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BooksCarr, Deborah, Amu Pemmarazu, and Dorothy P. Rice. 1996. Improving Data on America's Aging Population: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press Publication |
Book ChaptersPiliavin, Jane A. 2007 (In Press) "Long-Term Benefits of Habitual Helping: Doing well by doing good." in Cooperation: The Political Psychology of Effective Human Interaction, edited by B. A. Sullivan, M. Snyder, and J. L. Sullivan. Malden, MA: Wiley Publication |
| Piliavin, Jane A. 2005. "Feeling Good by Doing Good: Health Consequences of Social Service." Pp. 29-50 in Processes of Community Change and Social Action, edited by A. M. Omoto. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publication |
| Ryff, Carol D. and Burton H. Singer. 2003. "The Role of Emotion on Pathways to Positive Health." Pp. 1083-1104 in Handbook of Affective Science, edited by R. J. Davidson, H. H. Goldsmith, and K. R. Scherer. New York:: Oxford University Press Publication |
| Piliavin, Jane A. 2003. "Doing Well by Doing Good: Benefits for the Benefactor." Pp. 227-247 in Flourishing: Positive Psychology and the Life Well Lived, edited by C. L. M. Keyes and J. Haidt. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association Publication |
| Carr, Deborah. 2002. "Socioeconomic Background and Midlife Health in the United States." Pp. 155-183 in Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Volume 22: Economic Outcomes in Later Life: Public Policy, Health, and Cumulative Advantage, edited by S. Crystal and D. Shea. New York: Springer Publication |
| Ryff, Carol D., Burton H. Singer, Edgar Wing, and Gayle Dienberg Love. 2001. "Elective Affinities and Uninvited Agonies: Mapping Emotion with Significant Others onto Health." Pp. 133-188 in Emotion, Social Relationships, and Health, edited by C. D. Ryff and B. H. Singer. New York: Oxford University Press Publication |
| Ryff, Carol D., William J. Magee, K. C. Kling, and E. H. Wing. 1999. "Forging Macro-Microlinkages in the Study of Psychological Well-Being." Pp. 247-278 in The Self and Society in Aging Processes, edited by C. D. Ryff and V. W. Marshall. New York: Springer Publication |
| Singer, Burton and Carol D. Ryff. 1999. "Hierarchies of Life Histories and Associated Health Risks." Pp. 96-155 in Socioeconomic Status and Health in Industrialized Nations, vol. 896, edited by N. E. Adler, M. Marmot, B. S. McEwen, and J. Stewart. New York PMCID: 10681891 Publication |
| Ryff, Carol D. and Burton Singer. 1998. "The Role of Purpose in Life and Personal Growth in Positive Human Health." Pp. 213-235 in Human Quest for Meaning: a Handbook of Psychological Research and Clinical Applications, edited by P. T. P. Wong and P. S. Fry. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Earlbaum Associates Publication |
| Ryff, Carol D. and Burton Singer. 1998. "Middle Age and Well-Being." Pp. 707-719 in Encyclopedia of Mental Health, vol. 2, edited by H. S. Friedman. San Diego, CA:: Academic Press Publication |
| Ryff, Carol D., Burton Singer, Gayle D. Love, and M. J. Essex. 1998. "Resilience in Adulthood and Later Life: Defining Features and Dynamic Processes." Pp. 69-96 in Handbook of Aging and Mental Health: An Integrative Approach, edited by J. Lomranz. New York:: Plenum Press Publication |
| Singer, Burton, Carol D. Ryff, Deborah S. Carr, and William J. Magee. 1998. "Linking Life Histories and Mental Health: A Person-Centered Strategy." Pp. 1-51 in Sociological Methodology 1998, vol. 28, edited by A. E. Raftery. Washington, D.C.: American Sociological Association Publication |
| Ryff, Carol D. 1998. "Positive Mental Health." Pp. 183-188 in Behavioral Medicine & Women: a Comprehensive Handbook edited by E. A. Blechman and K. D. Brownell. New York: Guilford Publications Publication |
| Singer, Burton and Carol D. Ryff. 1997. "Racial and Ethnic Inequalities in Health: Environmental, Psychosocial, and Physiological Pathways." Pp. 89-122 in Intelligence, Genes, and Success: Scientists Respond to "The Bell Curve", edited by S. E. Fienberg, B. Devlin, D. P. Resnick, and K. Roeder. New York: Springer-Verlag Publication |
| Hauser, Robert M. and Megan M. Sweeney. 1997. "Does Poverty in Adolescence Affect the Life Chances of High School Graduates?" Pp. 541-595 in Consequences of Growing Up Poor, edited by G. Duncan and J. Brooks-Gunn. New York: Russell Sage Foundation Publication |
