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Overview

Deborah Carr is affiliated with Boston University in the United States and works primarily within the field of Social Sciences. Their research covers several subfields, including General Health Professions, Clinical Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Health, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. The focus areas of their work include health disparities and outcomes, grief, bereavement, and mental health, intergenerational family dynamics and caregiving, palliative care and end-of-life issues, climate change and health impacts, geriatric care and nursing homes, as well as retirement, disability, and employment.

Among recent published works are:

  • Families in Later Life: A Decade in Review, 2020, Journal of Marriage and the Family
  • Bereavement in the Time of Coronavirus: Unprecedented Challenges Demand Novel Interventions, 2020, Journal of Aging & Social Policy
  • Physical Disability at Work: How Functional Limitation Affects Perceived Discrimination and Interpersonal Relationships in the Workplace, 2021, Journal of Health and Social Behavior

Deborah Carr has collaborated frequently with several scholars, with notable coauthors including Kei Nomaguchi, Regina Baker, Matthew W. Hughey, Enrico Maria Piras, and Amy Kroska.

Their research has been published repeatedly in a set of prominent academic venues, including Sociology Compass, Innovation in Aging, The Journals of Gerontology Series B, Journal of Marriage and the Family, and The Gerontologist.

Key topics addressed in their body of work are:

  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Grief, bereavement, and mental health
  • Intergenerational family dynamics and caregiving
  • Palliative care and end-of-life issues
  • Climate change and health impacts
  • Geriatric care and nursing homes
  • Retirement, disability, and employment

These thematic areas reflect the interdisciplinary nature of their research, integrating aspects of social science with health-related concerns. The research encompasses a focus on aging populations and the social and psychological dimensions of health, caregiving, and life transitions.

Best Publications

  • Resilience to Loss and Chronic Grief: A Prospective Study From Preloss to 18-Months Postloss

    George A. Bonanno;Camille B. Wortman;Darrin R. Lehman;Roger G. Tweed

  • Is obesity stigmatizing? Body weight, perceived discrimination, and psychological well-being in the United States.

    Deborah Carr;Michael A. Friedman

  • Advances in Families and Health Research in the 21st Century

    Deborah Carr;Kristen W. Springer

  • How and why weight stigma drives the obesity 'epidemic' and harms health.

    A. Janet Tomiyama;Deborah Carr;Ellen M. Granberg;Brenda Major

  • Happy Marriage, Happy Life? Marital Quality and Subjective Well-Being in Later Life.

    Deborah Carr;Vicki A. Freedman;Jennifer C. Cornman;Norbert Schwarz

  • The effect of widowhood on older adults' social participation: an evaluation of activity, disengagement, and continuity theories.

    Rebecca L. Utz;Deborah Carr;Randolph Nesse;Camille B. Wortman

  • Two Paths to Self-Employment?: Women's and Men's Self-Employment in the United States, 1980

    Deborah Carr

  • How Families Still Matter: A Longitudinal Study of Youth in Two Generations

    Deborah Carr;Vern L. Bengtson;Timothy J. Biblarz;Robert E. L. Roberts

  • Marital Quality and Psychological Adjustment to Widowhood Among Older Adults A Longitudinal Analysis

    Deborah Carr;James S. House;Ronald C. Kessler;Randolph M. Nesse

  • The development and implementation of the National Comorbidity Survey Replication, the National Survey of American Life, and the National Latino and Asian American Survey.

    Beth Ellen Pennell;Ashley Bowers;Deborah Carr;Stephanie Chardoul

  • From loss to loneliness: The relationship between bereavement and depressive symptoms.

    Eiko I. Fried;Claudi Bockting;Retha Arjadi;Denny Borsboom

  • Psychological Adjustment to Sudden and Anticipated Spousal Loss Among Older Widowed Persons

    Deborah Carr;James S. House;Camille Wortman;Randolph Nesse

  • Cohort Profile: Wisconsin longitudinal study (WLS)

    Pamela Herd;Deborah Carr;Carol Roan

  • The desire to date and remarry among older widows and widowers

    Deborah Carr

  • A "good death" for whom? Quality of spouse's death and psychological distress among older widowed persons.

    Deborah Carr

  • End-of-Life Health Care Planning Among Young-Old Adults: An Assessment of Psychosocial Influences

    Deborah Carr;Dmitry Khodyakov

  • LINKING LIFE HISTORIES AND MENTAL HEALTH: A PERSON- CENTERED STRATEGY

    Burton Singer;Carol D. Ryff;Deborah Carr;William J. Magee

  • The fulfillment of career dreams at midlife: does it matter for women's mental health?

    Deborah Carr

  • Gender, Preloss Marital Dependence, and Older Adults’ Adjustment to Widowhood

    Deborah Carr

  • Families in Later Life: A Decade in Review

    Deborah Carr;Rebecca L Utz

  • Body Weight and the Quality of Interpersonal Relationships

    Deborah Carr;Michael A. Friedman

Frequent Co-Authors

Kathrin Boerner
Kathrin Boerner Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Randolph M. Nesse
Randolph M. Nesse Arizona State University
Camille B. Wortman
Camille B. Wortman Stony Brook University
James S. House
James S. House University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Richard E. Lucas
Richard E. Lucas Michigan State University
Carol D. Ryff
Carol D. Ryff University of Wisconsin–Madison
Sandra L. Hofferth
Sandra L. Hofferth University of Maryland, College Park
Rachel Pruchno
Rachel Pruchno Rowan University
Debra Umberson
Debra Umberson The University of Texas at Austin
Eiko I. Fried
Eiko I. Fried Leiden University

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