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Almeida, D. M. (2004) Using daily diaries to assess temporal friction between work and family.

Almeida, D. M. (2005) Resilience and vulnerability to daily stressors assessed via diary methods.

Almeida, D. M., & Horn, M. C. (2004) Is daily life more stressful during middle adulthood?

Almeida, D. M., McDonald, D. A., Havens, J., & Schervish, P. (2001) Temporal patterns in social responsibility.

Almeida, D. M., Neupert, S. D., Banks, S. R., & Serido, J. (2005) Do daily stress processes account for socioeconomic health disparities.

Almeida, D. M., Wethington, E., & Kessler, R. C. (2002) The daily inventory of stressful events (DISE): An interview-based approach for measuring daily stressors.

Almeida, D. M., Wethington, E., & McDonald, D. A. (2001) Daily variation in paternal engagement and negative mood: Implications for emotionally supportive and conflictual interactions.

Andreoletti, C., Zebrowitz, L. A., & Lachman, M. E. (2001) Physical appearance and control beliefs in young, middle-aged, and older adults.

Andreyeva, T., Puhl, R.M., Brownell, K.D. (2008) Changes in perceived weight discrimination among Americans, 1995-1996 through 2004-2006.

Ayanian, J. Z., & Cleary, P. D. (1999) Perceived risks of heart disease and cancer among cigarette smokers.


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Barger, S. D. (2006) Do psychological characteristics explain socioeconomic stratification of self-rated health?

Barger, S. D., & Sydeman, S. J. (2005) Does generalized anxiety disorder predict coronary heart disease risk factors independently of major depressive disorder?

Barrett, A. E. (2003) Socioeconomic status and age identity: The role of dimensions of health in the subjective construction of age.

Barrett, A. E. (2005) Gendered experiences in midlife: Implications for age identity.

Bierman, A. (2005) The effects of childhood maltreatment on adult religiosity and spirituality: Rejecting God the Father because of abusive fathers?

Bierman, A., Fazio, E., Milkie, M. (2006) A multifaceted approach to the mental health advantage of the married: Assessing how explanations vary by outcome measure and unmarried group

Birditt, K. S., Fingerman, K. L., & Almeida, D. M. (2005) Age differences in exposure and reactions to interpersonal tensions: A daily diary study.

Boardman, J.D., Blalock, C.L., & Button, T.M. (2007) Sex differences in the heritability of resilience.

Bookwala, J. (2005) The role of marital quality in physical health during the mature years.

Brim, O. G., Ryff, C. D., & Kessler, R. C. (2004) The MIDUS national survey: An overview.

Bures, R. M. (2003) Childhood residential stability and health at midlife.

Byrne, A., Carr, D. (2005) Caught in the Cultural Lag: The Stigma of Singlehood.


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Carr, D. S. (2004) Psychological well-being across three cohorts: A response to shifting work-family opportunities and expectations? Work and well-being across three cohorts.

Carr, D. S. (2002) The psychological consequences of work-family tradeoffs for three cohorts of women and men.

Carr, D.S., Jaffe, K., Friedman, M. (2008) Perceived Interpersonal Mistreatment Among Obese Americans: Do Race, Class,and Gender Matter?

Carr, Deborah and Michael Friedman (2005) Is Obesity Stigmatizing? Body Weight, Perceived Discrimination and Psychological Well-Being in the United States.

Cleary, P. D., Zaborski, L. B., & Ayanian, J. Z. (2004) Sex differences in health over the course of mid-life.

Colby, A., Sippola, L., & Phelps, E. (2001) Social responsibility and paid work in contemporary American life.

Corliss, H. L., Cochran, S. D., & Mays, V. M. (2002) Reports of parental maltreatment during childhood in a United States population-based survey of homosexual, bisexual, and heterosexual adults.

Costanzo, E.S., Ryff, C.D., & Singer, B.H. (2009) Psychosocial adjustment among cancer survivors: Findings from a National Survey of Health and Well-Being.


