JOURNaL OF GERONTOLOGY: PSYchOLOGIcaL ScIENcES

Theory, explanation, and a third generation of theoretical development in social gerontology.

Efforts at cumulative knowledge building in social gerontology have been lax, judging from research articles published in journals between 1990 and 1994. Too little attention has been paid to the cumulative development of theory; readers are left with many empirical generalizations but underdeveloped explanations by which to interpret findings and build upon them in subsequent research. To assi...

A half century of longitudinal methods in social gerontology: evidence of change in the journal.

OBJECTIVES With a focus on the use of longitudinal data, this study reviews trends in the quantitative analysis of social science data on aging during the past half century. METHODS A content analysis was performed on 227 articles from 12 volumes that were systematically sampled from the Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences to examine change in the type of data and quantitative methods use...

JOURNaL OF GERONTOLOGy: PSyCHOLOGICaL SCIENCES

Media Portrayals and Health Inequalities: A Case Study of Characterizations of Gene × Environment Interactions.

Enriching the tapestry: expanding the scope of life course concepts.