Resources for Methods Research in Aging

BOOKS

Jamieson, A. & Victor, C.R. (2002). Researching ageing and later life. Philadelphia: Open University Press.

Lawton, M.P. & Herzog, A. R. (Eds.). (1989). Special research methods for gerontology. Amityville: Baywood Publishing Company, Inc.

Light, L. & Hertzog, C. (Eds.). (2003). Applied longitudinal methods in aging research [Special Issue]. Psychology and Aging, 18(4).

Schaie, K.W. et al. (1988). Methodological issues in aging research. New York: Springer, c1988.

Sinnott, J.D., Harris, C.S., Block, M.R., Collesano, S., & Jacobson, S.G. (1983). Applied research in aging: A guide to methods and resources. Boston: Little, Brown and Company.

CHAPTERS

Alwin, D.F & Campbell, R.T. (2001). Quantitative approaches: Longitudinal methods in the study of human development and aging. In R.H. Binstock (Ed.). Handbook of aging and the social sciences (5th ed.). (pp. 22-43). San Diego: Academic Press.

Birren, J.E. & Schaie, K.W. (Eds.). (2001). Handbook of the psychology of aging (5^th ed.). (chapters 2, 3, 4, 7). San Diego: Academic Press.

Rudinger, G. & Reitz, C. (2001). Structural equation modeling in longitudinal research on aging. In J.E. Birren (Ed.), Handbook of the psychology of aging (5^th ed.).(pp. 29-52). SanDiego: Academic Press.

Salthouse, T.A. (2000). Methodological assumptions in cognitive aging research. In F. Craik and T.A. Salthouse (Eds). The handbook of aging and cognition (2nd ed.). (pp. 467-498). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Siegler, I.C., Nowlin, J.B., & Blumenthal, J.A. (1980). Health and behavior: Methodological considerations for adult development and aging. In L.W. Poon (Ed.), Aging in the 1980s: Psychological issues (pp. 599-612). Washington: American Psychological Association.

Yu, B.P. (1999). Methods in aging research. (chapters 1-3). Boca Raton: CRC Press.

ARTICLES

Anstey, K. (2002). The interpretation of shared age-related variance among factors in cross-sectional cognitive aging studies. Gerontology, 48, 2-4.

Christensen, H., Mackinnon, A., Jorm, A.F; Korten, A., Jacomb, P., Hofer, S.M, & Henderson, S. (2004). The Canberra longitudinal study: Design, aims, methodology, outcomes and recent empirical investigations. Aging, Neuropsychology, & Cognition, 11(2-3), 169-195.

Hertzog, C. (2003). Introduction to the special section on applied longitudinal methods in aging research. Psychology and Aging, 18, 637 – 638.

Hertzog, C. & Nesselroade, J.R. (2003). Assessing psychological change in adulthood: An overview of methodological issues. Psychology and Aging, 18, 639 – 657.

Hofer, S.M; Sliwinski, M.J & Flaherty, B.P. (2002). Understanding ageing: Further commentary on the limitations of cross-sectional designs for ageing research. Gerontology, 48, 22-29.

Levison, W.H. (1981). A methodology for quantifying the effects of aging on perceptual-motor capability. Human Factors, 23, 87-96.

McArdle, J.J. & Prescott, C.A. (1992). Age-based construct validation using structural equation modeling. Experimental Aging Research, 18, 87-115.

Munley, P.H, Anderson, M.Z, Briggs, D., DeVries, M.R., Forshee, W.J., & Whisner, E.A. (1991). Methodological diversity of research published in selected psychological journals in 1999. Psychological Reports, 91, 411-420.

Nessleroade, J.R. (2004). Intraindividual variability and short-term change. Gerontology, 50(1), 44-48.

Newman, J.P., Klein, M., Jensen, J.E., & Essex, M.J. (1996). Depressive symptom experiences among older women: A comparison of alternative measurement approaches. Psychology and Aging, 11, 112-126.

Newsom, J.T., Prigerson, H.G, Schulz, R., & Reynolds, C.F. III. (2003). Investigating moderator hypotheses in aging research: Statistical methodological, and conceptual difficulties with comparing separate regressions. International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 57, 119-150.

Raykov, T., Tomer, A., & Nessleroade, J.R. (1991). Reporting structural equation modeling results in psychology and aging: Some proposed guidelines. Psychology and Aging, 6, 499-503.

Salthouse, T.A & Ferrer-Caja, E. (2003). What needs to be explained to account for age-related effects on multiple cognitive variables? Psychology & Aging, 18, 91-110.

Teresi, J.A. (2001). Statistical methods for examination of differential item functioning (DIF) with applications to cross-cultural measurement of functional, physical and mental health. Journal of Mental Health & Aging, 7, 31-40.

Whitfield, K.E. (1994). The use of quantitaive genetic methodology to gain insights into the origins of individual differences in later life. Experimental Aging Research, 20, 135-143.