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Earle, A., & Heymann, S. J. (2004) Work, family and social class.

Ettner, S. (2000) The relationship between labor market outcomes and mental and physical health: Exogenous human capital or endogenous health production?

Ettner, S. L. (1999) The relationship between the continuity of care and the health behaviors of patients: Does having a usual physician make a difference?

Ettner, S. L., & Grzywacz, J. G. (2001) Workers\' perceptions of how jobs affect health: A social ecological perspective.


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Fleeson, W. (2004) The quality of American life at the end of the century.

Fleeson, W. (2001) Judgments of one\'s own overall contribution to the welfare of others: Life-course trajectories and predictors.


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Goodwin, R. D., & Friedman, H. S. (2006) Health status and the five-factor personality traits in a nationally representative sample.

Goodwin, R. D., & Stein, M. B. (2003) Peptic ulcer disease and neuroticism in the United States adult population.

Goodwin, R. D., Hoven, c. W., Murison, R., & Hotopf, M. (2003) Association between childhood physical abuse and gastrointestnial disorders and migraine in adulthood.

Greenfield, E. A. & Marks, N. F. (2006) Linked lives: Adult children’s problems and their parents’ psychological and relational well-being.

Greenfield, E. A., & Marks, N. (2004) Formal volunteering as a protective factor for older adults\' psychological well-being.

Gross, N., & Simmons, S. (2002) Intimacy as a double-edged phenomenon?

Gruenewald, T.L., Mroczek, D.K., Ryff, C.D., & Singer, B.H. (2008) Diverse pathways to positive and negative affect in adulthood and later life: An integrative approach using recursive partitioning.

Gryzwacz, J.G., & Dooley, D. (2003) Good jobs to bad jobs: Replicated evidence of an employment continuum from two large surveys.

Grzywacz, J. G., & Bass, B. L. (2003) Work, family, and mental health: Testing different models of work-family fit.

Grzywacz, J. G., & Keyes, C. L. M. (2004) Toward health promotion: Physical and social behaviors in complete health.

Grzywacz, J. G., & Marks, N. F. (2000) Reconceptualizing the work-family interface: An ecological perspective on the correlates of positive and negative spillover between work and family.

Grzywacz, J. G., & Marks, N. F. (1999) Family solidarity and health behaviors: Evidence from the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States.

Grzywacz, J. G., & Marks, N. F. (2000) Family, work, work-family spillover, and problem drinking during midlife.

Grzywacz, J. G., & Marks, N. F. (2001) Social inequalities and exercise during adulthood: Toward an ecological perspective.

Grzywacz, J. G., Almeida, D. M., & McDonald, D. A. (2002) Work-family spillover and daily reports of work and family stress in the adult labor force.

Grzywacz, J. G., Almeida, D. M., Neupert, S. D., & Ettner, S. L. (2004) Socioeconomic status and health: A micro-level analysis of exposure and vulnerability to daily stressors.


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Honda, K., & Jacobson, J. S. (2005) Use of complementary and alternative medicine among United States adults: The influences of personality, coping strategies, and social support.

Horton, R., & Shweder, R. A. (2004) Ethnic conservation, psychological well-being and the downside of mainstreaming.

Hughes, D. L. (2001) Cultural and contextual correlates of obligation to family and community among urban black and latino adults.


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Irving, S. M., & Ferraro, K. F. (2006) Reports of abusive experiences during childhood and adult health ratings: Personal control as a pathway?


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Johnson, W., & Krueger, R. F. (2004) Genetic and environmental structure of adjectives describing the domains of the big five model of personality: A nationwide US twin study.

Johnson, W., & Krueger, R. F. (2005) Higher perceived life control decreases genetic variance in physical health: Evidence from a national twin study.

Johnson, W., & Krueger, R. F. (2005) Predictors of physical health: Toward an integrated model of genetic and environmental antecedents.

