The Journals of Gerontology: Series B

2000 - 2025

Current editor(s): Psychological Sciences - S. Duke Han, PhD and Social Sciences - Jessica A Kelley, PhD, FGSA

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Volume 60, issue 6, 2005

Emotional Health of Black and White Dementia Caregivers: A Contextual Examination pp. P287-P295

Ishan C. Williams

Farewell Editorial pp. S295-S295

Charles F. Longino

On the Shoulders of a Giant: The Legacy of Matilda White Riley for Gerontology pp. S296-S304

Dale Dannefer, Peter Uhlenberg, Anne Foner and Ronald P. Abeles

Longitudinal Analysis of the Reciprocal Effects of Self-Assessed Global Health and Depressive Symptoms pp. P296-P303

Karl Kosloski, Donald E. Stull, Kyle Kercher and Daniel J. Van Dussen

Understanding the Relative Importance of Positive and Negative Social Exchanges: Examining Specific Domains and Appraisals pp. P304-P312

Jason T. Newsom, Karen S. Rook, Masami Nishishiba, Dara H. Sorkin and Tyrae L. Mahan

Class, Cohort, and Consumption: The British Experience of the Third Age pp. S305-S310

Chris Gilleard, Paul Higgs, Martin Hyde, Richard Wiggins and David Blane

Social Networks Among Men and Women: The Effects of Age and Socioeconomic Status pp. S311-S317

Kristine J. Ajrouch, Alysia Y. Blandon and Toni C. Antonucci

Depressive Symptoms Among African American and White Older Adults pp. P313-P319

Yuri Jang, Amy R. Borenstein, David A. Chiriboga and James A. Mortimer

Proxy Sources for Information on Nursing Home Residents' Quality of Life pp. S318-S325

Robert L. Kane, Rosalie A. Kane, Boris Bershadsky, Howard Degenholtz, Kristin Kling, Annette Totten and Kyoungrae Jung

Trajectories of Cognitive Decline and Social Relations pp. P320-P330

François Béland, Maria-Victoria Zunzunegui, Beatriz Alvarado, Angel Otero and Teodoro del Ser

A Refined Protocol for Coding Nursing Home Residents' Comments During Satisfaction Interviews pp. S326-S330

Lené Levy-Storms, Sandra F. Simmons, Veronica F. Gutierrez, Dana Miller-Martinez, Kelly Hickey and John F. Schnelle

Self-Rated Health in a Longitudinal Perspective: A 9-Year Follow-Up Twin Study pp. S331-S340

Pia Svedberg, Margaret Gatz, Paul Lichtenstein, Sven Sandin and Nancy L. Pedersen

Influence of Neuroticism, Ethnicity, Familism, and Social Support on Perceived Burden in Dementia Caregivers: Pilot Test of the Transactional Stress and Social Support Model pp. P331-P334

Gia Robinson Shurgot and Bob G. Knight

Strength Training in Older Adults: Does Desire Determine Confidence? pp. P335-P337

W. Jack Rejeski, Jeffrey Katula, Alexis Rejeski, Jill Rowley and Marie Sipe

Moderating Role of Marital Quality in Older Adults' Depressed Affect: Beyond the Main-Effects Model pp. P338-P341

Jamila Bookwala and Melissa M. Franks

Letter to the Editor pp. S341-S341

Mary W. Carter

Letter to the Editor pp. S342-S342

Ingrid Arnet Connidis

Volume 60, issue 5, 2005

Aging and Verbal Memory Span: A Meta-Analysis pp. P223-P233

Kara L. Bopp and Paul Verhaeghen

A Structural Factor Analysis of Vocabulary Knowledge and Relations to Age pp. P234-P241

Ryan P. Bowles, Kevin J. Grimm and John J. McArdle

Until Death Do Us Part: An Analysis of the Economic Well-Being of Widows in Four Countries pp. S238-S246

Richard Burkhauser, Philip Giles, Dean R. Lillard and Johannes Schwarze

Disparities Among Older Adults in Measures of Cognitive Function by Race or Ethnicity pp. P242-P250

Frank Sloan and Jingshu Wang

Caregiving and Volunteering: Are Private and Public Helping Behaviors Linked? pp. S247-S256

Jeffrey A. Burr, Namkee G. Choi, Jan E. Mutchler and Francis G. Caro

Complexity of Work and Risk of Alzheimer's Disease: A Population-Based Study of Swedish Twins pp. P251-P258

