Research Professor, Survey Research Center, Professor of Psychology, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Research Professor, Research Ctr for Group Dynamics, Institute for Social Research
Biography
Dr. Smith is a lifespan developmental and experimental psychologist. Her research focuses on age- and health-related changes in subjective well-being, self-related beliefs, and cognition in midlife and old age and the effects of early-life experiences on late-life outcomes. She combines experimental laboratory studies with survey research to investigate questions about profiles of healthy aging and life quality in midlife, the young old, and the oldest-old. She is a Co-PI of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and PI of a project on experienced well-being in midlife and old age. She teaches courses on the psychology of aging, lifespan cognition, and theories of development across the lifespan.
Projects
Funded Research
- A Census-Enhanced Health and Retirement Study: A Proposal to Create and Analyze an HRS Dataset Enhanced with Characteristics of Employers
- Enhancing Retrospective Life History Data in the Health and Retirement Study
- Enhancing Retrospective Life History Data in the Health and Retirement Study
- Enhancing Retrospective Life History Data in the Health and Retirement Study
- HRS Yrs 29-34
- Michigan Center for Contextual Factors ?i?n Alzheimer’s Disease? (MCCFAD?)
- Monitoring the Future: A Cohort-Sequential Panel Study of Drug Use, Ages 19-60
Publications
- Chopik, William J.; Kim, Eric S.; Smith, Jacqui (2018). An Examination of Dyadic Changes in Optimism and Physical Health Over Time. Health psychology, 37(1), 42-50.
- Drewelies, Johanna; Chopik, William J.; Hoppmann, Christiane A.; Smith, Jacqui; Gerstorf, Denis (2018). Linked Lives: Dyadic Associations of Mastery Beliefs With Health (Behavior) and Health (Behavior) Change Among Older Partners. The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 73(5), 787-798.
- Mueller, Swantje; Wagner, Jenny; Smith, Jacqui; Voelkle, Manuel C.; Gerstorf, Denis (2018). The Interplay of Personality and Functional Health in Old and Very Old Age: Dynamic Within-Person Interrelations Across up to 13 Years. Journal of personality and social psychology, 115(6), 1127-1147.
- Newton, Nicky J.; Pladevall-Guyer, Jana; Gonzalez, Richard; Smith, Jacqui (2018). Activity Engagement and Activity-Related Experiences: The Role of Personality. The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 73(8), 1480-1490.
- Eby, David W.; Molnar, Lisa J.; Zakrajsek, Jennifer S.; Ryan, Lindsay H.; Zanier, Nicole; Louis, Renée M. St; Stanciu, Sergiu C.; LeBlanc, David; Kostyniuk, Lidia P.; Smith, Jacqui; Yung, Raymond; Nyquist, Linda; DiGuiseppi, Carolyn; Li, Guohua; Mielenz, Thelma J.; Strogatz, David (2018). Prevalence, attitudes, and knowledge of in-vehicle technologies and vehicle adaptations among older drivers. Accident Analysis & Prevention, 113, 5462.
- Eby, David A.; Molnar, Lisa J.; Kostyniuk, Lidia P.; Zakrajsek, Jennifer S.; Ryan, Lindsay; Zanier, Nicole; St. Louis, Renée M.; Stanciu, Sergiu C.; Bogard, Scott E.; Demchak, Dana H.; DiGuiseppi, Carolyn; Li, Guohua; Mielenz, Thelma J.; Strogatz, David; LeBlanc, David; Smith, Jacqui; Yung, Raymond; Nyquist, Linda; LongROAD Research Team (2018). The Association between Visual Abilities and Objectively-Measured Driving Space, Exposure, and Avoidance among Older Drivers: A Preliminary Analysis. Journal of the Australasian College of Road Safety, 29(4), 39-45.
- Mejía, Shannon T.; Ryan, Lindsay H.; Gonzalez, Richard; Smith, Jacqui (2017). Successful Aging as the Intersection of Individual Resources, Age, Environment, and Experiences of Well-being in Daily Activities. The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 72(2), 279-289.
- Park, Sojung; Smith, Jacqui; Dunkle, Ruth E.; Ingersoll-Dayton, Berit; Antonucci, Toni C. (2017). Health and Social-Physical Environment Profiles Among Older Adults Living Alone: Associations With Depressive Symptoms. Journals of Gerontology, Series B.
