Scott Michael Lynch

Journal Article Military psychology : the official journal of the Division of Military Psychology, American Psychological Association · May 2024 Mindfulness and resilience are thought to be essential qualities of the military's special operations community. Both are tested daily in Special Operations Forces (SOF) assessment and selection efforts to prepare candidates to persist through grueling tra ... Full text Cite

Associations Between Configurations of Childhood Adversity and Adult Mental Health Disorder Outcomes.

Journal Article Soc Ment Health · March 2024 The life course perspective and cumulative inequality theory suggest that childhood adversity, occurring during a sensitive period of the life course, can have long-term consequences for adult mental health and well-being. Yet, the long-term influence of a ... Full text Link to item Cite

Academic culture beyond the individual: Group-level norms and college enrollment.

Journal Article Social science research · January 2024 Although many scholars have written about culture in schools and discuss culture as a group-level phenomenon, quantitative studies tend to empirically examine culture at the individual-level. This study presents a group-level conceptualization of academic ... Full text Cite

Characterizing Deficit Accumulation Among Gulf War Era Veterans.

Journal Article J Frailty Aging · 2024 BACKGROUND: Veterans of the first Gulf War (1990-1991) are reaching middle and older adulthood in differing degrees of health and biological age. Many Gulf War veterans report myriad negative symptoms classified as Gulf War illness (GWI), a chronic multi-s ... Full text Link to item Cite

Playing professional American football does not increase longevity.

Journal Article Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · December 2023 Full text Cite

Methods for studying life course health inequalities

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Psychological and physiological changes during basic, underwater, demolition/SEAL training.

Journal Article Physiology & behavior · December 2022 This longitudinal study examines the growth of psychological characteristics and adaptation of physiological markers of stress during a six-month assessment and selection course for U.S. Navy SEALs. Resilience, hardiness, and grit instruments were used to ... Full text Cite

Racial/Ethnic and Educational Disparities in the Impact of Diabetes on Population Health Among the U.S.-Born Population.

Journal Article The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · August 2022 ObjectivesThis study examines total life expectancies (TLEs) for both healthy and diabetic U.S.-born populations and 2 measures capturing quality of life: (a) the proportion of remaining life to be spent without either other chronic conditions or ... Full text Cite

Bayesian Multistate Life Table Methods for Large and Complex State Spaces: Development and Illustration of a New Method.

Journal Article Sociological methodology · August 2022 Multistate life table methods are an important tool for producing easily understood measures of population health. Most contemporary uses of these methods involve sample data, thus requiring techniques for capturing uncertainty in estimates. In recent deca ... Full text Cite

Measuring Ethnic Diversity.

Journal Article Annual review of sociology · July 2022 Researchers have investigated the effects of ethnic heterogeneity on a range of socioeconomic and political outcomes. However, approaches to measuring ethnic diversity vary not only across fields of study but even within subfields. In this review, we syste ... Full text Cite

Demographic and Socioeconomic Disparities in Life Expectancy With Hearing Impairment in the United States.

Journal Article J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci · April 23, 2021 OBJECTIVES: Hearing impairment is one of the most common disabilities among older people, and its prevalence will increase as the U.S. population ages. However, little is known about social disparities in onset or transitions into and out of hearing impair ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Disaggregating Heterogeneity among Non-Hispanic Whites: Evidence and Implications for U.S. Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities.

Journal Article Popul Res Policy Rev · February 2021 Research has made strides in disaggregating health data among racial/ethnic minorities, but less is known about the extent of diversity among Whites. Using logistic regression modeling applied to data on respondents aged 40+ from the 2008 to 2016 American ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Cognitively Intact and Happy Life Expectancy in the United States.

Journal Article The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · January 2021 ObjectivesWe examined the number of years to be lived with and without cognitive impairment and with high self-assessed quality of life (i.e., happiness) among a nationally representative sample of Americans aged 65 years and older. Two key questi ... Full text Cite

Regional differences in the impact of diabetes on population health in the USA.

Journal Article J Epidemiol Community Health · January 2021 BACKGROUND: To evaluate regional disparities in the influence of diabetes on population health, we examine life expectancies at age 50 between population with diabetes and healthy population and life quality among the population with diabetes among native- ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Bayesian Statistics in Sociology: Past, Present, and Future

Book · July 30, 2019 Although Bayes theorem has been around for more than 250 years, widespread application of the Bayesian approach only began in statistics in 1990. By 2000, Bayesian statistics had made considerable headway into social science, but even now its direct use is ... Full text Cite

28 Mathematical Demography

Chapter · January 1, 2019 Mathematical demography is the subfield of demography that is concerned with developing and refining measures and methods for studying population composition and change. Historically, demographers used population level data to compute measures of the key c ... Full text Cite

Comparing Theories of Resource Distribution: The Case of Iran

Journal Article Socius · January 1, 2019 This study addresses inequality through resource distribution in Iranian provinces with the use of new data collected and compiled from various sources using multilevel modeling. The models compare predictions of the various resource distribution theories ... Full text Cite

Race Differences in ADL Disability Decline 1984-2004: Evidence From the National Long-Term Care Survey.

