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| J G ChipperfieldSummaryAffiliation: University of Manitoba Country: Canada Publications
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Detrimental effects of falling on health and well-being in later life: the mediating roles of perceived control and optimismJoelle C Ruthig
University of North Dakota, ND 58202, USA
J Health Psychol 12:231-48. 2007..Falling negatively predicted PC and optimism, which mediated the effects of falling on health and well-being among the old-old group. Findings have implications for enhancing recovery from falling via bolstering PC and optimism...- Everyday physical activity as a predictor of late-life mortalityJudith G Chipperfield
Department of Psychology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Gerontologist 48:349-57. 2008..The present study hypothesized that simple, everyday physical activity (EPA) would decline with advancing age; that women would have a more favorable EPA profile than would men; and that EPA would have a survival benefit... - Primary- and secondary-control strategies in later life: predicting hospital outcomes in men and womenJudith G Chipperfield
Department of Psychology, Centre on Aging and the Health, Leisure, and Human Performance Institute, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Health Psychol 25:226-36. 2006..Taken together, our findings suggest that men benefit by adopting certain primary-control strategies and women benefit by adopting certain compensatory secondary-control strategies... - Stability in perceived control: implications for health among very old community-dwelling adultsJudith G Chipperfield
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
J Aging Health 16:116-47. 2004..Our purpose was to examine how stability/variability in perceptions of control (PC) relate to a variety of health-related variables... - Perceived control as a buffer in the use of health care servicesJ G Chipperfield
Health, Leisure and Human Performance Research Institute, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 54:P146-54. 1999..Various interpretations are considered, including the possibility that patients with low perceived control are inefficient users of health services or that patients with high perceived control experience a deficiency in health care... - Primary and secondary control-enhancing strategies: implications for health in later lifeJ G Chipperfield
University of Manitoba, Canada
J Aging Health 11:517-39. 1999..g., actively persisting) and compensatory secondary-control strategies, which involve modifying the self (e.g., expecting less of oneself) was studied... - Gender differences in the relationship between marital status transitions and life satisfaction in later lifeJ G Chipperfield
Health Leisure and Human Performance Research Institute, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 56:P176-86. 2001..Generally, these findings imply that the relationship between marital status transitions or stability differs for men and women... - Discrete emotions in later lifeJudith G Chipperfield
Health, Leisure, and Human Performance Research Institute and Centre on Aging, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 58:P23-34. 2003..Of note, poor health did not undermine positive emotions. These findings provide an optimistic view of emotions in later life, even among individuals who are poor, not well educated, and/or physically unwell... - Reported causal antecedents of discrete emotions in late lifeJudith G Chipperfield
Department of Psychology, University of Manitoba Winnipeg, Canada
Int J Aging Hum Dev 68:215-41. 2009..Overall, this shows the utility of applying Weiner's attributional framework (Weiner, 1985) to an analysis of emotion antecedents in late life... - Differential determinants of men's and women's everyday physical activity in later lifeJudith G Chipperfield
Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, R3T 2N2
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 63:S211-S218. 2008..Our objectives were to examine whether poor health may partly explain why older adults become less physically active with advancing age and whether gender might moderate the extent to which health status predicts EPA... - Perceived control in relation to socioeconomic and behavioral resources for healthD S Bailis
Health, Leisure and Human Performance Research Institute, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Soc Sci Med 52:1661-76. 2001..Health-related behaviors appear not to serve as the primary mechanism through which perceived control influences health... - Self-perceptions of health: a prospective analysis of mortality, control, and healthV H Menec
Manitoba Center for Health Policy and Evaluation, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 54:P85-93. 1999.... - The interactive effect of perceived control and functional status on health and mortality among young-old and old-old adultsV H Menec
Health, Leisure, and Human Performance Research Institute, University of Manitoba, Canada
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 52:P118-26. 1997..These results highlight the usefulness of examining the buffering effects of perceived control in relation to different age groups... - Is a maturational lag associated with left-handedness? A research noteW O Eaton
Department of Psychology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 37:613-7. 1996..Repeated failures to confirm the hypothesis with pre-adolescent samples raise serious doubt about the viability of the left-handed developmental lag hypothesis... - Optimistic social comparisons of older adults low in primary control: a prospective analysis of hospitalization and mortalityDaniel S Bailis
Health, Leisure and Human Performance Research Institute, Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation Studies, Department of Psychology, and Centre on Aging, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Health Psychol 24:393-401. 2005..In later life, optimistic social comparisons may contribute to better health by providing secondary control... 