- Queen, Tara L.; Butner, Jonathan; Berg, Cynthia A.; Smith, Jacqui (2017). Activity Engagement Among Older Adult Spousal Caregivers. Journals of Gerontology, Series B.
- Sun, Jennifer K.; Smith, Jacqui (2017). Self-Perceptions of Aging and Perceived Barriers to Care: Reasons for Health Care Delay. The Gerontologist, 57, S216-S226.
- Sun, Jennifer; Kim, Eric; Smith, Jacqui (2017). Positive Self-Perceptions of Aging and Lower Rate of Overnight Hospitalization in the US Population Over Age 50. Psychosomatic medicine, 79(1), 81-90.
- Wan, Wylie H.; Antonucci, Toni C.; Birditt, Kira S.; Smith, Jacqui (2017). Work-Hour Trajectories and Depressive Symptoms Among Midlife and Older Married Couples. Work, Aging and Retirement, 4(1), 108-122.
- Giasson, Hannah L.; Queen, Tara L.; Larkina, Marina; Smith, Jacqui (2017). Age Group Differences in Perceived Age Discrimination: Associations With Self-Perceptions of Aging. The Gerontologist, 57, S160-S168.
- Zahodne, Laura B.; Manly, Jennifer J.; Smith, Jacqui; Seeman, Teresa; Lachman, Margie E. (2017). Socioeconomic, health, and psychosocial mediators of racial disparities in cognition in early, middle, and late adulthood. Psychology and aging, 32(2), 118-130.
- Smith, Jacqui; Ryan, Lindsay H. (2016). Psychological Vitality in the Oldest Old. 303-319. In Schaie, K. W.; Willis, S. I. (Ed.), Handbook of the psychology of aging. Elsevier:San Diego, CA.
- Lee, Sunghee; Smith, Jacqui (2016). Methodological Aspects of Subjective Life Expectancy: Effects of Culture-Specific Reporting Heterogeneity Among Older Adults in the United States. The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 71(3), 558-568.
- Wagner, Jenny; Ram, Nilam; Smith, Jacqui; Gerstorf, Denis (2016). Personality Trait Development at the End of Life: Antecedents and Correlates of Mean-Level Trajectories. Journal of personality and social psychology, 111(3), 411-429.
- Weiss, Alexander; Baselmans, Bart M. L.; Hofer, Edith; Yang, Jingyun; Okbay, Aysu; Lind, Penelope A.; Miller, Mike B.; Nolte, Ilja M.; Zhao, Wei; Hagenaars, Saskia P.; Hottenga, Jouke-Jan; Matteson, Lindsay K.; Snieder, Harold; Faul, Jessica D.; Hartman, Catharina A.; Boyle, Patricia A.; Tiemeier, Henning; Mosing, Miriam A.; Pattie, Alison; Davies, Gail; Liewald, David C.; Schmidt, Reinhold; Jager, Philip L. De; Heath, Andrew C.; Jokela, Markus; Starr, John M.; Oldehinkel, Albertine J.; Johannesson, Magnus; Cesarini, David; Hofman, Albert; Harris, Sarah E.; Smith, Jennifer A.; Keltikangas-Järvinen, Liisa; Pulkki-Råback, Laura; Schmidt, Helena; Smith, Jacqui; Iacono, William G.; McGue, Matt; Bennett, David A.; Pedersen, Nancy L.; Magnusson, Patrik K. E.; Deary, Ian J.; Martin, Nicholas G.; Boomsma, Dorret I.; Bartels, Meike; Luciano, Michelle (2016). Personality Polygenes, Positive Affect, and Life Satisfaction. Twin Research and Human Genetics, 19(5), 407-417.
- Sonnega, Amanda J. and Smith, Jacqui (2015). Health and Retirement Study: A Longitudinal Data Resource for Psychologists. Encyclopedia of Geropsychology, 1-13. In Pachana,Nancy A. (Ed.) Springer Singapore
- Stawski, Robert S.; Smith, Jacqui and MacDonald, Stuart (2015). Intraindividual Variability and Covariation Across Domains in Adulthood and Aging. (Chpt 14), 258-266. In Manferd,Diehl; Hooker,Karen and Sliwinski,Martin J. (Ed.), Handbook of Intraindividual Variability Across the Life Span. Taylor & Francis Group:New York, NY.
