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Jacqui E. Smith
Funded Research:
HRS Yrs 29-34 (NIA)
Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Research-Bridge Funds (NIA)
Monitoring the Future: A Cohort-Sequential Panel Study of Drug Use, Ages 19-60 (NIDA)
Enhancing Retrospective Life History Data in the Health and Retirement Study (NIA)
Health and Retirement Study Yrs 23-28 (NIA)
The Social and Economic Dynamics of Optimism and Hopelessness over American Adulthood: Evidence from the Americans Changing Lives Study (1986-2011) (Templeton, John)
Extending the Longitudinal Study of American Youth into a Study of Aging (NIA)
Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging (NIA)
Health and Retirement Study Yrs 23-28 (NIA)
Health Literacy and Health Disparities Among the Elderly (NIA)
NICHD Training Faculty, Population Studies Center.
Professor, Psychology.
Research Professor, Survey Research Center.
Research Professor, Research Center for Group Dynamics.
Ph.D., Macquarie University, Australia
Dr. Smith's research deals with the potential and limits of development and change during adulthood and old age. She uses experimental and survey methodologies to investigate age-cohort differences and age-related change in cognitive functioning, self-regulation, and well-being.
Select Publications
Books
Fingerman, Karen L., C.A. Berg, Jacqui E. Smith, and Toni C. Antonucci. 2011. Handbook of lifespan development. New York: Springer.
Lindenberger, Ulman, Jacqui E. Smith, Karl Ulrich Mayer, and Paul B. Baltes. 2010. Die Berliner Alterssstudie. Berlin: Akademie Verlag.
Journal Articles
Mueller, Swantje, Jenny Wagner, Jacqui E. Smith, Manuel C. Voelkle, and Denis Gerstorf. Forthcoming. "The Interplay of Personality and Functional Health in Old and Very Old Age: Dynamic Within-Person Interrelations Across up to 13 Years." Journal of personality and social psychology. DOI. Abstract.
Chopik, William J., Eric S. Kim, and Jacqui E. Smith. Forthcoming. "An Examination of Dyadic Changes in Optimism and Physical Health Over Time." Health psychology. DOI. Abstract.
Queen, Tara L., Jonathan Butner, Cynthia A. Berg, and Jacqui E. Smith. Forthcoming. "Activity Engagement Among Older Adult Spousal Caregivers." Journals of Gerontology, Series B. DOI. Abstract.
Park, Sojung, Jacqui E. Smith, Ruth E. Dunkle, Berit Ingersoll-Dayton, and Toni C. Antonucci. Forthcoming. "Health and Social-Physical Environment Profiles Among Older Adults Living Alone: Associations With Depressive Symptoms." Journals of Gerontology, Series B. DOI. Abstract.
Drewelies, Johanna, William J. Chopik, Christiane A. Hoppmann, Jacqui E. Smith, and Denis Gerstorf. Forthcoming. "Linked Lives: Dyadic Associations of Mastery Beliefs With Health (Behavior) and Health (Behavior) Change Among Older Partners." The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences. DOI. Abstract.