Journal Article Journal of aging and health · February 2018 ObjectiveDisability declined in lower levels of impairment during the late 20th century. However, it is unclear whether ADL disability also declined, or whether it did so across race. In this study, we examine cohorts entering later life between 1 ... Full text Cite

Access to routine care and risks for 30-day readmission in patients with cardiovascular disease.

Journal Article Am Heart J · February 2018 BACKGROUND: Studies have shown that access to routine medical care is associated with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of chronic diseases. However, studies have not examined whether patient-reported difficulties in access to care are associated wi ... Full text Link to item Cite

Regional Variation in the Predictive Validity of Self-Rated Health for Mortality.

Journal Article SSM - population health · December 2017 Self-rated health (SRH) is a commonly used measure for assessing general health in surveys in the United States. However, individuals from different parts of the United States may vary in how they assess their health. Geographic differences in health care ... Full text Cite

The role of mindfulness and resilience in Navy SEAL training.

Associations Between Configurations of Childhood Adversity and Adult Mental Health Disorder Outcomes.

Academic culture beyond the individual: Group-level norms and college enrollment.

Characterizing Deficit Accumulation Among Gulf War Era Veterans.

Playing professional American football does not increase longevity.

Journal Article Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · December 2023 Full text Cite

Methods for studying life course health inequalities

Chapter · April 14, 2023 Cite

Psychological and physiological changes during basic, underwater, demolition/SEAL training.

Racial/Ethnic and Educational Disparities in the Impact of Diabetes on Population Health Among the U.S.-Born Population.

Bayesian Multistate Life Table Methods for Large and Complex State Spaces: Development and Illustration of a New Method.

Measuring Ethnic Diversity.

Demographic and Socioeconomic Disparities in Life Expectancy With Hearing Impairment in the United States.

Disaggregating Heterogeneity among Non-Hispanic Whites: Evidence and Implications for U.S. Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities.

Cognitively Intact and Happy Life Expectancy in the United States.

Regional differences in the impact of diabetes on population health in the USA.

Bayesian Statistics in Sociology: Past, Present, and Future

28 Mathematical Demography

Comparing Theories of Resource Distribution: The Case of Iran

Race Differences in ADL Disability Decline 1984-2004: Evidence From the National Long-Term Care Survey.

Access to routine care and risks for 30-day readmission in patients with cardiovascular disease.

Regional Variation in the Predictive Validity of Self-Rated Health for Mortality.

Socioeconomic, Psychosocial and Behavioral Characteristics of Patients Hospitalized With Cardiovascular Disease.

Journal Article Am J Med Sci · December 2017 BACKGROUND: Recent studies have drawn attention to nonclinical factors to better understand disparities in the development, treatment and prognosis of patients with cardiovascular disease. However, there has been limited research describing the nonclinical ... Full text Link to item Cite

Identifying Nonclinical Factors Associated With 30-Day Readmission in Patients with Cardiovascular Disease: Protocol for an Observational Study.

Journal Article JMIR Res Protoc · June 15, 2017 BACKGROUND: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of hospitalization in older adults and high readmission rates have attracted considerable attention as actionable targets to promote efficiency in care and to reduce costs. Despite a plethora of ... Full text Link to item Cite

The Importance of the Baby Boom Cohort and the Great Recession in Understanding Age, Period, and Cohort Patterns in Happiness.

Journal Article Social psychological and personality science · April 2017 Twenge, Sherman, and Lyubomirsky (TSL) claim that long-term cultural changes have increased young adults' happiness while reducing mature adults' happiness. To establish their conclusion, TSL use trend analyses, as well as more sophisticated mixed-effects ... Full text Cite

Trajectory Models for Aging Research

Chapter · January 1, 2016 Life course research investigates how human lives and events unfold over time, at both the individual level and larger levels, such as within families or nations. At the individual level, life course research is concerned with the development of individual ... Full text Cite

Commentary on "Disability Trajectories at the End of Life: A Countdown Model" The Problems With Time-to-Death as a Predictor of Disability.

