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Vetter VM, Drewelies J, Düzel S, Homann J, Meyer-Arndt L, Braun J, Pohrt A, Kendel F, Wagner GG, Thiel A, Bertram L, Regitz-Zagrosek V, Gerstorf D, Demuth I. Change in body weight of older adults before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: longitudinal results from the Berlin Aging Study II. J Nutr Health Aging 2024; 28:100206. [PMID: 38460212 DOI: 10.1016/j.jnha.2024.100206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2023] [Revised: 02/17/2024] [Accepted: 02/27/2024] [Indexed: 03/11/2024]
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OBJECTIVES Change in body weight during the COVID-19 pandemic as an unintended side effect of lockdown measures has been predominantly reported for younger and middle-aged adults. However, information on older adults for which weight loss is known to result in adverse outcomes, is scarce. In this study we describe the body weight change in older adults before, during, and after the COVID-19 lockdown measures and explore putative associated factors with a focus on the period that includes the first six months of the COVID-19 containment measures. DESIGN Prospective cohort study with three follow-up examinations over the course of 10 years. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS In this study, we analyzed the longitudinal weight change of 472 participants of the Berlin Aging Study II (mean age of 67.5 years at baseline). MEASUREMENTS Body weight was assessed at four time points. Additionally, differences between subgroups characterized by socio-economic, cognitive, and psychosocial variables as well as morbidity burden, biological age markers (epigenetic clocks, telomere length), and frailty were compared. RESULTS On average, women and men lost 0.87% (n = 227) and 0.5% (n = 245) of their body weight per year in the study period covering the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Weight loss among men was particularly pronounced among groups characterized by change in physical activity due to COVID-19 lockdown, low positive affect, premature epigenetic age (7-CpG clock), diagnosed metabolic syndrome, and a more masculine gender score (all variables: p < 0.05, n = 245). CONCLUSION During the COVID-19 pandemic, older participants lost weight with a 2.5-times (women) and 2-times (men) higher rate than what is expected in this age.
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- Valentin Max Vetter
- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases (Including Division of Lipid Metabolism), Biology of Aging Working Group, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353 Berlin, Germany
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- Lise Meitner Group for Environmental Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany; Department of Psychology, Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Max-Planck Institut Für Bildungsforschung, Germany; Friede Springer Cardiovascular Prevention Center, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin (CBF), Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Regenerative Immunology and Aging, BIH Center for Regenerative Therapies, 13353 Berlin, Germany; Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, NeuroCure Clinical Research Center, 10117 Berlin, Germany; Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Department of Neurology with Experimental Neurology, 10117 Berlin, Germany
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- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Regenerative Immunology and Aging, BIH Center for Regenerative Therapies, 13353 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Medical Biometrics, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany
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- Gender in Medicine, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), Berlin, Germany; Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Regenerative Immunology and Aging, BIH Center for Regenerative Therapies, 13353 Berlin, Germany
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- Lübeck Interdisciplinary Platform for Genome Analytics (LIGA), University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
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- Institute for Gender in Medicine, Center for Cardiovascular Research, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany; Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Zürich, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Psychology, Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases (Including Division of Lipid Metabolism), Biology of Aging Working Group, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353 Berlin, Germany; Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Regenerative Immunology and Aging, BIH Center for Regenerative Therapies, 13353 Berlin, Germany.
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Willems YE, deSteiguer A, Tanksley PT, Vinnik L, Fraemke D, Okbay A, Richter D, Wagner GG, Hertwig R, Koellinger P, Tucker-Drob EM, Harden KP, Raffington L. Self-control is associated with health-relevant disparities in buccal DNA-methylation measures of biological aging in older adults. Clin Epigenetics 2024; 16:22. [PMID: 38331797 PMCID: PMC10854186 DOI: 10.1186/s13148-024-01637-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2023] [Accepted: 01/29/2024] [Indexed: 02/10/2024] Open
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Self-control is a personality dimension that is associated with better physical health and a longer lifespan. Here, we examined (1) whether self-control is associated with buccal and saliva DNA-methylation (DNAm) measures of biological aging quantified in children, adolescents, and adults, and (2) whether biological aging measured in buccal DNAm is associated with self-reported health. Following preregistered analyses, we computed two DNAm measures of advanced biological age (principal-component PhenoAge and GrimAge Acceleration) and a DNAm measure of pace of aging (DunedinPACE) in buccal samples from the German Socioeconomic Panel Study (SOEP-G[ene], n = 1058, age range 0-72, Mage = 42.65) and saliva samples from the Texas Twin Project (TTP, n = 1327, age range 8-20, Mage = 13.50). We found that lower self-control was associated with advanced biological age in older adults (PhenoAge Acceleration β = - .34, [- .51, - .17], p < .001; GrimAge Acceleration β = - .34, [- .49, - .19], p < .001), but not young adults, adolescents or children. These associations remained statistically robust even after correcting for possible confounders such as socioeconomic contexts, BMI, or genetic correlates of low self-control. Moreover, a faster pace of aging and advanced biological age measured in buccal DNAm were associated with self-reported disease (PhenoAge Acceleration: β = .13 [.06, .19], p < .001; GrimAge Acceleration: β = .19 [.12, .26], p < .001; DunedinPACE: β = .09 [.02, .17], p = .01). However, effect sizes were weaker than observations in blood, suggesting that customization of DNAm aging measures to buccal and saliva tissues may be necessary. Our findings are consistent with the hypothesis that self-control is associated with health via pathways that accelerate biological aging in older adults.
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- Y E Willems
- Max Planck Research Group Biosocial - Biology, Social Disparities, and Development, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- Population Research Center, The University of Texas, Austin, USA
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- Population Research Center, The University of Texas, Austin, USA
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- Max Planck Research Group Biosocial - Biology, Social Disparities, and Development, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Research Group Biosocial - Biology, Social Disparities, and Development, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- School of Business and Economics, Economics Fellow, Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Amsterdam Neuroscience, Complex Trait Genetics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Economics, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- SHARE Berlin Institute GmbH, Berlin, Germany
- Department of Education and Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
- German Socio Economic Panel Study (SOEP), Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- School of Business and Economics, Economics Fellow, Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Amsterdam Neuroscience, Complex Trait Genetics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Economics, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Population Research Center, The University of Texas, Austin, USA
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- Population Research Center, The University of Texas, Austin, USA
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- Max Planck Research Group Biosocial - Biology, Social Disparities, and Development, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, 14195, Berlin, Germany.
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Buchinger L, Entringer TM, Richter D, Wagner GG, Gerstorf D, Bleidorn W. Codevelopment of life goals and the Big Five personality traits across adulthood and old age. J Pers Soc Psychol 2024; 126:346-368. [PMID: 37498688 DOI: 10.1037/pspp0000477] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/29/2023]
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Since the new millennium, research in the field of personality development has focused on the stability and change of basic personality traits. Motivational aspects of personality and their longitudinal association with basic traits have received comparably little attention. In this preregistered study, we applied bivariate latent growth curve model to investigated the codevelopment of nine life goals and the Big Five traits. We tested age, perceived control, gender, educational background, and regional socialization as potential moderators of codevelopment. Data came from the German Socio-Economic Panel study (N = 55,040, age range: 18-103 years) and span a study period of 13 years. During this period, the Big Five traits and life goals were assessed four times. Our findings suggest that development in broader life goal domains (e.g., self-fulfillment) is more strongly connected to personality development across the life span, whereas changes in specific goals (e.g., having children) are more closely tied to trait changes during young and middle adulthood. The strongest codevelopment was found between Openness and agentic goals with a focus on personal growth followed by codevelopment between Agreeableness and communal goals. Developmental stage and educational background moderated the codevelopment of Conscientiousness and economic achievement as well as family-related goals. Contrary to the previous research, we found that Neuroticism codeveloped with communal life goals (i.e., having a happy relationship/marriage). Our findings reinforce theoretical frameworks that highlight the role of changing opportunities, constraints, and developmental tasks across adulthood. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).
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- Department of Psychology, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin
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Tetzner J, Drewelies J, Duezel S, Demuth I, Wagner GG, Lachman M, Lindenberger U, Ram N, Gerstorf D. Stability and change of optimism and pessimism in late midlife and old age across three independent studies. Psychol Aging 2024; 39:14-30. [PMID: 38358694 DOI: 10.1037/pag0000789] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/16/2024]
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Research across a number of different areas in psychology has long shown that optimism and pessimism are predictive of a number of important future life outcomes. Despite a vast literature on the correlates and consequences, we know very little about how optimism and pessimism change across adulthood and old age and the sociodemographic factors that are associated with individual differences in such trajectories. In the present study, we conducted (parallel) analyses of standard items from the Life Orientation Test (Scheier & Carver, 1985) in three comprehensive data sets: Two-wave data from both the Berlin Aging Study II (N = 1,423, aged 60-88; M = 70.4, SD = 3.70) and the Midlife in the U.S. Study (N = 1,810 aged 60-84; M = 69.12, SD = 6.47) as well as cross-sectional data from the Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement (N = 17,087, aged 60-99; M = 70.19, SD = 7.53). Using latent change-regression models and locally weighted smoothing curves revealed that optimism is on average very stable after age 60, with some evidence in Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement of lowered optimism in very old age. Consistent across the three independent studies, pessimism evinced on average modest increases, ranging between .25 and .50 SD per 10 years of age. Of the sociodemographic factors examined, higher levels of education revealed the most consistent associations with lower pessimism, whereas gender evinced more study-specific findings. We take our results to demonstrate that age-related trajectories and correlates thereof differ for optimism and pessimism. Older adults appear to preserve into older ages those levels of optimistic expectations they have had at 60 years of age and show only modest increases in pessimism. We discuss possible reasons for these findings. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).
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- Julia Tetzner
- Humboldt University of Berlin, Department of Psychology
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- Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lise Meitner Group for Environmental Neuroscience
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- Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Center for Lifespan Psychology
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- Charite-Universitatsmedizin Berlin, Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences
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- Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Center for Lifespan Psychology
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- Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Center for Lifespan Psychology
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- Stanford University, Department of Psychology and Communication
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- German Institute for Economic Research, German Socio-Economic Panel Study
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Plini ERG, Melnychuk MC, Harkin A, Dahl MJ, McAuslan M, Kühn S, Boyle RT, Whelan R, Andrews R, Düzel S, Dreweilies J, Wagner GG, Lindenberger U, Norman K, Robertson IH, Dockree PM. Erratum to: Dietary Tyrosine Intake (FFQ) Is Associated with Locus Coeruleus, Attention and Grey Matter Maintenance: An MRI Structural Study on 398 Healthy Individuals of the Berlin Aging Study-II. J Nutr Health Aging 2023; 27:1288. [PMID: 38242606 DOI: 10.1007/s12603-023-2034-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2024]
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- Emanuele R G Plini
- Department of Psychology, Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Lloyd Building, 42A Pearse St, 8PVX+GJ, Dublin, Ireland.
