Ergebnisse

Die wesentlichen Ergebnisse der ersten querschnittlichen Phase der Studie wurden 1996 auf deutsch veröffentlicht:

K. U. Mayer & P. B. Baltes (Hg.), Die Berliner Altersstudie, 1. Auflage 1996, 2. Auflage 1999, Akademie Verlag (vergriffen).

Eine überarbeitete Version dieses Buches erschien 1999 auf englisch (2001 als Paperback):

P. B. Baltes & K. U. Mayer (Eds.), The Berlin Aging Study: Aging from 70 to 100, 1999, Cambridge University Press , New York (siehe Table of Contents).

In der erweiterten Neuauflage der deutschsprachigen Monographie wird die längsschnittliche Fortführung der Berliner Altersstudie vorgestellt:

U. Lindenberger, J. Smith, K. U. Mayer & P. B. Baltes (Hg.), Die Berliner Altersstudie, 2010, 3. erweiterte Auflage, Akademie Verlag , Berlin (siehe Inhaltsverzeichnis).

Beide Monographien sind über den Buchhandel erhältlich.

Daten der Studie können durch externe Wissenschaftler beantragt werden (s. Daten).

Zahlreiche Beiträge zu Befunden der Berliner Altersstudie sind in wissenschaftlichen Fachzeitschriften und als Buchkapitel erschienen (siehe Publikationen). Im folgenden wird eine Auswahl zentraler BASE-Publikationen mit ihren Zusammenfassungen vorgestellt, um einen Überblick über das Spektrum der in BASE untersuchten Themen zu geben:

Zentrale BASE-Publikationen

A [B] C D E [F] [G] [H] I J [K] [L] [M] [N] O P Q [R] [S] T U V [W] X Y Z

B

Baltes, M. M. (1998). The psychology of the oldest old: The fourth age. Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 11, 411-415. Abstract

Baltes, M. M., & Lang, F. R. (1997). Everyday functioning and successful aging: The impact of resources. Psychology and Aging, 12, 433-443. Abstract

Baltes, P. B. (1997). On the incomplete architecture of human ontogeny: Selection, optimization, and compensation as foundation of developmental theory. American Psychologist, 52, 366-380. Full text

Baltes, P. B., Mayer, K. U., Helmchen, H., & Steinhagen-Thiessen, E. (1999). The Berlin Aging Study (BASE): Sample, design, and overview of measures. In P. B. Baltes & K. U. Mayer (Eds.), The Berlin Aging Study: Aging from 70 to 100 (pp. 15-55). New York: Cambridge University Press. Abstract

Baltes, P. B., & Smith, J. (1997). A systemic-wholistic view of psychological functioning in very old age: Introduction to a collection of articles from the Berlin Aging Study. Psychology and Aging, 12, 395-409. Abstract

Borchelt, M., Gilberg, R., Horgas, A. L., & Geiselmann, B. (1999). On the significance of morbidity and disability in old age. In P. B. Baltes & K. U. Mayer (Eds.), The Berlin Aging Study: Aging from 70 to 100 (pp. 403-429). New York: Cambridge University Press. Abstract

Bukov, A., Maas, I., & Lampert, T. (2002). Social participation in very old age: Cross-sectional and longitudinal findings from BASE. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 57B, P510-P517. Abstract

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Freund, A. M., & Baltes, P. B. (1998). Selection, optimization, and compensation as strategies of life management: Correlations with subjective indicators of successful aging. Psychology and Aging, 13, 531-543. Abstract

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Geiselmann, B., Linden, M., & Helmchen, H. (2001). Psychiatrists' diagnoses of subthreshold depression in old age: Frequency and correlates. Psychological Medicine, 31, 51-63. Abstract

Gerstorf, D., Smith, J., & Baltes, P. B. (2006). A systemic-wholistic approach to differential aging: Longitudinal findings from the Berlin Aging Study. Psychology and Aging, 21, 645-663.

