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Considering Situational Variety in Contextualized Aging Research – Opinion About Methodological Perspectives
Due to the increasingly heterogeneous trajectories of aging, gerontology requires theoretical models and empirical methods that can meaningfully, reliably, and precisely describe, explain, and predict causes and effects within the aging process, considering particular contexts and situations. Human...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8072042/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33912093 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.570900 |
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author | Wolf, Friedrich Seifert, Alexander Martin, Mike Oswald, Frank |
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description | Due to the increasingly heterogeneous trajectories of aging, gerontology requires theoretical models and empirical methods that can meaningfully, reliably, and precisely describe, explain, and predict causes and effects within the aging process, considering particular contexts and situations. Human behavior occurs in contexts; nevertheless, situational changes are often neglected in context-based behavior research. This article follows the tradition of environmental gerontology research based on Lawton’s Person-Environment-Interaction model (P-E model) and the theoretical developments of recent years. The authors discuss that, despite an explicit time component, current P-E models could be strengthened by focusing on detecting P-E interactions in various everyday situations. Enhancing Lawton’s original formula via a situationally based component not only changes the theoretical perspectives on the interplay between person and environment but also demands new data collection approaches in empirical environmental research. Those approaches are discussed through the example of collecting mobile data with smartphones. Future research should include the situational dimension to investigate the complex nature of person environment interactions. |
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spelling | pubmed-80720422021-04-27 Considering Situational Variety in Contextualized Aging Research – Opinion About Methodological Perspectives Wolf, Friedrich Seifert, Alexander Martin, Mike Oswald, Frank Front Psychol Psychology Due to the increasingly heterogeneous trajectories of aging, gerontology requires theoretical models and empirical methods that can meaningfully, reliably, and precisely describe, explain, and predict causes and effects within the aging process, considering particular contexts and situations. Human behavior occurs in contexts; nevertheless, situational changes are often neglected in context-based behavior research. This article follows the tradition of environmental gerontology research based on Lawton’s Person-Environment-Interaction model (P-E model) and the theoretical developments of recent years. The authors discuss that, despite an explicit time component, current P-E models could be strengthened by focusing on detecting P-E interactions in various everyday situations. Enhancing Lawton’s original formula via a situationally based component not only changes the theoretical perspectives on the interplay between person and environment but also demands new data collection approaches in empirical environmental research. Those approaches are discussed through the example of collecting mobile data with smartphones. Future research should include the situational dimension to investigate the complex nature of person environment interactions. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-04-12 /pmc/articles/PMC8072042/ /pubmed/33912093 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.570900 Text en Copyright © 2021 Wolf, Seifert, Martin and Oswald. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Wolf, Friedrich Seifert, Alexander Martin, Mike Oswald, Frank Considering Situational Variety in Contextualized Aging Research – Opinion About Methodological Perspectives |
title | Considering Situational Variety in Contextualized Aging Research – Opinion About Methodological Perspectives |
title_full | Considering Situational Variety in Contextualized Aging Research – Opinion About Methodological Perspectives |
title_fullStr | Considering Situational Variety in Contextualized Aging Research – Opinion About Methodological Perspectives |
title_full_unstemmed | Considering Situational Variety in Contextualized Aging Research – Opinion About Methodological Perspectives |
title_short | Considering Situational Variety in Contextualized Aging Research – Opinion About Methodological Perspectives |
title_sort | considering situational variety in contextualized aging research – opinion about methodological perspectives |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8072042/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33912093 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.570900 |
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