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 71, issue 6, 2016

Digital Dating: Online Profile Content of Older and Younger Adults pp. 959-967

Eden M. Davis and Karen L. Fingerman

Early-Life Intelligence Predicts Midlife Biological Age pp. 968-977

Jonathan D. Schaefer, Avshalom Caspi, Daniel W. Belsky, Honalee Harrington, Renate Houts, Salomon Israel, Morgan E. Levine, Karen Sugden, Benjamin Williams, Richie Poulton and Terrie E. Moffitt

Editor's choice Importance of Numeracy as a Risk Factor for Elder Financial Exploitation in a Community Sample pp. 978-986

Stacey A. Wood, Pi-Ju Liu, Yaniv Hanoch and Sara Estevez-Cores

A Role for Identification in the Gradual Decline in the Pleasantness of Flavors With Age pp. 987-994

Katherine M. Appleton and Eleanor Smith

Response-Conflict Moderates the Cognitive Control of Episodic and Contextual Load in Older Adults pp. 995-1003

Teal S. Eich, Brian C. Rakitin and Yaakov Stern

Vascular Health and Genetic Risk Affect Mild Cognitive Impairment Status and 4-Year Stability: Evidence From the Victoria Longitudinal Study pp. 1004-1014

Correne A. DeCarlo, Stuart W. S. MacDonald, David Vergote, Jack Jhamandas, David Westaway and Roger A. Dixon

Age Effects in Adaptive Criterion Learning pp. 1015-1023

Brittany S. Cassidy and Angela H. Gutchess

Age Differences in Interpreting Ambiguous Situations: The Effects of Content Themes and Depressed Mood pp. 1024-1033

Christine Juang and Bob G. Knight

Capturing Between- and Within-Family Differences in Parental Support to Adult Children: A Typology Approach pp. 1034-1045

Kyungmin Kim, Karen L. Fingerman, Kira S. Birditt and Steven H. Zarit

More Than A Meal? A Randomized Control Trial Comparing the Effects of Home-Delivered Meals Programs on Participants’ Feelings of Loneliness pp. 1049-1058

Kali S. Thomas, Ucheoma Akobundu and David Dosa

Alone at the Table: Food Behavior and the Loss of Commensality in Widowhood pp. 1059-1069

Elisabeth Vesnaver, Heather H. Keller, Olga Sutherland, Scott B. Maitland and Julie L. Locher

Diabetes Risk and Disease Management in Later Life: A National Longitudinal Study of the Role of Marital Quality pp. 1070-1080

Hui Liu, Linda Waite and Shannon Shen

Gender, Illness-Related Diabetes Social Support, and Glycemic Control Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults pp. 1081-1088

Favel L. Mondesir, Kellee White, Angela D. Liese and Alexander C. McLain

Job Strain as a Risk Factor for Incident Diabetes Mellitus in Middle and Older Age U.S. Workers pp. 1089-1096

Miriam Mutambudzi and Zulqarnain Javed

Editor's choice Life-Course Socioeconomic Status and Metabolic Syndrome Among Midlife Women pp. 1097-1107

Jennifer Karas Montez, Joyce T. Bromberger, Siobán D. Harlow, Howard M. Kravitz and Karen A. Matthews

Relocation and Social Support Among Older Adults in Rural China pp. 1108-1119

Zheng Wu, Margaret J. Penning, Weihong Zeng, Shuzhuo Li and Neena L. Chappell

Functioning, Forgetting, or Failing Health: Which Factors Are Associated With a Community-Based Move Among Older Adults? pp. 1120-1130

Esther M. Friedman, Margaret M. Weden, Regina A. Shih, Stephanie Kovalchik, Reema Singh and Jose Escarce

Racial Differences in the Effects of Neighborhood Disadvantage on Residential Mobility in Later Life pp. 1131-1140

Alicia Riley, Louise C. Hawkley and Kathleen A. Cagney

Volume 71, issue 5, 2016

Editor's choice Stress and Negative Relationship Quality among Older Couples: Implications for Blood Pressure pp. 775-785

Kira S. Birditt, Nicky J. Newton, James A. Cranford and Lindsay H. Ryan

Forgiveness, Ego-Integrity, and Depressive Symptoms in Community-Dwelling and Residential Elderly Adults pp. 786-797

Jessie Dezutter, Loren Toussaint and Mia Leijssen

Age Differences in Emotional Well-Being Vary by Temporal Recall pp. 798-807

Susan T. Charles, Jennifer R. Piazza, Jacqueline A. Mogle, Emily J. Urban, Martin J. Sliwinski and David M. Almeida

