TY  - JOUR
A1  - Wolf, Friedrich
A1  - Seifert, Alexander
A1  - Martin, Mike
A1  - Oswald, Frank
T1  - Considering situational variety in contextualized aging research : opinion about methodological perspectives
T2  - Frontiers in psychology
N2  - 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.
KW  - context
KW  - aging
KW  - situation
KW  - ambulatory assessment
KW  - real-life study
KW  - experience sampling
Y1  - 2021
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/61138
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-611387
SN  - 1664-1078
VL  - 12
IS  - art. 570900
SP  - 1
EP  - 5
PB  - Frontiers Research Foundation
CY  - Lausanne
ER  -