- Smith, Jacqui and Ryan, Lindsay H. (2015). Pyschological Vitality in the Oldest Old. In Schaie,K. W. and Willis,S. L. (Ed.), The Handbook of the Psychology of Aging. Elsevier:Amersterdam.
- Kim, Eric S.; Kubzansky, Laura D. and Smith, Jacqui (2015). Life Satisfaction and use of Preventive Health Care Services. Health Psychology, 34(7), 779-782.
- Chopik, William J.; Kim, Eric S. and Smith, Jacqui (2015). Changes in Optimism are Associated with Changes in Health Over Time among Older Adults. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 6(7), 814-822.
- Ryan, Lindsay H.; Wan, W. H. and Smith, Jacqui (2014). Spousal Social Support and Strain: Impacts on Health in Older Couples. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 37(6), 1108-1117.
- Smith, Jacqui; Ryan, Lindsay H.; Queen, T. L.; Becker, S. and Gonzalez, R. (2014). Snapshots of Mixtures of Affective Experiences in a Day: Findings from the Health and Retirement Study. Journal of Population Ageing, 7(1), 55-79.
- Queen, T. L.; Stawski, Robert S.; Ryan, Lindsay H. and Smith, Jacqui (2014). Loneliness in a Day: Activity Engagement, Time Alone, and Experienced Emotions. Psychology and Aging, 29(2), 297-305.
- Park, S.; Smith, Jacqui and Dunkle, R. E. (2014). Social Network Types and Well-being among South Korean Older Adults. Aging & Mental Health, 18(1), 72-80.
- Newton, N. J.; Ryan, Lindsay H.; King, R. T. and Smith, Jacqui (2014). Cohort Differences in the Marriage-Health Relationship for Midlife Women. Social Science & Medicine, 116, 64-72.
- Kim, Eric S.; Smith, Jacqui and Kubzansky, Laura D. (2014). A Prospective Study of the Association between Dispositional Optimism and Incident Heart Failure. Circulation: Heart Failure, 7, 394-400.
- Kim, Eric S.; Moored, Kyle D.; Giasson, Hannah L. and Smith, Jacqui (2014). Satisfaction with Aging and use of Preventive Health Services. Preventive Medicine, 69, 176-180.
- Kim, Eric S.; Chopik, William J. and Smith, Jacqui (2014). Are People Healthier if their Partners are More Optimistic? the Dyadic Effect of Optimism on Health among Older Adults. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 76(6), 447-453.
- Kim, E. S.; Park, N.; Sun, J. K.; Smith, Jacqui and Peterson, C. (2014). Life Satisfaction and Frequency of Doctor Visits. Psychosomatic Medicine, 76(1), 86-93.
- Yan, Ting; Ryan, Lindsay H.; Becker, Sandra E. and Smith, Jacqui (2014). Assessing Quality of Answers to a Global Well-being Question through Response Times. Survey Research Methods, 9(2), 101-109.
- Kim, Eric S.; Hawes, Armani M. and Smith, Jacqui (2014). Perceived Neighbourhood Social Cohesion and Myocardial Infarction. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 68(11), 1020-1026.
- Smith, Jacqui; Ryan, Lindsay H. and Röcke, Christina (2013). The Day-to-Day Effects of Conscientiousness on Well-being. Research in Human Development, 10(1), 9-25.
- Gerstorf, D.; Ram, N.; Lindenberger, U. and Smith, Jacqui (2013). Age and Time-to-Death Trajectories of Change in Indicators of Cognitive, Sensory, Physical, Health, Social, and Self-Related Functions. Developmental Psychology, 49(10), 1805-1821.
- Ryan, Lindsay H.; Smith, Jacqui and Antonucci, Toni C. (2012). Cohort Differences in the Availability of Informal Caregivers: Are the Boomers at Risk?. The Gerontologist, 52(2), 177-188.