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- Department of Psychology, Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Lloyd Building, 42A Pearse St, 8PVX+GJ, Dublin, Ireland
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- Department of Psychology, Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Lloyd Building, 42A Pearse St, 8PVX+GJ, Dublin, Ireland; School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Lloyd Building, 42A Pearse St, 8PVX+GJ, Dublin, Ireland
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, 14195, Berlin, Germany; Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, 90089, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Lloyd Building, 42A Pearse St, 8PVX+GJ, Dublin, Ireland
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Building 149, Charlestown, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Lloyd Building, 42A Pearse St, 8PVX+GJ, Dublin, Ireland
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- Department of Psychology, Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Lloyd Building, 42A Pearse St, 8PVX+GJ, Dublin, Ireland
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, 14195, Berlin, Germany; Friede Springer Cardiovascular prevention center at Charité, Berlin, Germany
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- Lise Meitner Group for Enviromental Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, 14195, Berlin, Germany; Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, 90089, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Building 149, Charlestown, MA, USA; Lise Meitner Group for Enviromental Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, 14195, Berlin, Germany; Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, Berlin, Germany; Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, London, UK
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- Department of Nutrition and Gerontology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke, 14558, Nuthetal, Germany; Institute of Nutritional Science, University of Potsdam, 14558, Nuthetal, Germany; Department of Geriatrics and Medical Gerontology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 13347, Berlin, Germany; German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Partner Site Berlin, 10785, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Lloyd Building, 42A Pearse St, 8PVX+GJ, Dublin, Ireland; Department of Psychology, Global Brain Health Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Lloyd Building, 42A Pearse St, 8PVX+GJ, Dublin, Ireland
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- Department of Psychology, Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Lloyd Building, 42A Pearse St, 8PVX+GJ, Dublin, Ireland
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Willems YE, deSteiguer A, Tanksley PT, Vinnik L, Främke D, Okbay A, Richter D, Wagner GG, Hertwig R, Koellinger P, Tucker-Drob EM, Harden KP, Raffington L. Self-control is associated with health-relevant disparities in buccal DNA-methylation measures of biological aging in older adults. medRxiv 2023:2023.08.30.23294816. [PMID: 37693450 PMCID: PMC10491374 DOI: 10.1101/2023.08.30.23294816] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/12/2023]
Abstract
Self-control is a personality dimension that is associated with better physical health and a longer lifespan. Here we examined (1) whether self-control is associated with buccal and saliva DNA-methylation (DNAm) measures of biological aging quantified in children, adolescents, and adults, and (2) whether biological aging measured in buccal DNAm is associated with self-reported health. Following preregistered analyses, we computed two DNAm measures of advanced biological age (PhenoAge and GrimAge Acceleration) and a DNAm measure of pace of aging (DunedinPACE) in buccal samples from the German Socioeconomic Panel Study (SOEP-G[ene], n = 1058, age range 0-72, Mage = 42.65) and saliva samples from the Texas Twin Project (TTP, n = 1327, age range 8-20, Mage = 13.50). We found that lower self-control was associated with advanced biological age in older adults (β =-.34), but not young adults, adolescents or children. This association was not accounted for by statistical correction for socioeconomic contexts, BMI, or genetic correlates of low self-control. Moreover, a faster pace of aging and advanced biological age measured in buccal DNAm were associated with worse self-reported health (β =.13 to β = .19). But, effect sizes were weaker than observations in blood, thus customization of DNAm aging measures to buccal and saliva tissues may be necessary. Our findings are consistent with the hypothesis that self-control is associated with health via pathways that accelerate biological aging in older adults.
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- Y E Willems
- Max Planck Research Group Biosocial - Biology, Social Disparities, and Development, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
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- Population Research Center, The University of Texas, Austin
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- Population Research Center, The University of Texas, Austin
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- Max Planck Research Group Biosocial - Biology, Social Disparities, and Development, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
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- Max Planck Research Group Biosocial - Biology, Social Disparities, and Development, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
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- School of Business and Economics, Economics Fellow, Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam
- Amsterdam Neuroscience, Complex Trait Genetics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam
- Department of Economics, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam
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- Department of Education and Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin
- SHARE Berlin, Berlin
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- Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
- German Socio Economic Panel Study (SOEP), Berlin
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- Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
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- School of Business and Economics, Economics Fellow, Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam
- Amsterdam Neuroscience, Complex Trait Genetics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam
- Department of Economics, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam
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- Population Research Center, The University of Texas, Austin
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- Max Planck Research Group Biosocial - Biology, Social Disparities, and Development, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
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Raffington L, Schwaba T, Aikins M, Richter D, Wagner GG, Harden KP, Belsky DW, Tucker-Drob EM. Associations of socioeconomic disparities with buccal DNA-methylation measures of biological aging. Clin Epigenetics 2023; 15:70. [PMID: 37118759 PMCID: PMC10148429 DOI: 10.1186/s13148-023-01489-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2022] [Accepted: 04/20/2023] [Indexed: 04/30/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Individuals who are socioeconomically disadvantaged are at increased risk for aging-related diseases and perform less well on tests of cognitive function. The weathering hypothesis proposes that these disparities in physical and cognitive health arise from an acceleration of biological processes of aging. Theories of how life adversity is biologically embedded identify epigenetic alterations, including DNA methylation (DNAm), as a mechanistic interface between the environment and health. Consistent with the weathering hypothesis and theories of biological embedding, recently developed DNAm algorithms have revealed profiles reflective of more advanced aging and lower cognitive function among socioeconomically-at-risk groups. These DNAm algorithms were developed using blood-DNA, but social and behavioral science research commonly collect saliva or cheek-swab DNA. This discrepancy is a potential barrier to research to elucidate mechanisms through which socioeconomic disadvantage affects aging and cognition. We therefore tested if social gradients observed in blood DNAm measures could be reproduced using buccal-cell DNA obtained from cheek swabs. RESULTS We analyzed three DNAm measures of biological aging and one DNAm measure of cognitive performance, all of which showed socioeconomic gradients in previous studies: the PhenoAge and GrimAge DNAm clocks, DunedinPACE, and Epigenetic-g. We first computed blood-buccal cross-tissue correlations in n = 21 adults (GEO111165). Cross-tissue correlations were low-to-moderate (r = .25 to r = .48). We next conducted analyses of socioeconomic gradients using buccal DNAm data from SOEP-G (n = 1128, 57% female; age mean = 42 yrs, SD = 21.56, range 0-72). Associations of socioeconomic status with DNAm measures of aging were in the expected direction, but were smaller as compared to reports from blood DNAm datasets (r = - .08 to r = - .13). CONCLUSIONS Our findings are consistent with the hypothesis that socioeconomic disadvantage is associated with DNAm indicators of worse physical health. However, relatively low cross-tissue correlations and attenuated effect sizes for socioeconomic gradients in buccal DNAm compared with reports from analysis of blood DNAm suggest that in order to take full advantage of buccal DNA samples, DNAm algorithms customized to buccal DNAm are needed.
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- L Raffington
- Max Planck Research Group Biosocial - Biology, Social Disparities, and Development, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, 14195, Berlin, Germany.
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- Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
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- Max Planck Research Group Biosocial - Biology, Social Disparities, and Development, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- SHARE Berlin Institute, Berlin, Germany
- Educational Science and Psychology, Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
- Federal Institute for Population Research, Wiesbaden, Berlin, Germany
- German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, USA
- Robert N Butler Columbia Aging Center, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
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Plini ERG, Melnychuk MC, Harkin A, Dahl MJ, McAuslan M, Kühn S, Boyle RT, Whelan R, Andrews R, Düzel S, Drewelies J, Wagner GG, Lindenberger U, Norman K, Robertson IH, Dockree PM. Dietary Tyrosine Intake (FFQ) Is Associated with Locus Coeruleus, Attention and Grey Matter Maintenance: An MRI Structural Study on 398 Healthy Individuals of the Berlin Aging Study-II. J Nutr Health Aging 2023; 27:1174-1187. [PMID: 38151868 DOI: 10.1007/s12603-023-2005-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2023] [Accepted: 09/19/2023] [Indexed: 12/29/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE It is documented that low protein and amino-acid dietary intake is related to poorer cognitive health and increased risk of dementia. Degradation of the neuromodulatory pathways, (comprising the cholinergic, dopaminergic, serotoninergic and noradrenergic systems) is observed in neurodegenerative diseases and impairs the proper biosynthesis of key neuromodulators from micro-nutrients and amino acids. How these micro-nutrients are linked to neuromodulatory pathways in healthy adults is less studied. The Locus Coeruleus-Noradrenergic System (LC-NA) is the earliest subcortical structure affected in Alzheimer's disease, showing marked neurodegeneration, but is also sensitive for age-related changes. The LC-NA system is critical for supporting attention and cognitive control, functions that are enhanced both by tyrosine administration and chronic tyrosine intake. The purpose of this study was to 1) investigate whether the dietary intake of tyrosine, the key precursor for noradrenaline (NA), is related to LC signal intensity 2) whether LC mediates the reported association between tyrosine intake and higher cognitive performance (measured with Trail Making Test - TMT), and 3) whether LC signal intensity relates to an objective measure of brain maintenance (BrainPAD). METHODS The analyses included 398 3T MRIs of healthy participants from the Berlin Aging Study II to investigate the relationship between LC signal intensity and habitual dietary tyrosine intake-daily average (HD-Tyr-IDA - measured with Food Frequency Questionnaire - FFQ). As a control procedure, the same analyses were repeated on other main seeds of the neuromodulators' subcortical system (Dorsal and Medial Raphe, Ventral Tegmental Area and Nucleus Basalis of Meynert). In the same way, the relationships between the five nuclei and BrainPAD were tested. RESULTS Results show that HD-Tyr-IDA is positively associated with LC signal intensity. Similarly, LC disproportionally relates to better brain maintenance (BrainPAD). Mediation analyses reveal that only LC, relative to the other nuclei tested, mediates the relationship between HD-Tyr-IDA I and performance in the TMT and between HD-Tyr-IDA and BrainPAD. CONCLUSIONS These findings provide the first evidence linking tyrosine intake with LC-NA system signal intensity and its correlation with neuropsychological performance. This study strengthens the role of diet for maintaining brain and cognitive health and supports the noradrenergic theory of cognitive reserve. Within this framework, adequate tyrosine intake might increase the resilience of LC-NA system functioning, by preventing degeneration and supporting noradrenergic metabolism required for LC function and neuropsychological performance.
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- E R G Plini
- Emanuele RG Plini, Department of Psychology, Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Lloyd Building, 42A Pearse St, 8PVX+GJ Dublin, Ireland,
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Gerstorf D, Ram N, Drewelies J, Duezel S, Eibich P, Steinhagen-Thiessen E, Liebig S, Goebel J, Demuth I, Villringer A, Wagner GG, Lindenberger U, Ghisletta P. Today's Older Adults Are Cognitively Fitter Than Older Adults Were 20 Years Ago, but When and How They Decline Is No Different Than in the Past. Psychol Sci 2023; 34:22-34. [PMID: 36282991 DOI: 10.1177/09567976221118541] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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History-graded increases in older adults' levels of cognitive performance are well documented, but little is known about historical shifts in within-person change: cognitive decline and onset of decline. We combined harmonized perceptual-motor speed data from independent samples recruited in 1990 and 2010 to obtain 2,008 age-matched longitudinal observations (M = 78 years, 50% women) from 228 participants in the Berlin Aging Study (BASE) and 583 participants in the Berlin Aging Study II (BASE-II). We used nonlinear growth models that orthogonalized within- and between-person age effects and controlled for retest effects. At age 78, the later-born BASE-II cohort substantially outperformed the earlier-born BASE cohort (d = 1.20; 25 years of age difference). Age trajectories, however, were parallel, and there was no evidence of cohort differences in the amount or rate of decline and the onset of decline. Cognitive functioning has shifted to higher levels, but cognitive decline in old age appears to proceed similarly as it did two decades ago.
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- Denis Gerstorf
- Department of Psychology, Humboldt University Berlin.,German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), Berlin, Germany
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- Departments of Psychology and Communication, Stanford University
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- Department of Psychology, Humboldt University Berlin.,Lise Meitner Group for Environmental Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Labor Demography Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany
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- German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), Berlin, Germany
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- German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Endocrinology and Metabolic Medicine at the Charite-Universitätsmedizin Berlin.,Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, BCRT-Berlin Institute of Health Center for Regenerative Therapies, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
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- German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), Berlin, Germany.,Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany.,Federal Institute for Population Research, Wiesbaden, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany.,Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, Berlin, Germany
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- Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Geneva.,UniDistance Suisse.,Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research LIVES, University of Geneva
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Drewelies J, Hueluer G, Duezel S, Vetter VM, Pawelec G, Steinhagen-Thiessen E, Wagner GG, Lindenberger U, Lill CM, Bertram L, Gerstorf D, Demuth I. Using blood test parameters to define biological age among older adults: association with morbidity and mortality independent of chronological age validated in two separate birth cohorts. GeroScience 2022; 44:2685-2699. [PMID: 36151431 PMCID: PMC9768057 DOI: 10.1007/s11357-022-00662-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2022] [Accepted: 09/12/2022] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
Abstract
Biomarkers defining biological age are typically laborious or expensive to assess. Instead, in the current study, we identified parameters based on standard laboratory blood tests across metabolic, cardiovascular, inflammatory, and kidney functioning that had been assessed in the Berlin Aging Study (BASE) (n = 384) and Berlin Aging Study II (BASE-II) (n = 1517). We calculated biological age using those 12 parameters that individually predicted mortality hazards over 26 years in BASE. In BASE, older biological age was associated with more physician-observed morbidity and higher mortality hazards, over and above the effects of chronological age, sex, and education. Similarly, in BASE-II, biological age was associated with physician-observed morbidity and subjective health, over and above the effects of chronological age, sex, and education as well as alternative biomarkers including telomere length, DNA methylation age, skin age, and subjective age but not PhenoAge. We discuss the importance of biological age as one indicator of aging.
