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 72, issue 6, 2017

Personality and Lung Function in Older Adults pp. 913-921

Antonio Terracciano, Yannick Stephan, Martina Luchetti, Ricardo Gonzalez-Rothi and Angelina R Sutin

Trajectories of Personality Traits Preceding Dementia Diagnosis pp. 922-931

Tomiko Yoneda, Jonathan Rush, Anne Ingeborg Berg, Boo Johansson and Andrea M Piccinin

Negative Aging Stereotypes Impair Performance on Brief Cognitive Tests Used to Screen for Predementia pp. 932-936

Marie Mazerolle, Isabelle Régner, Sarah J Barber, Marc Paccalin, Aimé-Chris Miazola, Pascal Huguet and François Rigalleau

Memory Resilience to Alzheimer’s Genetic Risk: Sex Effects in Predictor Profiles pp. 937-946

Kirstie L McDermott, G Peggy McFall, Shea J Andrews, Kaarin J Anstey and Roger A Dixon

Exportation and Validation of Latent Constructs for Dementia Case Finding in a Mexican American Population–based Cohort pp. 947-955

Donald R Royall, Raymond F Palmer and Kyriakos S Markides

Evidence for Different Trajectories of Delay Discounting in Older Adults With Mild Cognitive Impairment and Mild Alzheimer’s Disease pp. 956-965

Myriam V Thoma, Andreas Maercker and Simon Forstmeier

Feeling Older and the Development of Cognitive Impairment and Dementia pp. 966-973

Yannick Stephan, Angelina R Sutin, Martina Luchetti and Antonio Terracciano

Awareness of Mild Cognitive Impairment and Mild Alzheimer’s Disease Dementia Diagnoses Associated With Lower Self-Ratings of Quality of Life in Older Adults pp. 974-985

Ms Ma Shana D Stites PsyD, Jason KarlawishMD, Kristin HarkinsMPH, Jonathan D RubrightPhD and David WolkMD

False Memories in Alzheimer’s Disease: Intact Semantic Priming But Impaired Production of Critical Lures pp. 986-990

Anne-Laure Gilet, Christelle Evrard, Fabienne Colombel, Elisa Tropée, Célia Marie and Yves Corson

Personal Journal Keeping and Linguistic Complexity Predict Late-Life Dementia Risk: The Cache County Journal Pilot Study pp. 991-995

Jessica J Weyerman, Cassidy Rose and Maria C Norton

Aging Slows Access to Temporal Information From Working Memory pp. 996-1005

Aslı Kılıç, Zeynep Ceyda Sayalı and Ilke Öztekin

Which Aspects of Social Support Are Associated With Which Cognitive Abilities for Which People? pp. 1006-1016

Claire G La Fleur and Timothy A Salthouse

Fertility History and Cognition in Later Life pp. 1021-1031

Sanna L Read and Emily M D Grundy

Is Cancer Protective for Subsequent Alzheimer’s Disease Risk? Evidence From the Utah Population Database pp. 1032-1043

Heidi A Hanson, Kevin P Horn, Kelli M Rasmussen, John M Hoffman and Ken R Smith

Midlife Work-Related Stress Increases Dementia Risk in Later Life: The CAIDE 30-Year Study pp. 1044-1053

Shireen Sindi, Göran Hagman, Krister Håkansson, Jenni Kulmala, Charlotta Nilsen, Ingemar Kåreholt, Hilkka Soininen, Alina Solomon and Miia Kivipelto

Role of Perceived Maternal Favoritism and Disfavoritism in Adult Children’s Psychological Well-Being pp. 1054-1066

J Jill Suitor, Megan Gilligan, Siyun Peng, Jong Hyun Jung and Karl Pillemer

Older Adults With Three Generations of Kin: Prevalence, Correlates, and Transfers pp. 1067-1072

Rachel Margolis and Laura Wright

You’re Just Like Your Dad: Intergenerational Patterns of Differential Treatment of Siblings pp. 1073-1083

