Anna Kleinspehn-Ammerlahn’s research while affiliated with Max Planck Institute for Human Development and other places

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Die Berliner Altersstudie (BASE): Kognitive Entwicklung im Alter
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January 2012

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Figure 1. Asynchrony in dyadic drumming: Illustrative example. A. The degree of instantaneous asynchrony in milliseconds, pooled within 200-ms intervals, for a younger child drumming with another younger child. B. The degree of asynchrony when the same child is drumming with a younger adult. For each trial, asynchrony is summed over time to obtain a measure of overall asynchrony. These sum scores were averaged across trials within conditions, and log-transformed to better approximate a normal distribution. The log-transformed score of average asynchrony served as the dependent variable in this study. C and D Asynchrony accumulating over time. 
Table 1 Model 1: Characteristics of Between-Person and Between-Dyad Variance in Dyadic Asynchrony (N 144) Variable M 95% BCI 
Dyadic Drumming Across the Lifespan Reveals a Zone of Proximal Development in Children

January 2011

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Developmental Psychology

Many social interactions require the synchronization--be it automatically or intentionally--of one's own behavior with that of others. Using a dyadic drumming paradigm, the authors delineate lifespan differences in interpersonal action synchronization (IAS). Younger children, older children, younger adults, and older adults in same- and mixed-age dyads were instructed to drum in synchrony with their interaction partner at a constant, self-chosen tempo. Adult-only dyads showed the highest and children-only the lowest levels of IAS accuracy. It is important to note that children improved reliably in IAS accuracy when paired with older partners. The observed age-related differences in IAS accuracy remained reliable after statistically controlling for individual differences in the ability to synchronize to a metronome and for between-dyad differences in tempo. The authors conclude that IAS improves from middle childhood to adulthood and that adult interaction partners may facilitate its development.


Figure 1. Prototypical (thick line) and raw intraindividual changes (thin lines) observed over age (upper panel) and distance to death (lower panel) in aging satisfaction. The age model shows significant, but relatively minor average age-associated decline (– 0.45 T-score units per year), whereas decline in the distance-to-death model was steeper by a factor of 2 (–.98 T-score units per year).  
Table 1 Descriptive Statistics For the Samples Used in the Cox Regression Analyses Variable Aging satisfaction sample Subjective age sample T1: n 496 T1: n 233 T3: n 233 T1: n 489 T1: n 195 T3: n 195 
Figure 2. Prototypical (thick line) and raw intraindividual changes (thin lines) observed over age (upper panel) and distance to death (lower panel) in subjective age. Prototypical age-related and mortality-related changes are relatively similar (0.67 and 0.83, respectively) with participants, on average, reporting that they feel approximately three quarters of a year older for each additional year lived or for each year closer to death.  
Self-Perceptions of Aging Predict Mortality and Change With Approaching Death: 16-Year Longitudinal Results From the Berlin Aging Study

September 2009

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Psychology and Aging

Satisfaction with one's own aging and feeling young are indicators of positive well-being in late life. Using 16-year longitudinal data from participants of the Berlin Aging Study (P. B. Baltes & K. U. Mayer, 1999; N = 439; 70- to 100-year-olds), the authors examined whether and how these self-perceptions of aging change with age and how such changes relate to distance from death. Extending previous studies, they found that it is not only higher aging satisfaction and younger subjective age but also more favorable change patterns (e.g., less decline in aging satisfaction) that are uniquely associated with lower mortality hazards. These effects are robust after controls for objective measures such as age, gender, socioeconomic status, diagnosis of dementia, or number of illnesses. As individuals approach death, they become less satisfied with their aging and report feeling older. For aging satisfaction, mortality-related decline is much steeper than age-related decline, whereas change in subjective age is best characterized as an age-related process. The authors discuss how self-perceptions of aging are embedded in mechanisms underlying pathways of dying late in life.


