*indicates student or postdoctoral fellow authors
Notable Publications
Fingerman, K. L., Richards, N. & Charles, S.T. (in press). Close ties, weak ties, and social integration across adulthood. In A. Lachman and S. T. Charles (Eds.), Handbook of aging. Washington DC: American Psychological Association Press.
Fingerman, K. L., Huo, M.*, Ng, Y. T.*, & Zarit, S. H., (2020). Social relationships and cognitive development across adulthood. In A. K. Thomas & A. Gutchess (Ed.), Handbook of cognitive aging: A life course perspective (pp. 350-366). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
Heid, A. R.*, Kim, K., Zarit, S. H., Birditt, K. S., & Fingerman, K. L. (2018). Relationship tensions and mood: Adult children’s daily experience of aging parents’ stubbornness. Personal Relationships, 25, 87-102. doi: 10.1111/pere.12229
Fingerman, K. L., Huo, M.*, Kim, K., & Birditt, K. S. (2017). Coresident and noncoresident young adults’ daily experiences with parents. Emerging Adulthood, 5, 337–350. doi:10.1177/2167696816676583
Fingerman, K. L., Cheng, Y.-P.*, Kim, K.*, Fung, H. H., Han, G., Lang, F. R., Lee, W.*, & Wagner, J. (2016). Parental involvement with college students in Germany, Hong Kong, Korea, and the United States. Journal of Family Issues, 37, 1384-1411. doi: 10.1177/0192513X14541444
Fingerman, K. L., Kim, K.*, Tennant, P. S.*, Birditt, K. S., & Zarit, S. H. (2016). Intergenerational support in a daily context. The Gerontologist, 56, 896-908. doi:10.1093/geront/gnv035 PMCID: PMC5019045
Fingerman, K. L., Cheng, Y.-P.*, Birditt, K. S., & Zarit, S. H. (2012). Only as happy as the least happy child: Multiple grown children’s problems and successes and middle-aged parents’ well-being. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences, 67, 184-193. doi:10.1093/geronb/gbr086. PMCID: 3410695
Fingerman, K. L., Cheng, Y.-P.*, Wesselmann, E. D.*, Zarit, S., Furstenberg, F.F, & Birditt, K. S. (2012). Helicopter parents and landing pad kids: Intense parental support of grown children. Journal of Marriage and Family, 74, 880-896. doi: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2012.00987.x PMCID: 4553417
Birditt, K. S., Tighe, L.A.*, Fingerman, K. L., & Zarit, S. H. (2012). Intergenerational relationship quality across three generations. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences, 67, 627–638, doi:10.1093/geronb/gbs050. PMCID: 3536553
Fingerman, K. L., Gilligan, M.*, VanderDrift, L.*, & Pitzer, L. M. (2012). In-law relationships before and after marriage: Husbands, wives, and their mothers-in-law. Research on Human Development, 9, 106-125. PMCID: 3686301
Fingerman, K. L., Vanderdrift, L. E.*, Dotterer, A., Birditt, K. S., & Zarit, S. (2011). Support to aging parents and grown children in Black and White families. The Gerontologist, 51, 441-452. doi:10.1093/geront/gnq114 PMCID: 3202703
Fingerman, K. L., Pitzer, L. M.*, Chan, W.*, Birditt, K. S., Franks, M. M., & Zarit, S. (2011). Who gets what and why: Help middle-aged adults provide to parents and grown children. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Social Sciences, 66, 87-98. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbq009 PMCID: 3031309
Fingerman, K. L. & Charles, S. T. (2010). It takes two to tango: Why older people have the best relationships. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 19, 172-176. doi: 10.1177/0963721410370297
Fingerman, K. L., Miller, L. M.*, Birditt, K. S., & Zarit, S. (2009). Giving to the good and the needy: Parental support of grown children. Journal of Marriage and Family, 71, 1220-1233. doi: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2009.00665.x. PMCID: 2811272
Fingerman, K. L. (2009). Consequential strangers and peripheral ties: The importance of unimportant relationships. Journal of Family Theory and Review, 1, 69-82. doi: 10.1111/j.1756-2589.2009.00010.x
Hay, E. L., Fingerman, K. L., & Lefkowitz, E. S. (2008). The worries adult children and their parents experience for one another. International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 67, 101-127. doi: 10.2190/AG.67.2.a
Birditt, K. S.*, & Fingerman, K. L. (2005). Do we get better at picking our battles? Age differences in descriptions of behavioral reactions to interpersonal tensions. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 60B, 121-128.