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- Johanna Drewelies
- Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
- Lise Meitner Group for Environmental Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany.
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- Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Charite - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- Health Sciences North Research Institute, Sudbury, ON, Canada
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- Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
- German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
- Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, London, UK
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- Lübeck Interdisciplinary Platform for Genome Analytics (LIGA), University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
- Institute of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany
- Ageing and Epidemiology Unit (AGE), School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Lübeck Interdisciplinary Platform for Genome Analytics (LIGA), University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
- Center for Lifespan Changes in Brain and Cognition (LCBC), Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), Berlin, Germany
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- Charite - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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Bellingtier JA, Luong G, Wrzus C, Wagner GG, Riediger M. A domain-differentiated approach to everyday emotion regulation from adolescence to older age. Psychol Aging 2022; 37:338-349. [PMID: 35084897 PMCID: PMC9117440 DOI: 10.1037/pag0000677] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Flexibly using different emotion-regulation (ER) strategies in different situational contexts, such as domains, has been argued to promote effective emotion regulation. Additionally, emotion regulation processes may change with age as narrowing time horizons shift emotion-regulation preferences. The purpose of the present study was to examine the occurrence and effectiveness of flexible emotion regulation in response to daily hassles from different domains within the age range from adolescence to old age. Participants, ranging from 14 to 88 years old (N = 325), completed an experience-sampling study of approximately 9 days over a 3-week period. At each momentary assessment, participants reported on their hassles, emotion-regulation strategies, and affect. As expected, strategy use varied across individuals and domains. For example, emotion expression and suppression were typical responses to interpersonal hassles, whereas social sharing was often used in response to work/school hassles. In situations wherein hassles included multiple life domains, participants reported the use of more emotion-regulation strategies than for single-domain hassles. Although flexible emotion regulation was evident in participants' responses to hassles, the expectation that it would be associated with lower hassle reactivity was not confirmed. These patterns were, for the most part, consistent across ages. This study contributes new insights into situational characteristics that are associated with emotion-regulation flexibility, showing that hassles domains are important for strategy selection, and that this holds from adolescence to old age. It also suggests that such defined emotion-regulation flexibility is not as strongly linked to emotion-regulation effectiveness as has been previously suggested. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).
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- Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Colorado State University
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- Department of Psychological Aging Research, Heidelberg University
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- Max Planck Institute for Human Development and German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) Berlin
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- Department of Developmental Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
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Drewelies J, Windsor TD, Duezel S, Demuth I, Wagner GG, Lindenberger U, Gerstorf D, Ghisletta P. Age Trajectories of Perceptual Speed and Loneliness: Separating Between-Person and Within-Person Associations. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 2022; 77:118-129. [PMID: 34751753 PMCID: PMC8755905 DOI: 10.1093/geronb/gbab180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVES We aimed at examining between-person and within-person associations across age trajectories of perceptual speed and loneliness in old age. METHOD We applied multilevel models to 4 waves of data collected over 6 years from 1,491 participants of the Berlin Aging Study II (60-88 years at baseline, 50% women) to disentangle between-person and within-person associations across age trajectories of perceptual speed and both emotional and social loneliness. Sex and education were considered as relevant individual characteristics and included as covariates in the model. RESULTS Analyses revealed that on average perceptual speed exhibited moderate within-person age-related declines, whereas facets of loneliness were rather stable. Perceptual speed did not predict age trajectories of emotional or social loneliness, at either the between- or within-person level. In contrast, loneliness discriminated individuals at the between-person level, such that those feeling emotionally or socially more lonely showed lower cognitive performance than those feeling emotionally or socially less lonely. Predictive effects of social loneliness were stronger for relatively young people (i.e., in their mid to late 60s) than for relatively older participants (i.e., in their 80s). In addition, predictive effects of social loneliness for perceptual speed at the within-person level were modest and deviated in direction and size from between-person social loneliness effects among those in their mid- to late 60s, whereas they did not among those in their 80s. DISCUSSION We conclude that loneliness may serve as a precursor for basic cognitive functioning in old age and suggest routes for further inquiry.
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- Johanna Drewelies
- Department of Psychology, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- College of Education, Psychology and Social Work Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
- German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
- Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, Berlin, Germany and London, UK
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- Department of Psychology, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), Berlin, Germany
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- University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
- Swiss National Center of Competence in Research LIVES, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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Jawinski P, Markett S, Drewelies J, Düzel S, Demuth I, Steinhagen-Thiessen E, Wagner GG, Gerstorf D, Lindenberger U, Gaser C, Kühn S. Linking Brain Age Gap to Mental and Physical Health in the Berlin Aging Study II. Front Aging Neurosci 2022; 14:791222. [PMID: 35936763 PMCID: PMC9355695 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2022.791222] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2021] [Accepted: 06/17/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
From a biological perspective, humans differ in the speed they age, and this may manifest in both mental and physical health disparities. The discrepancy between an individual's biological and chronological age of the brain ("brain age gap") can be assessed by applying machine learning techniques to Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) data. Here, we examined the links between brain age gap and a broad range of cognitive, affective, socioeconomic, lifestyle, and physical health variables in up to 335 adults of the Berlin Aging Study II. Brain age gap was assessed using a validated prediction model that we previously trained on MRI scans of 32,634 UK Biobank individuals. Our statistical analyses revealed overall stronger evidence for a link between higher brain age gap and less favorable health characteristics than expected under the null hypothesis of no effect, with 80% of the tested associations showing hypothesis-consistent effect directions and 23% reaching nominal significance. The most compelling support was observed for a cluster covering both cognitive performance variables (episodic memory, working memory, fluid intelligence, digit symbol substitution test) and socioeconomic variables (years of education and household income). Furthermore, we observed higher brain age gap to be associated with heavy episodic drinking, higher blood pressure, and higher blood glucose. In sum, our results point toward multifaceted links between brain age gap and human health. Understanding differences in biological brain aging may therefore have broad implications for future informed interventions to preserve mental and physical health in old age.
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- Philippe Jawinski
- Department of Psychology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,Lise Meitner Group for Environmental Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Division of Lipid Metabolism, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,Berlin Institute of Health at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, BCRT-Berlin Institute of Health Center for Regenerative Therapies, Berlin, Germany
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- Division of Lipid Metabolism, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany.,German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), Berlin, Germany.,Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB), Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany.,German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Structural Brain Mapping Group, Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany
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- Lise Meitner Group for Environmental Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany.,Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Clinic Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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Rendtel U, Liebig S, Meister R, Wagner GG, Zinn S. Die Erforschung der Dynamik der Corona-Pandemie in Deutschland: Survey-Konzepte und eine exemplarische Umsetzung mit dem Sozio-oekonomischen Panel (SOEP). AStA Wirtsch Sozialstat Arch 2021. [PMCID: PMC8655718 DOI: 10.1007/s11943-021-00296-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Die Weltgesundheitsorganisation (WHO) hat im Frühjahr 2020 Richtlinien für Bevölkerungsstichproben veröffentlicht, die Basisdaten für gesundheitspolitische Entscheidungen im Pandemiefall liefern können. Diese Richtlinien umzusetzen ist keineswegs trivial. In diesem Beitrag schildern wir die Herausforderungen einer entsprechenden statistischen Erfassung der Corona Pandemie. Hierbei gehen wir im ersten Teil auf die Erfassung der Dunkelziffer bei der Meldung von Corona Infektionen, die Messung von Krankheitsverläufen im außerklinischen Bereich, die Messung von Risikomerkmalen sowie die Erfassung von zeitlichen und regionalen Veränderungen der Pandemie-Intensität ein. Wir diskutieren verschiedene Möglichkeiten, aber auch praktische Grenzen der Survey-Statistik, den vielfältigen Herausforderungen durch eine geeignete Anlage der Stichprobe und des Survey-Designs zu begegnen. Ein zentraler Punkt ist die schwierige Koppelung medizinischer Tests mit bevölkerungsrepräsentativen Umfragen, wobei bei einer personalisierten Rückmeldung der Testergebnisse das Statistik-Geheimnis eine besondere Herausforderung darstellt. Im zweiten Teil berichten wir wie eine der großen Wiederholungsbefragungen in Deutschland, das Sozio-oekonomische Panel (SOEP), für eine WHO-konforme Covid-19-Erhebung genutzt wird, die im Rahmen einer Kooperation des Robert-Koch-Instituts (RKI) mit dem SOEP als „RKI-SOEP Stichprobe“ im September 2020 gestartet wurde. Erste Ergebnisse zum Rücklauf dieser Studie, die ab Oktober 2021 mit einer zweiten Erhebungswelle bei denselben Personen fortgesetzt werden wird, werden vorgestellt. Es zeigt sich, dass knapp fünf Prozent der bereits in der Vergangenheit erfolgreich Befragten aufgrund der Anfrage zwei Tests zu machen die weitere Teilnahme an der SOEP-Studie verweigern. Berücksichtigt man alle in der Studie erhobenen Informationen (IgG-Antikörper-Tests, PCR-Tests und Fragebögen) ergibt eine erste Schätzung, dass sich bis November 2020 nur etwa zwei Prozent der in Privathaushalten lebenden Erwachsenen in Deutschland mit SARS-CoV‑2 infiziert hatten. Damit war die Zahl der Infektionen etwa doppelt so hoch wie die offiziell gemeldeten Infektionszahlen.
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- Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Deutschland
- Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP), Berlin, Deutschland
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- Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP), Berlin, Deutschland
- Max PIanck Institut für Bildungsforschung, Berlin, Deutschland
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- Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP), Berlin, Deutschland
- Humboldt Universität, Berlin, Deutschland
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Wahl HW, Drewelies J, Duezel S, Lachman ME, Smith J, Eibich P, Steinhagen-Thiessen E, Demuth I, Lindenberger U, Wagner GG, Ram N, Gerstorf D. Subjective age and attitudes toward own aging across two decades of historical time. Psychol Aging 2021; 37:413-429. [PMID: 34694838 PMCID: PMC9487183 DOI: 10.1037/pag0000649] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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A large body of empirical evidence has accumulated showing that the experience of old age is "younger," more "agentic," and "happier" than ever before. However, it is not yet known whether historical improvements in well-being, control beliefs, cognitive functioning, and other outcomes generalize to individuals' views on their own aging process. To examine historical changes in such views on aging, we compared matched cohorts of older adults within two independent studies that assessed differences across a two-decade interval, the Berlin Aging Studies (BASE; 1990/1993 vs. 2017/2018, each n = 256, Mage = 77) and the Midlife in the United States Study (MIDUS; 1995/1996 vs. 2013/14, each n = 848, Mage = 67). Consistent across four different dimensions of individuals' subjective views on aging (age felt, age appeared, desired age, and attitudes toward own aging) in the BASE and corroborated with subjective age felt and subjective age desired in the MIDUS, there was no evidence whatsoever that older adults of today have more favorable views on how they age than older adults did two decades ago. Further, heterogeneity in views on aging increased across two decades in the MIDUS but decreased in BASE. Also consistent across studies, associations of views on aging with sociodemographic, health, cognitive, and psychosocial correlates did not change across historical times. We discuss possible reasons for our findings, including the possibility that individual age views may have become increasingly decoupled from societal age views. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
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Rebitschek FG, Gigerenzer G, Wagner GG. People underestimate the errors made by algorithms for credit scoring and recidivism prediction but accept even fewer errors. Sci Rep 2021; 11:20171. [PMID: 34635779 PMCID: PMC8505498 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-99802-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2021] [Accepted: 09/24/2021] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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This study provides the first representative analysis of error estimations and willingness to accept errors in a Western country (Germany) with regards to algorithmic decision-making systems (ADM). We examine people's expectations about the accuracy of algorithms that predict credit default, recidivism of an offender, suitability of a job applicant, and health behavior. Also, we ask whether expectations about algorithm errors vary between these domains and how they differ from expectations about errors made by human experts. In a nationwide representative study (N = 3086) we find that most respondents underestimated the actual errors made by algorithms and are willing to accept even fewer errors than estimated. Error estimates and error acceptance did not differ consistently for predictions made by algorithms or human experts, but people's living conditions (e.g. unemployment, household income) affected domain-specific acceptance (job suitability, credit defaulting) of misses and false alarms. We conclude that people have unwarranted expectations about the performance of ADM systems and evaluate errors in terms of potential personal consequences. Given the general public's low willingness to accept errors, we further conclude that acceptance of ADM appears to be conditional to strict accuracy requirements.