Johnson, W., & Krueger, R. F. (2005) Genetic effects on physical health: Lower at higher income levels.

Jokela, M. (2009) Personality predicts migration within and between U.S. states.


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Keating, N. L., Cleary, P. D., Rossi, A. S., Zaslavsky, A. M., & Ayanian, J. Z. (1999) Use of hormone replacement therapy by postmenopausal women in the United States.

Kendler, K. S., Thorton, L. M., Gilman, S. E., & Kessler, R. C. (2000) Sexual orientation in a U.S. national sample of twin and nontwin sibling pairs.

Kessler, R. C., Almeida, D. M., Berglund, P., & Stang, P. (2001) Pollen and mold exposure impairs the work performance of employees with allergic rhinitis.

Kessler, R. C., DuPont, R. L., Berglund, P., & Wittchen, H.-U. (1999) Impairment in pure and comorbid generalized anxiety disorder and major depression at 12 months in two national surveys.

Kessler, R. C., Gilman, S. E., Thornton, L. M., & Kendler, K. S. (2004) Health, well-being, and social responsibility in the MIDUS twin and sibling subsamples.

Kessler, R. C., Mickelson, K. D., & Williams, D. R. (1999) The prevalence, distribution, and mental health correlates of percieved discrimination in the United States.

Kessler, R. C., Mickelson, K. D., Barber, C., & Wang, P. (2001) The association between chronic medical conditions and work impairment.

Kessler, R. C., Mickelson, K. D., Walters, E. E., Zhao, S., & Hamilton, L. (2004) Age and depression in the MIDUS survey.

Keyes, C. L. M. (2002) The exchange of emotional support with age and its relationship with emotional well-being by age.

Keyes, C. L. M. (2002) The mental health continuum: From languishing to flourishing in life.

Keyes, C. L. M. (2000) Subjective change and its consequences for emotional well-being.

Keyes, C. L. M. (1998) Social well-being.

Keyes, C. L. M. (2005) Mental illness and/or mental health?

Keyes, C. L. M. (2005) Chronic physical conditions and aging: Is mental health a potential protective factor?

Keyes, C. L. M., & Grzywacz, J. G. (2005) Health as a complete state: The added value in work performance and healthcare costs.

Keyes, C. L. M., & Ryff, C. D. (2000) Subjective change and mental health: A self-concept theory.

Keyes, C. L. M., & Ryff, C. D. (1998) Generativity in adult lives: Social structural contours and quality of life consequences.

Keyes, C. L. M., & Shapiro, A. (2004) Social well-being in the United States: A descriptive epidemiology.

Keyes, C. L. M., Shmotkin, D., & Ryff, C. D. (2002) Optimizing well-being: The empirical encounter of two traditions.

Keyes, C.L.M. (2007) Promoting and protecting mental health as flourishing.

Kim, K. H., Sobal, J., & Wethington, E. (2003) Religion and body weight.

King, V. (2003) The influence of religion on fathers\' relationships with their children.


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Lachman, M. E. (2005) Aging under control?

Lachman, M. E., & Firth, K. M. P. (2004) The adaptive value of feeling in control in midlife.

Lachman, M. E., & Weaver, S. L. (1998) The sense of control as a moderator of social class differences in health and well-being.

Lachman, M.E., Rocke, C., Rosnick, C., & Ryff, C.D. (2008) Realism and illusion in Americans\' temporal views of their life satisfaction: Age differences in reconstructing the past and anticipating the future.


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Maier, E. H., & Lachman, M. E. (2000) Consequences of early parental loss and separation for health and well-being in midlife.

Marks, N. F., Bumpass, L. L., & Jun, H. (2004) Family roles and well-being during the middle life course.

Markus, H. R., & Kitayama, S. (2003) Models of agency: Sociocultural diversity in the construction of action.