Age, relative autonomy and change in health locus of control beliefs: a longitudinal study of members of a health-promotion facilityDaniel S Bailis
University of Manitoba, Canada
J Health Psychol 15:326-38. 2010..Lack of autonomy thus appears to permit development of fatalistic attributions that may affect later coping with adverse health events...- Regret in later life: exploring relationships between regret frequency, secondary interpretive control beliefs, and health in older individualsNancy E Newall
Psychology Department, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Int J Aging Hum Dev 68:261-88. 2009..Results suggest that older adults may be experiencing age-related regrets that differ in content from those experienced at younger ages and that certain control beliefs may serve to lessen regret... - Compensating for losses in perceived personal control over health: a role for collective self-esteem in healthy agingDaniel S Bailis
Health, Leisure and Human Performance Research Institute, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 57:P531-9. 2002..CSE may compensate to protect the health of older adults whose perceived personal control over health is low. Secondary control and alternative mechanisms for this protective effect are discussed... - Exploring the commonalities between adaptive resources and self-enhancement in older adults' comparative judgments of physical activityDaniel S Bailis
Department of Psychology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, R3T 2N2
J Aging Health 20:899-919. 2008..Discussion. Self-enhancement of physical activity plays a part in at least two adaptive profiles with implications for older adults' well-being and health... - Two views of self-rated general health statusDaniel S Bailis
Health, Leisure and Human Performance Research Institute, University of Manitoba, 307 Max Bell Centre, Winnioeg, Man, Canada R3T 2N2
Soc Sci Med 56:203-17. 2003.... - A longitudinal analysis of discrete negative emotions and health-services use in elderly individualsNancy A McKeen
Department of Psychiatry, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3E 3P5, Canada
J Aging Health 16:204-27. 2004..To test the hypothesis that everyday, discrete negative emotions-anger, frustration, sadness, and fear-relate to health-service use in later life... - Collective self-esteem and the onset of chronic conditions and reduced activity in a longitudinal study of agingDaniel S Bailis
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Soc Sci Med 66:1817-27. 2008..Higher CSE thus appeared to delay the decline of activity and chronic health that would otherwise accompany age and the absence of perceived control... - Emotional and self-evaluative effects of social comparison information in later life: how are they moderated by collective self-esteem?Daniel S Bailis
Health, Leisure and Human Performance Research Institute, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Psychol Aging 21:291-302. 2006..However, contrast with downward targets presents a viable alternative explanation for this advantage... - Mental health service use among Canadian older adults with anxiety disorders and clinically significant anxiety symptomsTiffany Scott
Department of Psychology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Aging Ment Health 14:790-800. 2010..This study examines the prevalence of mental health service use among older adults with anxiety disorders and clinically significant anxiety symptoms, as well as factors associated with service use... - Health incongruence in later life: implications for subsequent well-being and health careJoelle C Ruthig
Department of Psychology, University of North Dakota, 319 Harvard Street, Grand Forks, ND 58202, USA
Health Psychol 26:753-61. 2007..The premise that pessimistic health appraisals compromise well-being whereas optimistic appraisals are compensatory was examined in a longitudinal study of 232 community-dwelling older adults (ages 79-98 years)... - Comparative risk and perceived control: implications for psychological and physical well-being among older adultsJoelle C Ruthig
Department of Psychology, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND 58202, USA
J Soc Psychol 147:345-69. 2007..These findings suggest that the protective effect of comparative optimism on well-being is limited to older adults who have a strong sense of control...