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- Felix G Rebitschek
- Harding Center for Risk Literacy, Faculty of Health Sciences Brandenburg, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany.
- Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany.
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- Harding Center for Risk Literacy, Faculty of Health Sciences Brandenburg, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
- Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Harding Center for Risk Literacy, Faculty of Health Sciences Brandenburg, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
- Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
- German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), Berlin, Germany
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Wrzus C, Luong G, Wagner GG, Riediger M. Longitudinal coupling of momentary stress reactivity and trait neuroticism: Specificity of states, traits, and age period. J Pers Soc Psychol 2021; 121:691-706. [PMID: 34323531 DOI: 10.1037/pspp0000308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Personality traits like neuroticism show both continuity and change across adolescence and adulthood, with most pronounced changes occurring in young adulthood. It has been assumed, but insufficiently examined, that trait changes occur gradually over the years through the accumulation of daily experiences. The current longitudinal measurement burst study examined (a) how changes in average momentary stress reactivity are coupled with changes in trait neuroticism, (b) the extent to which this coupling is specific to stress reactivity and neuroticism, and (c) the extent to which there are age differences in the association between changes in stress reactivity and changes in neuroticism. Participants (N = 581; 50% male) between 14 and 86 years of age completed up to 3 waves (T1-T3) of Big Five trait questionnaires and experience-sampling assessments during 6 years. During each three-week experience-sampling period, participants reported their momentary affect and occurrences of hassles on average 55 times. Latent change models showed that increases over time in affective reactivity to daily hassles were associated with increases in neuroticism. This effect was consistent from T1 to T2 as well as from T2 to T3, and most pronounced in young adulthood. Importantly, the results were specific to associations between stress reactivity and neuroticism because changes in frequency of hassles in daily life did not predict changes in neuroticism, and stress reactivity did not consistently predict changes in the other Big Five traits. The findings help to inform theoretical models that outline how short-term states might contribute to gradual longer-term changes in traits like neuroticism. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
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- Department of Human Development and Family Studies
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Fecher B, Kuper F, Sokolovska N, Fenton A, Hornbostel S, Wagner GG. Understanding the Societal Impact of the Social Sciences and Humanities: Remarks on Roles, Challenges, and Expectations. Front Res Metr Anal 2021; 6:696804. [PMID: 34278206 PMCID: PMC8281339 DOI: 10.3389/frma.2021.696804] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2021] [Accepted: 06/18/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Science is increasingly expected to help in solving complex societal problems in collaboration with societal stakeholders. However, it is often unclear under what conditions this can happen, i.e., what kind of challenges occur when science interacts with society and what kind of quality expectations prevail. This is particularly pertinent for Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH), which are part of the object they study and whose knowledge is always subject to provisionality. Here we discuss how SSH researchers can contribute to societal problems, what challenges might occur when they interact with societal stakeholders, and what quality expectations arise in these arrangements. We base our argumentation on the results of an online consultation among 125 experts in Germany (representatives from SSH, learned societies, stakeholders from different societal groups, and relevant intermediaries).
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- Benedikt Fecher
- Research Program Knowledge and Society, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin, Germany.,German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin, Germany
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- Research Program Knowledge and Society, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin, Germany
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- Research Program Knowledge and Society, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin, Germany
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- Research Area Research System and Science Dynamics, German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies, Berlin, Germany.,Department of Social Sciences, Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Research Area Research System and Science Dynamics, German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies, Berlin, Germany.,Department of Social Sciences, Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Research Program Knowledge and Society, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin, Germany.,German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin, Germany.,Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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Löckenhoff CE, Drewelies J, Duezel S, Steinhagen-Thiessen E, Demuth I, Freund AM, Staudinger UM, Lindenberger U, Wagner GG, Ram N, Gerstorf D. Sociohistorical Change in Urban Older Adults' Perceived Speed of Time and Time Pressure. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 2021; 77:457-466. [PMID: 34180501 DOI: 10.1093/geronb/gbab094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2021] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVES Perceptions of time are shaped by sociohistorical factors. Specifically, economic growth and modernization often engender a sense of acceleration. Research has primarily focused on one time perception dimension (perceived time pressure) in one subpopulation (working-age adults), but it is not clear whether historical changes extend to other dimensions (e.g., perceived speed of time) and other subpopulations, such as older adults who are no longer in the workforce and experience age-related shifts in time perception. We therefore examined sociohistorical and age-related trends in two dimensions of time perception in two cohorts of urban older adults. METHOD Using propensity score matching for age and education, samples were drawn from the Berlin Aging Study (1990-1993, n = 256, Mage = 77.49) and the Berlin Aging Study-II (2009-2014, n = 248, Mage = 77.49). Cohort differences in means, variances, covariance, and correlates of perceived speed of time and time pressure were examined using multigroup SEM. RESULTS There were no cohort differences in the perceived speed of time, but later-born cohorts reported more time pressure than earlier-born cohorts. There were no significant age differences, but perceptions of speed of time were more heterogeneous in the 1990s than in the 2010s. Cohorts did not differ in how time perceptions were associated with sociodemographic, health, cognitive, and psychosocial correlates. DISCUSSION These findings document sociohistorical trends toward greater perceived time pressure and reduced heterogeneity in perceived speed of time among later-born urban adults. Conceptualizations of social acceleration should thus consider the whole adult life span.
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Endocrinology and Metabolic Medicine, Charite-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Psychology and University Research Priority Program "Dynamics of Healthy Aging," University of Zurich, Switzerland
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany.,German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) Berlin, Germany
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- Departments of Psychology and Communication, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany.,German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) Berlin, Germany
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Drewelies J, Eibich P, Düzel S, Kühn S, Krekel C, Goebel J, Kolbe J, Demuth I, Lindenberger U, Wagner GG, Gerstorf D. Location, Location, Location: The Role of Objective Neighborhood Characteristics for Perceptions of Control. Gerontology 2021; 68:214-223. [PMID: 34000719 DOI: 10.1159/000515634] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2020] [Accepted: 03/04/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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INTRODUCTION Control beliefs can protect against age-related declines in functioning. It is unclear whether neighborhood characteristics shape how much control people perceive over their life. This article studies associations of neighborhood characteristics with control beliefs of residents of a diverse metropolitan area (Berlin, Germany). METHODS We combine self-report data about perceptions of control obtained from participants in the Berlin Aging Study II (N = 507, 60-87 years, 51% women) with multisource geo-referenced indicators of neighborhood characteristics using linear regression models. RESULTS Findings indicate that objective neighborhood characteristics (i.e., unemployment rate) are indeed tied to perceptions of control, in particular, how much control participants feel others have over their lives. Including neighborhood characteristics in part doubled the amount of explained variance compared with a reference model covarying for demographic characteristics only (from R2 = 0.017 to R2 = 0.030 for internal control beliefs; R2 = 0.056 to R2 = 0.102 for external control beliefs in chance; R2 = 0.006 to R2 = 0.030 for external control beliefs in powerful others). DISCUSSION/CONCLUSION Findings highlight the importance of access to neighborhood resources for control beliefs across old age and can inform interventions to build up neighborhood characteristics which might be especially helpful in residential areas with high unemployment.
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- Johanna Drewelies
- Department for Psychology, Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, London School of Economics, London, UK
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- German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Economics and Law, Technical University, Berlin, Germany
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- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
- Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, Berlin, Germany, and, London, UK
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- Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
- German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin, Germany
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- Department for Psychology, Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin, Germany
- Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
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Rebitschek FG, Gigerenzer G, Keitel A, Sommer S, Groß C, Wagner GG. Acceptance of criteria for health and driver scoring in the general public in Germany. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0250224. [PMID: 33886618 PMCID: PMC8062065 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0250224] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2020] [Accepted: 04/03/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Numerous health insurers offer bonus programmes that score customers’ health behaviour, and car insurers offer telematics tariffs that score driving behaviour. In many countries, however, only a minority of customers participate in these programmes. In a population-representative survey of private households in Germany (N = 2,215), we study the acceptance of the criteria (features) on which the scoring programmes are based: the features for driver scoring (speed, texting while driving, time of driving, area of driving, accelerating and braking behaviour, respectively) and for health scoring (walking distance per day, sleeping hours per night, alcohol consumption, weight, participation in recommended cancer screenings, smoking status). In a second step, we model participants’ acceptance of both programmes with regard to the underlying feature acceptance. We find that insurers in Germany rarely use the features which the participants consider to be the most relevant and justifiable, that is, smoking status for health scoring and smartphone use for driver scoring. Heuristic models (fast-and-frugal trees) show that programme acceptance depends on the acceptance of a few features. These models can help to understand customers’ preferences and to design scoring programmes that are based on scientific evidence regarding behaviours and factors associated with good health and safe driving and are thus more likely to be accepted.
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- Felix G. Rebitschek
- Harding Center for Risk Literacy, Faculty of Health Sciences Brandenburg, Potsdam, Germany
- Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Harding Center for Risk Literacy, Faculty of Health Sciences Brandenburg, Potsdam, Germany
- Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection, Berlin, Germany
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- Advisory Council for Consumer Affairs, Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection, Berlin, Germany
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- Advisory Council for Consumer Affairs, Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection, Berlin, Germany
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- Harding Center for Risk Literacy, Faculty of Health Sciences Brandenburg, Potsdam, Germany
- Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
- Advisory Council for Consumer Affairs, Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection, Berlin, Germany
- Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG), Berlin, Germany
- German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), Berlin, Germany
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Nauman AT, Behlouli H, Alexander N, Kendel F, Drewelies J, Mantantzis K, Berger N, Wagner GG, Gerstorf D, Demuth I, Pilote L, Regitz-Zagrosek V. Gender score development in the Berlin Aging Study II: a retrospective approach. Biol Sex Differ 2021; 12:15. [PMID: 33461607 PMCID: PMC7814714 DOI: 10.1186/s13293-020-00351-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2020] [Accepted: 12/21/2020] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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In addition to biological sex, gender, defined as the sociocultural dimension of being a woman or a man, plays a central role in health. However, there are so far few approaches to quantify gender in a retrospective manner in existing study datasets. We therefore aimed to develop a methodology that can be retrospectively applied to assess gender in existing cohorts. We used baseline data from the Berlin Aging Study II (BASE-II), obtained in 2009–2014 from 1869 participants aged 60 years and older. We identified 13 gender-related variables and used them to construct a gender score by using primary component and logistic regression analyses. Of these, nine variables contributed to a gender score: chronic stress, marital status, risk-taking behaviour, personality attributes: agreeableness, neuroticism, extraversion, loneliness, conscientiousness, and level of education. Females and males differed significantly in the distribution of the gender score, but a significant overlap was also found. Thus, we were able to develop a gender score in a retrospective manner from already collected data that characterized participants in addition to biological sex. This approach will allow researchers to introduce the notion of gender retrospectively into a large number of studies.
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- Ahmad Tauseef Nauman
- Berlin Institute for Gender in Medicine, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany. .,CCR (Centre for Cardiovascular Research) Berlin, Berlin, Germany. .,DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
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- Centre for Outcomes Research & Evaluation, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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- Berlin Institute for Gender in Medicine, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,CCR (Centre for Cardiovascular Research) Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Gender in Medicine, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Medical Clinic for Endocrinology, Biology of Aging group, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- SocioEconomic Panel at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Medical Clinic for Endocrinology, Biology of Aging group, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, BCRT - Berlin Institute of Health Center for Regenerative Therapies, Berlin, Germany
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- DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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- Berlin Institute for Gender in Medicine, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany. .,CCR (Centre for Cardiovascular Research) Berlin, Berlin, Germany. .,DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Berlin, Berlin, Germany. .,Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
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Huebener M, Waights S, Spiess CK, Siegel NA, Wagner GG. Parental well-being in times of Covid-19 in Germany. Rev Econ Househ 2021; 19:91-122. [PMID: 33469413 PMCID: PMC7808123 DOI: 10.1007/s11150-020-09529-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 26.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2020] [Accepted: 11/13/2020] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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We examine the effects of Covid-19 and related restrictions on individuals with dependent children in Germany. We specifically focus on the role of day care center and school closures, which may be regarded as a "disruptive exogenous shock" to family life. We make use of a novel representative survey of parental well-being collected in May and June 2020 in Germany, when schools and day care centers were closed but while other measures had been relaxed and new infections were low. In our descriptive analysis, we compare well-being during this period with a pre-crisis period for different groups. In a difference-in-differences design, we compare the change for individuals with children to the change for individuals without children, accounting for unrelated trends as well as potential survey mode and context effects. We find that the crisis lowered the relative well-being of individuals with children, especially for individuals with young children, for women, and for persons with lower secondary schooling qualifications. Our results suggest that public policy measures taken to contain Covid-19 can have large effects on family well-being, with implications for child development and parental labor market outcomes.