Gerstorf, D., Ram, N., Röcke, C., Lindenberger, U., & Smith, J. (2008). Decline in life satisfaction in old age: Longitudinal evidence for links to distance-to-death. Psychology and Aging, 23, 154–168.

Geßner, R., Reischies, F. M., Kage, A., Geiselmann, B., Borchelt, M., Steinhagen-Thiessen, E., & Köttgen, E. (1997). In an epidemiological sample the apolipoprotein E4 allele is associated to dementia and loss of memory function only in the very old. Neuroscience Letters, 222, 29-32. Abstract

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Helmchen, H., Baltes, M. M., Geiselmann, B., Kanowski, S., Linden, M., Reischies, F. M., Wagner, M., Wernicke, T., & Wilms, H.-U. (1999). Psychiatric illnesses in old age. In P. B. Baltes & K. U. Mayer (Eds.), The Berlin Aging Study: Aging from 70 to 100 (pp. 167-196). New York: Cambridge University Press. Abstract

Hillen, T., Nieczaj, R., Münzberg, H., Schaub, R. T., & Steinhagen-Thiessen, E. (2000). Carotid atherosclerosis, vascular risk profile and mortality in a population-based sample of functionally healthy elderly subjects: The Berlin Aging Study. Journal of Internal Medicine, 247, 679-688. Abstract

K

Kleinspehn-Ammerlahn, A., Kotter-Grühn, D., & Smith, J. (2008). Self-perceptions of aging: Do subjective age and satisfaction with aging change during old age? Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 63B, P377–P385.

Kotter-Grühn, D., Kleinspehn-Ammerlahn, A., Gerstorf, D., & Smith, J. (2009). Self-perceptions of aging predict mortality and change with approaching death: 16-year longitudinal results from the Berlin Aging Study. Psychology and Aging, 24, 654–667.

Kunzmann, U. (2008). Differential age trajectories of positive and negative affect: Further evidence from the Berlin Aging Study. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 63B, P261–P270.

Kunzmann, U., Little, T. D., & Smith, J. (2002). Perceiving control: A double-edged sword in old age. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 57B, P484-P491. Abstract

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Lang, F. R. (2000). Endings and continuity of social relationships: Maximizing intrinsic benefits within personal networks when feeling near to death. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 17, 155-182. Abstract

Lang, F. R., Rieckmann, N., & Baltes, M. M. (2002). Adapting to aging losses: Do resources facilitate strategies of selection, compensation, and optimization in everyday functioning? Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 57B, P501-P509. Abstract

Linden, M., & Barnow, S. (1997). The wish to die in very old persons near the end of life: A psychiatric problem? Results from the Berlin Aging Study (BASE). International Psychogeriatrics, 9, 291-307. (See also Barnow & Linden, 1997: Abstract)

Linden, M., Horgas, A. L., Gilberg, R., & Steinhagen-Thiessen, E. (1999). The utilization of medical and nursing care in old age. In P. B. Baltes & K. U. Mayer (Eds.), The Berlin Aging Study: Aging from 70 to 100 (pp. 430-449). New York: Cambridge University Press. Abstract

Lindenberger, U., & Baltes, P. B. (1997). Intellectual functioning in old and very old age: Cross-sectional results from the Berlin Aging Study. Psychology and Aging, 12, 410-432. Abstract

Lindenberger, U., & Ghisletta, P. (2009). Cognitive and sensory declines in old age: Gauging the evidence for a common cause. Psychology and Aging, 24, 1-16.

Lindenberger, U., Singer, T., & Baltes, P. B. (2002). Longitudinal selectivity in aging populations: Separating mortality-associated versus experimental components in the Berlin Aging Study (BASE). Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 57B, P474-P482. Abstract

Lövdén, M., Ghisletta, P., & Lindenberger, U. (2005). Social participation attenuates decline in perceptual speed in old and very old age. Psychology and Aging, 20, 423-434.