Ross Andel, Michael Crowe, Nancy L. Pedersen, James Mortimer, Eileen Crimmins, Boo Johansson and Margaret Gatz

Effect of Race on Cultural Justifications for Caregiving pp. S257-S262

Peggye Dilworth-Anderson, Beverly H. Brummett, Paula Goodwin, Sharon Wallace Williams, Redford B. Williams and Ilene C. Siegler

Age Differences in the Correspondence Bias: When a Plausible Explanation Matters pp. P259-P267

Fredda Blanchard-Fields and Michelle Horhota

Racial Disparities in Disability: Recent Evidence From Self-Reported and Performance-Based Disability Measures in a Population-Based Study of Older Adults pp. S263-S271

Carlos F. Mendes de Leon, Lisa L. Barnes, Julia L. Bienias, Kimberly A. Skarupski and Denis A. Evans

Physical Activity, Self-Efficacy, and Self-Esteem: Longitudinal Relationships in Older Adults pp. P268-P275

Edward McAuley, Steriani Elavsky, Robert W. Motl, James F. Konopack, Liang Hu and David X. Marquez

Reconsidering Substitution in Long-Term Care: When Does Assistive Technology Take the Place of Personal Care? pp. S272-S280

Emily M. Agree, Vicki A. Freedman, Jennifer C. Cornman, Douglas A. Wolf and John E. Marcotte

Age and Inhibition: The Retrieval of Situation Models pp. P276-P278

Gabriel A. Radvansky, Rose T. Zacks and Lynn Hasher

Redundancy Gain and Coactivation in Bimodal Detection: Evidence for the Preservation of Coactive Processing in Older Adults pp. P279-P282

Barbara Bucur, Philip A. Allen, Raymond E. Sanders, Eric Ruthruff and Martin D. Murphy

Life on the Edge: Patterns of Formal and Informal Help to Older Adults in the United States and Sweden pp. S281-S288

Adam Davey, Elia E. Femia, Steven H. Zarit, Dennis G. Shea, Gerdt Sundström, Stig Berg, Michael A. Smyer and Jyoti Savla

Volume 60, issue 4, 2005

Ethnic Variation in the Impact of Emotion and Emotion Regulation on Health: A Replication and Extension pp. P165-P173

Nathan S. Consedine, Carol Magai and David Horton

Exploring the Connections: Theory and Research pp. S172-S172

Charles F. Longino

Linking the Two Ends of Life: What Gerontology Can Learn From Childhood Studies pp. S173-S180

Richard A. Settersten

Aging and Longitudinal Change in Perceptual-Motor Skill Acquisition in Healthy Adults pp. P174-P181

Karen M. Rodrigue, Kristen M. Kennedy and Naftali Raz

Racial Disparities in Self-Rated Health at Older Ages: What Difference Does the Neighborhood Make? pp. S181-S190

Kathleen A. Cagney, Christopher R. Browning and Ming Wen

Sleep Complaints, Subjective and Objective Sleep Patterns, Health, Psychological Adjustment, and Daytime Functioning in Community-Dwelling Older Adults pp. P182-P189

Christina S. McCrae, Meredeth A. Rowe, Candece G. Tierney, Natalie D. Dautovich, Allison L. DeFinis and Joseph P. H. McNamara

From Caregiving to Bereavement: Trajectories of Depressive Symptoms Among Wife and Daughter Caregivers pp. P190-P198

Lydia W. Li

Invited Commentary: Subjective Health and the Dangers of Absent Individual Effects and Crude Contextual Proxies of Causal Mechanisms pp. S191-S192

Stephen M. Golant

Racial Disparities in Self-Rated Health at Older Ages and the Dangers of Obfuscating Neighborhood Effects Research pp. S193-S194

Kathleen A. Cagney, Christopher R. Browning and Ming Wen

How Good Is Assisted Living? Findings and Implications From an Outcomes Study pp. S195-S204

Sheryl Zimmerman, Philip D. Sloane, J. Kevin Eckert, Ann L. Gruber-Baldini, Leslie A. Morgan, J. Richard Hebel, Jay Magaziner, Sally Stearns and Cory K. Chen

The Interplay Between Life Stressors and Depressive Symptoms Among Older Adults pp. P199-P206

Rudolf H. Moos, Kathleen K. Schutte, Penny L. Brennan and Bernice S. Moos

Living Quarters and Unmet Need for Personal Care Assistance Among Adults With Disabilities pp. S205-S213

