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Creator:: Mejía, Shannon T.
Abstract:: Adult development and social experiences are intertwined, which has implications for social policy, health, and well-being across the lifespan. This dissertation explores the benefit and risk that close social partners bring to adults' lives, and the efficacy and consequences of engaging social resources to maintain well-being in the face of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ Karen A. Hooker Adult development and social experiences are intertwined, which has

Creator:: Mejía, Shannon T.
Abstract:: The social aspects of older adults lives are strongly linked to well-being outcomes. Social relationships in older adulthood are rewarding, but also complex, and to maintain a positive social environment, older adults must reconcile long relationships histories, negotiate changing roles, and deal with increasing dependencies. Older adults are known to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Adults’ Daily Lives Abstract approved: Karen A. Hooker The social aspects of

Creator:: Mejía, Shannon T. and Hooker, Karen
Abstract:: The goal for this study was to examine within-person processes driving individual development related to social goals. We examined how social regulatory processes travel together over time to understand if daily social goal progress is sensitive to variation in experiences of support and hindrance, and the extent to which maintenance...
Resource Type:: Article
Full Text:: Regulatory Processes in Later Life: A Web-Based Microlongitudinal Study Shannon T. Mejía and Karen Hooker

Creator:: Mejía, Shannon T. and Hooker, Karen
Abstract:: Close social partners may contribute to or detract from older adults’ health and well-being, in part because daily emotions are closely coupled to the quality of daily social interactions. This study examines variation in this sensitivity to interactions with social partners across the contexts of emotional closeness, interactions with others,...
Resource Type:: Article
Full Text:: Social Partners: Daily Variation in Social Context Matters Shannon T. Mejía and Karen Hooker Oregon

Creator:: Hooker, Karen, Choun, Soyoung, Mejía, Shannon T., Pham, Tuan, and Metoyer, Ron
Abstract:: Personality traits and daily self-regulation of health goals, social goals, and perceived stress were examined over 100 days to better understand how traits may influence self-regulation. This study was conducted with a sample of 99 older adults via web-based surveys. Results showed that, as predicted, traits of neuroticism, conscientiousness, and...
Resource Type:: Article
Full Text:: Personality Traits, Self-Regulation, and Stress in Older Adults Karen Hooker, Ph.D., Soyoung Choun

Creator:: Allen, Pamela M., Mejía, Shannon T., and Hooker, Karen
Abstract:: Age based self-stereotyping is associated with a variety of long-term physical health and psychological well-being outcomes for older people. However, little is known about how older individuals’ day-to-day experiences of functional limitations may be related to concurrent self-appraisals on dimensions representing negative age stereotypes. We examined how distal personality traits...
Resource Type:: Article
Full Text:: Author Note Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Karen Hooker, School of

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