M

Maas, I., Borchelt, M., & Mayer, K. U. (1999). Generational experiences of old people in Berlin. In P. B. Baltes & K. U. Mayer (Eds.), The Berlin Aging Study: Aging from 70 to100 (pp. 83-110). New York: Cambridge University Press. Abstract

Maas, I., & Settersten, R. A., Jr. (1999). Military service during wartime: Its effects on men's occupational trajectories and later economic well-being. European Sociological Review, 15, 213-232. Abstract

Maier, H., & Klumb, P. L. (2005). Social participation and survival at older ages: Is the effect driven by activity content or context? European Journal of Ageing, 2 , 31-39.

Maier, H., & Smith, J. (1999). Psychological predictors of mortality in old age. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 54, P44-P54. Abstract

Mayer, K. U., Baltes, P. B., Baltes, M. M., Borchelt, M., Delius, J., Helmchen, H., Linden, M., Smith, J., Staudinger, U. M., Steinhagen-Thiessen, E., & Wagner, M. (1999). What do we know about old age and aging? Conclusions from the Berlin Aging Study. In P. B. Baltes & K. U. Mayer (Eds.), The Berlin Aging Study: Aging from 70 to 100 (pp. 475-519). New York: Cambridge University Press. Abstract

Mayer, K. U., Maas, I., & Wagner, M. (1999). Socioeconomic conditions and social inequalites in old age. In P. B. Baltes & K. U. Mayer (Eds.), The Berlin Aging Study: Aging from 70 to 100 (pp. 227-255). New York: Cambridge University Press. Abstract

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Nitschke, I., Müller, F., Smith, J., & Hopfenmüller, W. (2000). Amalgam fillings and cognitive abilities in arepresentative sample of the elderly population. Gerodontology, 17, 39-44. Abstract

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Rapp, M. A., Gerstorf, D., Helmchen, H., & Smith, J. (2008). Depression predicts mortality in the young old, but not in the oldest old: Results from the Berlin Aging Study (BASE). American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 16, 844–852.

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Schaub, R. T., & Linden, M. (2000). Anxiety and anxiety disorders in the old and very old: Results from the Berlin Aging Study (BASE). Comprehensive Psychiatry, 41, 48-54. Abstract

Schaub, R. T., Münzberg, H., Borchelt, M., Nieczaj, R., Hillen, T., Reischies, F. M., Schlattmann, P., Geiselmann, B., & Steinhagen-Thiessen, E. (2000). Ventilatory capacity and risk for dementia. Journal of Gerontology: Biological Sciences & Medical Sciences, 55, M677-M683. Abstract

Schindler, I., & Staudinger, U. M. (2008). Obligatory and optional personal life investments in old and very old age: Validation and functional relations. Motivation and Emotion, 32, 23–36.

Smith, J., & Baltes, M. M. (1998). The role of gender in very old age: Profiles of functioning and everyday life patterns. Psychology and Aging, 13, 676-695. Abstract

Smith, J., & Baltes, P. B. (1999). Trends and profiles of psychological functioning in very old age. In P. B. Baltes & K. U. Mayer (Eds.), The Berlin Aging Study: Aging from 70 to 100 (pp. 197-226). New York: Cambridge University Press. Abstract

Smith, J., & Freund, A. M. (2002). The dynamics of possibles selves in old age. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 57B, P492-P500. Abstract

Steinhagen-Thiessen, E., & Borchelt, M. (1999). Morbidity, medication, and functional limitations in very old age. In P. B. Baltes & K. U. Mayer (Eds.), The Berlin Aging Study: Aging from 70 to 100 (pp. 131-166). New York: Cambridge University Press. Abstract

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Wagner, M., Schütze, Y., & Lang, F. R. (1999). Social relationships in old age. In P. B. Baltes & K. U. Mayer (Eds.), The Berlin Aging Study: Aging from 70 to 100 (pp. 282-301). New York: Cambridge University Press. Abstract