Effects of Individual Differences and Situational Features on Age Differences in Mindless Reading pp. 808-820

Matthew C. Shake, Leah J. Shulley and Angelica M. Soto-Freita

Cognitive Aging in Parents of Children with Disabilities pp. 821-830

Jieun Song, Marsha R. Mailick, Jan S. Greenberg, Carol D. Ryff and Margie E. Lachman

Influences of Age and Emotion on Source Guessing: Are Older Adults More Likely to Show Fear-Relevant Illusory Correlations? pp. 831-840

Miriam Magdalena Meyer, Axel Buchner and Raoul Bell

Grip Strength and Cognitive Abilities: Associations in Old Age pp. 841-848

Ola Sternäng, Chandra A. Reynolds, Deborah Finkel, Marie Ernsth-Bravell, Nancy L. Pedersen and Anna K. Dahl Aslan

Effects of Preretirement Work Complexity and Postretirement Leisure Activity on Cognitive Aging pp. 849-856

Ross Andel, Deborah Finkel and Nancy L. Pedersen

Intraindividual Reaction Time Variability, Falls, and Gait in Old Age: A Systematic Review pp. 857-864

Jack Graveson, Sarah Bauermeister, Denis McKeown and David Bunce

The Health Impact of Intensive and Nonintensive Grandchild Care in Europe: New Evidence From SHARE pp. 867-879

Giorgio Di Gessa, Karen Glaser and Anthea Tinker

Intergenerational Relations in Older Stepfamilies: A Comparison of France, Germany, and Russia pp. 880-888

Anja Steinbach and Karsten Hank

Childhood Conditions and Multimorbidity Among Older Adults pp. 889-901

Gregory Pavela and Kenzie Latham

Editor's choice Childhood Adversity and Men’s Relationships in Adulthood: Life Course Processes and Racial Disadvantage pp. 902-913

Debra Umberson, Mieke Beth Thomeer, Kristi Williams, Patricia A. Thomas and Hui Liu

Decision Support Preferences Among Hispanic and Non-Hispanic White Older Adults With Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain pp. 914-925

Catherine Riffin, Karl Pillemer, Manny C. Reid and Corinna E. Lӧckenhoff

Marianismo and Caregiving Role Beliefs Among U.S.-Born and Immigrant Mexican Women pp. 926-935

Carolyn A. Mendez-Luck and Katherine P. Anthony

Health Conditions and Passive Suicidal Ideation in the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe pp. 936-946

Julie Lutz, Kimberly Morton, Nicholas A. Turiano and Amy Fiske

Passive Suicide Ideation Among Older Adults in Europe: A Multilevel Regression Analysis of Individual and Societal Determinants in 12 Countries (SHARE) pp. 947-958

Erwin Stolz, Beat Fux, Hannes Mayerl, Éva Rásky and Wolfgang Freidl

Volume 71, issue 4, 2016

Editor's choice Personality and Cognitive Decline in Older Adults: Data From a Longitudinal Sample and Meta-Analysis pp. 591-601

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

"My Parent is so Stubborn!" -Perceptions of Aging Parents' Persistence, Insistence, and Resistance pp. 602-612

Allison R. Heid, Steven H. Zarit and Karen L. Fingerman

Age-Related Differences in Plausibility-Checking Strategies During Arithmetic Problem Verification Tasks pp. 613-621

Thomas Hinault, Kerensa Tiberghien and Patrick Lemaire

Long-Term Maintenance of Inhibition Training Effects in Older Adults: 1- and 3-Year Follow-Up pp. 622-629

Andrea J. Wilkinson and Lixia Yang

Depression and Frailty in Late Life: Evidence for a Common Vulnerability pp. 630-640

Matthew Lohman, Levent Dumenci and Briana Mezuk

Are Age-Related Differences Uniform Across Different Inhibitory Functions? pp. 641-649

Kiran K. Vadaga, Mervin Blair and Karen Z. H. Li

Solving Tomorrow’s Problems Today? Daily Anticipatory Coping and Reactivity to Daily Stressors pp. 650-660

Shevaun D. Neupert, Gilda E. Ennis, Jennifer L. Ramsey and Agnes A. Gall

The Baltimore Experience Corps Trial: Enhancing Generativity via Intergenerational Activity Engagement in Later Life pp. 661-670

Tara L. Gruenewald, Elizabeth K. Tanner, Linda P. Fried, Michelle C. Carlson, Qian-Li Xue, Jeanine M. Parisi, George W. Rebok, Lisa M. Yarnell and Teresa E. Seeman

Intact Semantic Priming of Critical Lures in Alzheimer’s Disease: Implications for False Memory pp. 671-674