Robert Newcomer, Taewoon Kang, Mitchell LaPlante and Stephen Kaye

Does Religiousness Buffer Against the Fear of Death and Dying in Late Adulthood? Findings From a Longitudinal Study pp. P207-P214

Paul Wink and Julia Scott

Resilience in the Face of Serious Illness Among Chronically Ill African Americans in Later Life pp. S214-S223

Gay Becker and Edwina Newsom

Framing Effects in Younger and Older Adults pp. P215-P218

Sunghan Kim, David Goldstein, Lynn Hasher and Rose T. Zacks

How Does Self-Assessed Health Change With Age? A Study of Older Adults in Japan pp. S224-S232

Jersey Liang, Benjamin A. Shaw, Neal Krause, Joan M. Bennett, Erika Kobayashi, Taro Fukaya and Yoko Sugihara

Volume 60, issue 3, 2005

General Lifestyle Activities as a Predictor of Current Cognition and Cognitive Change in Older Adults: A Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Examination pp. P113-P120

Rachel S. Newson and Eva B. Kemps

Putting a Human Face on Gerontological Research: Identity Issues pp. S117-S117

Charles F. Longino

Beyond Appearances: Perspectives on Identity in Later Life and Some Implications for Method pp. S118-S128

Simon Biggs

Do We Get Better at Picking Our Battles? Age Group Differences in Descriptions of Behavioral Reactions to Interpersonal Tensions pp. P121-P128

Kira S. Birditt and Karen L. Fingerman

Age Identity and Subjective Well-Being: A Comparison of the United States and Germany pp. S129-S136

Gerben J. Westerhof and Anne E. Barrett

Effects of Alzheimer's Disease on Visual Enumeration pp. P129-P135

Elizabeth A. Maylor, Derrick G. Watson and Zoe Muller

Black–White Differences in Depressive Symptoms Among Older Adults Over Time pp. P136-P142

Kimberly A. Skarupski, Carlos F. Mendes de Leon, Julia L. Bienias, Lisa L. Barnes, Susan A. Everson-Rose, Robert S. Wilson and Denis A. Evans

Racial Differences in Formal Long-Term Care: Does the Timing of Parenthood Play a Role? pp. S137-S145

Kathleen A. Cagney and Emily M. Agree

Altruism Relates to Health in an Ethnically Diverse Sample of Older Adults pp. P143-P152

William Michael Brown, Nathan S. Consedine and Carol Magai

Further Evidence for the Importance of Subclinical Functional Limitation and Subclinical Disability Assessment in Gerontology and Geriatrics pp. S146-S151

Fredric D. Wolinsky, Douglas K. Miller, Elena M. Andresen, Theodore K. Malmstrom and J. Philip Miller

The Causes of Homelessness in Later Life: Findings From a 3-Nation Study pp. S152-S159

Maureen Crane, Kathleen Byrne, Ruby Fu, Bryan Lipmann, Frances Mirabelli, Alice Rota-Bartelink, Maureen Ryan, Robert Shea, Hope Watt and Anthony M. Warnes

Self-Discipline and Self-Consciousness Predict Subjective Memory in Older Adults pp. P153-P157

Ann Pearman and Martha Storandt

Motor Control in Old Age: Evidence of Impaired Low-Level Inhibition pp. P158-P161

Friederike Schlaghecken and Elizabeth A. Maylor

Widow(er) Poverty and Out-of-Pocket Medical Expenditures Near the End of Life pp. S160-S168

Kathleen McGarry and Robert Schoeni

Volume 60, issue 2, 2005

Minor Children and Adult Care Exchanges With Community-Dwelling Frail Elders in a St. Lucian Village pp. S62-S73

Lisa Skemp Kelley

Resilient or at Risk? A 4-Year Study of Older Adults Who Initially Showed High or Low Distress Following Conjugal Loss pp. P67-P73

Kathrin Boerner, Camille B. Wortman and George A. Bonanno

Casino Gambling Among Urban Elders: Just Another Social Activity? pp. S74-S81

Rochelle R. Zaranek and Elizabeth E. Chapleski

Education and APOE-e4 in Longitudinal Cognitive Decline: MacArthur Studies of Successful Aging pp. P74-P83

Teresa E. Seeman, Mei-Hua Huang, Philip Bretsky, Eileen Crimmins, Lenore Launer and Jack M. Guralnik

African American Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: A National Study Using the Census 2000 American Community Survey pp. S82-S92

Meredith Minkler and Esme Fuller-Thomson

Managing Life Through Personal Goals: Intergoal Facilitation and Intensity of Goal Pursuit in Younger and Older Adulthood pp. P84-P91

