Kenneth F Ferraro | Academic Influence

Kenneth F Ferraro's Published Works

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Published Papers

Fear of Crime: Interpreting Victimization Risk (1995) (808)
The Measurement of Fear of Crime (1987) (755)
Perceived Risk and Fear of Crime: Role of Social and Physical Incivilities (1992) (678)
Aging and cumulative inequality: how does inequality get under the skin? (2009) (565)
Are racial disparities in health conditional on socioeconomic status? (2005) (505)
Women's Fear of Victimization: Shadow of Sexual Assault? (1996) (493)
Self-ratings of health among the old and the old-old. (1980) (380)
ASSESSING AGE AND GENDER DIFFERENCES IN PERCEIVED RISK AND FEAR OF CRIME (1989) (353)
Cumulative Disadvantage and Health: Long-Term Consequences of Obesity? (2003) (347)
Health trajectories: long-term dynamics among black and white adults. (1997) (336)
IS THERE A GOLD STANDARD FOR MEASURING MORBIDITY (1999) (295)
Volunteering and Depression in Later Life: Social Benefit or Selection Processes?∗ (2005) (277)
Religion and Health among Black and White Adults: Examining Social Support and Consolation (1994) (239)
Body mass index and disability in adulthood: a 20-year panel study. (2002) (233)
Volunteering in Middle and Later Life: Is Health a Benefit, Barrier or Both? (2006) (223)
Cumulative inequality theory for research on aging and the life course. (2009) (216)
Self-rated health and mortality among black and white adults: examining the dynamic evaluation thesis. (2001) (214)
Distress and perceived health: mechanisms of health decline. (1997) (214)
The black/white disability gap: persistent inequality in later life? (2004) (203)
Double jeopardy, aging as leveler, or persistent health inequality? A longitudinal analysis of white and black Americans. (1996) (183)
Religious Consolation Among Men and Women: Do HealthProblems Spur Seeking? (2000) (178)
Double jeopardy to health hypothesis for African Americans: analysis and critique. (1996) (177)
Are older people most afraid of crime? Reconsidering age differences in fear of victimization. (1992) (169)
The life course of severe obesity: does childhood overweight matter? (2003) (168)
Childhood Disadvantage and Health Problems in Middle and Later Life (2016) (165)
Fear of Crime: Interpreting Victimization Risk. (1996) (158)
Does religion influence adult health (1991) (156)
Children of Misfortune: Early Adversity and Cumulative Inequality in Perceived Life Trajectories1 (2011) (150)
The Stigma of Obesity (2011) (139)
Neighborhood Residential Segregation and Physical Health among Hispanic Americans: Good, Bad, or Benign?∗ (2007) (124)
Medical need and use of services among older men and women. (1988) (120)
The Elderly's Fear of Crime (1987) (120)
Does Religion Increase the Prevalence and Incidence of Obesity in Adulthood? (2006) (120)
Relationships between health literacy and heart failure knowledge, self-efficacy, and self-care adherence. (2014) (113)
Financial strain, social relations, and psychological distress among older people: a cross-cultural analysis. (1999) (101)
Widowhood, health, and friendship support in later life. (1984) (92)
Firm believers ? Religion, body weight, and well-being (1998) (88)
Body weight and self-ratings of health. (1995) (87)
Childhood misfortune as a threat to successful aging: avoiding disease. (2012) (82)
Physician-evaluated and self-reported morbidity for predicting disability. (2000) (80)
Gerontology : perspectives and issues (1990) (79)
Childhood (Mis)fortune, Educational Attainment, and Adult Health: Contingent Benefits of a College Degree? (2013) (79)
Reports of Abusive Experiences During Childhood and Adult Health Ratings (2006) (78)
Are black older adults health-pessimistic? (1993) (76)
Age, body mass index, and functional illness. (1999) (73)
Functional limitations and religious service attendance in later life: barrier and/or benefit mechanism? (2001) (70)
Double jeopardy to health for black older adults? (1987) (68)
Widowhood and Social Participation in Later Life (1984) (67)
Social relations and health assessments among older people: do the effects of integration and social contributions vary cross-culturally? (1997) (66)
Social network properties and self-rated health in later life: comparisons from the Korean social life, health, and aging project and the national social life, health and aging project (2014) (62)