Table 1. Descriptive Information for Chronological Age, Felt Age, and Physical Age Discrepancies, and Satisfaction With Aging 
Figure 1. Change over time in the discrepancy between felt age and chronological age in years (Panel A), the discrepancy between physical age and chronological age in years (Panel B), and aging satisfaction (Panel C). For aging satisfaction, we used a T metric standardized to the crosssectional Berlin Aging Study sample at Time 1 (N ¼ 516, M ¼ 50, SD ¼ 10). The solid line represents the sample-level trajectory of the baseline model; the dotted line represents the sample-level trajectory after we controlled for age, gender, SES, number of illnesses, social loneliness, and cognitive functioning.
Table 2. Linear Growth Models for Felt Age and Physical Age Discrepancies and Satisfaction With Aging Over Time 
Table 3. Linear Growth Models for Felt Age and Physical Age Discrepancies and Satisfaction With Aging Over Time: Predictors of Level and Change Over 6 Years 
Self-Perceptions of Aging: Do Subjective Age and Satisfaction With Aging Change During Old Age?

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The Journals of Gerontology Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences

The present study examined time-related change in felt age, physical age, and satisfaction with aging in old age and covariates of this change. Using 6-year-longitudinal data from the Berlin Aging Study (age range = 70–104 years), we found that individuals' felt age remained on average about 13 years below their actual age over time, whereas they reported a decreasing discrepancy between physical and actual age and a decrease in aging satisfaction over time. After we controlled for level differences, a differential pattern of individual differences in change appeared for the three dimensions: Age contributed to a greater decline in aging satisfaction but an increase in the discrepancy of felt age. A higher number of illnesses at baseline attenuated change in felt age discrepancy. Future research on change of self-perceptions of aging will provide insight into mechanisms of resilience of the aging self in later life.


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... Considering that longer interactions are associated with greater complexity and that their duration increases over time, this may reflect increasing social demands introduced by the therapist during play. In this perspective, interruptions followed by a further high-quality interaction may reflect an interplay that develops in the "zone of proximal development" [111]. In turn, this may require higher self-regulation strategies, thus increasing the risk for the child that the social stimulation exceeds his regulatory abilities, eventually leading to more interruptions. ...

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Child-therapist interaction features impact Autism treatment response trajectories
Dyadic Drumming Across the Lifespan Reveals a Zone of Proximal Development in Children

Developmental Psychology

... En este sentido, los resultados de estudio van en línea de investigaciones previas que señalan que la edad cronológica puede no ser un buen indicador de las percepciones del tiempo futuro, al menos cuando se estudia específicamente a adultos mayores en lugar de compararlos respecto a adultos jóvenes (Baird et al., 2021;Chu et al., 2018;Strough et al., 2016). Al analizar en este estudio la asociación entre la percepción del tiempo futuro y la edad se evidencia una asociación clara que corrobora que según va aumentando la edad, la percepción del tiempo futuro limitada parece ser más fuerte (Fung et al., 2001;Kotter-Grühn et al., 2010;Lu et al., 2018). Estos resultados apoyan la evidencia científica en la que se incide en que las personas mayores como grupo, presentan una percepción del tiempo futuro como extendido, en lugar de limitado, en contraposición de otros trabajos previos como los de Giasson et al (2019) o Kornadt et al (2018). ...

Veränderungen im hohen Alter : Zusammenfassung längsschnittlicher Befunde der Berliner Altersstudie

... More broadly, our findings suggest that caution should be used in the interpretation of SPA, particularly as a measure of subjective views on aging. Although previous research has found SPA to be reliable, [80][81][82] the SPA score was constructed by merging scales that measure both satisfaction with aging and burden of aging. That can present risks in terms of psychometric validity, [83] particularly in the context we apply it here. ...

Self-Perceptions of Aging Predict Mortality and Change With Approaching Death: 16-Year Longitudinal Results From the Berlin Aging Study

Psychology and Aging

... Tools such as Kogan's Attitude toward Old People Scale (13), Lawton's Philadelphia Geriatric Center Morale Scale (14), and Laidlaw's Attitude to Aging Questionnaire (AAQ) (15) are utilized to quantify these attitudes. Factors known to influence these attitudes include physical health, cognitive function, socio-demographics, and education (16)(17)(18), with social support being a significant external contributor, where older adults with strong social networks report greater happiness and more positive aging attitudes (19,20). ...

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