Markus, H. R., Plaut, V. C., & Lachman, M. E. (2004) Well-being in America: Core features and regional patterns.

Markus, H. R., Ryff, C. D., Barnett, K. L., & Palmersheim, K.A. (2004) In their own words: Well-being at midlife among high school and college educated adults.

Markus, H. R., Ryff, C. D., Conner, A. L., Pudberry, E. K., & Barnett, K. L. (2001) Themes and variations in American understandings of responsibility.

Marmot, M. G., & Fuher, R. (2004) Socioeconomic position and health across midlife.

Marmot, M. G., Fuhrer, R., Ettner, S. L., Marks, N. F., Bumpass, L. L., & Ryff, C. D. (1998) Contribution of psychosocial factors to socioeconomic differences in health.

Martin, M., & Mroczek, D. K. (2004) Are personality traits across the lifespan sensitive to environmental demands?

Martin, M., & Westerhof, G. (2003) Do you need to have them or should you believe you have them? Resources, their appraisal, and well-being in adulthood.

Mays, V. M., & Cochran, S. D. (2001) Mental health correlates of perceived discrimination among lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults in the United States.

McDonald, D. A., & Almeida, D. M. (2004) The interweave of fathers\' daily work experiences and fathering behaviors.

McMahan, S., & Lutz, R. (2004) Alternative therapy use among the young-old (ages 65-74): An evaluation of the MIDUS database.

McWilliams, L. A., Goodwin, R. D., & Cox, B. J. (2004) Depression and anxiety associated with three pain conditions: Results from a nationally representative sample.

Mroczek, D. K. (2004) Positive and negative affect at midlife.

Mroczek, D. K. (2001) Age and emotion in adulthood.

Mroczek, D. K., & Almeida, D. M. (2004) The effect of daily stress, personality, and age on daily negative affect.

Mroczek, D. K., & Kolarz, C. M. (1998) The effect of age on positive and negative affect: A developmental perspective on happiness.

Mroczek, D. K., Spiro, A. I., & Almeida, D. M. (2003) Between- and within-person variation in affect and personality over days and years: How basic and applied approaches can inform one another.


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Neiss, M. & Almeida, D. M. (2004) Age differences in the heritability of mean and intraindividual variation of psychological distress.

Neiss, M. B., Stevenson, J., Sedikides, C., Kumashiro, M., Finkel, E.J., & Rusbult, C.E. (2005) Executive self, self-esteem, and negative affectivity: Relations at the phenotypic and genotypic level.

Newman, K. S. (2001) Local caring: Social capital and social responsibility in New York\'s minority neighborhoods.


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Plaut, V. C., Markus, H. R., & Lachman, M. E. (2002) Place matters: Consensual features and regional variation in American well-being and self.

Prenda, K. M., & Lachman, M. E. (2001) Planning for the future: A life management strategy for increasing control and life satisfaction in adulthood.


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Riggle, E. D. B., Rostosky, S. S., & Danner, F. (2009) LGB identity and eudaimonic well being in midlife.

Robert, S.A., & Li, L.W. (2001) Age variation in the relationship between community socioeconomic status and adult health.

Rossi, A. S. (2004) Social responsibility to family and community.

Rossi, A. S. (2004) The menopausal transition and aging processes.

Rossi, A. S. (2001) Domains and dimensions of social responsibility: A sociodemographic profile.

Rossi, A. S. (2001) Developmental roots of adult social responsibility.

Rossi, A. S. (2001) The impact of family problems on social responsibility.

Rossi, A. S. (2001) The interplay between work and family and its impact on community service.

Rotondo, D.M., & Kincaid, J.F. (2008) Conflict, facilitation, and individual coping styles across the work and family domains.

Ryff, C. D., & Singer, B. H. (2002) From social structure to biology: Intergrative science in pursuit of human health and well-being.

