This special issue of the Journal of Aging and Health honors the memory of James Jackson by elevating his many research contributions to the physical and mental health of older Black Americans. The articles focus on the central problems and questions that James Jackson addressed throughout his illustrious career. All articles in the special issue focus on older Black Americans and include at least one of the following elements: (1) articles based on the National Survey of American Life, the data set for which James Jackson was the Principal Investigator; (2) articles that utilize the Environmental Affordances Model which was developed by James Jackson; (3) articles that include the Everyday Discrimination scale which was originally published by David Williams, James Jackson, and colleagues; (4) and articles based on the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), the data set for which James Jackson served as Editor for a special issue of The Gerontologist.
AllenJ.O.MezukB.ByrdD.AbelsonJ.RaffertyJ.AbelsonJ.WhiteC.JacksonJ (2022). Mechanisms of cardiometabolic health outcomes and disparities: What characteristics of chronic stressors are linked to HPA-Axis dysregulation?Journal of Aging and Health.
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BaasJ.BoyackK.IoannidisJ. P.A. (2021). August 2021 data-update for “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators” (p. V3). Mendeley Data. https://doi.org/10.17632/btchxktzyw.3
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BrooksJ.TaylorR.J.ChattersL. (2022). The impact of traumatic events on mental health among older African American and Black Caribbean adults. Journal of Aging and Health.
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BrownL.GarciaC.ReevesA.N.Pamplin IIJ.R.MitchellU. (2022). Stress is a latent construct: Exploring the differential experience of stress and discrimination on depressive symptoms among Black older adults. Journal of Aging and Health.
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ChattersL. M. (2022). Annual review of gerontology and geriatrics, 41, 2021. In: Black older adults in the era of black lives matter. Springer.
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ErvingC. (2022). Stress exposure and physical health among older African American and Caribbean Black women. Journal of Aging and Health.
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FrazierC.BrownT. (2022). Work-related stress, psychosocial resources, and insomnia symptoms among older Black workers. Journal of Aging and Health.
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HallL.CampbellR.GrossE.LichtenbergP.The relationship between financial decision-making and financial exploitation in older Black adults. Journal of Aging and Health.
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JacksonJ. S.KnightK. M.RaffertyJ. A. (2010). Race and unhealthy behaviors: Chronic stress, the HPA axis, and physical and mental health disparities over the life course. American Journal of Public Health, 100(5), 933-939. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2008.143446
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JacksonJ. S.LockeryS. A.JusterF. T. (1996). Introduction: Health and retirement among ethnic and racial minority groups. The Gerontologist, 36(3), 282-284. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/36.3.282
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JonesA.RaffertyJ.CochranS.D.AbelsonJ.HannaM.R.MaysV.M. (2022). Prevalence, severity, and burden of post-traumatic stress disorder in Black men and women across the adult lifespan. Journal of Aging and Health.
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JonesA.RaffertyJ.CochranS.D.AbelsonJ.MaysV.M. (2022). Persistence, impairment, disability, and unmet treatment of lifetime and 12-Month DSM-IV anxiety disorders in Black men and women, 50 years of age and older. Journal of Aging and Health.
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LincolnK.NguyenA. W. (2022). Race and age differences in social relationships and obesity: Findings from the National Survey of American Life. Journal of Aging and Health.
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MezukB.AbdouC. M.HudsonD.KershawK. N.RaffertyJ. A.LeeH.JacksonJ. S. (2013). “White Box” epidemiology and the social neuroscience of health behaviors: The environmental affordances model. Society & Mental Health, 3(2), 79-95. https://doi.org/10.1177/2156869313480892
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MezukB.KalesniksvaV.SpearsE.KirkK.RaffertyJ.Del ToroJ. (2022). Self-regulatory coping behaviors and stress reactivity: Exploring the Environmental Affordance Model of health Disparities. Journal of Aging and Health.
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MezukB.RaffertyJ.A.KershawK.N.HudsonD.AbdouC.M.LeeH.EatonW. W.JacksonJ.S. (2010). Reconsidering the role of social disadvantage in physical and mental health: Stressful life events, health behaviors, race, and depression. American Journal of Epidemiology, 172(11), 1238-1249. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwq283
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MitchellU.NguyenA. W.BrownL. (2022). Hope, purpose and religiosity: The impact of psychosocial resources on trajectories of depressive symptoms among middle-aged and older Blacks. Journal of Aging and Health.
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MouzonD. (2022). Chronic stress, coping, and mental health among older African Americans. Journal of Aging and Health.
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NguyenA. W.TaylorH.LincolnK.WangF.HamlerT.MitchellU. (2022). Religious involvement and sleep among older African Americans. Journal of Aging and Health.
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SylversD.TaylorR.J.BarnesL.IfatunjiM.A.ChattersL.M. (2022). Race and ethnic differences in major and everyday discrimination among older adults: African Americans, Black Caribbeans and Non-Latino Whites. Journal of Aging and Health.
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WilliamsD.R.YuY.JacksonJ. S.AndersonN. B. (1997). Racial differences in physical and mental health: Socio-economic status, stress and discrimination. Journal of Health Psychology, 2(3), 335-351. https://doi.org/10.1177/135910539700200305