- Antonucci, Toni C.; Ashton-Miller, James A.; Brant, Jennifer; Falk, Emily B.; Halter, Jeffrey B.; Hamdemir, Levent; Konrath, Sara H.; Lee, Joyce M.; McCullough, Wayne R.; Persad, Carol C.; Seydel, Roland; Smith, Jacqui and Webster, Noah J. (2012). The Right to Move: A Multidisciplinary Lifespan Conceptual Framework. Current Gerontology and Geriatrics Research, 2012, 873937.
- Kotter-Grühn, D. and Smith, Jacqui (2011). When Time is Running Out: Changes in Positive Future Perception and their Relationships to Changes in Well-being in Old Age. Psychology and Aging, 26(2), 381-387.
- Ram, N.; Gerstorf, D.; Lindenberger, U. and Smith, Jacqui (2011). Developmental Change and Intraindividual Variability: Relating Cognitive Aging to Cognitive Plasticity, Cardiovascular Lability, and Emotional Diversity. Psychology and Aging, 26(2), 363-371.
- Infurna, F. J.; Gerstorf, D.; Ryan, Lindsay H. and Smith, Jacqui (2011). Dynamic Links between Memory and Functional Limitations in Old Age: Longitudinal Evidence for Age-Based Structural Dynamics from the AHEAD Study. Psychology and Aging, 26(3), 546-548.
- Huxhold, Oliver; Li, Shu-Chen; Schmiedek, Florian; Smith, Jacqui and Lindenberger, Ulman (2011). Age Differences in Processing Fluctuations in Postural Control Across Trials and Across Days. Psychology and Aging, 26(3), 731-737.
- Clarke, Philippa J. and Smith, Jacqui (2011). Aging in a Cultural Context: Cross-National Differences in Disability and the Moderating Role of Personal Control among Older Adults in the United States and England. The Journals of Gerontology, 66B(4), 457-467.
- Antonucci, Toni C.; Birditt, Kira S. and Ajrouch, Kristine J. (2011). Convoys of Social Relations: Past, Present, and Future. In Fingerman,Karen L.; Berg,C. A.; Smith,Jacqui and Antonucci,Toni C. (Ed.), Handbook of Lifespan Development. Springer:New York.
- Fingerman, Karen L.; Berg, C. A.; Smith, Jacqui and Antonucci, Toni C. (2011). Handbook of Lifespan Development. New York:Springer.
- Kotter-Grühn, D.; Grühn, D. and Smith, Jacqui (2010). Predicting One’s Own Death: The Relationship between Subjective and Objective Nearness to Death in very Old Age. European Journal of Ageing, 7(4), 293-300.
- Ryan, Lindsay H. and Smith, Jacqui (2010). Cognition and Health Disparities Over the Life Course: Longevity as an Example. 29. In Antonucci,Toni C. and Jackson,James S. (Ed.), Life-Course Perspectives on Late Life Health Inequalities. Springer:New York.
- Smith, Jacqui; Fleeson, William; Geiselmann, Bernhard; Settersten, Richard A. and Kunzmann, Ute (2010). Wohlbefinden Im Hohen Alter: Vorhersagen Aufgrund Objektiver Lebensbedingungen Und Subjektiver Bewertung. 521. In Lindenberger,Ulman; Smith,Jacqui; Mayer,Karl U. and Baltes,Paul B. (Ed.), Die Berliner Alterssstudie. Akademie Verlag:Berlin.
- Smith, Jacqui and Delius, J. A. M. (2010). Langsschnittliche Datenerhebungen Der Berliner Alterstudie (BASE): Studiendesign, Stichproben Und Forschungsthemen 1990-2009. 113. In Lindenberger,Ulman; Smith,Jacqui; Mayer,Karl U. and Baltes,Paul B. (Ed.), Die Berliner Alterssstudie. Akademie Verlag:Berlin.
- Smith, Jacqui and Baltes, Paul B. (2010). Altern Aus Psychologischer Perspektive: Trends Und Profile Im Hohen Alter. 245. In Lindenberger,Ulman; Smith,Jacqui; Mayer,Karl U. and Baltes,Paul B. (Ed.), Die Berliner Alterssstudie. Akademie Verlag:Berlin.