Journal Article The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · September 2015 Featured Publication Full text Cite

Bayesian Theory, History, Applications, and Contemporary Directions

Chapter · March 26, 2015 Bayes' theorem is a simple method for reversing conditional probabilities in straightforward probability problems. The theorem's application was expanded to become a full-fledged paradigm of statistics that provides a coherent, but subjective, method for u ... Full text Cite

Exposure to stressors and trajectories of perceived stress among older adults.

Journal Article The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · March 2015 Featured Publication ObjectivesModels of stress incorporate both the environmental demands experienced by individuals (stressors) and the appraisal of these life events (perceptions). Because little is known about the extent to which experience and perceptions are rel ... Full text Cite

Economic outcomes with prasugrel versus clopidogrel in acute coronary syndrome patients: observations from prasugrel users and matched clopidogrel users.

Journal Article Journal of medical economics · January 2015 ObjectiveTo compare healthcare costs between clopidogrel and prasugrel over 30-day and 365-day periods after discharge from the hospital or emergency room (ER) in patients treated with prasugrel who were hospitalized or had an ER visit for an acut ... Full text Cite

A demographer’s view: Population structures tell a story about lifecourses

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Trajectory Models for Aging Research

Chapter · January 1, 2015 Life course research investigates how human lives and events unfold over time, at both the individual level and larger levels, such as within families or nations. At the individual level, life course research is concerned with the development of individual ... Full text Cite

Prasugrel vs. clopidogrel in acute coronary syndrome patients treated with prasugrel.

Journal Article Journal of clinical pharmacy and therapeutics · December 2014 Featured Publication What is known and objectiveCurrent guidelines recommend a combination of clopidogrel and aspirin for management of patients who have experienced an acute coronary syndrome (ACS). Additional antiplatelet agents have been recently approved. Few comp ... Full text Cite

Types of stressors

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Bayesian data analysis in observational comparative effectiveness research: rationale and examples.

Journal Article Journal of comparative effectiveness research · November 2013 Featured Publication Many comparative effectiveness research and patient-centered outcomes research studies will need to be observational for one or both of two reasons: first, randomized trials are expensive and time-consuming; and second, only observational studies can answe ... Full text Cite

Using Statistics in Social Research

Book · September 7, 2013 Featured Publication This book covers applied statistics for the social sciences with upper-level undergraduate students in mind. ... Cite

Using statistics in social research: A concise approach

Book · August 1, 2013 This book covers applied statistics for the social sciences with upper-level undergraduate students in mind. The chapters are based on lecture notes from an introductory statistics course the author has taught for a number of years. The book integrates sta ... Full text Cite

The Pursuit of Happiness in China: Individualism, Collectivism, and Subjective Well-Being During China's Economic and Social Transformation

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Black and Hispanic Immigrants' Resilience against Negative-ability Racial Stereotypes at Selective Colleges and Universities in the United States

Journal Article Sociology of Education · 2012 Featured Publication Stereotype threat is a widely supported theory for understanding the racial achievement gap in college grade performance. However, today's minority college students are increasingly of immigrant origins, and it is unclear whether two dispositional mechanis ... Full text Link to item Cite

Cohort differences and chronic disease profiles of differential disability trajectories.

Journal Article The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · November 2011 ObjectivesResearch shows declining disability rates, but little is known about whether cohort differences are due to delayed onset, increased recovery, or reduced severity of impairment. Furthermore, disease is considered the proximate cause of di ... Full text Cite

Dreams fulfilled dreams shattered: Determinants of segmented assimilation in the second generation

Journal Article Social Forces · March 1, 2011 We summarize prior theories on the adaptation process of the contemporary immigrant second generation as a prelude to presenting additive and interactive models showing the impact of family variables, school contexts and academic outcomes on the process. F ... Full text Cite

On the dangers of rosy lenses: Reply to Alba, Kasinitz and Waters

Journal Article Social Forces · March 1, 2011 We commend the measured tone and clearly stated arguments in Alba, Kasinitz and Waters' commentary on our article. It is particularly welcome because, in combination with our own conclusions, it lays out before the relevant audiences the substance of the d ... Full text Cite

On the Dangers of Rosy Lenses: Reply to Alba, Kasinitz and Waters

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Dreams Fulfilled, Dreams Shattered: Determinants of Segmented Assimilation in the Second Generation

Journal Article Social Forces · 2011 Featured Publication We summarize prior theories on the adaptation process of the contemporary immigrant second generation as a prelude to presenting additive and interactive models showing the impact of family variables, school contexts and academic outcomes on the process. F ... Full text Link to item Cite

Cohort Differences in Chronic Disease Profiles of Differential Disability Trajectories

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Demographic Approaches and Their Potential Applications in Third Age Research

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How Many Lags of X?

