@article {9440,
	title = {The Moderating Role of Employment Status and Gender on Relationships Between Psychological Age and Health: A Two-Wave Cross-Lagged Panel Analysis of Data From the Health and Retirement Study},
	journal = {Work, Aging and Retirement},
	volume = {4},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {79-95},
	abstract = {In this study we explored the direction of over-time relationships between psychological age (PA) and 4 facets of health for older adults, with social comparison theory (SCT) and stereotype embodiment theory (SET) providing the rationale for competing causal orderings of these relationships. Expanding on recent longitudinal work (Petery, 2015; Spuling, Miche, Wurm, \& Wahl, 2013) we investigated whether over-time employment status (employed, transition to retired, retired), gender, and the interaction of employment status and gender moderate the nature of these relationships for older (over 50 years old) adults. We examined data on PA and indicators of general, functional, physical, and mental health from the Health and Retirement Study collected at 2 time points, 4 years apart. Hypothesis testing on the causal ordering of the 2 constructs and the proposed moderations were conducted, with each health facet examined independently using cross-lagged panel path analysis and multigroup analysis of employment by gender subgroups. Effect sizes for relationships between PA and health were small in magnitude for all health facets and all employment status and gender subgroups. The apparent primary causal direction of relationships differed by health facet, with support provided for both Health > PA and PA > Health temporal orderings. Furthermore, with the exception of physical health, which exhibited consistent support for a Health -> PA relationship, the primary causal direction of the relationship between PA and health depended on both employment status and gender, jointly. These provide further evidence of the complexity of the health-PA relationship.},
	keywords = {Employment and Labor Force, Gender Differences, Health Conditions and Status, Marriage, Subjective age},
	issn = {2054-4642},
	doi = {10.1093/workar/wax019},
	url = {http://academic.oup.com/workar/article/4/1/79/4056158http://academic.oup.com/workar/article-pdf/4/1/79/23296319/wax019.pdf},
	author = {Janet L. Barnes-Farrell and Petery, Gretchen A.},
	editor = {Lindsay H Ryan}
}
@article {6470,
	title = {Individual and Work Factors Related to Perceived Work Ability and Labor Force Outcomes},
	journal = {Journal of Applied Psychology},
	volume = {100},
	year = {2015},
	note = {Export Date: 20 January 2015 Article in Press},
	pages = {376-398},
	chapter = {376},
	abstract = {Perceived work ability refers to a worker{\textquoteright}s assessment of his or her ability to continue working in his or her job, given characteristics of the job along with his or her resources. Perceived work ability is a critical variable to study in the United States, given an aging workforce, trends to delay retirement, and U.S. policy considerations to delay the age at which full Social Security retirement benefits may be obtained. Based on the job demands-resources model, cognitive appraisal theory of stress, and push/pull factors related to retirement, we proposed and tested a conceptual model of antecedents and outcomes of perceived work ability using 3 independent samples of U.S. working adults. Data regarding workers{\textquoteright} job characteristics were from self-report and Occupational Information Network measures. Results from relative importance analysis indicated that health and sense of control were consistently and most strongly related to work ability perceptions relative to other job demands and job and personal resources when perceived work ability was measured concurrently or 2 weeks later in samples with varying occupations. Job demands (along with health and sense of control) were most strongly related to work ability perceptions when perceived work ability was measured in a manufacturing worker sample 1.6 years later. Perceived work ability also predicted lagged labor force outcomes (absence, retirement, and disability leave) while controlling for other known predictors of each. Consistent indirect effects were observed from health status and sense of control to all 3 of these outcomes via perceived work ability.},
	keywords = {Employment and Labor Force, Health Conditions and Status},
	url = {http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84910003696andpartnerID=40andmd5=f924dfde692ab1f7b24f01f2e3a0a0f8},
	author = {McGonagle, Alyssa K. and Gwenith G Fisher and Janet L. Barnes-Farrell and James Grosch}
}