Psychological Distress and Mortality: Are Women More Vulnerable?∗ (2006) (60)
Health Literacy Influences Heart Failure Knowledge Attainment but Not Self-Efficacy for Self-Care or Adherence to Self-Care over Time (2013) (57)
Measuring morbidity: disease counts, binary variables, and statistical power. (2000) (56)
Gerontology education in transition: considering disciplinary and paradigmatic evolution. (2000) (55)
The health consequences of relocation among the aged in the community. (1983) (55)
Does Childhood Misfortune Increase Cancer Risk in Adulthood? (2012) (55)
A 3-D Model of Health Decline: Disease, Disability, and Depression among Black and White Older Adults∗ (2005) (53)
Are older people afraid of crime (1988) (50)
Does childhood misfortune raise the risk of acute myocardial infarction in adulthood? (2014) (49)
Health benefits of religion among Black and White older adults? Race, religiosity, and C-reactive protein. (2014) (47)
Aging, Obesity, and Mortality (2004) (46)
Do productive activities reduce inflammation in later life? Multiple roles, frequency of activities, and C-reactive protein. (2014) (44)
The Impact of Widowhood on the Social Relations of Older Persons (1980) (44)
Accumulated financial strain and women's health over three decades. (2012) (44)
Diverse Aging and Health Inequality by Race and Ethnicity (2017) (42)
When Does Disadvantage Not Accumulate? Toward a Sociological Conceptualization of Resilience. (2009) (41)
Environmental Satisfaction, Sociability, and Well-Being among Urban Elderly (1983) (40)
SELF-INTEREST AND PUBLIC OPINION TOWARD SMOKING POLICIES; A REPLICATION AND EXTENSION (1991) (39)
Longitudinal change in physical activity and disability in adults. (2012) (38)
Assistive device use as a dynamic acquisition process in later life. (2010) (38)
Alternative Measures of Self-Rated Health for Predicting Mortality Among Older People: Is Past or Future Orientation More Important? (2015) (37)
Perceived discrimination and health among Puerto Rican and Mexican Americans: buffering effect of the Lazo matrimonial? (2009) (35)
What Do We Mean by Accumulation? Advancing Conceptual Precision for a Core Idea in Gerontology. (2018) (34)
Fear of Crime: Interpreting Victimization Risk (2000) (33)
The color of hospitalization over the adult life course: cumulative disadvantage in black and white? (2006) (31)
Obesity and Hospitalization over the Adult Life Course: Does Duration of Exposure Increase Use?∗ (2007) (31)
Health and Aging: Early Origins, Persistent Inequalities? (2011) (30)
Cohort analysis of retirement preparation, 1974-1981. (1990) (29)
Why Do Older People Change Their Ratings of Childhood Health? (2014) (28)
Imagining the disciplinary advancement of gerontology: Whither the tipping point? (2006) (28)
Beyond the barriers: racial discrimination and use of complementary and alternative medicine among Black Americans. (2012) (28)
Age and the tenses of life satisfaction. (2013) (27)
Relocation Desires and Outcomes among the Elderly (1981) (25)
Cohort change in images of older adults, 1974-1981. (1992) (24)
The Effect of Widowhood on the Health Status of Older Persons (1985) (24)
Physician evaluation of obesity in health surveys: "who are you calling fat?". (2002) (24)
Child maltreatment and adult health in a national sample: heterogeneous relational contexts, divergent effects? (2014) (23)
Measuring compliance among in-center hemodialysis patients (1986) (23)
A half century of longitudinal methods in social gerontology: evidence of change in the journal. (2003) (22)
Health and Aging (2006) (22)
Sensory impairment among older US workers. (2009) (21)
Childhood Misfortune and Adult Health (2013) (20)
Self and Age Differences in Defining Health Situations (1996) (19)
Is gerontology interdisciplinary? (2007) (19)
Racial disparity in access to cardiac intensive care over 20 years (2011) (18)
RELIGIOUS SEEKING AMONG AFFILIATES AND NON-AFFILIATES: DO MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH PROBLEMS SPUR RELIGIOUS COPING? (2001) (18)
Images of Older People in Western Art and Society (1991) (18)
Participation in Multipurpose Senior Centers (1987) (18)
Age, Aging, and Mental Health (2013) (17)
Distal and variably proximal causes: education, obesity, and health. (2011) (16)
The Evolution of Gerontology Education Over Three Decades Reflections and Prospects (2008) (16)