| Marks, Nadine F. 1996. "Socioeconomic Status, Gender, and Health at Midlife: Evidence from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study." Pp. 135-52 in Research in the Sociology of Health Care, vol. 13, edited by J. J. Kronenfeld. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press Publication |
Journal ArticlesBrand, Jennie E., John R. Warren, Pascale Carayon, and Peter Hoonakker. 2007. "Do Job Characteristics Mediate the Relationship Between SES and Health?: Evidence from Sibling Models." Social Science Research 36:222-253 Publication |
| Springer, Kristen W., Jennifer Sheridan, Daphne Kuo, and Molly Carnes. 2007. "Long-Term Physical and Mental Health Consequences of Childhood Physical Abuse: Results from a Large Population-Based Sample of Men and Women." Child Abuse and Neglect 31:517-530 PMCID: 17532465 Publication |
| Freese, Jeremy, Sheri Meland, and William Irwin. 2006. "Expressions of Positive Emotion in Photographs, Personality, and Later-Life Marital and Health Outcomes." Journal of Research in Personality 41:488-497 Publication |
| Flynn, Kathryn E., Maureen A. Smith, and David Vanness. 2006. "A Typology of Preferences for Participation in Healthcare Decision Making." Social Science and Medicine 63:1158-1169 PMCID: 1637042 Publication |
| Springer, Kristen W. and Robert M. Hauser. 2006. "An Assessment of the Construct Validity of Ryff's Scales of Psychological Well-Being: Method, Mode, and Measurement Effects." Social Science Research 35:1119-1130 Publication |
| Flynn, Kathryn E., Maureen A. Smith, and Jeremy Freese. 2006. "When Do Older Adults Turn to the Internet for Health Information?: Findings from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study." Journal of General Internal Medicine 21:1295-1301 PMCID: 16995892 Publication |
| Springer, Kristen W., Robert M. Hauser, and Jeremy Freese. 2006. "Bad News Indeed for Ryff's Six-Factor Model of Well-Being." Social Science Research 35:1079-1101 Publication |
| Ryff, Carol D. and Burton H. Singer. 2005. "Social Environments and the Genetics of Aging: Advancing Knowledge of Protective Health Mechanisms." The Journals of Gerontology Serise B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 60B:12-23 PMCID: 15863706 Publication |
| Urry, Heather L., Jack B. Nitschke, Isa Dolski, Daren C. Jackson, Kim M. Dalton, Corrina J. Mueller, Melissa A. Rosenkranz, Carol D. Ryff, Burton H. Singer, and Richard J. Davidson. 2004. "Making a Life Worth Living: Neural Correlates of Well-Being." Psychological Science 15:367-372 PMCID: 15147488 Publication |
| Warren, John R., Peter Hoonakker, Pascale Carayon, and Jennie Brand. 2004. "Job Characteristics as Mediators in SES-Health Relationships." Social Science and Medicine 59:1367-1378 PMCID: 15246167 Publication |
| Jackson, Daren C., Corrina J. Mueller, Isa Dolski, Kim M. Dalton, Jack B. Nitschke, Heather L. Urry, Milissa A. Rosenkranz, Carol D. Ryff, Burton H. Singer, and Richard J. Davidson. 2003. "Now You Feel It, Now You Don't: Frontal EEG Asymmetry and Individual Differences in Emotion Regulation." Psychological Science 14:612-617 Publication |
| Krahn, Dean, Jeremy Freese, Robert Hauser, Kristen Barry, and Brian Goldman. 2003. "Alcohol Use and Cognition at Mid-Life: The Importance of Adjusting for Baseline Cognitive Abilitiy and Educational Attainment." Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research 27:1162-1166 PMCID: 12878923 Publication |
| Springer, Kristen W., Jennifer Sheridan, Daphne Kuo, and Molly Carnes. 2003. "The Long-term Health Outcomes of Childhood Abuse: An Overview and a Call to Action." Journal of General Internal Medicine 18:864-870 Publication |
| Rosenkranz, M. A., D. C. Jackson, K. M. Dalton, I. Dolski, C. D. Ryff, B. H. Singer, D. Muller, N. H. Kalin, and R. J. Davidson. 2003. "Affective style and in vivo immune response: Neurobehavioral mechanisms." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 100:11148-11152 Publication |
| Warren, John Robert and Hsiang-Hui Kuo. 2003. "How to Measure "What People do for a Living" in Research on the Socioeconomic Correlates of Health." Annals of Epidemiology 13:325-334 Publication |
| Seeman, Teresa E., Burton H. Singer, Carol D. Ryff, Gayle D. Love, and Lene Levy-Storms. 2002. "Social Relationships, Gender, and Allostatic Load Across Two Age Cohorts." Psychosomatic Medicine 64:395-406 Publication |