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Obtaining multistate life table distributions for highly refined subpopulations from cross-sectional data: A Bayesian extension of Sullivan's method.

Journal Article Demography · November 2010 Featured Publication Multistate life table methods are often used to estimate the proportion of remaining life that individuals can expect to spend in various states, such as healthy and unhealthy states. Sullivan's method is commonly used when panels containing data on transi ... Full text Cite

Stratification and Inequality over the Life Course

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The Demography of Disability

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Race, socioeconomic status, and health in life-course perspective: Introduction to the special issue

Journal Article Research on Aging · March 1, 2008 Full text Cite

The Influence of Acculturation on Breastfeeding Initiation and Duration for Mexican-Americans

Journal Article Population Research and Policy Review · 2008 Featured Publication This paper uses data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to test the hypotheses that (1) similar to other positive pre- and post-natal outcomes, Mexican immigrant mothers are more likely to breastfeed, and to breastfeed longer, than white o ... Full text Link to item Cite

Race, Socioeconomic Status and Health Across the Life Course: Introduction to the Special Issue

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Sublingual L-hyoscyamine for duodenal antimotility during ERCP: a prospective randomized double-blinded study

Journal Article Gastrointestinal Endoscopy · October 2007 Featured Publication Full text Cite

Introduction to Applied Bayesian Statistics and Estimation for Social Scientists

Book · June 30, 2007 Featured Publication The key feature of this book is that it covers models that are most commonly used in social science research, including the linear regression model, generalized linear models, hierarchical models, and multivariate regression models, and it ... ... Cite

Race, Ethnicity, and Aging

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Energy confinement scaling in the low aspect ratio National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX)

Conference Nuclear Fusion · October 1, 2006 Systematic and statistical studies have been conducted in order to develop an understanding of the parametric dependences of both the global and thermal energy confinement times at low aspect ratio in high power National Spherical Torus Experiment discharg ... Full text Cite

The role of aspect ratio and beta in H-mode confinement scalings

Conference Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion · May 1, 2006 The addition of high power, low aspect ratio data from the NSTX and MAST experiments has motivated a new investigation of the effect of aspect ratio on confinement scaling. Various statistical methods, including those that incorporate estimates of measurem ... Full text Cite

Explaining Life Course and Cohort Variation in the Relationship between Education and Health: The Role of Income

Journal Article Journal of Health and Social Behavior · 2006 Featured Publication Researchers have attempted to explain the relationship between education and health by incorporating mediators-such as income-through which schooling affects health. Research has also shown that the education-health relationship varies across age and cohor ... Full text Link to item Cite

Refining the Measurement of Women's Autonomy: An International Application of a Multi-Dimensional Construct

Journal Article Social Forces · 2006 Featured Publication Women's autonomy has long been a central concern for researchers examining the social position of women in developing countries. However, little emphasis has been placed on the measurement of autonomy, despite its importance for assessing the validity of c ... Full text Link to item Cite

A New Approach to Estimating Life Tables with Covariates and Constructing Interval Estimates of Life Table Quantities

Journal Article Sociological Methodology · 2005 Featured Publication Extant approaches to constructing life tables generally rely on the use of population data, and differences between groups defined by discrete characteristics are examined by disaggregating the data before estimation. When sample data are used, few researc ... Full text Link to item Cite

Self-Efficacy, Stress, and Academic Success in College

Journal Article Research in Higher Education · 2005 Featured Publication This paper investigates the joint effects of academic self-efficacy and stress on the academic performance of 107 nontraditional, largely immigrant and minority, college freshmen at a large urban commuter institution. We developed a survey instrument to me ... Full text Link to item Cite

Bayesian Statistics

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A new approach to estimating life tables with covariates and constructing interval estimates of life table quantities

Journal Article Sociological Methodology · January 1, 2005 Extant approaches to constructing life tables generally rely on the use of population data, and differences between groups defined by discrete characteristics are examined by disaggregating the data before estimation. When sample data are used, few researc ... Cite

Stability and change in the perceived social support of older Taiwanese adults.

Journal Article The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · November 2004 Featured Publication ObjectiveThe purpose of this study is to examine stability and change in Taiwanese elders' perceptions about the availability of social support and the sociodemographic and cultural factors associated with change.MethodsThis study uses da ... Full text Cite

Trajectories of impairment, social support, and depressive symptoms in later life.