Long-term obesity and avoidable hospitalization among younger, middle-aged, and older adults. (2007) (15)
Domains of medical practice: physicians' assessment of the role of physician extenders. (1989) (14)
Black and White Chains of Risk for Hospitalization Over 20 Years∗ (2008) (14)
Self and older-people referents in evaluating life problems. (1992) (14)
Reexamining the double jeopardy to health thesis. (1989) (14)
Early Origins of Adult Cancer Risk Among Men and Women: Influence of Childhood Misfortune? (2018) (13)
Low socioeconomic status and body mass index as risk factors for inflammation in older adults: conjoint influence on C-reactive protein? (2011) (13)
The time of our lives: recognizing the contributions of Mannheim, Neugarten, and Riley to the study of aging. (2014) (13)
Genetic and Environmental Overlap Between Childhood Maltreatment and Adult Physical Health (2015) (12)
Childhood Misfortune and Handgrip Strength Among Black, White, and Hispanic Americans (2019) (12)
Life Course Lens on Aging and Health (2016) (12)
Self-Rated Health and Mortality Among Black and White Adults (2001) (12)
Is Gerontology Ready for Accreditation? (2012) (11)
Health Status and Risk Indicator Trends of the Aging US Health Care Workforce (2012) (11)
Social Compensation in Adulthood and Later Life (2013) (11)
Diversifying Undergraduate Chemistry Course Pathways to Improve Outcomes for At-Risk Students (2020) (9)
Does Occupational Mobility Influence Health among Working Women? Comparing Objective and Subjective Measures of Work Trajectories (2012) (9)
Health Beliefs and Proscriptions on Public Smoking (1990) (8)
Mortality Risk Among Black and White Working Women (2012) (8)
Gerontology's greatest hits. (2008) (8)
Contextualization of Survey Data: What Do We Gain and Does It Matter? (2017) (8)
Avoiding the Major Causes of Death: Does Childhood Misfortune Reduce the Likelihood of Being Disease Free in Later Life? (2019) (7)
Assessing the Impacts of Community-Based Health Care Policies and Programs for Older Adults (1991) (7)
Aging and the Social Sciences: Progress and Prospects (2016) (7)
Physician Resistance to Innovations: The Case of Contract Medicine (1993) (7)
Utility of Cumulative Inequality Theory for Sociological studies of the Life Course (2006) (7)
Filled with the "Holy Smoke": Religion and Tobacco in Carolina (1988) (7)
Visions of the Life Course: Risks, Resources, and Vulnerability (2017) (6)
Are Biological Consequences of Childhood Exposures Detectable in Telomere Length Decades Later? (2020) (6)
Digital technology use and depressive symptoms among older adults in Korea: beneficial for those who have fewer social interactions? (2020) (6)
Does Religion Increase the Prevalence and Incidence of Obesity and Severe Obesity in Adulthood (2005) (5)
Childhood Misfortune, Personality, and Heart Attack: Does Personality Mediate Risk of Myocardial Infarction? (2018) (5)
Race and Health Disparities (2014) (5)
Wealth in Middle and Later Life: Examining the Life Course Timing of Women's Health Limitations. (2018) (4)
Data Sources for Studying Aging (2009) (4)
Early Social Origins of Biological Risks for Men and Women in Later Life (2020) (4)
Group benefit orientation toward older adults at work? A comparison of cohort analytic methods. (1990) (4)
Marital Contributions to Well-Being in Later Life (1986) (4)
The Gerontological Imagination: An Integrative Paradigm of Aging (2019) (3)
Validity, Reliability, and Hostility: A Comment on Longshore (1984) (3)
Does Early-Life Misfortune Increase the Likelihood of Psychotropic Medication Use in Later Life? (2018) (3)
Wishful Thinking? Early Adversity and Cumulative Inequality in Perceived Life Trajectories (2008) (3)
Theory welcome here. (2009) (2)
The social impact of widowhood on older persons: A longitudinal analysis. (1981) (2)
The Elderly’s Fear of Crime (2017) (2)
Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences: Eighth Edition (2015) (2)
Neighborhood Residential Segregation and Health: Differential Effects among Puerto Ricans and Mexican Americans? (2005) (2)
Relationships Between Health Literacy, Self-care, Self-efficacy, and Knowledge in Heart Failure (2011) (2)
Racial Disparity in Cardiac Care Length of Stay (2005) (1)
CHILDHOOD SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS AND ADULT ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE: A LIFE COURSE PATHWAY MODEL OF HEALTH (2017) (1)
