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Wagner, Jenny; Voelkle, Manuel C.; Hoppmann, Christiane A.; Luszcz, Mary A.; Gerstorf, Denis – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2018
Lifespan theoretical notions have long acknowledged that regulative capacities of the self are relatively robust well into old age. This general trend notwithstanding, people often differ substantially throughout life in their levels of and change trajectories in self-esteem. One prime contributing factor may be perceptions of social inclusion.…
Descriptors: Self Esteem, Older Adults, Aging (Individuals), Marriage
Drewelies, Johanna; Agrigoroaei, Stefan; Lachman, Margie E.; Gerstorf, Denis – Developmental Psychology, 2018
Life Span psychological and life course sociological perspectives have long acknowledged that individual functioning is shaped by historical and sociocultural contexts. Secular increases favoring later-born cohorts are widely documented for fluid cognitive performance and well-being (among older adults). However, little is known about secular…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cohort Analysis, Older Adults, Young Adults
Hülür, Gizem; Ram, Nilam; Gerstorf, Denis – Developmental Psychology, 2015
One key objective of life span 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…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Well Being, Individual Development, History
Schöllgen, Ina; Morack, Jennifer; Infurna, Frank J.; Ram, Nilam; Gerstorf, Denis – Developmental Psychology, 2016
Well-being and physical health are central indicators of quality of life in old age. Research from a between-person difference perspective finds that people in better health than their peers also report higher well-being than their peers. However, we know very little about whether changes in one domain are accompanied by changes in the other…
Descriptors: Physical Health, Well Being, Depression (Psychology), Quality of Life
Brandmaier, Andreas M.; Ram, Nilam; Wagner, Gert G.; Gerstorf, Denis – Developmental Psychology, 2017
Well-being is often relatively stable across adulthood and old age, but typically exhibits pronounced deteriorations and vast individual differences in the terminal phase of life. However, the factors contributing to these differences are not well understood. Using up to 25-year annual longitudinal data obtained from 4,404 now-deceased…
Descriptors: Well Being, Individual Differences, Longitudinal Studies, Structural Equation Models
Gerlach, Katharina; Ram, Nilam; Infurna, Frank J.; Vogel, Nina; Wagner, Gert G.; Gerstorf, Denis – Developmental Psychology, 2017
Late-life well-being often shows steep deteriorations, but the contributing factors are not well understood, in part because data about people's final year of life are scarce. Here, we draw from and test theoretical perspectives that health-related vulnerabilities undermine the experience and skills older adults typically use to maintain…
Descriptors: Well Being, Older Adults, At Risk Persons, Coping
Fauth, Elizabeth B.; Gerstorf, Denis; Ram, Nilam; Malmberg, Bo – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Developmental processes are inherently time-related, with various time metrics and transition points being used to proxy how change is organized with respect to the theoretically underlying mechanisms. Using data from 4 Swedish studies of individuals aged 70-100+ (N = 453) who were measured every 2 years for up to 5 waves, we tested whether…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Depression (Psychology), Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Foreign Countries
Chui, Helena; Hoppmann, Christiane A.; Gerstorf, Denis; Walker, Ruth; Luszcz, Mary A. – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Links between social relationships and emotional well-being in old age are well documented, but little is known about daily life fluctuations in momentary affective experiences of the oldest-old while interacting with specific social partners. We examined associations between the presence of different types of social partners and moment-to-moment…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Interpersonal Relationship, Psychological Patterns, Individual Differences
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)
Hoppmann, Christiane A.; Gerstorf, Denis; Willis, Sherry L.; Schaie, K. Warner – Developmental Psychology, 2011
Development does not take place in isolation and is often interrelated with close others such as marital partners. To examine interrelations in spousal happiness across midlife and old age, we used 35-year longitudinal data from both members of 178 married couples in the Seattle Longitudinal Study. Latent growth curve models revealed sizeable…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Psychological Patterns, Spouses, Marital Satisfaction
Morack, Jennifer; Infurna, Frank J.; Ram, Nilam; Gerstorf, Denis – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2013
Subjective health is known to predict later outcomes, including survival. However, less is known about subjective health changes across adulthood, how personality moderates those changes, and whether such associations differ with age. We applied growth models to 10 waves of data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey…
Descriptors: Physical Health, Mental Health, Prediction, Age Differences
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)
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)
Gerstorf, Denis; Ram, Nilam; Estabrook, Ryne; Schupp, Jurgen; Wagner, Gert G.; Lindenberger, Ulman – Developmental Psychology, 2008
Longitudinal data spanning 22 years, obtained from deceased participants of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP; N = 1,637; 70- to 100-year-olds), were used to examine if and how life satisfaction exhibits terminal decline at the end of life. Changes in life satisfaction were more strongly associated with distance to death than with…
Descriptors: Age, Life Satisfaction, Older Adults, Longitudinal Studies
Gerstorf, Denis; Lovden, Martin; Rocke, Christina; Smith, Jacqui; Lindenberger, Ulman – Developmental Psychology, 2007
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…
Descriptors: Well Being, Older Adults, Age Differences, Adult Learning