Alexander C Jensen, Shawn D Whiteman, Joseph S Rand and Karen L Fingerman

Student Debt Spans Generations: Characteristics of Parents Who Borrow to Pay for Their Children’s College Education pp. 1084-1089

Katrina M Walsemann and Jennifer A Ailshire

Physical and Mental Health Consequences of War-related Stressors Among Older Adults: An Analysis of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Arthritis in Northern Vietnamese War Survivors pp. 1090-1102

Kim Korinek, Peter Loebach and Bussarawan Teerawichitchainan

Predictors of Mortality in Older Homeless Veterans pp. 1103-1109

John A Schinka, Glenn Curtiss, Katherine Leventhal, Robert M Bossarte, William Lapcevic and Roger Casey

Longitudinal Trajectories of Quality of Life and Depression by Housing Tenure Status pp. 1110-1110

Agnes Szabo, Joanne Allen, Fiona Alpass and Christine Stephens

Grasp Planning in Older Adults pp. 1110-1110

David A Rosenbaum

Population Aging and Health Trajectories at Older Ages pp. 1111-1112

Eric M Vogelsang, James M Raymo, Jersey Liang, Erika Kobayashi and Taro Fukaya

Volume 72, issue 5, 2017

The Association Between Anxiety and Falls: A Meta-Analysis pp. 729-741

David John Hallford, Geoff Nicholson, Kerrie Sanders and Marita P McCabe

Machine Learning, Sentiment Analysis, and Tweets: An Examination of Alzheimer’s Disease Stigma on Twitter pp. 742-751

Nels Oscar, Pamela A Fox, Racheal Croucher, Riana Wernick, Jessica Keune and Karen Hooker

Cognitive Benefits of Online Social Networking for Healthy Older Adults pp. 752-760

Janelle W Myhre, Matthias R Mehl and Elizabeth L Glisky

Information and Communication Technology Use Is Related to Higher Well-Being Among the Oldest-Old pp. 761-770

Tamara Sims, Andrew E Reed and Dawn C Carr

Positive Expectations Regarding Aging Linked to More New Friends in Later Life pp. 771-781

Josephine A Menkin, Theodore F Robles, Tara L Gruenewald, Elizabeth K Tanner and Teresa E Seeman

Self-Perception of Aging and Satisfaction With Children’s Support pp. 782-791

Sheung-Tak Cheng

Precipitation and Physical Activity in Older Adults: The Moderating Role of Functional Mobility and Physical Activity Intentions pp. 792-800

Christiane A Hoppmann, Jessica Chak Man Lee, Jochen P Ziegelmann, Peter Graf, Karim M Khan and Maureen C Ashe

Limited Benefits of Heterogeneous Dual-Task Training on Transfer Effects in Older Adults pp. 801-812

Maxime Lussier, Philippe Brouillard and Louis Bherer

Age-related Decline in Case-Marker Processing and its Relation to Working Memory Capacity pp. 813-820

Jee Eun Sung

Examining the Roles of Technology in Aging and Quality of Life pp. 823-826

Shelia R CottenPhD

Gender Differences in Mobility Device Use Among U.S. Older Adults pp. 827-835

Lindsay J Peterson, Hongdao Meng, Debra Dobbs and Kathryn Hyer

Technology Access and Use, and Their Associations With Social Engagement Among Older Adults: Do Women and Men Differ? pp. 836-845

Jeehoon Kim, Hee Yun Lee, M Candace Christensen and Joseph R Merighi

What Accounts for the Relationship Between Internet Use and Suicidal Ideation of Korean Older Adults? A Mediation Analysis pp. 846-855

Hey Jung Jun and Myoung-Yong Kim

Has the Digital Health Divide Widened? Trends of Health-Related Internet Use Among Older Adults From 2003 to 2011 pp. 856-863

Y Alicia Hong and Jinmyoung Cho

Aging in Activity Space: Results From Smartphone-Based GPS-Tracking of Urban Seniors pp. 864-875