Christelle Evrard, Fabienne Colombel, Anne-Laure Gilet and Yves Corson

Subjective Age and Changes in Memory in Older Adults pp. 675-683

Yannick Stephan, Angelina R. Sutin, Johan Caudroit and Antonio Terracciano

Better Off Alone Than With a Smoker: The Influence of Partner’s Smoking Behavior in Later Life pp. 687-697

Rachel Margolis and Laura Wright

Sexual Health and Positive Subjective Well-Being in Partnered Older Men and Women pp. 698-710

David M. Lee, Bram Vanhoutte, James Nazroo and Neil Pendleton

Relationship Status and Long-Term Care Facility Use in Later Life pp. 711-723

Mieke Beth Thomeer, Stipica Mudrazija and Jacqueline L. Angel

Centenarians’ Marital History and Living Arrangements: Pathways to Extreme Longevity pp. 724-733

Michel Poulain and Anne Herm

Responses to Financial Loss During the Great Recession: An Examination of Sense of Control in Late Midlife pp. 734-744

Shannon T. Mejía, Richard A. Settersten, Michelle C. Odden and Karen Hooker

Financial Strain and Mental Health Among Older Adults During the Great Recession pp. 745-754

Lindsay R. Wilkinson

Editor's choice Older Adults’ Attitudes Toward Cohabitation: Two Decades of Change pp. 755-764

Susan L. Brown and Matthew R. Wright

Cohort and Gender Differences in Psychosocial Adjustment to Later-Life Widowhood pp. 765-774

Pasqualina Perrig-Chiello, Stefanie Spahni, François Höpflinger and Deborah Carr

Volume 71, issue 3, 2016

Editor's choice Memory for Allergies and Health Foods: How Younger and Older Adults Strategically Remember Critical Health Information pp. 389-399

Catherine D. Middlebrooks, Shannon McGillivray, Kou Murayama and Alan D. Castel

Association of Hearing Impairment and Emotional Vitality in Older Adults pp. 400-404

Kevin J. Contrera, Josh Betz, Jennifer A. Deal, Janet S. Choi, Hilsa N. Ayonayon, Tamara Harris, Elizabeth Helzner, Kathryn R. Martin, Kala Mehta, Sheila Pratt, Susan M. Rubin, Suzanne Satterfield, Kristine Yaffe, Melissa Garcia, Eleanor M. Simonsick, Frank R. Lin and for the Health ABC Study

The Role of Anticipated Gains and Losses on Preferences About Future Caregiving pp. 405-414

Margund K. Rohr and Frieder R. Lang

Subjective Age and Health in Later Life: The Role of Posttraumatic Symptoms pp. 415-424

Sharon Avidor, Yael Benyamini and Zahava Solomon

Associations Between Perceived Support in Older Adult Marriages and Dyadic Covariations in Momentary Affect and Aches pp. 425-430

Victoria I. Michalowski, Christiane A. Hoppmann and Denis Gerstorf

Aerobic Fitness and Intraindividual Reaction Time Variability in Middle and Old Age pp. 431-438

Sarah Bauermeister and David Bunce

Are Volunteer Satisfaction and Enjoyment Related to Cessation of Volunteering by Older Adults? pp. 439-444

Morris Okun, Frank J. Infurna and Ianeta Hutchinson

Aging and Functional Health Literacy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis pp. 445-457

Lindsay C. Kobayashi, Jane Wardle, Michael S. Wolf and Christian von Wagner

Changes in Sleep Predict Changes in Affect in Older Caregivers of Individuals with Alzheimer’s Dementia: A Multilevel Model Approach pp. 458-462

Christina S. McCrae, Joseph M. Dzierzewski, Joseph P. H. McNamara, Karlyn E. Vatthauer, Alicia J. Roth and Meredeth A. Rowe

Social Disadvantage and Social Isolation Are Associated With a Higher Resting Heart Rate: Evidence From The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing pp. 463-473

Cathal McCrory, Ciaran Finucane, Celia O’Hare, John Frewen, Hugh Nolan, Richard Layte, Patricia M. Kearney and Rose Anne Kenny

Cardiorespiratory Fitness Is Associated With Cognitive Performance in Older But Not Younger Adults pp. 474-482

Scott M. Hayes, Daniel E. Forman and Mieke Verfaellie

Letter to the Editor re. Smagula et al. ("Sleep Architecture and Mental Health Among Community-Dwelling Older Men") pp. 483-484

Donald L. Bliwise

Authors’ Reply to Letter to the Editor From Dr. Bliwise (re: "Sleep Architecture and Mental Health Among Community-dwelling Older Men") pp. 485-487

