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Jacqui E. Smith
Funded Research:
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)
A Web-Based Survey of Daily Experienced Well-Being in Older Couples (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)
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.
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Journal Articles
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.
Newton, Nicky J., Jana Pladevall-Guyer, Richard Gonzalez, and Jacqui E. Smith. Forthcoming. "Activity Engagement and Activity-Related Experiences: The Role of Personality." The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences. DOI. Abstract.
Mejía, Shannon T., Lindsay H. Ryan, Richard Gonzalez, and Jacqui E. Smith. 2017. "Successful Aging as the Intersection of Individual Resources, Age, Environment, and Experiences of Well-being in Daily Activities." Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 72(2): 279-289. DOI. Abstract.
Lee, Sunghee, and Jacqui E. Smith. 2016. "Methodological Aspects of Subjective Life Expectancy: Effects of Culture-Specific Reporting Heterogeneity Among Older Adults in the United States." The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 71(3): 558-568. DOI. Abstract.
Kim, Eric S., William J. Chopik, and Jacqui E. Smith. 2014. "Are people healthier if their partners are more optimistic? The dyadic effect of optimism on health among older adults." Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 76(6): 447-453. DOI. Abstract.
Newton, N., L. Ryan, R. King, and Jacqui E. Smith. 2014. "Cohort differences in the marriage-health relationship for midlife women." Social Science and Medicine, 116: 64-72. DOI. Abstract.
Kim, E., N. Park, J. Sun, Jacqui E. Smith, and C. Peterson. 2014. "Life Satisfaction and Frequency of Doctor Visits." Psychosomatic Medicine, 76(1): 86-93. DOI. Abstract.