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      Considering Situational Variety in Contextualized Aging Research – Opinion About Methodological Perspectives

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          Due to the increasingly heterogeneous trajectories of aging, gerontology requires theoretical models and empirical methods that can meaningfully, reliably, and precisely describe, explain, and predict causes and effects within the aging process, considering particular contexts and situations. Human behavior occurs in contexts; nevertheless, situational changes are often neglected in context-based behavior research. This article follows the tradition of environmental gerontology research based on Lawton’s Person-Environment-Interaction model (P-E model) and the theoretical developments of recent years. The authors discuss that, despite an explicit time component, current P-E models could be strengthened by focusing on detecting P-E interactions in various everyday situations. Enhancing Lawton’s original formula via a situationally based component not only changes the theoretical perspectives on the interplay between person and environment but also demands new data collection approaches in empirical environmental research. Those approaches are discussed through the example of collecting mobile data with smartphones. Future research should include the situational dimension to investigate the complex nature of person environment interactions.

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            Aging well and the environment: toward an integrative model and research agenda for the future.

            The effects of the physical-spatial-technical environment on aging well have been overlooked both conceptually and empirically. In the spirit of M. Powell Lawton's seminal work on aging and environment, this article attempts to rectify this situation by suggesting a new model of how older people interact with their environment. Goals of the paper include (a) integration of the essential elements of the ecology and aging literature, particularly in regard to Lawton's research, (b) development of connections between traditional theories of ecology of aging and life span developmental models of aging well, (c) acknowledgment of the pronounced historical and cohort-related changes affecting the interactions of older people with their environment, and (d) discussion of the implications of this analysis for concepts and theories of aging well. The model builds on a pair of concepts: environment as related to agency and belonging, founded in motivational psychology, and developmental science. After describing the model's key components, we discuss its heuristic potential in four propositions for future gerontological research and identify implications of the model for future empirical research.
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              Advancing understanding of person-environment interaction in later life: One step further

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                Journal
                Front Psychol
                Front Psychol
                Front. Psychol.
                Frontiers in Psychology
                Frontiers Media S.A.
                1664-1078
                12 April 2021
                2021
                : 12
                : 570900
                Affiliations
                [1] 1Interdisciplinary Ageing Research (IAW), Department of Educational Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt , Frankfurt, Germany
                [2] 2Center for Gerontology, University of Zurich , Zurich, Switzerland
                [3] 3School of Social Work, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland , Olten, Switzerland
                [4] 4University Research Priority Program “Dynamics of Healthy Aging”, University of Zurich , Zurich, Switzerland
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                Edited by: Francesco Aletta, University College London, United Kingdom

                Reviewed by: Jagriti Gangopadhyay, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India; Víctor Manuel Mendoza-Núñez, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico

                *Correspondence: Friedrich Wolf, fr.wolf@ 123456em.uni-frankfurt.de

                This article was submitted to Environmental Psychology, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology

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                10.3389/fpsyg.2021.570900
                8072042
                88546710-9392-4e2a-bc1d-ee1d48f7d776
                Copyright © 2021 Wolf, Seifert, Martin and Oswald.

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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                : 09 June 2020
                : 16 March 2021
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                Psychology
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                Clinical Psychology & Psychiatry
                context,aging,situation,ambulatory assessment,real-life study,experience sampling

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