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- DIW Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- IZA Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
- CESifo, Munich, Germany
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Wegwarth O, Wagner GG, Spies C, Hertwig R. Assessment of German Public Attitudes Toward Health Communications With Varying Degrees of Scientific Uncertainty Regarding COVID-19. JAMA Netw Open 2020; 3:e2032335. [PMID: 33301021 PMCID: PMC7729432 DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.32335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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This survey study assesses attitudes of the German public regarding COVID-19 health communications with varying degrees of scientific uncertainty.
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- Odette Wegwarth
- Center for Adaptive Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
- Institute of Medical Sociology and Rehabilitation Science, Charitè–Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Adaptive Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
- Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Anesthesiology and Operative Intensive Medicine, Charitè–Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Adaptive Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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People differ in their willingness to take risks. Recent work found that revealed preference tasks (e.g., laboratory lotteries)-a dominant class of measures-are outperformed by survey-based stated preferences, which are more stable and predict real-world risk taking across different domains. How can stated preferences, often criticised as inconsequential "cheap talk," be more valid and predictive than controlled, incentivized lotteries? In our multimethod study, over 3,000 respondents from population samples answered a single widely used and predictive risk-preference question. Respondents then explained the reasoning behind their answer. They tended to recount diagnostic behaviours and experiences, focusing on voluntary, consequential acts and experiences from which they seemed to infer their risk preference. We found that third-party readers of respondents' brief memories and explanations reached similar inferences about respondents' preferences, indicating the intersubjective validity of this information. Our results help unpack the self perception behind stated risk preferences that permits people to draw upon their own understanding of what constitutes diagnostic behaviours and experiences, as revealed in high-stakes situations in the real world.
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- Ruben C Arslan
- Center for Adaptive Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, 14195, Berlin, Germany.
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- Institute for Applied Microeconomics, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- IZA Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany
- Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
- German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin, Germany
- CESifo, Munich, Germany
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- Center for Adaptive Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Adaptive Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, 14195, Berlin, Germany
- IZA Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany
- German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin, Germany
- CESifo, Munich, Germany
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Rebitschek FG, Wagner GG. [Acceptance of assistive robots in the field of nursing and healthcare : Representative data show a clear picture for Germany]. Z Gerontol Geriatr 2020; 53:637-643. [PMID: 32945928 DOI: 10.1007/s00391-020-01780-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2020] [Accepted: 08/21/2020] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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In view of the ageing society and the high costs of support and care in private households, the question arises as to what role assistive robots can play. This article focuses on the extent to which robots in nursing are accepted by the adult population in Germany today, as well as the extent to which gender, age, and experience (professional and private) influence this level of acceptance. The analysis carried out for this purpose was based on three representative surveys conducted among a total of over 7000 respondents. Of these surveys two were conducted in the second half of 2017 on behalf of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) and the life insurance company ERGO, while the third was commissioned by the German Council of Economic Experts (SVRV) in the spring of 2018. An in-depth and cumulative analysis of these surveys and data sets, which the authors helped to design, with respect to assistive robotics has not yet been published. Despite the different application scenarios for assistive care robots, the results of all three surveys are surprisingly consistent: in Germany there is already a significant minority of people who are open to, and would accept nursing care robots as long as they do not replace but rather support traditional human nursing. Roughly one third of the sample differentiated according to age and gender, fundamentally rejected assistance by robots.
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- Felix G Rebitschek
- Harding-Zentrum für Risikokompetenz, Fakultät für Gesundheitswissenschaften, Universität Potsdam, Virchowstr. 2-4, 14482, Potsdam, Deutschland.
- Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung, Berlin, Deutschland.
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung, Berlin, Deutschland
- Alexander von Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft (HIIG), Berlin, Deutschland
- Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin), Berlin, Deutschland
- Sachverständigenrat für Verbraucherfragen, Bundesministerium der Justiz und für Verbraucherschutz, Friedrichstr. 191, 10117, Berlin, Deutschland
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Weston SJ, Graham EK, Turiano NA, Aschwanden D, Booth T, Harrison F, James BD, Lewis NA, Makkar SR, Mueller S, Wisniewski KM, Yoneda T, Zhaoyang R, Spiro A, Drewelies J, Wagner GG, Steinhagen-Thiessen E, Demuth I, Willis S, Schaie KW, Sliwinski M, Lipton RA, Katz M, Deary IJ, Zelinski EM, Bennett DA, Sachdev PS, Brodaty H, Trollor JN, Ames D, Wright MJ, Gerstorf D, Allemand M, Muniz-Terrera G, Piccinin AM, Hofer SM, Mroczek DK. Is Healthy Neuroticism Associated with Chronic Conditions? A Coordinated Integrative Data Analysis. Collabra Psychol 2020; 6:42. [PMID: 33073161 PMCID: PMC7566654 DOI: 10.1525/collabra.267] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Early investigations of the neuroticism by conscientiousness interaction with regards to health have been promising, but to date, there have been no systematic investigations of this interaction that account for the various personality measurement instruments, varying populations, or aspects of health. The current study - the second of three - uses a coordinated analysis approach to test the impact of the neuroticism by conscientiousness interaction on the prevalence and incidence of chronic conditions. Using 15 pre-existing longitudinal studies (N > 49,375), we found that conscientiousness did not moderate the relationship between neuroticism and having hypertension (OR = 1.00,95%CI[0.98,1.02]), diabetes (OR = 1.02[0.99,1.04]), or heart disease (OR = 0.99[0.97,1.01]). Similarly, we found that conscientiousness did not moderate the prospective relationship between neuroticism and onset of hypertension (OR = 0.98,[0.95,1.01]), diabetes (OR = 0.99[0.94,1.05]), or heart disease (OR = 0.98[0.94,1.03]). Heterogeneity of effect sizes was largely nonsignificant, with one exception, indicating that the effects are consistent between datasets. Overall, we conclude that there is no evidence that healthy neuroticism, operationalized as the conscientiousness by neuroticism interaction, buffers against chronic conditions.
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- Sara J. Weston
- University of Oregon, Department of Psychology, Eugene, OR, USA
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- Northwestern University, Department of Medical Social Sciences, Chicago, IL, USA
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- West Virginia University, Department of Psychology and the West Virginia Prevention Research Center, Morgantown, WV, USA
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- Florida State University, Department of Geriatrics, Tallahassee, FL, USA
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- University of Edinburgh, Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, Department of Psychology, Edinburgh, Scotland
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- University of New South Wales, Centre for Healthy Brain Aging, Sydney NSW, Australia
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- Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
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- University of Victoria, Department of Psychology, Victoria, BC, Canada
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- University of New South Wales, Centre for Healthy Brain Aging, Sydney NSW, Australia
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- University of Hamburg, Berlin, Germany, Department of Psychology
- Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, Department of Psychology
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- University of Southern California, Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- University of Victoria, Department of Psychology, Victoria, BC, Canada
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- Center for Healthy Aging, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, USA
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- VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, USA
- Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, Department of Psychology
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- Charite – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
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- University of Washington, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Pennsylvania State University, Department of Human Development and Psychology, State College, PA, USA
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- Center for Healthy Aging, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, USA
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- Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA
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- University of Edinburgh, Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, Department of Psychology, Edinburgh, Scotland
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- University of Southern California, Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
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- University of New South Wales, Centre for Healthy Brain Aging, Sydney NSW, Australia
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- University of New South Wales, Centre for Healthy Brain Aging, Sydney NSW, Australia
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- University of New South Wales, Centre for Healthy Brain Aging, Sydney NSW, Australia
- University of New South Wales, Department of Developmental Disability Neuropsychiatry, Sydney NSW, Australia
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- University of Melbourne Academic Unit for Psychiatry of Old Age and National Ageing Research Institute, Kew & Parkville, Australia
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- Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, Department of Psychology
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- University of Zurich, Department of Psychology, Zurich, Switzerland
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- University of Victoria, Department of Psychology, Victoria, BC, Canada
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- Northwestern University, Department of Medical Social Sciences, Chicago, IL, USA
- Northwestern University, Department of Psychology, Evanston, IL, USA
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Graham EK, Weston SJ, Gerstorf D, Yoneda TB, Booth T, Beam CR, Petkus AJ, Drewelies J, Hall AN, Bastarache ED, Estabrook R, Katz MJ, Turiano NA, Lindenberger U, Smith J, Wagner GG, Pedersen NL, Allemand M, Spiro A, Deeg DJH, Johansson B, Piccinin AM, Lipton RB, Schaie KW, Willis S, Reynolds CA, Deary IJ, Hofer SM, Mroczek DK. Trajectories of Big Five Personality Traits: A Coordinated Analysis of 16 Longitudinal Samples. Eur J Pers 2020; 34:301-321. [PMID: 33564207 DOI: 10.1002/per.2259] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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This study assessed change in self-reported Big Five personality traits. We conducted a coordinated integrative data analysis using data from 16 longitudinal samples, comprising a total sample of over 60 000 participants. We coordinated models across multiple datasets and fit identical multi-level growth models to assess and compare the extent of trait change over time. Quadratic change was assessed in a subset of samples with four or more measurement occasions. Across studies, the linear trajectory models revealed declines in conscientiousness, extraversion, and openness. Non-linear models suggested late-life increases in neuroticism. Meta-analytic summaries indicated that the fixed effects of personality change are somewhat heterogeneous and that the variability in trait change is partially explained by sample age, country of origin, and personality measurement method. We also found mixed evidence for predictors of change, specifically for sex and baseline age. This study demonstrates the importance of coordinated conceptual replications for accelerating the accumulation of robust and reliable findings in the lifespan developmental psychological sciences.
