? Cross-sectional and longitudinal evidence from the Berlin Aging Study.

    Ute Kunzmann, Todd D Little et al.•ARTICLE•Psychology and Aging•2000

    Subjective well-being is thought to remain relatively stable into old age despite health-related losses. Age and functional health constraints were examined as predictors of individual differences and intraindividual change in subjective well-being, as indicated by positive and negative affect, using cross-sectional (N = 516) and longitudinal (N = 203) samples from the Berlin Aging Study (age range 70-103 years). In cross-sectional and longitudin…

  • Well-being and health from age 70 to 100

    Open Access•Jacqui Smith•ARTICLE•European Review•2001•Citada por: 8

    An individual's personal sense of well-being (SWB) is an indicator of psychological adjustment and successful ageing. Health and functional capacity are viewed as important sources of life quality in old age but very little is known about their effects on SWB over time. Can older individuals maintain SWB despite declining health? Longitudinal data from the Berlin Aging Study, a locally representative sample of men and women aged 70 to 100+, indic…

  • Two-Wave Longitudinal Findings From the Berlin Aging Study

    Jacqui Smith, Ineke Maas et al.•ARTICLE•The Journals of Gerontology…•2002

    We provide background information for a collection of articles that describe two-wave longitudinal findings derived from the first intensive follow-up of participants of the Berlin Aging Study (BASE). Multidisciplinary data were collected during 1995-1996 from 206 survivors approximately 4 years after baseline assessment (1990-1993). The strengths of the initial BASE design, in terms of a focus on very old age, multidisciplinary intensive assessm…

  • Perceiving Control

    Ute Kunzmann, Todd D Little et al.•ARTICLE•The Journals of Gerontology…•2002•Citada por: 11•Referências: 11

    Although control beliefs are thought to be pivotal contributors to emotional well-being in old age, questions remain about the specific and long-term emotional implications of different types of control beliefs. We examined three generalized beliefs about control (personal control over desirable outcomes, personal responsibility for undesirable outcomes, perceived others' control) and their associations with emotional well-being (positive and neg…

  • The Dynamics of Possible Selves in Old Age

    Jacqui Smith, Alexandra M Freund•ARTICLE•The Journals of Gerontology…•2002•Citada por: 9•Referências: 2

    Future-oriented motives are thought to be cast off in old age. Transcripts of the hopes and fears of participants in the 4-year longitudinal sample of the Berlin Aging Study (N = 206, 70-100+ years) were coded for central domains and motives (e.g., gain, maintenance, avoiding loss) and evaluated for the amount and direction of change. Domains of personal characteristics, health, and social relationships predominated together with gain motives. Ov…

  • Health and Well–Being in the Young Old and Oldest Old

    Open Access•Jacqui Smith, Markus Borchelt et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Social Issues•2002•Citada por: 31

    Most individuals experience a decline in health status during old age. Paradoxically, there are proposals that older adults nevertheless maintain a positive sense of well–being, an indicator of successful aging. Data from the Berlin Aging Study (BASE: Baltes & Mayer, 1999), a locally representative sample of men and women aged 70 to 100+ ( N = 516, M = 85 years), suggest that cumulative health–related chronic life strains set a constraint on the …

  • Differences Between Men and Women in Social Relations, Resource Deficits, and Depressive Symptomatology During Later Life in Four Nations

    Open Access•Toni C Antonucci, Jennifer E Lansford et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Social Issues•2002•Citada por: 9

    This article examines gender differences in social relations and resource deficits in France ( N = 553), Germany ( N = 516), Japan ( N = 491), and the United States ( N = 514). These data, from regionally representative samples, indicate few gender differences in quantity or quality of social relations, but that women are more likely than men to experience widowhood, illness, and financial strain. In all countries, more deficits and more negative…

  • New Frontiers in the Future of Aging

    Open Access•Paul B Baltes, Jacqui Smith•ARTICLE•Gerontology•2003

    We review research findings on the oldest old that demonstrate that the fourth age entails a level of biocultural incompleteness, vulnerability and unpredictability that is distinct from the positive views of the third age (young old). The oldest old are at the limits of their functional capacity and science and social policy are constrained in terms of intervention. New theoretical and practical endeavors are required to deal with the challenges…