Fingerman, K. L., Hay, E. L.*, & Birditt, K. S.* (2004). The best of ties, the worst of ties: Close, problematic, and ambivalent social relationships. Journal of Marriage and Family, 66, 792-808. doi: 10.1111/j.0022-2445.2004.00053.x
Fingerman, K. L. (2004). The role of offspring and in-law’s in grandparents’ ties to their grandchildren. Journal of Family Issues, 25, 1026-1049. doi: 10.1177/0192513X04265941
Fingerman, K. L., & Bermann, E. (2000). Applications of family systems theory to the study of adulthood. International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 51, 5-29. doi:10.2190/7TF8-WB3F-TMWG-TT3K
Fingerman, K. L. (1996). Sources of tension in the aging mother and adult daughter relationship. Psychology and Aging, 11, 591-606. doi: 10.1037/0882-7974.11.4.591
Recent Publications
2024
Fingerman, K. L., Zhou, Z.*, Huo, M., Luong, G., & Birditt, K. S. (2024). Enduring bonds: Duration and contact in close relationships in late life. The Gerontologist, 64(4), gnad091.
Kim, Y.*, Ang, S., & Fingerman, K. L. (2024). Older adults’ and family caregivers’ technological arrangements and risk of institutionalization. Work, Aging, & Retirementm 10(1), 51-56. https://doi.org/10.1093/workar/waad005
Ng, Y. T.*, Han, S. H., Fingerman, K. L., & Birditt, K.S. (2024). Do friends get under the skin?. Everyday social encounters and cardiovascular functioning among Black and White adults in the United States. Health Psychology, 43(2), 142-153. https://doi.org/10.1037/hea0001341
Zhou, Z.*, Birditt, K. S., Leger, K. A., & Fingerman, K. L. (2024). Daily worry, rumination, and sleep in late life. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 179, 111622. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychores.2024.111622
Freedman, V., Agree, E., Seltzer, J., Birditt, K., Fingerman, K. L., Friedman, E., Lin, I.F., Margolis, R., Park, S., Patterson, S., Polenick, C., Reczek, C., Reyes, A., Truskinovsky, Y., Wiemers, E., Wolf, D., Wolff, J., Wu, H., Zarit, S. (2024). The changing demography of late-life family caregiving: A research agenda to understand future care networks for an aging U.S. population The Gerontologist, 64(2), doi: 10.1093/geront/gnad036
Zhou, Z.*, Zhang, S.*, Kim, Y. K., Birditt, K. S., & Fingerman, K. L. (2024). Need to belong, daily social engagement, and transient loneliness in late life. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 41(1), 115–136. https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075231211617
Fingerman, K. L., Zhou, Z*., & Gao, S.* (2024). Intergeneratonal ties in later life. Current Opinion in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2023.101743
2023
Lee, S., Ng, Y. T.*, Charles, S. T., Almeida, D. M., & Fingerman, K. L. (2023). Who has active lifestyles? Sociodemographic and personality correlates of activity diversity in two samples of adults. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 78(4), 659-669. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbac192
Ng, Y. T.*, Fingerman, K. L., & Birditt, K. S. (2023). Friendships and emotional well-being in the context of race and aging. The Gerontologist, 63(7), 1129-1139. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnad007
Brown, C. J.*, Jeon, S., Ng, Y. T.*, Lee, S., Fingerman, K. L., & Charles, S. T. (2023). Switching it up: Activity diversity and cognitive functioning in later life. Psychology and Aging, 38(6), 483–493. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000770 (Editor’s choice)
Zhang, S.*, Fingerman, K. L., & Birditt, K. S. (2023). Detecting narcissism from older adults’ daily language use: A machine learning approach. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Science, 78(9), 1493-1500. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbad061
Leger, K. A., Charles, S. T., Brown, C. J.,* & Fingerman K. L. (2023). Physical activity and daily stress processes in older adulthood. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Science, 78(1), 20–29. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbac113
Wang, H.*, Kim, K., Burr, J. A., & Fingerman, K. L. (2023). Financial problems in established adulthood: Implications for depressive symptoms and relationship quality with parents. Journal of Adult Development, 30, 167-177. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10804-022-09409-4
2022
Wood, K. A.*, Kim, Y. K.*, Ng, Y. T*., Huo, M., Fingerman, K. L. (2022). Black and White young adults’ support to midlife parents. The Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Science [Special issue], 77(11), 20722-2077. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbab205