Michaela Riediger, Alexandra M. Freund and Paul B. Baltes

Intrusions in Episodic Recall: Age Differences in Editing of Overt Responses pp. P92-P97

Michael J. Kahana, Emily D. Dolan, Colin L. Sauder and Arthur Wingfield

The Impact of Childhood and Adult SES on Physical, Mental, and Cognitive Well-Being in Later Life pp. S93-S101

Ye Luo and Linda J. Waite

Personality Change Precedes Clinical Diagnosis of Dementia of the Alzheimer Type pp. P98-P101

Steve Balsis, Brian D. Carpenter and Martha Storandt

Religious Attendance and Mortality: An 8-Year Follow-Up of Older Mexican Americans pp. S102-S109

Terrence D. Hill, Jacqueline L. Angel, Christopher G. Ellison and Ronald J. Angel

Age-Related Differences in Multiple-Object Tracking pp. P102-P105

Lana M. Trick, Tahlia Perl and Naina Sethi

Neglect of Dropout Underestimates Effects of Death in Longitudinal Studies pp. P106-P109

Patrick Rabbitt, Mary Lunn and Danny Wong

Effect of Population Aging on Proportionate Mortality From Heart Disease and Cancer, U.S. 2000–2050 pp. S110-S112

Elizabeth Sonnenschein and Jacob A. Brody

Volume 60, issue 1, 2005

On Including Religious and Spiritual Faith and Practice in Gerontological Research pp. S2-S2

Robert C. Atchley

Effect of Health-Related Stereotypes on Physiological Responses of Hypertensive Middle-Aged and Older Men pp. P3-P10

Corinne Auman, Hayden B. Bosworth and Thomas M. Hess

Direct Care Workers' Response to Dying and Death in the Nursing Home: A Case Study pp. S3-S10

Helen K. Black and Robert L. Rubinstein

Environmental Support for Older and Younger Pilots' Comprehension of Air Traffic Control Information pp. P11-P18

Daniel G. Morrow, Lisa M. Soederberg Miller, Heather E. Ridolfo, William Menard, Elizabeth A. L. Stine-Morrow and Cliff Magnor

Couples' Adjustment to Retirement: A Multi-Actor Panel Study pp. S11-S20

Hanna van Solinge and Kène Henkens

Age Differences in Blame Attributions: The Role of Relationship Outcome Ambiguity and Personal Identification pp. P19-P26

Fredda Blanchard-Fields and Carolyn Beatty

The Significance of Nonmarital Cohabitation: Marital Status and Mental Health Benefits Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults pp. S21-S29

Susan L. Brown, Jennifer Roebuck Bulanda and Gary R. Lee

Stability and Change of Neuroticism in Aging pp. P27-P33

Bas Steunenberg, Jos W. R. Twisk, Aartjan T. F. Beekman, Dorly J. H. Deeg and Ad J. F. M. Kerkhof

Do Intergenerational Transfers From Elderly Parents Increase Social Inequality Among Their Middle-Aged Children? Evidence from the German Aging Survey pp. S30-S36

Harald Künemund, Andreas Motel-Klingebiel and Martin Kohli

Falls Self-Efficacy as a Mediator of Fear of Falling in an Exercise Intervention for Older Adults pp. P34-P40

Fuzhong Li, K. John Fisher, Peter Harmer and Edward McAuley

Do Middle School Students Really Have Fixed Images of Elders? pp. S37-S47

Michael J. Lichtenstein, Linda A. Pruski, Carolyn E. Marshall, Cheryl L. Blalock, Yan Liu and Rosemarie Plaetke

Apolipoprotein E, B Vitamins, and Cognitive Function in Older Adults pp. P41-P48

David Bunce, Miia Kivipelto and Åke Wahlin

Investigating the Effects of Communication Problems on Caregiver Burden pp. S48-S55

Marie Y. Savundranayagam, Mary Lee Hummert and Rhonda J. V. Montgomery

Influences of Age on Emotional Reactivity During Picture Processing pp. P49-P56

Darin P. Smith, Charles H. Hillman and Aaron R. Duley

Relation Between Health Status and Cognitive Functioning: A 6-Year Follow-Up of the Maastricht Aging Study pp. P57-P60

Susan A. H. van Hooren, Susanne A. M. Valentijn, Hans Bosma, Rudolf W. H. M. Ponds, Martin P. J. van Boxtel and Jelle Jolles