| Miech, Richard A. and Robert M. Hauser. 2001. "Socioeconomic Status (SES) and Health at Midlife: A Comparison of Educational Attainment with Occupation-Based Indicators." Annals of Epidemiology 11:75-84 Publication |
| Ryff, Carol D. and Burton Singer. 2000. "Interpersonal Flourishing: A Positive Health Agenda for the New Millennium." Personality and Social Psychology Review 4:30-44 Publication |
| Marks, Nadine F. and James David Lambert. 1998. "Marital Status Continuity and Change Among Young and Midlife Adults: Longitudinal Effects on Psychological Well-Being." Journal of Family Issues 19:652-686 Publication |
| Ryff, Carol D. and Burton Singer. 1998. "Human Health: New Directions for the Next Millennium." Psychological Inquiry 9:69-85 Publication |
| Ryff, Carol D. and Burton Singer. 1998. "The Contours of Positive Human Health." Psychological Inquiry 9:1-28 Publication |
| Shinberg, Diane S. 1998. "An Event History Analysis of Age at Last Menstrual Period: Correlates of Natural and Surgical Menopause Among Midlife Wisconsin Women." Social Science and Medicine 46:1381-1396 Publication |
| Marks, Nadine F. 1998. "Does It Hurt to Care? Caregiving, Work-Family Conflict, and Midlife Well-Being." Journal of Marriage and the Family 60:951-966 Publication |
| Marks, Nadine F. and Diane S. Shinberg. 1998. "Socioeconomic Status Differences in Hormone Therapy." American Journal of Epidemiology 148:581-593 Publication |
| Marks, Nadine F. and Diane S. Shinberg. 1997. "Socioeconomic Differences in Hysterectomy: The Wisconsin Longitudinal Study." American Journal of Public Health 87:1507-1514 Publication |
| Carr, Deborah. 1997. "The Fulfillment of Career Dreams at Midlife: Does It Matter for Women's Mental Health?" Journal of Health and Social Behavior 38:331-344 PMCID: 9425778 Publication |
| Marmot, Michael G., Carol D. Ryff, Larry L. Bumpass, Martin Shipley, and Nadine F. Marks. 1997. "Social Inequalities in Health: Next Questions and Converging Evidence." Social Science and Medicine 44:901-910 Publication |
| Kuo, Hsiang-Hui Daphne and Robert M. Hauser. 1997. "How Does Size of Sibship Matter? Family Configuration and Family Effects on Educational Attainment." Social Science Research 26:69-94 Publication |
| Ryff, Carol D. and Burton Singer. 1996. "Psychological Well-Being: Meaning, Measurement, and Implications for Psychotherapy Research." Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 65:14-23 Publication |
| Marks, Nadine F. 1996. "Flying Solo at Midlife: Gender, Marital Status, and Psychological Well-Being." Journal of Marriage and the Family 58:917-932 Publication |
| Sorensen, Annemette. 1983. "Women's Employment Patterns After Marriage." Journal of Marriage and Family 45:311-322 Publication |
Working PapersDeLamater, John, Janet S. Hyde, and Mei-Chia Fong. 2006. "Sexual Behavior at Ages 62 to 67: A Biopsychosocial Approach." CDE Working Paper No. 2006-08, Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI. Publication |
| Reither, Eric N., Robert M. Hauser, and Karen C. Swallen. 2006. "Looks That Kill: Predicting Adult Health and Mortality from Adolescent Facial Characteristics in Yearbook Photographs." CDE Working Paper 2006-11, Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI. Publication |
| Brand, Jennie E., John Robert Warren, Pascale Carayon, and Peter Hoonakker. 2005. "Sibling Models of the Role of Job Characteristics in Mediating SES-Health Relationships." MPC Working Paper No. 2005-06, Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN. Publication |
| Springer, Kristen W. 2004. "Childhood Physical Abuse as a Fundamental Social Cause of Mid-Life Physical Health: Testing a Multi-Pathway Life Course Model." CDE Working Paper No. 2004-26, Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI. Publication |
| Hale, Lauren. 2004. "Life Experiences, Strength of Emotional Response, and Sex-specific Mortality Risk Zones." OPR Working Paper 2004-1, Office of Popuation Research, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. Publication |
| Goldman, Noreen, Maxine Weinstein, Jennifer Cornman, Burton Singer, Teresa Seeman, and Ming-Cheng Chang. 2003. "Sex Differentials in Biological Risk Factors for Chronic Disease: Estimates from Population-based Surveys." OPR Working Paper No. 2003-03, Office of Population Research, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. Publication |