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- Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.,German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin, Germany
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- University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY USA
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- German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin, Germany.,Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany.,Berlin University of Technology, Berlin, Germany
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- VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA USA.,Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA USA.,Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA USA
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- VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Mantantzis K, Drewelies J, Duezel S, Steinhagen-Thiessen E, Demuth I, Wagner GG, Lindenberger U, Gerstorf D. Dehydration predicts longitudinal decline in cognitive functioning and well-being among older adults. Psychol Aging 2020; 35:517-528. [PMID: 32352804 DOI: 10.1037/pag0000471] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Adequate hydration is essential for health, with even mild forms of dehydration often having negative effects on cognition and well-being. Despite evidence of higher risk for dehydration among older adults, links between dehydration and cognitive or well-being outcomes have not been established in old age. In this study, we used longitudinal data from the Berlin Aging Study II (age range 60-89) to investigate whether trajectories of cognitive functioning (digit symbol, N = 1,111) and well-being (Diener satisfaction with life, N = 1,066; Socio-Economic Panel Study life satisfaction, N = 1,067; and Lawton morale, N = 1,067) are associated with objective dehydration (osmolarity; 33% dehydrated). Our results revealed that higher dehydration was associated with steeper decline in cognitive functioning and well-being over time, and lower well-being among those with higher body mass index. These associations were independent of sociodemographic and physical health characteristics. Our findings highlight the importance of adequate hydration for preserved cognition and well-being across old age. We discuss potential mechanisms and consider practical implications arising from our results. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
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- Lipid Clinic at the Interdisciplinary Metabolism Center
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Potter S, Drewelies J, Wagner J, Duezel S, Brose A, Demuth I, Steinhagen-Thiessen E, Lindenberger U, Wagner GG, Gerstorf D. Trajectories of multiple subjective well-being facets across old age: The role of health and personality. Psychol Aging 2020; 35:894-909. [PMID: 32309979 DOI: 10.1037/pag0000459] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Subjective well-being is often characterized by average stability across old age, but individual differences are substantial and not yet fully understood. This study targets physical and cognitive health and personality as individual difference characteristics and examines their unique and interactive roles for level and change in a number of different facets of subjective well-being. We make use of medical diagnoses, performance-based indicators of physical (grip strength) and cognitive functioning (Digit Symbol), and extraversion and neuroticism and apply parallel sets of multilevel growth models to multiyear well-being data obtained in the Berlin Aging Study 2 (N = 1,216; Mage = 71; SD = 3.84; 51% women) and the German Socio-Economic Panel (N = 3,418; Mage = 70; SD = 6.89; 51% women). Results revealed by and large average stability of life satisfaction, morale, and emotions (anger, fear, sadness, happiness) across old age. Most important for our research questions, higher morbidity, poor performance on grip strength and perceptual speed tests, lower extraversion, and higher neuroticism were each uniquely associated with lower life satisfaction, morale, and positive affect and higher negative affect. Some evidence emerged for facet-specific health-personality interaction effects in predicting affective experiences, but effects observed were not consistent across studies and of small size. We take our findings to indicate that health and personality traits constitute important individual difference characteristics for our understanding of subjective well-being in old age and that these likely do not interact with one another to shape well-being. We discuss theoretical and practical implications. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
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- Sophie Potter
- Department of Psychology, Humboldt University Berlin
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development
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- Department of Psychology, Humboldt University Berlin
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- Department of Endocrinology and Metabolic Medicine, Charite - Universitatsmedizin Berlin
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development
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- Max Planck Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Human Development
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Mantantzis K, Drewelies J, Duezel S, Buchmann N, Steinhagen-Thiessen E, Wagner GG, Raz N, Lindenberger U, Demuth I, Gerstorf D. Poor glucose regulation is associated with declines in well-being among older men, but not women. Psychol Aging 2020; 35:204-211. [PMID: 31724413 PMCID: PMC7042050 DOI: 10.1037/pag0000404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Glucose regulation is a key aspect of healthy aging and has been linked to brain functioning and cognition. Here we examined the role of glucose regulation for within-person longitudinal trajectories of well-being. We applied growth models to data from the Berlin Aging Study II (N = 955), using insulin resistance as an index of glucoregulatory capacity. We found that poor glucose regulation (higher insulin resistance) was consistently associated with lower levels of well-being among older men but not women. Our study provides novel evidence for the relevance of glucose regulation for well-being among older men. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
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- Max Planck Institute for Human Development
- German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) Berlin
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- Max Planck Institute for Human Development
- Wayne State University, USA
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- Max Planck Institute for Human Development
- Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, Berlin
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- Humboldt University Berlin
- German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) Berlin
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Gerstorf D, Drewelies J, Duezel S, Smith J, Wahl HW, Schilling OK, Kunzmann U, Siebert JS, Katzorreck M, Eibich P, Demuth I, Steinhagen-Thiessen E, Wagner GG, Lindenberger U, Heckhausen J, Ram N. Cohort differences in adult-life trajectories of internal and external control beliefs: A tale of more and better maintained internal control and fewer external constraints. Psychol Aging 2020; 34:1090-1108. [PMID: 31804114 DOI: 10.1037/pag0000389] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Life Span theory posits that sociohistorical contexts shape individual development. In line with this proposition, cohort differences favoring later-born cohorts have been widely documented for cognition and health. However, little is known about historical change in how key resources of psychosocial functioning such as control beliefs develop in old age. We pooled data from 3 independent samples: Berlin Aging Study (6 waves, N = 414); Interdisciplinary Longitudinal Study of Adult Development (4 waves, N = 925); and Berlin Aging Study II (4 waves, N = 1,111) to construct overlapping multiyear longitudinal data from ages 61 through 85 years for cohorts born 1905 to 1953 and examine historical changes in within-person trajectories of internal and external control beliefs. Results revealed that earlier-born cohorts exhibit age-related declines in internal control beliefs regarding both desirable and undesirable outcomes, whereas later-born cohorts perceive higher internal control and maintain this advantage into old age. Earlier-born cohorts also experience steep age-related increases in external control beliefs regarding both powerful others and chance, whereas later-born cohorts perceive lower external control and were stable across old age. Education and gender disparities in control beliefs narrowed over historical time. Sociodemographic, physical health, cognitive, and social factors explained some of the differences in control beliefs, and accounted for sizable portions of cohort effects. Our results indicate that current generations of older adults perceive more and better maintained internal control and fewer external constraints. We discuss potential underlying mechanisms and consider conceptual and societal implications of our findings. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development
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- Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
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- Research Group Labor Demography, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
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- Research Group Biology of Aging, Charite - Universitatsmedizin Berlin
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development
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- Department of Psychology and Social Behavior, University of California
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- Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University
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Graham EK, Weston SJ, Turiano NA, Aschwanden D, Booth T, Harrison F, James BD, Lewis NA, Makkar SR, Mueller S, Wisniewski KM, Yoneda T, Zhaoyang R, Spiro A, Willis S, Schaie KW, Sliwinski M, Lipton RA, Katz MJ, Deary IJ, Zelinski EM, Bennett DA, Sachdev PS, Brodaty H, Trollor JN, Ames D, Wright MJ, Gerstorf D, Allemand M, Drewelies J, Wagner GG, Muniz-Terrera G, Piccinin AM, Hofer SM, Mroczek DK. Is Healthy Neuroticism Associated with Health Behaviors? A Coordinated Integrative Data Analysis. Collabra Psychol 2020; 6:32. [PMID: 33354649 PMCID: PMC7751766 DOI: 10.1525/collabra.266] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Current literature suggests that neuroticism is positively associated with maladaptive life choices, likelihood of disease, and mortality. However, recent research has identified circumstances under which neuroticism is associated with positive outcomes. The current project examined whether "healthy neuroticism", defined as the interaction of neuroticism and conscientiousness, was associated with the following health behaviors: smoking, alcohol consumption, and physical activity. Using a pre-registered multi-study coordinated integrative data analysis (IDA) approach, we investigated whether "healthy neuroticism" predicted the odds of engaging in each of the aforementioned activities. Each study estimated identical models, using the same covariates and data transformations, enabling optimal comparability of results. These results were then meta-analyzed in order to estimate an average (N-weighted) effect and to ascertain the extent of heterogeneity in the effects. Overall, these results suggest that neuroticism alone was not related to health behaviors, while individuals higher in conscientiousness were less likely to be smokers or drinkers, and more likely to engage in physical activity. In terms of the healthy neuroticism interaction of neuroticism and conscientiousness, significant interactions for smoking and physical activity suggest that the association between neuroticism and health behaviors was smaller among those high in conscientiousness. These findings lend credence to the idea that healthy neuroticism may be linked to certain health behaviors and that these effects are generalizable across several heterogeneous samples.
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- Eileen K. Graham
- Northwestern University, Department of Medical Social Sciences, Chicago, IL, USA
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- University of Oregon, Department of Psychology, Eugene, OR, USA
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- West Virginia University, Department of Psychology and the West Virginia Prevention Research Center, Morgantown, WV, USA
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- Florida State University, Department of Geriatrics, Tallahassee, FL, USA
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- University of Edinburgh, Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, Department of Psychology, Edinburgh, Scotland
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- University of New South Wales, Centre for Healthy Brain Aging, Sydney NSW, Australia
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- Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
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- University of Victoria, Department of Psychology, Victoria, BC, Canada
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- University of New South Wales, Centre for Healthy Brain Aging, Sydney NSW, Australia
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- University of Hamburg, Berlin Germany, Department of Psychology,Humboldt University, Berlin Germany, Department of Psychology
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- University of Southern California, Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, Los Angeles, CA
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- University of Victoria, Department of Psychology, Victoria, BC, Canada
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- Pennsylvania State University, Center for Healthy Aging, State College, PA, USA
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- VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, USA,Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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- University of Washington, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Pennsylvania State University, Department of Human Development and Psychology, State College, PA, USA
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- Pennsylvania State University, Center for Healthy Aging, State College, PA, USA
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- University of Edinburgh, Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, Department of Psychology, Edinburgh, Scotland
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- University of Southern California, Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, Los Angeles, CA
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- Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
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- University of New South Wales, Centre for Healthy Brain Aging, Sydney NSW, Australia
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- University of New South Wales, Centre for Healthy Brain Aging, Sydney NSW, Australia
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- University of New South Wales, Centre for Healthy Brain Aging, Sydney NSW, Australia,University of New South Wales, Department of Developmental Disability Neuropsychiatry, Sydney NSW, Australia
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- University of Melbourne Academic Unit for Psychiatry of Old Age and National Ageing Research Institute, Kew & Parkville, Australia
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- Humboldt University, Berlin Germany, Department of Psychology
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- University of Zurich, Department of Psychology, Zurich, Switzerland
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- University of Victoria, Department of Psychology, Victoria, BC, Canada
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- Northwestern University, Department of Medical Social Sciences, Chicago, IL, USA,Northwestern University, Department of Psychology, Evanston, IL, USA
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Mantantzis K, Drewelies J, Wagner GG, Demuth I, Steinhagen-Thiessen E, Lindenberger U, Düzel S, Gerstorf D. POOR GLUCOSE REGULATION IS ASSOCIATED WITH LOWER WELL-BEING AMONG OLDER MEN, BUT NOT WOMEN. Innov Aging 2019. [PMCID: PMC6840665 DOI: 10.1093/geroni/igz038.1626] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Glucose regulation is a key aspect of healthy aging, but little is known about gluco-regulatory capacity and older adults’ well-being. In this study, we examine whether gluco-regulatory capacity is predictive of within-person age-related trajectories of three major well-being indicators. We applied growth models to multi-year longitudinal data obtained in the Berlin Aging Study II (N = 1437; age 60-89; 53% women) and used insulin resistance as an index of glucose regulation capacity. Poor glucose regulation was associated with lower levels of well-being in men, but not women. These associations among men emerged for two of the three well-being indicators, were maintained across old age, and were independent of the other cognitive and physical factors examined. We discuss how sexual dimorphism may have contributed to our findings, and conclude that our results provide initial evidence for the relevance of glucose regulation for quality of life among older men.
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- German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Charité University Hospital, berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Human Development, berlin, Berlin, Germany
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Kolodziejczak K, Rosada A, Drewelies J, Düzel S, Eibich P, Tegeler C, Wagner GG, Beier KM, Ram N, Demuth I, Steinhagen-Thiessen E, Gerstorf D. Sexual activity, sexual thoughts, and intimacy among older adults: Links with physical health and psychosocial resources for successful aging. Psychol Aging 2019; 34:389-404. [DOI: 10.1037/pag0000347] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Meyer P, Schophaus FM, Glassen T, Riedl J, Rohrer JM, Wagner GG, Oertzen TV. Correction: Using the Dirichlet process to form clusters of people's concerns in the context of future party identification. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0214530. [PMID: 30897182 PMCID: PMC6428283 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0214530] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0212944.].
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Fuks KB, Hüls A, Sugiri D, Altug H, Vierkötter A, Abramson MJ, Goebel J, Wagner GG, Demuth I, Krutmann J, Schikowski T. Tropospheric ozone and skin aging: Results from two German cohort studies. Environ Int 2019; 124:139-144. [PMID: 30641257 DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2018.12.047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2018] [Revised: 12/21/2018] [Accepted: 12/21/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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During the last two decades, it has been well established that a short-term exposure to ozone (O3) elicits an oxidative stress response in human and mouse skin, which leads to aberrant transcriptional expression of genes consistent with increased skin aging. Whether a long-term exposure to ambient O3 is associated with any skin aging traits, has remained unclear. We addressed this question in two elderly German cohorts: the SALIA study (806 women aged 66-79 years), and the BASE-II study (1207 men and women aged 60-84 years). Five-year mean residential exposure to O3 was modeled as the number of days with maximum daily 8-h mean O3 concentrations ≥120 μg/m3 per year in the wider neighborhood (5-digit postcode) of a participant's residence. Extrinsic (environmentally induced) skin aging traits - coarse wrinkles and pigment spots (lentigines) on the face - were assessed by means of SCINEXA™, a validated visual score previously shown to be well suited to measure extrinsic facial skin aging in cohort studies. We observed positive associations of O3 exceedances with coarse wrinkles in the face, but not with pigment spots. These associations were present in each cohort as well as in the combined sample of both cohorts. They were independent of chronic ultraviolet radiation exposure as the most obvious confounder, and also of co-pollutants such as particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide. Thus, long-term exposure to elevated concentrations of tropospheric O3 appears to contribute to skin aging.