Stephen F. Smagula, Katie L. Stone, Susan Redline and Jane A. Cauley

How Dementia Affects Personal Dignity: A Qualitative Study on the Perspective of Individuals With Mild to Moderate Dementia pp. 491-501

Isis E. van Gennip, H. Roeline W. Pasman, Mariska G. Oosterveld-Vlug, Dick L. Willems and Bregje D. Onwuteaka-Philipsen

Wisdom at the End of Life: An Analysis of Mediating and Moderating Relations Between Wisdom and Subjective Well-Being pp. 502-513

Monika Ardelt and Carladenise A. Edwards

Socioeconomic Predictors of the Employment of Migrant Care Workers by Italian Families Assisting Older Alzheimer’s Disease Patients: Evidence From the Up-Tech Study pp. 514-525

Francesco Barbabella, Carlos Chiatti, Joseph M. Rimland, Maria Gabriella Melchiorre, Giovanni Lamura and Fabrizia Lattanzio

The Association Between Older Israelis’ Quality of Relationships With Their Family and Migrant Live-in Caregivers and Their Loneliness pp. 526-537

Esther Iecovich

Editor's choice Self-Rated Health, Interviewer-Rated Health, and Their Predictive Powers on Mortality in Old Age pp. 538-550

Qiushi Feng, Haiyan Zhu, Zhihong Zhen and Danan Gu

Examination of Age Variations in the Predictive Validity of Self-Rated Health pp. 551-557

Anna Zajacova and Hyeyoung Woo

Methodological Aspects of Subjective Life Expectancy: Effects of Culture-Specific Reporting Heterogeneity Among Older Adults in the United States pp. 558-568

Sunghee Lee and Jacqui Smith

Hospice Use, Hospitalization, and Medicare Spending at the End of Life pp. 569-580

Rachael B. Zuckerman, Sally C. Stearns and Steven H. Sheingold

How Did Medicare Part D Affect Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Drug Coverage? pp. 581-589

Elham Mahmoudi and Helen G. Levy

Volume 71, issue 2, 2016

Staying on Task: Age-Related Changes in the Relationship Between Executive Functioning and Response Time Consistency pp. 189-200

Brandon P. Vasquez, Malcolm A. Binns and Nicole D. Anderson

Combining Formal and Informal Caregiving Roles: The Psychosocial Implications of Double- and Triple-Duty Care pp. 201-211

Nicole DePasquale, Kelly D. Davis, Steven H. Zarit, Phyllis Moen, Leslie B. Hammer and David M. Almeida

The Effects of Structural Complexity on Age-Related Deficits in Implicit Probabilistic Sequence Learning pp. 212-219

Chelsea M. Stillman, James H. Howard and Darlene V. Howard

Age Differences in the Differentiation of Trait Impressions From Faces pp. 220-229

Stacey Y. Ng, Leslie A. Zebrowitz and Robert G. Franklin

Planning Decrements in Healthy Aging: Mediation Effects of Fluid Reasoning and Working Memory Capacity pp. 230-242

Lena Köstering, Rainer Leonhart, Christoph Stahl, Cornelius Weiller and Christoph P. Kaller

Editor's choice Risk for Mild Cognitive Impairment Is Associated With Semantic Integration Deficits in Sentence Processing and Memory pp. 243-253

Brennan R. Payne and Elizabeth A. L. Stine-Morrow

Wanting to Get More or Protecting One’s Assets: Age-Differential Effects of Gain Versus Loss Perceptions on the Willingness to Engage in Collective Action pp. 254-264

David Weiss, Sabine Sczesny and Alexandra M. Freund

Age, Rumination, and Emotional Recovery From a Psychosocial Stressor pp. 265-274

Jennifer W. Robinette and Susan T. Charles

Cognitive Domains and Health-Related Quality of Life in Alzheimer’s Disease pp. 275-287

Pascalle R. Bosboom and Osvaldo P. Almeida

Editor's choice Religious Attendance and Physiological Problems in Late Life pp. 291-308

Aniruddha Das and Stephanie Nairn

Volunteerism: Social Network Dynamics and Education pp. 309-319

Kristine J. Ajrouch, Toni C. Antonucci and Noah J. Webster

Health Trajectories of Women in China: The Role of Parental Caregiving pp. 320-331

Guangya Liu and Matthew E. Dupre

Children’s Divorce and Parent–Child Contact: A Within-Family Analysis of Older European Parents pp. 332-343

Matthijs Kalmijn

Close To You? How Parent–Adult Child Contact Is Influenced by Family Patterns pp. 344-357