Erin York Cornwell and Kathleen A Cagney

Using a Smartphone-Based Ecological Momentary Assessment Protocol With Community Dwelling Older African Americans pp. 876-887

Heather Fritz, Wassim Tarraf, Dan J Saleh and Malcolm P Cutchin

The Growth of Older Inmate Populations: How Population Aging Explains Rising Age at Admission pp. 888-900

Jeremy Luallen and Christopher Cutler

Retrospective Reports of Negative Early Life Events Over a 4-Year Period: A Test of Measurement Invariance and Response Consistency pp. 901-912

Liat Ayalon

Volume 72, issue 4, 2017

Examination of Associations Among Three Distinct Subjective Aging Constructs and Their Relevance for Predicting Developmental Correlates pp. 547-560

Allyson Brothers, Martina Miche, Hans-Werner Wahl and Manfred Diehl

Aging Perceptions in Tsimane’ Amazonian Forager–Farmers Compared With Two Industrialized Societies pp. 561-570

Piotr Sorokowski, Agnieszka Sorokowska, Tomasz Frackowiak and Corinna E. Löckenhoff

Perceived Control Moderates the Effects of Functional Limitation on Older Adults’ Social Activity: Findings From the Australian Longitudinal Study of Ageing pp. 571-581

Rachel G. Curtis, Tim D. Windsor and Mary A. Luszcz

Age Stereotypes and Self-Views Revisited: Patterns of Internalization and Projection Processes Across the Life Span pp. 582-592

Anna E. Kornadt, Peggy Voss and Klaus Rothermund

Daily Life Satisfaction in Older Adults as a Function of (In)Activity pp. 593-602

Jaclyn P. Maher and David E. Conroy

The Mediating Roles of Primary and Secondary Control in the Relationship between Body Satisfaction and Subjective Well-Being Among Middle-Aged and Older Women pp. 603-612

Ashli D. Watt, Candace A. Konnert and Calandra E. C. Speirs

The Combined Effects of Daily Stressors and Major Life Events on Daily Subjective Ages pp. 613-621

Jennifer A. Bellingtier, Shevaun D. Neupert and Dana Kotter-Grühn

Age Deficits in Facial Affect Recognition: The Influence of Dynamic Cues pp. 622-632

Sarah A. Grainger, Julie D. Henry, Louise H. Phillips, Eric J. Vanman and Roy Allen

Face Age and Eye Gaze Influence Older Adults’ Emotion Recognition pp. 633-636

Anna Campbell, Janice E. Murray, Lianne Atkinson and Ted Ruffman

Grasp Planning in Older Adults pp. 637-638

David A. Rosenbaum

Coming Into Its Own? Developments and Challenges for Research on Aging in Africa pp. 643-645

Isabella Aboderin

Living Conditions, Low Socioeconomic Position, and Mortality in the Ibadan Study of Aging pp. 646-655

Akin Ojagbemi, Toyin Bello, Zhehui Luo and Oye Gureje

Marital Dissolutions and the Health of Older Individuals in a Rural African Context pp. 656-664

Tyler W. Myroniuk

Physical Function in an Aging Population in Rural South Africa: Findings From HAALSI and Cross-National Comparisons With HRS Sister Studies pp. 665-679

Collin F. Payne, Francesc Xavier Gómez-Olivé, Kathleen Kahn and Lisa Berkman

Landscape of Research on Older Adults’ Health in the Arab Region: Is It Demography-Driven or Development-Dependent? pp. 680-687

Abla Mehio Sibai, Anthony Rizk, Christy Costanian and John Roland Beard

Older Adults Without Close Kin in the United States pp. 688-693

Rachel Margolis and Ashton M. Verdery

Types of Non-kin Networks and Their Association With Survival in Late Adulthood: A Latent Class Approach pp. 694-705

Lea Ellwardt, Marja Aartsen and Theo van Tilburg

Cohort Differences in Received Social Support in Later Life: The Role of Network Type pp. 706-715

Bianca Suanet and Toni C. Antonucci

Variations in Social Network Type Membership Among Older African Americans, Caribbean Blacks, and Non-Hispanic Whites pp. 716-726