Do Health Limitations Raise the Risk of Poverty? Women's Entries into Poverty Over 36 Years (2012) (1)
Editing in the Rearview Mirror (2009) (1)
Is gerontology inclusive? (2006) (1)
Do Social Support and Strain Mediate the Relationship Between Childhood Exposures and Frailty in Later Life? (2020) (1)
Use of Time and Satisfaction with the Psychotherapeutic Relationship (1987) (1)
The ADEA Amendment and Public Support for Older Workers (1989) (1)
Evaluating the Cumulative Impact of Childhood Misfortune: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach: (2019) (1)
Does Childhood Misfortune Increase the Likelihood of Psychotropic Drug Use in Adulthood (2013) (1)
Medical Sociology: Health of Americans (2010) (0)
Starts and Stops: Strategizing an Age-Friendly University Commitment During a Pandemic (2021) (0)
Volunteering and Chronic Inflammation in Later Life: Is Sustained Volunteering Beneficial for Health? (2021) (0)
Frontiers of social science research on aging (2021) (0)
Life Course Stressors and Functional Limitations in Later Life among White, Black, and Hispanic Adults: Deleterious, Hardening, or Benign? (2021) (0)
Do Early-Life Social, Behavioral, and Health Exposures Increase Later-Life Arthritis Incidence? (2021) (0)
Dissertation Title: Financial Strain and the Health of Black, White, and Hispanic Older Adults: Did the Great Recession Affect Physical Health? (2013) (0)
Childhood Misfortune and Late-Life Stroke Incidence, 2004-2014. (2020) (0)
Has Never Been Easier! Structural Equation Modeling (2008) (0)
Author's response to reviews Title:Social Network Properties and Self-Rated Health in Later Life Comparisons from the Korean Social Life, Health, and Aging Project and the National Social Life, Health and Aging Project Authors: (2014) (0)
Preface (2021) (0)
DOES CHILDHOOD MISFORTUNE INCREASE THE LIKELIHOOD OF MOBILITY LIMITATION IN LATER LIFE (2017) (0)
Corrigendum to: Life Course Stressors and Functional Limitations in Later Life Among White, Black, and Hispanic Adults: Deleterious, Hardening, or Benign? (2021) (0)
REDUCING THE IMPACT OF CHILDHOOD MISFORTUNE: THE ROLE OF ADULT PHYSICAL ACTIVITY ON LATER OBESITY (2019) (0)
List of contributors (2021) (0)
Do Mediators Linking Childhood Conditions to Late-Life Chronic Inflammation Vary by Race? (2020) (0)
Life Course Stressors and Functional Limitations in Later Life Among White, Black, and Hispanic Adults (2021) (0)
Does Health Influence Wealth? Examining Timing and Duration of Health Limitations Over the Life Course (2011) (0)
A pedagogical strategy addressing an unmet need: Making the biology of aging an accessible part of interdisciplinary gerontology education (2019) (0)
Health Literacy Influences Knowledge Attainment but not Self-Care or Self-Efficacy Longitudinally in Heart Failure Patients (2012) (0)
Measuring Physical Activity Regulatory Styles and Identity Among Adults 55 Years or Older. (2022) (0)
Contributors (2011) (0)
Evaluating the Cumulative Impact of Childhood Misfortune: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach (2021) (0)
Somatic Symptoms Index (2013) (0)
Questions to Measure Enjoyment of and Satisfaction With Physical Activity: Are They Appropriate for Use in an Older Population? (2021) (0)
Indiana Farm Occasional Wood Cutter Fatalities Involving Individuals 55 Years and Older. (2020) (0)
Cumulative Inequality and Working Womens Mortality:Do Perceived Work Trajectories Get under the Skin? (2009) (0)
CONTEXTUALIZATION OF SURVEY DATA: WHAT DO WE GAIN AND DOES IT MATTER? (2017) (0)
17. Health literacy influences knowledge attainment but not self-care or self-efficacy longitudinally in patients with heart failure (2012) (0)
Statistical Handbook on Aging Americans (1987) (0)
INTEREST GROUP SESSION—AGE-FRIENDLY UNIVERSITY (AFU): AGE-FRIENDLY UNIVERSITY CAMPUSES: PUTTING PRINCIPLES INTO PRACTICE (2019) (0)
Early Origins of Body Mass in Later Life: Examining Childhood Risks and Adult Pathways (2021) (0)
Interdisciplinary Research on Aging and the Life-Course (2009) (0)
LONGITUDINAL CHANGE IN PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND DISABILITY IN ADULTS (2001) (0)
LIFE COURSE ORIGINS OF FRAILTY IN LATER LIFE (2019) (0)
Childhood Stressors, Relationship Quality, and Cognitive Health in Later Life. (2022) (0)

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