Ryff, C. D., Keyes, C. L. M., & Hughes, D. L. (2004) Psychological well-being in MIDUS: Profiles of ethnic/racial diversity and life course uniformity.

Ryff, C. D., Keyes, C. L. M., & Hughes, D. L. (2003) Status inequalities, perceived discrimination, and eudaimonic well-being: Do the challenges of minority life hone purpose and growth?

Ryff, C. D., Magee, W. J., Kling, K. C., & Wing, E. H. (1999) Forging macro-micro linkages in the study of psychological well-being.

Ryff, C. D., Singer, B. H., & Palmersheim, K. A. (2004) Social inequalities in health and well-being: The role of relational and religious protective factors.

Ryff, C. D., Singer, B. H., Wing, E., & Love, G. D. (2001) Elective affinities and uninvited agonies: Mapping emotion with significant others onto health.

Ryff, C.D., & Singer, B.H. (2008) Know thyself and become what you are: A eudaimonic approach to psychological well-being.


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Serido, J., Almeida, D. M., & Wethington, E. (2004) Chronic stressors and daily hassles: unique and interactive relationships with psychological distress.

Shaw, B. A. (2005) Anticipated support from neighbors and physical functioning among older adults.

Shaw, B. A., & Krause, N. (2002) Exposure to physical violence during childhood, aging, and health.

Shaw, B. A., Krause, N., Chatters, L. M., Connell, C. M., & Ingersoll-Dayton, B. (2003) Social structural influences on emotional support from parents early in life and adult health status.

Shaw, B. A., Krause, N., Chatters, L. M., Connell, C. M., & Ingersoll-Dayton, B. (2004) Emotional support from parents early in life, aging, and health.

Soederberg Miller, L. M., & Lachman, M. E. (2000) Cognitive performance and the role of control beliefs in midlife.

Soederberg Miller, L. M., & Lachman, M. E. (1999) The sense of control and cognitive aging: Toward a model of mediational processes.

Staudinger, U. M., Bluck, S., & Herzberg, P. Y. (2003) Looking back and looking ahead: Adult age differences in consistency of diachronous ratings of subjective well-being.

Staudinger, U. M., Fleeson, W., & Baltes, P. B. (1999) Predictors of subjective physical health and global well-being during midlife: Similarities and differences between the U.S. and Germany.


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Voydanoff, P. (2004) Implications of work and community demands and resources for work-to-family conflict and facilitation.

Voydanoff, P. (2005) The differential salience of family and community demands and resources for family-to-work conflict and facilitation.

Voydanoff, P. (2005) Social integration, work-family conflict and facilitation, and job and marital quality.


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Walen, H. R., & Lachman, M. E. (2000) Social support and strain from partner, family, and friends: Costs and benefits for men and women in adulthood.

Wang, P. S., Berglund, P., & Kessler, R. C. (2000) Recent care of common mental disorders in the United States: Prevalence and conformance with evidence-based recommendations.

Wayne, J. H., Musisca, N., & Fleeson, W. (2004) Considering the role of personality in the work-family experience: Relationships of the big five to work-family conflict and facilitation.

Weiss, A., Bates, T.C., & Luciano, M. (2008) Happiness is a personal(ity)thing: The genetics of personality and well-being in a representative sample.

Westerhof, G. J., & Barrett, A. E. (2005) Age identity and subjective well-being: A comparison of the United States and Germany.

Westerhof, G. J., Barrett, A. E., & Steverink, N. (2003) Forever young?

Wethington, E. (2000) Expecting stress: Americans and the \"Midlife Crisis\".

Wethington, E., Almeida, D., Brown, G. W., Frank, E., & Kessler, R. C. (2001) The assessment of stressor exposure.

Wethington, E., Kessler, R. C., & Pixley, J. E. (2004) Turning points in adulthood.

Wrosch, C., Heckhausen, J., & Lachman, M. E. (2000) Primary and secondary control strategies for managing health and financial stress across adulthood.


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