Zhang, S.*, Kim, Y. K.*, Fingerman, K. L., Birditt, K. S., & Charles, S. T. (2022). Narcissism, social experiences, and mood in late life. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Science, 77(8), 1442-1453. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbac019
Fingerman, K. L., Kim, Y. K.*, Zhang, S.* Ng, Y. T.*, Huo, M. M., & Birditt, K.S. (2022). Television viewing, physical activity, and loneliness in late life. The Gerontologist, 62(7) 1006-1017. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnab120
Bui, C. N.*, Kim, K., & Fingerman, K. L. (2022). Support now care later: intergenerational support exchanges and older parents’ care expectations. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Social Sciences, 77(7), 1315–1324. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbac059
Ng, Y. T.*, Huo, M., Han, S. H., Birditt, K. S., & Fingerman, K. L. (2022). Older adult’s marital status, conversation frequency, and well-being in everyday life. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 77(3), 499-512. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbab112
Kim, Y. K.* & Fingerman, K. L. (2022). Daily social media use, social ties, and emotional well-being in later life. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 39(6), 1794-1813. https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075211067254
Fingerman, K. L., Kim, Y. K.*, Zhang, S.*, Ng, Y. T.*, Birditt, K.S. (2022). Late life in the living room: Room decor, functional limitations, and personality. The Gerontologist, 62(4), 519-529. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnab093 (Editor’s choice article)
2021
Xie, B., Shiroma, K.*, De Main, A. S., Davis, N. W., Fingerman, K. L, Danesh, V. (2021). Living through the COVID-19 pandemic: Community-dwelling older adults’ experiences. Journal of Aging & Social Policy, 33(4-5), 380-397. https://doi.org/10.1080/08959420.2021.1962174
Birditt, K. S., Turkelson, A.*, Fingerman, K. L., Polenick, C., & Oya, A.* (2021). Age differences in COVID-19 related stress, life changes, and social ties during the COVID-19 pandemic: Implications for psychological well-being. The Gerontologist, 61(2), 205-216. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnaa204
Fingerman, K. L., Ng, Y. T.*, Huo, M., Birditt, K.S., Charles, S. T., & Zarit, S. (2021). Functional limitations, social integration, and daily activities in late life. Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 76(10), 1937-1947. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbab014
Wang, H.*, Kim, K., Burr, J. A., Birditt, K. S., & Fingerman, K. L. (2021). Adult children’s daily experiences with parental advice: The importance of life problems and relationship quality. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences, 76(9), 1745–1755. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbaa169 PMCID: PMC8557851
Stokes, J. E., Kim, Y. K.*, Kim, K., & Fingerman, K. L. (2021). Grieving a grandparent: The importance of gender and multigenerational relationships. Journal of Marriage and Family, 83(3), 754–768. https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.12750
Napolitano, L., Furstenberg, F., & Fingerman, K. L. (2021). How families give and receive: A cross-class qualitative study of familial exchange. Journal of Family Issues, 42(9), 2159–2180. https://doi.org/10.1177/0192513X20968608
Kim, Y. K.*, Kim, K., Fingerman, K. L., & Umberson, D. J. (2021). Racial differences in early parental death, midlife life problems, and relationship strain with adult children. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Social Sciences, 76(8), 1617–1628. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbaa232
Huo, M., Ng, Y. T.*, Birditt, K. S., & Fingerman, K. L. (2021). Empathy and coping: Older adults’ interpersonal tensions and mood throughout the day. Gerontology. 67, 101–111. https://doi.org/10.1159/000511418
Ng, Y. T.*, Huo, M., Gleason, M. E., Neff, L.A., Charles, S. T., & Fingerman, K. L. (2021). Friendships in old age: Daily encounters and emotional well-being. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Social Science, 76(3), 551-562. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbaa007
Fingerman, K. L., & Pillemer, K. (2021). Continuity and changes in attitudes, health care and caregiving for older adults during the COVID-19 Pandemic. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Social Science, 76(4), e187-e198. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbaa231
Fingerman, K. L., Ng, Y. T.*, Zhang, S.*, Britt, K.*, Colera, G.*, Birditt, K. S., & Charles, S. T. (2021). Living alone during COVID-19: Social contact and emotional well-being among older adults. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Social Science. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbaa200