Ann W. Nguyen

Volume 72, issue 3, 2017

Race/Ethnic Differentials in the Health Consequences of Caring for Grandchildren for Grandparents pp. e1-e1

Feinian Chen, Christine A. Mair, Luoman Bao and Yang Claire Yang

What Drives National Differences in Intensive Grandparental Childcare in Europe? pp. e2-e3

Giorgio Di Gessa, Karen Glaser, Debora Price, Eloi Ribe and Anthea Tinker

Relationships Among Nightly Sleep Quality, Daily Stress, and Daily Affect pp. 363-372

Jessica M. Blaxton, Cindy S. Bergeman, Brenda R. Whitehead, Marcia E. Braun and Jessic D. Payne

Anticipatory Motor Planning in Older Adults pp. 373-382

Kathrin Wunsch, Matthias Weigelt and Tino Stöckel

To Love is to Suffer: Older Adults’ Daily Emotional Contagion to Perceived Spousal Suffering pp. 383-387

Joan K. Monin, Becca R. Levy and Heidi S. Kane

Associations Among Individuals’ Perceptions of Future Time, Individual Resources, and Subjective Well-Being in Old Age pp. 388-399

Christiane A. Hoppmann, Frank J. Infurna, Nilam Ram and Denis Gerstorf

The Relation of Ego Integrity and Despair to Personality Traits and Mental Health pp. 400-407

Gerben J. Westerhof, Ernst T. Bohlmeijer and Dan P. McAdams

Short-Term Buffers, but Long-Term Suffers? Differential Effects of Negative Self-Perceptions of Aging Following Serious Health Events pp. 408-414

Julia K. Wolff, Benjamin Schüz, Jochen P. Ziegelmann, Lisa M. Warner and Susanne Wurm

Predictors of Self-Rated Health: Does Education Play a Role Above and Beyond Age? pp. 415-424

Svenja M. Spuling, Oliver Huxhold and Susanne Wurm

What Do We Need at the End of Life? Competence, but not Autonomy, Predicts Intraindividual Fluctuations in Subjective Well-Being in Very Old Age pp. 425-435

Andreas B. Neubauer, Oliver K. Schilling and Hans-Werner Wahl

Multidimensionality of Younger and Older Adults’ Age Stereotypes: The Interaction of Life Domain and Adjective Dimension pp. 436-440

Beatrice G. Kuhlmann, Anna E. Kornadt, Ute J. Bayen, Katharina Meuser and Liliane Wulff

What’s good for the goose is not good for the gander: Age and gender differences in scanning emotion faces pp. 441-447

Susan Sullivan, Anna Campbell, Sam B. Hutton and Ted Ruffman

Remembering Robert Kane pp. 455-456

Tetyana P. Shippee

Understanding Sexual Freedom and Autonomy in Assisted Living: Discourse of Residents’ Rights Among Staff and Administrators pp. 457-467

Christina Barmon, Elisabeth O. Burgess, Alexis A. Bender and James R. MoorheadJr.

Health Equity and Aging of Bisexual Older Adults: Pathways of Risk and Resilience pp. 468-478

Karen I. Fredriksen-Goldsen, Chengshi Shiu, Amanda E. B. Bryan, Jayn Goldsen and Hyun-Jun Kim

Agency and Social Forces in the Life Course: The Case of Gender Transitions in Later Life pp. 479-487

Vanessa D. Fabbre

Older Gay Men and Their Support Convoys pp. 488-497

Griff Tester and Eric R. Wright

Instrumental- and Emotion-Focused Care Work During Physical Health Events: Comparing Gay, Lesbian, and Heterosexual Marriages pp. 498-509

Debra Umberson, Mieke Beth Thomeer, Rhiannon A. Kroeger, Corinne Reczek and Rachel Donnelly

Unequal Inequalities: The Stratification of the Use of Formal Care Among Older Europeans pp. 510-521