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- Kateryna B Fuks
- IUF - Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Düsseldorf, Germany.
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- IUF - Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Düsseldorf, Germany; Department of Human Genetics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- IUF - Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- IUF - Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- IUF - Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
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- German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin, Germany
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- German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin, Germany; Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin Institute of Health, Lipid Clinic at the Interdisciplinary Metabolism Center, Germany; Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Medicine (BCRT), Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
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- IUF - Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Düsseldorf, Germany; Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- IUF - Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Düsseldorf, Germany
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Mueller-Langer F, Fecher B, Harhoff D, Wagner GG. Replication studies in economics—How many and which papers are chosen for replication, and why? Research Policy 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2018.07.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Karlsson Linnér R, Biroli P, Kong E, Meddens SFW, Wedow R, Fontana MA, Lebreton M, Tino SP, Abdellaoui A, Hammerschlag AR, Nivard MG, Okbay A, Rietveld CA, Timshel PN, Trzaskowski M, Vlaming RD, Zünd CL, Bao Y, Buzdugan L, Caplin AH, Chen CY, Eibich P, Fontanillas P, Gonzalez JR, Joshi PK, Karhunen V, Kleinman A, Levin RZ, Lill CM, Meddens GA, Muntané G, Sanchez-Roige S, Rooij FJV, Taskesen E, Wu Y, Zhang F, Auton A, Boardman JD, Clark DW, Conlin A, Dolan CC, Fischbacher U, Groenen PJF, Harris KM, Hasler G, Hofman A, Ikram MA, Jain S, Karlsson R, Kessler RC, Kooyman M, MacKillop J, Männikkö M, Morcillo-Suarez C, McQueen MB, Schmidt KM, Smart MC, Sutter M, Thurik AR, Uitterlinden AG, White J, Wit HD, Yang J, Bertram L, Boomsma DI, Esko T, Fehr E, Hinds DA, Johannesson M, Kumari M, Laibson D, Magnusson PKE, Meyer MN, Navarro A, Palmer AA, Pers TH, Posthuma D, Schunk D, Stein MB, Svento R, Tiemeier H, Timmers PRHJ, Turley P, Ursano RJ, Wagner GG, Wilson JF, Gratten J, Lee JJ, Cesarini D, Benjamin DJ, Koellinger PD, Beauchamp JP. Genome-wide association analyses of risk tolerance and risky behaviors in over 1 million individuals identify hundreds of loci and shared genetic influences. Nat Genet 2019; 51:245-257. [PMID: 30643258 PMCID: PMC6713272 DOI: 10.1038/s41588-018-0309-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 337] [Impact Index Per Article: 67.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2018] [Accepted: 11/07/2018] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Humans vary substantially in their willingness to take risks. In a combined sample of over 1 million individuals, we conducted genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of general risk tolerance, adventurousness, and risky behaviors in the driving, drinking, smoking, and sexual domains. Across all GWAS, we identified hundreds of associated loci, including 99 loci associated with general risk tolerance. We report evidence of substantial shared genetic influences across risk tolerance and the risky behaviors: 46 of the 99 general risk tolerance loci contain a lead SNP for at least one of our other GWAS, and general risk tolerance is genetically correlated ([Formula: see text] ~ 0.25 to 0.50) with a range of risky behaviors. Bioinformatics analyses imply that genes near SNPs associated with general risk tolerance are highly expressed in brain tissues and point to a role for glutamatergic and GABAergic neurotransmission. We found no evidence of enrichment for genes previously hypothesized to relate to risk tolerance.
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- Richard Karlsson Linnér
- Department of Complex Trait Genetics, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Amsterdam Neuroscience, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
- Erasmus University Rotterdam Institute for Behavior and Biology, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
- Department of Economics, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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- Department of Economics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Complex Trait Genetics, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Amsterdam Neuroscience, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- Erasmus University Rotterdam Institute for Behavior and Biology, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- Department of Economics, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
- Analytic Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Sociology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Center for the Advancement of Value in Musculoskeletal Care, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Healthcare Policy and Research, Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
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- Amsterdam School of Economics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- Amsterdam Brain and Cognition, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Economics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Complex Trait Genetics, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Amsterdam Neuroscience, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Complex Trait Genetics, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Amsterdam Neuroscience, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- Department of Economics, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Erasmus University Rotterdam Institute for Behavior and Biology, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- Department of Applied Economics, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Epidemiology Research, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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- Department of Complex Trait Genetics, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Amsterdam Neuroscience, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- Erasmus University Rotterdam Institute for Behavior and Biology, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- Department of Economics, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Economics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex, Colchester, UK
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- Seminar for Statistics, Department of Mathematics, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Department of Economics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Analytic Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Psychiatric & Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- Socio-Economic Panel Study, DIW Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany
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- Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Barcelona, Spain
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain
- CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain
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- Centre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute for Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
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- Center for Life Course Health Research, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- Department of Economics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Group, Lübeck Interdisciplinary Platform for Genome Analytics, Institutes of Neurogenetics & Cardiogenetics, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
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- Departament de Ciències Experimentals i de la Salut, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
- Research Department, Hospital Universitari Institut Pere Mata, Institut d'Investigació Sanitària Pere Virgili (IISPV), Reus, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red en Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Reus, Spain
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Complex Trait Genetics, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Amsterdam Neuroscience, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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- Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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- Research, 23andMe, Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA
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- Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
- Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
- Department of Sociology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Centre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute for Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
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- Department of Economics and Finance, Oulu Business School, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Economics, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
- Thurgau Institute of Economics, Kreuzlingen, Switzerland
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- Erasmus University Rotterdam Institute for Behavior and Biology, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- Department of Econometrics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
- Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Unit of Psychiatry Research, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Family Medicine and Public Health, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Peter Boris Centre for Addictions Research, McMaster University/St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Homewood Research Institute, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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- Center for Life Course Health Research, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- Departament de Ciències Experimentals i de la Salut, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Department of Economics, University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex, Colchester, UK
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- Department of Economics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
- Experimental Economics Group, Max Planck Institute for Research into Collective Goods, Bonn, Germany
- Department of Public Finance, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Erasmus University Rotterdam Institute for Behavior and Biology, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- Montpellier Business School, Montpellier, France
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- UCL Genetics Institute, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, UK
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- Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
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- Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Group, Lübeck Interdisciplinary Platform for Genome Analytics, Institutes of Neurogenetics & Cardiogenetics, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
- Dept of Psychology, University of Olso, Oslo, Norway
- School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Department of Economics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Economics, Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex, Colchester, UK
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- Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Center for Translational Bioethics and Health Care Policy, Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA, USA
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- Departament de Ciències Experimentals i de la Salut, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
- Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona, Spain
- Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
- Institute for Genomic Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Epidemiology Research, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Complex Trait Genetics, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Amsterdam Neuroscience, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- Department of Clinical Genetics, VU Medical Centre, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Economics, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
- Family Medicine and Public Health, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Economics and Finance, Oulu Business School, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Centre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute for Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
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- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Analytic Translational Genetics Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Behavioral and Health Genomics Center, Center for Economic and Social Research, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Socio-Economic Panel Study, DIW Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Centre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute for Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
- MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland
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- Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
- Mater Medical Research Institute, Translational Research Institute, Brisbane, Australia
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- Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Economics, New York University, New York, NY, USA
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- Behavioral and Health Genomics Center, Center for Economic and Social Research, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Department of Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Complex Trait Genetics, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Amsterdam Neuroscience, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- Department of Economics, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- German Institute for Economic Research, DIW Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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Kolodziejczak K, Rosada A, Drewelies J, Duezel S, Wagner GG, Demuth I, Steinhagen-Thiessen E, Gerstorf D. SEXUAL ACTIVITY AND INTIMACY IN OLD AGE. Innov Aging 2018. [DOI: 10.1093/geroni/igy023.3234] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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- K Kolodziejczak
- Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany, Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Charite - Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany; German Socio-economic Panel Study (SOEP), Berlin, Germany
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- Charite – Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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Gerstorf D, Hueluer G, Wagner GG, Kunzmann U, Ram N. TERMINAL CHANGE IN FACETS OF AFFECTIVE EXPERIENCE AND DOMAIN SATISFACTION: BITTERSWEET EMOTIONS AT THE END OF LIFE. Innov Aging 2018. [DOI: 10.1093/geroni/igy023.1598] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- D Gerstorf
- Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerl
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- Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Pennsylvania State University, University Park, US
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Gerstorf D, Hülür G, Wagner GG, Kunzmann U, Ram N. Terminal change across facets of affective experience and domain satisfaction: Commonalities, differences, and bittersweet emotions at the end of life. Dev Psychol 2018; 54:2382-2402. [PMID: 30372096 DOI: 10.1037/dev0000599] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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General well-being is known to deteriorate sharply at the end of life. However, it is an open question how rates of terminal change differ across affective and evaluative facets of well-being and if individual difference correlates operate in facet-specific ways. We examined how discrete affective states (happy, angry, fearful, sad) and satisfaction with key life domains (health, leisure, family) change as people approach death and how differences in end-of-life trajectories are related to sociodemographic (age, gender, education), physical health (disability, body mass index, physician visits), and psychosocial characteristics (perceived control, social orientation, living with a partner). We applied growth models to 9-year annual longitudinal data of 864 participants (age at death: M = 75 years, 41% women) from the nationwide German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Findings revealed commonalities and specificities in terminal change: Six of seven facets became increasingly fragile late in life (6 to 35 times steeper terminal change than age change), but at vastly different rates of change (e.g., steep declines in happiness and satisfaction with health vs. stability in anger) and at different levels at which changes occurred. Commonalities and differences also emerged for the correlates: Those who perceived more control over their lives experienced generally more favorable late-life affect and satisfaction trajectories, whereas other correlates operated in more facet-specific ways. For example, participants living with a partner were happier and more satisfied with family life throughout their last years, but also reported more fear and steeper increases in sadness, a picture of bittersweet emotions at the end of life. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved).
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- Department of Psychology, University Research Priority Program Dynamics of Healthy Aging, University of Zurich
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- German Socio-Economic Panel Study, German Institute for Economic Research
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- Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University
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Mueller S, Wagner J, Wagner GG, Ram N, Gerstorf D. How far reaches the power of personality? Personality predictors of terminal decline in well-being. J Pers Soc Psychol 2018; 116:634-650. [PMID: 30124302 DOI: 10.1037/pspp0000184] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Personality is a powerful predictor of central life outcomes, including subjective well-being. Yet, we still know little about how personality manifests in the very last years of life when well-being typically falls rapidly. Here, we investigate whether the Big Five personality traits buffer (or magnify) terminal decline in well-being beyond and in interaction with functioning in key physical and social domains. We applied growth models to up to 10-year longitudinal data from 629 now deceased participants in the nation-wide German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP; age at death: M = 76 years; SD = 11). Lower neuroticism and higher conscientiousness were each uniquely associated with higher late-life well-being one year prior to death. At the same time, participants low in neuroticism experienced steeper terminal well-being declines. Similarly, individuals high in agreeableness and women high in extraversion reported higher well-being far away from death, but experienced more severe terminal decline, such that personality-related differences in well-being were not discernible anymore at one year prior to death. Interaction effects further revealed that individuals suffering from disability benefit less from higher levels of conscientiousness, whereas openness to experience appeared particularly beneficial for the less educated. We conclude that in the context of often severe late-life health challenges that accompany the last years of life, adaptive personality-related differences continue to be evident and sizable for some traits, but appear to diminish and even reverse in direction for other traits. We discuss possible underlying mechanisms and practical implications. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
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- Department of Psychology, Humboldt University Berlin
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development
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- German Institute for Economic Research
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Castronova EJ, Kayser H, Frick JR, Wagner GG. Immigrants, Natives and Social Assistance: Comparable Take-Up under Comparable Circumstances. International Migration Review 2018. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-7379.2001.tb00038.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Are immigrants on welfare because they are more likely to be eligible or because they are more likely to claim benefits for which they are eligible? The answer is politically important, but because most current research on immigration and welfare is based on data from the United States, the answer is difficult due to the complexities of the transfer system which make eligibility determinations difficult. In Germany, by contrast, eligibility for the main cash transfer program, Sozialhilfe (Social Assistance), is determined by a comparatively simple nationwide formula. We use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel to test whether immigrants to Germany are more likely than natives to claim welfare benefits for which they are eligible. We find that immigrants are more likely than native Germans to receive welfare, both because immigrants are more likely to be eligible and because they are more likely, when eligible, to claim their benefits. However, we also find that this greater propensity to take-up benefits is not related to immigrant status per se: when other sociodemographic factors are accounted for in an appropriate manner, immigrant households are no more likely to take-up benefits than native households.
