https://sarajweston.com/tags/aging/Recent content in Aging on Sara WestonHugoen-usSat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://sarajweston.com/publication/graham-coordinated-2022/Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://sarajweston.com/publication/graham-coordinated-2022/A guide to coordinated data analysis, in which the same preregistered models are run in many separate datasets and then summarized, written for researchers in lifespan development and aging.https://sarajweston.com/publication/mroczek-data-2022/Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://sarajweston.com/publication/mroczek-data-2022/Public longitudinal datasets are a gift to aging research, but heavy reuse of a few of them can make the literature look more independent and more certain than it is. We describe three problems and a set of solutions.https://sarajweston.com/publication/wright-prospective-2022/Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://sarajweston.com/publication/wright-prospective-2022/In older adults from St. Louis, personality reported by the participant and by someone who knows them well were each associated with later inflammation. Both were linked to later physical health through inflammation and through health behaviors.https://sarajweston.com/publication/graham-trajectories-2020/Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://sarajweston.com/publication/graham-trajectories-2020/We fit the same growth models to 16 longitudinal samples of mostly midlife and older adults and combined the results. Extraversion, openness, and conscientiousness declined slightly on average, and neuroticism showed a U-shaped pattern.https://sarajweston.com/publication/hill-evaluating-2019/Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://sarajweston.com/publication/hill-evaluating-2019/Using three waves of Health and Retirement Study data spanning eight years, we found that sense of purpose declined on average and that the purpose scale did not work the same way for working and retired adults.https://sarajweston.com/publication/hill-co-development-2018/Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://sarajweston.com/publication/hill-co-development-2018/Using data from more than 20,000 older adults in the Health and Retirement Study, we examined how perceived support from children, family, friends, and spouses goes along with Big Five personality traits and with changes in those traits over time.https://sarajweston.com/publication/hill-connecting-2014/Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://sarajweston.com/publication/hill-connecting-2014/We asked whether the social environment predicts which health conditions people develop over the next four years. More positive and less negative support was associated with lower risk for most conditions, but no social measure worked for all of them.