Marco Albertini and Emmanuele Pavolini

Work Impact and Emotional Stress Among Informal Caregivers for Older Adults pp. 522-531

Margaret L. Longacre, Vivian Valdmanis, Elizabeth A. Handorf and Carolyn Y. Fang

Back to Work? Not Everyone. Examining the Longitudinal Relationships Between Informal Caregiving and Paid Work After Formal Retirement pp. 532-539

Ernest Gonzales, Yeonjung Lee and Celeste Brown

Volume 72, issue 2, 2017

Successful Aging 2.0: Resilience and Beyond pp. 201-203

Rachel Pruchno and Deborah Carr

What Does Successful Aging Mean? Lay Perception of Successful Aging Among Elderly Singaporeans pp. 204-213

Qiushi Feng and Paulin Tay Straughan

Concordance and Discordance of Self-Rated and Researcher-Measured Successful Aging: Subtypes and Associated Factors pp. 214-227

Danan Gu, Qiushi Feng, Jessica M. Sautter, Fang Yang, Lei Ma and Zhihong Zhen

Being Active, Engaged, and Healthy: Older Persons’ Plans and Wishes to Age Successfully pp. 228-236

Johanna M. Huijg, A.(Lex) E. Q. van Delden, Frans J. G. van der Ouderaa, Rudi G. J. Westendorp, Joris P. J. Slaets and Jolanda Lindenberg

Who Is Your Successful Aging Role Model? pp. 237-247

Daniela S. Jopp, Seojung Jung, Amanda K. Damarin, Sheena Mirpuri and Dario Spini

Expanding the Circle of Knowledge: Reconceptualizing Successful Aging Among North American Older Indigenous Peoples pp. 248-258

Jessica E. Pace and Amanda Grenier

Leisure Activity Engagement and Positive Affect Partially Mediate the Relationship Between Positive Views on Aging and Physical Health pp. 259-267

Stephanie A. Hicks and Karen L. Siedlecki

The Effects of Life Events and Socioeconomic Position in Childhood and Adulthood on Successful Aging pp. 268-278

Almar A. L. Kok, Marja J. Aartsen, Dorly J. H. Deeg and Martijn Huisman

Successful Aging as the Intersection of Individual Resources, Age, Environment, and Experiences of Well-being in Daily Activities pp. 279-289

Shannon T. Mejía, Lindsay H. Ryan, Richard Gonzalez and Jacqui Smith

Growing Older With a Physical Disability: A Special Application of the Successful Aging Paradigm pp. 290-299

Ivan R. Molton and Kathryn M. Yorkston

Successful Aging Through Successful Accommodation With Assistive Devices pp. 300-309

Vicki A. Freedman, Judith D. Kasper and Brenda Spillman

Toward a More Comprehensive Concept of Successful Aging: Disability and Care Needs pp. 310-318

Clemens Tesch-Römer and Hans-Werner Wahl

Successful Aging Among African American Older Adults With Type 2 Diabetes pp. 319-327

Sarah Chard, Brandy Harris-Wallace, Erin G. Roth, Laura M. Girling, Robert Rubinstein, Ashanté M. Reese, Charlene C. Quinn and J. Kevin Eckert

Modeling Successful Aging Over Time in the Context of a Disaster pp. 328-339

Maureen Wilson-Genderson, Rachel Pruchno and Allison R. Heid

Successful Aging in the Context of the Disablement Process: Working and Volunteering as Moderators on the Association Between Chronic Conditions and Subsequent Functional Limitations pp. 340-350

Ben Lennox Kail and Dawn C. Carr

Adapting to Aging: Older People Talk About Their Use of Selection, Optimization, and Compensation to Maximize Well-being in the Context of Physical Decline pp. 351-361

J. D. Carpentieri, Jane Elliott, Caroline E. Brett and Ian J. Deary

Volume 72, issue 1, 2017

50 Years of Cognitive Aging Theory pp. 1-6

Nicole D. Anderson and Fergus I. M. Craik

Contributions of the Individual Differences Approach to Cognitive Aging pp. 7-15

Timothy A. Salthouse

Better Cognition in New Birth Cohorts of 70 Year Olds, But Greater Decline Thereafter pp. 16-24