  • Positive and Negative Affect in Very Old Age

    Derek M Isaacowitz, Jacqui Smith•ARTICLE•The Journals of Gerontology…•2003•Citada por: 8•Referências: 8

    The current study examined two issues involving the relationship between age and affect in very old age using data from men and women (aged 70 to 100+ years, M = 85 years) in the Berlin Aging Study (BASE). The first issue was whether unique effects of age on positive and negative affect remained after we controlled for other variables that would be expected to relate to affect in late life. We found no unique effects of age after we controlled fo…

  • Stability of Sex Differences in Cognition in Advanced Old Age

    Denis Gerstorf, Agneta Herlitz et al.•ARTICLE•The Journals of Gerontology…•2006•Citada por: 2•Referências: 4

    We examined whether patterns of sex differences on tasks of perceptual speed, episodic memory, verbal fluency, and verbal knowledge are maintained during advanced old age. Using incomplete 13-year longitudinal data from participants in the Berlin Aging Study screened for dementia (N = 368; M = 83 years; range 70-100 years at baseline assessment), we estimated sex-specific age trajectories of cognitive change and explored the contributing role of …

  • Contents Vol. 50, 2007

    Open Access•Daniel L Everett, Bhatia et al.•ARTICLE•Human Development•2007

  • The Allure of Wisdom

    Open Access•Jacqui Smith•ARTICLE•Human Development•2007

  • Linking Possible Selves and Behavior

    Christiane A Hoppmann, Denis Gerstorf et al.•ARTICLE•The Journals of Gerontology…•2007•Citada por: 6•Referências: 6

    We used time-sampling information from a subsample of the Berlin Aging Study (N=83; M=81.1 years) to investigate the link between possible selves in three domains (health, everyday cognition, and social relations) and performance of daily activities. In the domains of health and social relations, hoped-for selves were associated with higher probabilities of performing daily activities in those domains. There were no associations in the cognitive …

  • Social Network Types Among Older Adults

    Katherine L Fiori, Jacqui Smith et al.•ARTICLE•The Journals of Gerontology…•2007•Citada por: 69•Referências: 4

    Theories of social relations suggest that individuals' personal networks reflect multiple aspects of relationships, and that different constellations are more or less supportive of well-being. Using data from the Berlin Aging Study (N = 516; age, M = 85 years), we derived network types that reflect information about structure, function, and quality, and we examined their association with well-being. A cluster analysis revealed six network types: …

  • Well-being affects changes in perceptual speed in advanced old age

    Denis Gerstorf, Martin Lövdén et al.•ARTICLE•Developmental Psychology•2007•Citada por: 17•Referências: 9

    This study examined competing hypotheses about dynamic cross-domain associations between perceptual speed and well-being in advanced old age. We applied the bivariate dual change score model (J. J. McArdle & F. Hamagami, 2001) to 13-year incomplete longitudinal data from the Berlin Aging Study (P. B. Baltes & K. U. Mayer, 1999; N=516, 70-103 years at T1, M=85 years). Reports of well-being were found to influence subsequent decline in perceptual s…

  • Self-Perceptions of Aging

    Anna Kleinspehn-Ammerlahn, Dana Kotter‐Grühn et al.•ARTICLE•The Journals of Gerontology…•2008•Citada por: 43•Referências: 9

    The present study examined time-related change in felt age, physical age, and satisfaction with aging in old age and covariates of this change. Using 6-year-longitudinal data from the Berlin Aging Study (age range = 70-104 years), we found that individuals' felt age remained on average about 13 years below their actual age over time, whereas they reported a decreasing discrepancy between physical and actual age and a decrease in aging satisfactio…

  • The Fascination of Wisdom

    Open Access•Paul B Baltes, Jacqui Smith•ARTICLE•Perspectives on Psychological…•2008•Citada por: 23•Referências: 1

    Wisdom has intrigued both scholars and laypersons since antiquity. On the one hand, its seemingly ethereal yet obvious qualities are timeless and universal. On the other hand, these same qualities are evolving and responsive to historical and cultural change. Novel societal and personal dilemmas emerge over time, and the ways and means to deal with recurring dilemmas are revisited and updated with prudence. Building on philosophical analyses of t…

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