Journal Article The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · July 2004 Featured Publication ObjectiveResearch has increasingly focused on the dynamic nature of disability and depressive symptoms in later life. Little research, however, has modeled disability and depressive symptoms as dynamic, related processes. Furthermore, virtually no ... Full text Cite

Legacy volunteering: A test of two theories of intergenerational transmission

Journal Article Journal of Marriage and Family · May 1, 2004 Featured Publication Sociological theory suggests two reasons that volunteering runs in families. The first is that parents act as role models. The second is that parents who volunteer pass on the socioeconomic resources needed to do volunteer work. Panel data from two generat ... Full text Cite

Bayesian Posterior Predictive Checks for Complex Models

Journal Article Sociological Methods and Research · February 1, 2004 Featured Publication In sociological research, it is often difficult to compare nonnested models and to evaluate the fit of models in which outcome variables are not normally distributed. In this article, the authors demonstrate the utility of Bayesian posterior predictive dis ... Full text Cite

Race, Aging, and Health: The History and Future of the Double Jeopardy Hypothesis

Journal Article Contemporary Gerontology · 2004 Featured Publication Cite

Bayesian Statistics

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Black-white differences in mortality compression and deceleration and the mortality crossover reconsidered

Journal Article Research on Aging · September 1, 2003 Featured Publication Most studies investigating Black-White differences in mortality patterns have focused exclusively on the well-known crossover but have ignored other aspects of the mortality curves, such as deceleration and compression. Yet compression and deceleration are ... Full text Cite

Race differences in depressive symptoms: a dynamic perspective on stress exposure and vulnerability.

Journal Article Journal of health and social behavior · September 2003 Featured Publication The existence, nature, and strength of race differences in mental health remain unclear after several decades of research. In this research, we examine black-white differences in the relationship between acute stressors and depressive symptoms. We reframe ... Cite

The Effect of altering ADL thresholds on active life expectancy estimates for older persons.

Journal Article The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · May 2003 Featured Publication ObjectivesResearch on disability and active life expectancy (ALE) has often criticized the measurement of disability but has rarely empirically investigated the effect of changing measurement. The purpose of this study was to determine whether alt ... Full text Cite

Cohort and Life-Course Patterns in the Relationship between Education and Health: A Hierarchical Approach

Journal Article Demography · 2003 Featured Publication Recent medical sociological research has examined whether the relationship between education and health is dynamic across age, whereas recent demographic research has examined whether the relationship varies across cohorts. In this study, I examine how coh ... Full text Link to item Cite

Interlocking trajectories of loss-related events and depressive symptoms among elders.

Journal Article The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · March 2002 Featured Publication ObjectivesAs people age, their peers (who are also aging) become increasingly susceptible to health decline and death, implying potential growth in stressful loss-related events over time for the individual. Yet little research has examined trajec ... Full text Cite

Who Goes, Who Stays: An Assessment of the Effects of a Freshman Mentoring and Unit Registration Program on College Persistence

Journal Article Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory and Practice · 2002 Featured Publication Cite

Success and future of demography: the role of data and methods.

Journal Article Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · December 2001 Featured Publication Demography typifies paradigmatic success; that is, cumulative scientific work that has provided useful perspectives on a set of important questions. This success can be traced partly to the core subject matter of demography, which is relatively conducive t ... Full text Cite

Effect of measurement of disability on active life expectancy estimayes: Does measurement matter?

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Where biodemographic theory and demographic data meet: a review of the Quest for Immortality (by Olshansky and Carnes). Essay review.

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Reconsidering mortality compression and deceleration: an alterative model of mortality rates.

Journal Article Demography · February 2001 Featured Publication In this research we develop a model of mortality rates that parameterizes mortality deceleration and compression, permits hypothesis tests for change in these parameters over time, and allows for formal gender comparisons. Our model fits mortality data wel ... Full text Cite

Demography's Success and Its Future: The Role of Data and Methods

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Measurement and prediction of aging anxiety

Journal Article Research on Aging · January 1, 2000 Featured Publication Anxiety about aging has been virtually neglected in extant research, but such anxiety should become increasingly important to understand as the population ages. This research addresses three questions pertaining to aging anxiety. First, is aging anxiety a ... Full text Cite

Caregiving networks of elderly persons: variation by marital status.

Journal Article The Gerontologist · December 1999 Featured Publication Using data from the 1982 National Long-Term Care Survey, this study examines the relationship between marital status and two dimensions of caregiving networks, size and composition. Results indicate that widowed and never married people have helping networ ... Full text Cite