Valgeir Thorvaldsson, Peter Karlsson, Johan Skoog, Ingmar Skoog and Boo Johansson

Lifecourse Activity Participation From Early, Mid, and Later Adulthood as Determinants of Cognitive Aging: The Lothian Birth Cohort 1921 pp. 25-37

Alan J. Gow, Alison Pattie and Ian J. Deary

Cognitive Function in Low-Income and Low-Literacy Settings: Validation of the Tablet-Based Oxford Cognitive Screen in the Health and Aging in Africa: A Longitudinal Study of an INDEPTH Community in South Africa (HAALSI) pp. 38-50

Glyn W. Humphreys, Mihaela D. Duta, Livia Montana, Nele Demeyere, Cathal McCrory, Julia Rohr, Kathleen Kahn, Stephen Tollman and Lisa Berkman

Speed of Visual Search in Old Age: 1950 to 2016 pp. 51-60

Patrick Rabbitt

Cognitive Aging in a Social and Affective Context: Advances Over the Past 50 Years pp. 61-70

Elizabeth A. Kensinger and Angela H. Gutchess

Age Differences in Cognitive and Affective Theory of Mind: Concurrent Contributions of Neurocognitive Performance, Sex, and Pulse Pressure pp. 71-81

Ashley L. Fischer, Norm O’Rourke and Wendy Loken Thornton

Theories of Memory and Aging: A Look at the Past and a Glimpse of the Future pp. 82-90

Denise C. Park and Sara B. Festini

The Roles for Prior Visual Experience and Age on the Extraction of Egocentric Distance pp. 91-99

Courtney P. Wallin, Daniel A. Gajewski, Rebeca W. Teplitz, Sandra Mihelic Jaidzeka and John W. Philbeck

Age-Related Increases in Verbal Knowledge Are Not Associated With Word Finding Problems in the Cam-CAN Cohort: What You Know Won’t Hurt You pp. 100-106

Meredith A. Shafto, Lori E. James, Lise Abrams, Lorraine K. Tyler and Cam-CAN

Translation and Validation of the De Jong Gierveld Loneliness Scale Among Older Migrants Living in the Netherlands pp. 109-119

Özgül Uysal-Bozkir, Tineke Fokkema, Janet L. MacNeil-Vroomen, Theo G. van Tilburg and Sophia E. de Rooij

Loneliness and Cognitive Function in Older Adults: Findings From the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey pp. 120-128

Bao-Liang Zhong, Shu-Lin Chen, Xin Tu and Yeates Conwell

Foundations of Activity of Daily Living Trajectories of Older Americans pp. 129-139

Linda G. Martin, Zachary Zimmer and Jinkook Lee

Ethnic Disparities in the Onset and Progression of Functional Limitations Among Israeli Middle-Aged and Older Adults: Socioeconomic and Health-Related Pathways pp. 140-150

Amira Osman and Katrina M. Walsemann

Disability Rises Gradually for a Cohort of Older Americans pp. 151-161

Lois M. Verbrugge, Dustin C. Brown and Anna Zajacova

The Continued Eclipse of Heterogeneity in Gerontological Research pp. 162-167

Mary Ellen Stone, Jielu Lin, Dale Dannefer and Jessica A. Kelley-Moore

From Noise to Signal: The Age and Social Patterning of Intra-Individual Variability in Late-Life Health pp. 168-179

Jielu Lin and Jessica A. Kelley-Moore

Men’s Preferences for Female Facial Femininity Decline With Age pp. 180-186

Urszula M. Marcinkowska, Barnaby J. Dixson, Mikhail V. Kozlov, Keshav Prasai and Markus J. Rantala

Your Face is Your Fortune: Does Adolescent Attractiveness Predict Intimate Relationships Later in Life? pp. 187-199

Amelia Karraker, Kamil Sicinski and Donald Moynihan