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Overview

Frank J. Infurna is affiliated with Arizona State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences, with notable contributions in Clinical Psychology, Health, Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, and Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology.

They focus on several main topics of research, including:

  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Intergenerational family dynamics and caregiving
  • Aging and gerontology research
  • Resilience and mental health
  • Psychological well-being and life satisfaction
  • Posttraumatic stress disorder research
  • Optimism, hope, and well-being

Infurna has an extensive publication record with some of their recent papers listed as follows:

  • Midlife in the 2020s: Opportunities and challenges. (2020) - American Psychologist
  • Post-traumatic growth as positive personality change: Challenges, opportunities, and recommendations. (2020) - Journal of Personality
  • What Does Resilience Signify? An Evaluation of Concepts and Directions for Future Research. (2020) - Gerontology
  • Historical change in midlife health, well-being, and despair: Cross-cultural and socioeconomic comparisons. (2021) - American Psychologist
  • Utilizing Principles of Life-Span Developmental Psychology to Study the Complexities of Resilience Across the Adult Life Span. (2021) - The Gerontologist

The core publication venues where Infurna frequently publishes include:

  • Innovation in Aging
  • The Journals of Gerontology Series B
  • American Psychologist
  • Addictive Behaviors Reports
  • Psychology and Aging

Infurna has collaborated regularly with several researchers. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Kevin J. Grimm
  • Denis Gerstorf
  • Gregory C. Smith
  • Megan L. Dolbin-MacNab
  • Margie E. Lachman

In addition to journal articles, Infurna has authored books published by Oxford University Press. One known publication is titled Redesigning Research on Post-Traumatic Growth (2021).

Best Publications

  • Midlife in the 2020s: Opportunities and challenges.

    Frank J. Infurna;Denis Gerstorf;Margie E. Lachman

  • Mental work demands, retirement, and longitudinal trajectories of cognitive functioning.

    Gwenith G. Fisher;Alicia Stachowski;Frank J. Infurna;Jessica D. Faul

  • Post-traumatic growth as positive personality change: Challenges, opportunities, and recommendations.

    Eranda Jayawickreme;Frank J. Infurna;Kinan Alajak;Laura E.R. Blackie

  • Long-Term Antecedents and Outcomes of Perceived Control

    Frank J. Infurna;Denis Gerstorf;Nilam Ram;Jürgen Schupp

  • Resilience to Major Life Stressors Is Not as Common as Thought

    Frank J. Infurna;Suniya S. Luthar

  • Fixing the Growth Illusion: New Directions for Research in Resilience and Posttraumatic Growth:

    Frank J. Infurna;Eranda Jayawickreme

  • Re-evaluating the notion that resilience is commonplace: A review and distillation of directions for future research, practice, and policy.

    Frank J. Infurna;Suniya S. Luthar

  • Perceived control reduces mortality risk at low, not high, education levels.

    Nicholas A. Turiano;Benjamin P. Chapman;Stefan Agrigoroaei;Frank J. Infurna

  • The nature and cross-domain correlates of subjective age in the oldest old: Evidence from the OCTO Study.

    Frank J. Infurna;Denis Gerstorf;Suzanne Robertson;Stig Berg

  • The Multidimensional Nature of Resilience to Spousal Loss

    Frank J. Infurna;Suniya S. Luthar

  • Level and change in perceived control predict 19-year mortality: findings from the Americans' changing lives study.

    Frank J. Infurna;Frank J. Infurna;Nilam Ram;Denis Gerstorf

  • Examining dynamic links between perceived control and health: longitudinal evidence for differential effects in midlife and old age.

    Frank J. Infurna;Denis Gerstorf;Steven H. Zarit

  • Childhood Trauma and Personal Mastery: Their Influence on Emotional Reactivity to Everyday Events in a Community Sample of Middle-Aged Adults

    Frank J. Infurna;Crystal T. Rivers;John Reich;Alex J. Zautra

  • Perceived control relates to better functional health and lower cardio-metabolic risk: the mediating role of physical activity.

    Frank J. Infurna;Frank J. Infurna;Denis Gerstorf

  • Linking perceived control, physical activity, and biological health to memory change.

    Frank J. Infurna;Denis Gerstorf

  • Perceived personal control buffers terminal decline in well-being.

    Denis Gerstorf;Jutta Heckhausen;Nilam Ram;Frank J. Infurna

  • Job strain and trajectories of change in episodic memory before and after retirement: results from the Health and Retirement Study

    Ross Andel;Frank J Infurna;Elizabeth A Hahn Rickenbach;Michael Crowe

  • Associations Among Individuals’ Perceptions of Future Time, Individual Resources, and Subjective Well-Being in Old Age

    Christiane A. Hoppmann;Frank J. Infurna;Nilam Ram;Nilam Ram;Denis Gerstorf;Denis Gerstorf

  • The effects of constraints and mastery on mental and physical health: Conceptual and methodological considerations.

    Frank J. Infurna;Axel Mayer

  • Changes in life satisfaction when losing one's spouse: individual differences in anticipation, reaction, adaptation and longevity in the German Socio-economic Panel Study (SOEP)

    Frank J. Infurna;Maja Wiest;Denis Gerstorf;Nilam Ram

  • Mapping developmental changes in perceived parent-adolescent relationship quality throughout middle school and high school.

    Ashley M Ebbert;Frank J Infurna;Suniya S Luthar

Frequent Co-Authors

Denis Gerstorf
Denis Gerstorf Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Nilam Ram
Nilam Ram Stanford University
Suniya S. Luthar
Suniya S. Luthar Columbia University
Jutta Heckhausen
Jutta Heckhausen University of California, Irvine
Kevin J. Grimm
Kevin J. Grimm Arizona State University
Margie E. Lachman
Margie E. Lachman Brandeis University
Eranda Jayawickreme
Eranda Jayawickreme Wake Forest University
Benjamin P. Chapman
Benjamin P. Chapman University of Rochester Medical Center
Steven H. Zarit
Steven H. Zarit Pennsylvania State University
Corinna E. Löckenhoff
Corinna E. Löckenhoff Cornell University

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