| Springer, Kristen W. and Robert M. Hauser. 2002. "Survey Measurement of Psychological Well-Being." CDE Working Paper No. 2002-09, Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI. Publication |
| MacLean, Alair and Robert M. Hauser. 2001. "Measuring Depression among Adult Siblings." CDE Working Paper No. 2001-07, Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI. Publication |
| Kuo, Hsiang-Hui Daphne and Jonathan D. Mayer. 2001. "Gender, Early Life Circumstances, and Smoking." CDE Working Paper No. 2001-08, Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI. Publication |
| MacLean, Alair and Robert M. Hauser. 2000. "Socioeconomic Status and Depression among Adult Siblings." CDE Working Paper No. 2000-04, Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI. Publication |
| Miech, Richard A. and Robert M. Hauser. 1998. "Social Class Indicators and Health at Midlife." CDE Working Paper No. 98-06, Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI. Publication |
| Marks, Nadine F. and Diane S. Shinberg. 1997. "Socioeconomic Status Difference in Hormone Therapy: Prevention or Patriarchy?" CDE Working Paper No. 97-02, Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI. Publication |
| Shinberg, Diane S. 1995. "An Event History Analysis of Age at Last Menstrual Period: Correlates of Natural and Surgical Menopause Among Midlife Wisconsin Women." CDE Working Paper No. 95-18, Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI. Publication |
| Marks, Nadine. 1995. "Does it Hurt to Care? Caregiving, Work and Family Conflict, and Midlife Well-Being." CDE Working Paper No. 95-02, Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI. Publication |
| Hauser, Robert M. and Deborah Carr. 1994. "Measuring Poverty and Socioeconomic Status in Studies of Health and Well-Being." CDE Working Paper No. 94-24, Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI. Publication |
| Marks, Nadine F. 1994. "Socioeconomic Status, Gender, and Health at Midlife: New Evidence from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study." CDE Working Paper No. 94-02, Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI. Publication |
| Marks, Nadine F. 1994. "Measurement of Health Outcomes and Antecedents in Whitehall II, the National Survey of Families and Households, and the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study." CDE Working Paper No. 93-16, Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI. Publication |
ReportsHyde, Janet Shibley and Joy K. Rice. 2006. "Report of the Task Force on Women and Depression in Wisconsin." Publication |
Master's ThesesRainwater, Elizabeth D. 2005. "Access or Ability: What's Behind the Relationship Between Early Socioeconomic Status and Adult Mortality." Master's Thesis, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin. Publication |
| Shinberg, Diane S. 1996. "An Event History Analysis of Age at Last Menstrual Period: Correlates of Natural and Surgical Menopause Among Midlife Wisconsin Women." Master's Thesis, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin. Publication |
| Thompson-Colon, Theresa. 1995. "Women's and Men's Mental Health at Midlife: The Link Between Family and Work." Master's Thesis, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin. Publication |
Doctoral DissertationsReither, Eric. 2005. "Why Are Our Waistlines Expanding? Age-Period-Cohort Analyses of the Obesity Epidemic and a Critical Examination of Mass Preparation Theory." Doctoral Thesis, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin. Publication |
| Rogers, Catherine H. 2005. "The Effect of the Death of a Child on Midlife Mental and Physical Health: An Exploration of Risk and Resiliance Factors." Doctoral Thesis, Department of Psychology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia. Publication |
| Shinberg, Diane S. 2001. "Sex and Sickness: Gender and Socioeconomic Inequalities in Adult Health." Doctoral Thesis, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin. Publication |
| Peikes, Deborah N. 2000. "Psycho-Social Determinants of Midlife Health: A Person-Centered Approach." Doctoral Thesis, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey. Publication |
| Carr, Deborah. 1997. "The Fulfillment of Career Goals Over the Life Course and Midlife Mental Health." Doctoral Thesis, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin. Publication |