Publications by authors named "D A Witzel"
Objectives: Most studies examining age differences in coping across adulthood come from cross-sectional studies and focus on the broader categories of problem- and emotion-focused coping. We aimed to establish a factor structure for coping items used in a national, longitudinal study of aging (MIDUS) and examine age patterns in coping strategies over 10 years.
Method: We performed exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, and factorial invariance testing.
Objectives: Loneliness is associated with maladaptive cognitions, yet little is known about the association between loneliness and intrusive thinking during older adulthood. Links between loneliness and intrusive thoughts may be particularly strong among individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), who may have greater difficulty regulating emotion and intrusive thoughts. In contrast, having close relationships (e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Daily noteworthy events have implications for physical and mental health, but less is known about the role daily events have for self-reported cognition and whether the involvement of close social partners differentiates these associations. The current study examined how daily positive and negative noteworthy events relate to subjective memory and attentional difficulties and whether close social partners moderated associations.
Method: We used data from a 100-day microlongitudinal web-based study of 104 older adults (N=7,051; =63.
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- Perceived discrimination can impact cognitive health, specifically working memory, among different racial groups, and the relationship may be influenced by depressive symptoms.
- A study examined older Black and White adults, finding that while discrimination did not affect working memory directly for either group, it was linked to increased depressive symptoms among Black adults, leading to more working memory errors.
- The findings suggest that understanding how discrimination affects cognitive health requires exploring the role of depressive symptoms, especially in Black adults, and calls for further research in this area to address cognitive health disparities.
Objective: The current study examined how average daily loneliness (between-persons [BPs]), intraindividual variability in loneliness across days (within-persons [WPs]), and loneliness stability informed physical health symptomatology.
Method: We utilized daily diary data from a national sample of 1,538 middle-aged adults ( = 51.02; 57.