- Mayer, Karl U.; Baltes, Paul B.; Baltes, Margret M.; Borchelt, Markus; Delius, J. A. M.; Helmchen, Hanfried; Linden, M.; Smith, Jacqui; Staudinger, Ursula M.; Steinhagen-Thiessen, Elisabeth and Wagner, M. (2010). Wissen Uber Das Alter(n): Einea Zwichenbilanz Der Berliner Altersstudie. 623. In Lindenberger,Ulman; Smith,Jacqui; Mayer,Karl U. and Baltes,Paul B. (Ed.), Die Berliner Alterssstudie. Akademie Verlag:Berlin.
- Lindenberger, Ulman; Smith, Jacqui; Mayer, Karl U. and Baltes, Paul B. (2010). Die Berliner Alterssstudie. Berlin:Akademie Verlag.
- Kotter-Grühn, Dana; Kleinspehn-Ammerlahn, Anna; Gerstorf, Denis and Smith, Jacqui (2009). Self-Perceptions of Aging Predict Mortality and Change with Approaching Death: 16-Year Longitudinal Results from the Berlin Aging Study. Psychology and Aging, 24(3), 654-667.
- Windsor, Tim D.; Ryan, Lindsay H. and Smith, Jacqui (2009). Individual Well-being in Middle and Older Adulthood: Do Spousal Beliefs Matter?. The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 64B(5), 586-596.
- Clarke, Philippa J. and Smith, Jacqui (2009). Cross National Disparities in Disabilities. 29, 251. In Antonucci,Toni C. and Jackson,James S. (Ed.), Annual Review of Gerontology & Geriatrics: Life Course Perspectives on Late Life Health Inequalities. Springer:New York.
- Röcke, Christina; Li, Shu-Chen and Smith, Jacqui (2009). Intraindividual Variability in Positive and Negative Affect Over 45 Days: Do Older Adults Fluctuate Less than Young Adults?. Psychology and Aging, 24(4), 863-878.
- Smith, Jacqui (2009). Berlin Aging Study. 99. In Carr,Deborah S. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the Life Course and Human Development. Macmillan Reference USA:Detroit.
- Smith, Jacqui (2009). Self. 345. In Carr,Deborah S. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the Life Course and Human Development. Macmillan Reference USA:Detroit.
- Roberts, Brent W.; Smith, Jacqui; Jackson, Joshua J. and Edmonds, Grant (2009). Compensatory Conscientiousness and Health in Older Couples. Psychological Science, 20(5), 553-559.
- Li, Shu-Chen; Schmiedek, Florian; Huxhold, Oliver; Röcke, Christina; Smith, Jacqui and Lindenberger, Ulman (2008). Working Memory Plasticity in Old Age: Practice Gain, Transfer, and Maintenance. Psychology and Aging, 23(4), 731-742.
- Grühn, D. and Smith, Jacqui (2008). Characteristics for 200 Words Rated by Young and Older Adults: Age-Dependent Evaluations of German Adjectives (AGE). Behavior Research Methods, 40(4), 1088-1097.
- Gerstorf, Denis; Ram, Nilam; Röcke, Christina; Lindenberger, Ulman and Smith, Jacqui (2008). Decline in Life Satisfaction in Old Age: Longitudinal Evidence for Links to Distance-to-Death. Psychology and Aging, 23(1), 154-168.
- Kleinspehn-Ammerlahn, Anna; Kotter-Grühn, Dana and Smith, Jacqui (2008). Self-Perceptions of Aging: Do Subjective Age and Satisfaction with Aging Change during Old Age?. The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 63(6), P377-P385.
- Smith, Jacqui; Gerstorf, Denis and Li, Q. (2008). Psychological Resources for Well-being among Octogenarians, Nonagenarians, and Centenarians: Differential Effects of Age and Selective Mortality. 329. In Yi,Z.; Poston,D. L.; Vlosky,D. and Gu,D. (Ed.), Healthy Longevity in China: Demographic, Socioeconomic, and Psychological Dimensions. Spinger:New York.
- Rapp, Michael; Gerstorf, Denis; Helmchen, Hanfried and Smith, Jacqui (2008). Depression Predicts Mortality in the Young Old, but Not in the Oldest Old: Results from the Berlin Aging Study. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 16(10), 844-852.
- Baltes, Paul B. and Smith, Jacqui (2008). The Fascination of Wisdom: Its Nature, Ontogeny, and Function. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 3(1), 56-64.