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Vogel N, Ram N, Goebel J, Wagner GG, Gerstorf D. How does availability of county-level healthcare services shape terminal decline in well-being? Eur J Ageing 2018; 15:111-122. [PMID: 29867296 DOI: 10.1007/s10433-017-0425-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Both lifespan psychology and life course sociology highlight that contextual factors influence individual functioning and development. In the current study, we operationalize context as county-level care services in inpatient and outpatient facilities (e.g., number of care facilities, privacy in facilities) and investigate how the care context shapes well-being in the last years of life. To do so, we combine 29 waves of individual-level longitudinal data on life satisfaction from now deceased participants in the nationwide German Socio-Economic Panel Study (N = 4557; age at death: M = 73.35, SD = 14.20; 47% women) with county-level data from the Federal Statistical Office. Results from three-level growth models revealed that having more inpatient care facilities, more employees per resident, and more staff in administration are each uniquely associated with higher late-life well-being, independent of key individual (age at death, gender, education, disability) and county (affluence, demographic composition) characteristics. Number of employees in physical care, residential comfort, and flexibility and care indicators in outpatient institutions were not found to be associated with levels or change in well-being. We take our results to provide empirical evidence that some contextual factors shape well-being in the last years of life and discuss possible routes how local care services might alleviate terminal decline.
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- Nina Vogel
- 1German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), Mohrenstraße 58, 10117 Berlin, Germany
- 2Department of Psychology, Humboldt University Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany
- Present Address: The German Environment Agency, Berlin, Germany
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- 1German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), Mohrenstraße 58, 10117 Berlin, Germany
- 3Pennsylvania State University, HDFS, 417 BBH Building, University Park, PA 16802 USA
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- 1German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), Mohrenstraße 58, 10117 Berlin, Germany
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- 1German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), Mohrenstraße 58, 10117 Berlin, Germany
- 4Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- 1German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), Mohrenstraße 58, 10117 Berlin, Germany
- 2Department of Psychology, Humboldt University Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany
- 3Pennsylvania State University, HDFS, 417 BBH Building, University Park, PA 16802 USA
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Richter N, Bondü R, Spiess CK, Wagner GG, Trommsdorff G. Relations Among Maternal Life Satisfaction, Shared Activities, and Child Well-Being. Front Psychol 2018; 9:739. [PMID: 29875714 PMCID: PMC5974377 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00739] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2017] [Accepted: 04/27/2018] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Maternal well-being is assumed to be associated with well-being of individual family members, optimal parenting practices, and positive developmental outcomes for children. The objective of this study was to examine the interplay between maternal well-being, parent-child activities, and the well-being of 5- to 7-year-old children. In a sample of N = 291 mother-child dyads, maternal life satisfaction, the frequency of shared parent-child activities, as well as children's self-regulation, prosocial behavior, and receptive vocabulary were assessed using several methods. Data were collected in a special study of the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), a representative longitudinal survey of private households in Germany. Using structural equation modeling, significant positive direct and indirect relations between maternal life satisfaction, frequency of shared parent-child activities, children's self-regulation, prosocial behavior, and receptive vocabulary were found. The more satisfied the mother was, the more she shared activities with her child and the more the child acted prosocially. Furthermore, the higher the frequency of shared parent-child activities, the higher the child scored in all three analyzed indicators of children's well-being: self-regulation, prosocial behavior, and receptive vocabulary. The current study supports the assumption of maternal well-being as the basis of positive parenting practices and child well-being.
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- Nina Richter
- Developmental Psychology and Cross-Cultural Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
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- Developmental Psychology and Cross-Cultural Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
- Psychologische Hochschule Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin, Germany
- School of Business and Economics, Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin, Germany
- Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Developmental Psychology and Cross-Cultural Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
- German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin, Germany
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Rohrer JM, Richter D, Brümmer M, Wagner GG, Schmukle SC. Successfully Striving for Happiness: Socially Engaged Pursuits Predict Increases in Life Satisfaction. Psychol Sci 2018; 29:1291-1298. [PMID: 29775423 DOI: 10.1177/0956797618761660] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Happiness is considered a highly desirable attribute, but whether or not individuals can actively steer their lives toward greater well-being is an open empirical question. In this study, respondents from a representative German sample reported, in text format, ideas for how they could improve their life satisfaction. We investigated which of these ideas predicted changes in life satisfaction 1 year later. Active pursuits per se-as opposed to statements about external circumstances or fortune-were not associated with changes in life satisfaction ( n = 1,178). However, in line with our preregistered hypothesis, among individuals who described active pursuits ( n = 582), those who described social ideas (e.g., spending more time with friends and family) ended up being more satisfied, and this effect was partly mediated by increased socializing. Our results demonstrate that not all pursuits of happiness are equally successful and corroborate the great importance of social relationships for human well-being.
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- Julia M Rohrer
- 1 International Max Planck Research School on the Life Course (LIFE), Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany.,2 Institute of Sociology, Freie Universität Berlin.,3 German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), Berlin, Germany.,4 Department of Psychology, University of Leipzig
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- 3 German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), Berlin, Germany
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- 5 Department of Applied Computer Science, University of Leipzig
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- 3 German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), Berlin, Germany.,6 Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany.,7 Institute of Economics and Law, Berlin University of Technology
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Virtanen M, Jokela M, Madsen IE, Magnusson Hanson LL, Lallukka T, Nyberg ST, Alfredsson L, Batty GD, Bjorner JB, Borritz M, Burr H, Dragano N, Erbel R, Ferrie JE, Heikkilä K, Knutsson A, Koskenvuo M, Lahelma E, Nielsen ML, Oksanen T, Pejtersen JH, Pentti J, Rahkonen O, Rugulies R, Salo P, Schupp J, Shipley MJ, Siegrist J, Singh-Manoux A, Suominen SB, Theorell T, Vahtera J, Wagner GG, Wang JL, Yiengprugsawan V, Westerlund H, Kivimäki M. Long working hours and depressive symptoms: systematic review and meta-analysis of published studies and unpublished individual participant data. Scand J Work Environ Health 2018; 44:239-250. [PMID: 29423526 DOI: 10.5271/sjweh.3712] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Objectives This systematic review and meta-analysis combined published study-level data and unpublished individual-participant data with the aim of quantifying the relation between long working hours and the onset of depressive symptoms. Methods We searched PubMed and Embase for published prospective cohort studies and included available cohorts with unpublished individual-participant data. We used a random-effects meta-analysis to calculate summary estimates across studies. Results We identified ten published cohort studies and included unpublished individual-participant data from 18 studies. In the majority of cohorts, long working hours was defined as working ≥55 hours per week. In multivariable-adjusted meta-analyses of 189 729 participants from 35 countries [96 275 men, 93 454 women, follow-up ranging from 1-5 years, 21 747 new-onset cases), there was an overall association of 1.14 (95% confidence interval (CI) 1.03-1.25] between long working hours and the onset of depressive symptoms, with significant evidence of heterogeneity (I 2=45.1%, P=0.004). A moderate association between working hours and depressive symptoms was found in Asian countries (1.50, 95% CI 1.13-2.01), a weaker association in Europe (1.11, 95% CI 1.00-1.22), and no association in North America (0.97, 95% CI 0.70-1.34) or Australia (0.95, 95% CI 0.70-1.29). Differences by other characteristics were small. Conclusions This observational evidence suggests a moderate association between long working hours and onset of depressive symptoms in Asia and a small association in Europe.
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- Marianna Virtanen
- Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, PO Box 40, 00032 Työterveyslaitos, Finland.
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König M, Drewelies J, Norman K, Spira D, Buchmann N, Hülür G, Eibich P, Wagner GG, Lindenberger U, Steinhagen-Thiessen E, Gerstorf D, Demuth I. Historical trends in modifiable indicators of cardiovascular health and self-rated health among older adults: Cohort differences over 20 years between the Berlin Aging Study (BASE) and the Berlin Aging Study II (BASE-II). PLoS One 2018; 13:e0191699. [PMID: 29385202 PMCID: PMC5792001 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0191699] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2017] [Accepted: 01/09/2018] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Background The last decades have seen great advances in the understanding, treatment, and prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Although mortality rates due to CVD have declined significantly in the last decades, the burden of CVD is still high, particularly in older adults. This raises the question whether contemporary populations of older adults are experiencing better or worse objective as well as subjective health than earlier-born cohorts. The aim of this study was to examine differences in modifiable indicators of cardiovascular health (CVH), comparing data obtained 20 years apart in the Berlin Aging Study (BASE, 1990–93) and the Berlin Aging Study II (BASE-II, 2009–2014). Methods Serial cross-sectional analysis of 242 propensity-score-matched participants of BASE (born 1907–1922) and BASE-II (born 1925–1942). Body mass index (BMI), blood pressure, total cholesterol, glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c), diet, smoking and physical activity were operationalized according to the “Life’s simple 7“(LS7) criteria of the American Heart Association. Results 121 matched pairs were identified based on age, sex, and education. In the later-born BASE-II sample, the mean LS7 score was significantly higher than in the earlier-born sample (7.8±1.8 vs. 6.4±2.1, p<0.001), indicating better CVH. In detail, diet, physical activity, smoking, cholesterol, and HbA1c were more favorable, whereas blood pressure was significantly higher in individuals from the later-born cohort. BMI did not differ significantly between the two matched samples. Notably, despite better CVH, later-born individuals (BASE-II) reported lower self-rated health, presumably because of higher health expectations. Conclusions Overall, cardiovascular health was significantly better in the later-born cohort, but several notable exceptions exist.
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- Maximilian König
- Lipid Clinic at the Interdisciplinary Metabolism Center, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Geriatrics Research Group, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Department of Nutrition and Gerontology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany
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- Lipid Clinic at the Interdisciplinary Metabolism Center, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Lipid Clinic at the Interdisciplinary Metabolism Center, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- University Research Priority Program (URPP) Dynamics of Healthy Aging, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Health Economics Research Centre, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin, Germany
- Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Lipid Clinic at the Interdisciplinary Metabolism Center, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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Hülür G, Heckhausen J, Hoppmann CA, Infurna FJ, Wagner GG, Ram N, Gerstorf D. Levels of and changes in life satisfaction predict mortality hazards: Disentangling the role of physical health, perceived control, and social orientation. Psychol Aging 2017; 32:507-520. [PMID: 28891665 DOI: 10.1037/pag0000187] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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It is well documented that well-being typically evinces precipitous decrements at the end of life. However, research has primarily taken a postdictive approach by knowing the outcome (date of death) and aligning, in retrospect, how well-being has changed for people with documented death events. In the present study, we made use of a predictive approach by examining whether and how levels of and changes in life satisfaction prospectively predict mortality hazards and delineate the role of contributing factors, including health, perceived control, and social orientation. To do so, we applied shared parameter growth-survival models to 20-year longitudinal data from 10,597 participants (n = 1,560 [15%] deceased; age at baseline: M = 44 years, SD = 17, range = 18-98 years) from the national German Socio-Economic Panel Study. Our findings showed that lower levels and steeper declines of life satisfaction each uniquely predicted higher mortality risks. Results also revealed moderating effects of age and perceived control: Life satisfaction levels and changes had stronger predictive effects for mortality hazards among older adults. Perceived control was associated with lower mortality hazards; however, this effect was diminished for those who experienced accelerated life satisfaction decline. Variance decomposition suggests that predictive effects of life satisfaction trajectories were partially unique (3%-6%) and partially shared with physical health, perceived control, and social orientation (17%-19%). Our discussion focuses on the strengths and challenges of a predictive approach to link developmental changes (in life satisfaction) to mortality hazards, and considers implications of our findings for healthy aging. (PsycINFO Database Record
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- Gizem Hülür
- Department of Psychology, University of Zurich
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- Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University
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