Jason C AllaireSummaryAffiliation: Pennsylvania State University Country: USA Publications
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Well- and ill-defined measures of everyday cognition: relationship to older adults' intellectual ability and functional statusJason C Allaire
Institute of Gerontology and Department of Psychology, Wayne State University, USA
Psychol Aging 17:101-15. 2002..Discussion focuses on the differential importance of both methods for assessing older adults' everyday cognitive functioning...
Relationships among health factors and everyday problem solving in african americansKeith E Whitfield
Department of Biobehavioral Health, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16803, USA
Health Psychol 23:641-4. 2004..The results indicate that health indices contribute to the variability in everyday cognition in this understudied population...
Everyday cognition and mortality: performance differences and predictive utility of the Everyday Cognition BatterySarah R Weatherbee
Department of Psychology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695 7801, USA
Psychol Aging 23:216-21. 2008..Additionally, performance on the ECB Knowledge Test was a significant predictor of death even after controlling for basic cognitive abilities, demographics, and self-rated health...
Intraindividual variability may not always indicate vulnerability in elders' cognitive performanceJason C Allaire
Department of Psychology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695 7801, USA
Psychol Aging 20:390-401. 2005..The authors argue that both adaptive (practice-related) and maladaptive (inconsistency-related) intraindividual variability may exist within the same individuals over time...
Verbal learning and everyday functioning in dementia: an application of latent variable growth curve modelingBenjamin T Mast
Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292, USA
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 61:P167-73. 2006..Rate of verbal learning over trials was a significant predictor of everyday functioning (instrumental activities of daily living) above and beyond general cognitive impairment and demographics...
Protective and vulnerability factors for physically abused children: effects of ethnicity and parenting contextMary E Haskett
Department of Psychology, Box 7650, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA
Child Abuse Negl 32:567-76. 2008....
Examining the association between lung functioning and cognitive performance in African American adultsJason C Allaire
North Carolina State University, USA
J Aging Health 19:106-22. 2007..Biobehavioral assessments such as the one presented here appear to provide important new insights into the sources of individual differences in cognition observed in this understudied population...
Competence in everyday activities as a predictor of cognitive risk and mortalityJason C Allaire
Department of Psychology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695 7801, USA
Neuropsychol Dev Cogn B Aging Neuropsychol Cogn 13:207-24. 2006..Given the clinical importance of identifying "at risk" elders for impairment, the findings from this study provide initial evidence for the predictive utility of performance-based measures of everyday functioning...
Factor structure and validity of the parenting stress index-short formMary E Haskett
Department of Psychology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA
J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 35:302-12. 2006..PSI-SF scores were related to parent reports of child behavior 1 year later, and the Childrearing Stress subscale was a significant predictor of a parental history of abuse...
Cardiovascular intraindividual variability in later life: the influence of social connectedness and positive emotionsAnthony D Ong
Department of Psychology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA
Psychol Aging 20:476-85. 2005....
A growth curve model of learning acquisition among cognitively normal older adultsRichard N Jones
Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for Aged, Research and Training Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02131, USA
Exp Aging Res 31:291-312. 2005..These results suggest that failing to recognize initial recall and learning as distinct constructs clouds the interpretation of supraspan memory tasks...
Change in cognitive capabilities in the oldest old: the effects of proximity to death in genetically related individuals over a 6-year periodBoo Johansson
Department of Psychology, University of Goteborg, Goteborg, Sweden
Psychol Aging 19:145-56. 2004..These findings highlight several challenges for estimating genetic sources of variance in the context of compromised health and mortality-related change...
Are comparisons the answer to understanding behavioral aspects of aging in racial and ethnic groups?Keith E Whitfield
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, 9 Flowers Drive, P O Box 90085, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 63:P301-8. 2008..Our goal is to encourage the use of multiple methodological designs in the study of issues related to racial and ethnic minorities by demonstrating some of the advantages of lesser employed approaches...