Glenn Deane, Glenna Spitze, Russell A. Ward and Yue (Angela) Zhuo

The Mental and Physical Health Consequences of Changes in Private Insurance Before and After Early Retirement pp. 358-368

Ben Lennox Kail

Do Local Social Hierarchies Matter for Mental Health? A Study of Neighborhood Social Status and Depressive Symptoms in Older Adults pp. 369-377

Jessica A. Kelley-Moore, Kathleen A. Cagney, Kimberly A. Skarupski, Susan A. Everson-Rose and Carlos F. Mendes de Leon

Socioeconomic Status and the Trajectory of Body Mass Index Among Older Japanese: A Nationwide Cohort Study of 1987–2006 pp. 378-388

Hiroshi Murayama, Jersey Liang, Joan M. Bennett, Benjamin A. Shaw, Anda Botoseneanu, Erika Kobayashi, Taro Fukaya and Shoji Shinkai

Volume 71, issue 1, 2016

Mobility Limitation and Changes in Personal Goals Among Older Women pp. 1-10

Milla Saajanaho, Anne Viljanen, Sanna Read, Johanna Eronen, Jaakko Kaprio, Marja Jylhä and Taina Rantanen

Specificity of Age-Related Differences in Eye-Gaze Following: Evidence From Social and Nonsocial Stimuli pp. 11-22

Gillian Slessor, Cristina Venturini, Emily J. Bonny, Pauline M. Insch, Anna Rokaszewicz and Ailbhe N. Finnerty

Is Available Support Always Helpful for Older Adults? Exploring the Buffering Effects of State and Trait Social Support pp. 23-34

Julia K. Wolff, Ulman Lindenberger, Annette Brose and Florian Schmiedek

The Moderating Effect of Chronological Age on the Relation Between Neuroticism and Physical Functioning: Cross-Sectional Evidence From Two French Samples pp. 35-40

Brice Canada, Yannick Stephan, Alban Jaconelli and Paul R. Duberstein

Moderators of Mother’s Problems on Middle-Aged Offspring Depressive Symptoms pp. 41-48

Lauren R. Bangerter, Steven H. Zarit and Karen L. Fingerman

Aging Cognition Unconfounded by Prior Test Experience pp. 49-58

Timothy A. Salthouse

Source Memory for Self and Other in Patients With Mild Cognitive Impairment due to Alzheimer’s Disease pp. 59-65

Nicole M. Rosa, Rebecca G. Deason, Andrew E. Budson and Angela H. Gutchess

Driving, Space, and Access to Activity pp. 69-70

Nancy A. Pachana

Editor's choice Toward the Multilevel Older Person’s Transportation and Road Safety Model: A New Perspective on the Role of Demographic, Functional, and Psychosocial Factors pp. 71-86

Ides Y. Wong, Simon S. Smith, Karen A. Sullivan and Alicia C. Allan

The Transfer of Cognitive Speed of Processing Training to Older Adults’ Driving Mobility Across 5 Years pp. 87-97

Lesley A. Ross, Jerri D. Edwards, Melissa L. O’Connor, Karlene K. Ball, Virginia G. Wadley and David E. Vance

Neighborhood Support and Aging-in-Place Preference Among Low-Income Elderly Chinese City-Dwellers pp. 98-105

Terry Y. S. Lum, Vivian W. Q. Lou, Yanyan Chen, Gloria H. Y. Wong, Hao Luo and Tracy L. W. Tong

The Paradox of Leisure in Later Life pp. 106-111

Galit Nimrod and Amit Shrira

Sleep Evaluation by Actigraphy pp. 115-116

Tomoyuki Kawada

Response to Dr. Kawada pp. 117

Diane S. Lauderdale and L. Philip Schumm

The Impact of Sleep Disturbance on the Association Between Stressful Life Events and Depressive Symptoms pp. 118-128

Amanda Leggett, Sarah Burgard and Kara Zivin

Grandparenting Roles and Volunteer Activity pp. 129-140

Jennifer Roebuck Bulanda and Margaret Platt Jendrek

What Drives National Differences in Intensive Grandparental Childcare in Europe? pp. 141-153

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

Marital Quality and Health in Middle and Later Adulthood: Dyadic Associations pp. 154-164

Heejeong Choi, Jeremy B. Yorgason and David R. Johnson

Editor's choice Marital Quality and Cognitive Limitations in Late Life pp. 165-176

Minle Xu, Patricia A. Thomas and Debra Umberson

Marital Quality and Negative Experienced Well-Being: An Assessment of Actor and Partner Effects Among Older Married Persons pp. 177-187

Deborah Carr, Jennifer C. Cornman and Vicki A. Freedman