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Morack, Jennifer; Ram, Nilam; Fauth, Elizabeth B.; Gerstorf, Denis – Developmental Psychology, 2013
Life-span developmentalists have long been interested in the nature of and the contributing factors to successful aging. Using variable-oriented approaches, research has revealed critical insights into the intricacies of human development and successful aging. In the present study, we opted instead for a more subgroup-oriented approach and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Older Adults, Longitudinal Studies, Aging (Individuals)
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Infurna, Frank J.; Gerstorf, Denis; Zarit, Steven H. – Developmental Psychology, 2011
Perceived control and health are often closely linked in adulthood and old age. Little is known, however, about their time-ordered interplay at various phases of adult life. By applying dynamic models to four waves of data over 15.5 years from the Americans' Changing Lives Study, we examined time-ordered relations between perceived control and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Physical Activity Level, Older Adults, Depression (Psychology)
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Gerstorf, Denis; Hoppmann, Christiane A.; Kadlec, Kelly M.; McArdle, John J. – Developmental Psychology, 2009
This study examined dyadic interrelations between episodic memory and depressive symptom trajectories of change in old and advanced old age. The authors applied dynamic models to 10-year incomplete longitudinal data of initially 1,599 married couples from the study of Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (M[subscript age] = 75 years at…
Descriptors: Spouses, Older Adults, Memory, Depression (Psychology)