2020
Chai, H. W.*, Zarit, S. H., & Fingerman, K. L. (2020). Revisiting intergenerational contact and relationship qualityin later life: Parental characteristics matter, Research on Aging, 42(5-6)139–149. DOI:10.1177/0164027519899576
Xie, B., Charness, N., Fingerman, K. L., Kaye, J., Kim, M. T., & Khurshid, A. (2020). When going digital becomes a necessity: Ensuring older adults’ needs for information, services, and social inclusion during COVID-19. Journal of Aging & Social Policy. doi: 10.1080/08959420.2020.1771237
Fuentecilla, J. L.*, Huo, M., Birditt, K. S., Charles, S. T., & Fingerman, K. L. (2020). Interpersonal tensions and pain among older adults: The mediating role of negative mood. Research on Aging, 42(3–4), 105–114. https://doi.org/10.1177/0164027519884765
Polenick, C. A., Kim, Y., Depasquale, N.*, Birditt, K. S., Zarit, S. H., & Fingerman, K. L. (2020). Midlife childrens and older mothers depressive symptoms: Empathic mother–child relationships as a key moderator. Family Relations, 69(5), 1073-1086. doi:10.1111/fare.12466
Huo, M.*, Fuentecilla, J. L., Birditt, K. S., & Fingerman, K. L. (2020). Does empathy have a cost?: Older adults and social partners experiencing problems. The Gerontologist, 60(4), 617–627. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnz065
Fingerman, K.L., Birditt, K. S., & Umberson, D. (2020). Mobile technologies and social connection in late life. Mobile Technology for Adaptive Aging (pp. 67-74). Committee for Mobile Technology for Adaptive Aging. Washington DC: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. https://doi.org/10.17226/25878
Fingerman, K. L., Huo, M.*, & Birditt K. S. (2020). A decade of research on intergenerational ties: Technological, economic, political, and demographic changes. Journal of Marriage and Family: Decade Review, 82, 383-403.
Xie, B., Charness, N., Fingerman, K. L., Kaye, J., Kim, M. T., & Khurshid, A. (2020). When going digital becomes a necessity: Ensuring older adults’ needs for information, services, and social inclusion during COVID-19. Journal of Aging & Social Policy. doi: 10.1080/08959420.2020.1771237
Fuentecilla, J. L.*, Liu, Y., Huo, M.*, Kim, K., Birditt, K. S., Zarit, S. H. & Fingerman, K. L. (2020). Midlife adults’ daily support to children and parents: Implications for diurnal cortisol. Journal of Aging and Health. doi: 10.1177/0898264319863994
Huo, M.*, Fuentecilla, J. L.*, Birditt, K. S., & Fingerman, K. L. (2020). Empathy and close social ties in late life. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 75(8), 1648–1657. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbz044
Birditt, K.S., Polenick, C. A.*, Luong, G., Charles, S.T., & Fingerman, K. L. (2020). Daily interpersonal tensions and well-being among older adults: The role of emotion regulation strategies. Psychology and Aging.
Fingerman, K. L., Huo, M.*, & Birditt K. S. (2020). Mothers, fathers, daughters, and sons: Gender differences in intergenerational ties. Journal of Family Issues, 4(9), 1597-1625. doi/10.1177/0192513X19894369
Fingerman, K. L., Huo, M.*, Charles, S. T., & Umberson, D. J. (2020). Variety is the spice of late life: Social integration and activity in life. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Social Sciences, 75, 377-388. doi:10.1093/geronb/gbz007
Kim, K., Birditt, K. S., Zarit, S. H., & Fingerman, K. L. (2020). Typology of parent-child ties within families: Associations with psychological well-being. Journal of Family Psychology, 34, 448–458. doi:10.1037/fam0000595 PMCID: PMC7145731
Lee, H. J.*, Kim, K., Bangerter, L. R., Zarit, S. H., & Fingerman, K. L. (2020). Aging parents’ and middle-aged children’s evaluations of parents’ disability and life problems. Journal of Adult Development, 27, 135–146. doi:10.1007/s10804-019-09336-x
Wang, H.*, Kim, K., Burr, J. A., Birditt, K. S., & Fingerman, K. L. (2020). Middle-aged adults’ daily sleep and worries about aging parents and adult children. Journal of Family Psychology, 34, 621–629. doi:10.1037/fam0000642
Huo, M.*, Napolitano, L., Furstenberg, F. F. Jr., & Fingerman, K. L. (2020). Who initiates the help older parents give to midlife children. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Social Sciences, 75, 907–918. doi:10.1093/geronb/gbz098
Wang, H.*, Kim, K., Birditt, K. S., Zarit, S. H., & Fingerman, K. L. (2020). Middle-aged children’s coping strategies with tensions in the aging parent-child tie. The International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 90, 234–254. doi:10.1177/0091415018822079
Lee, J. E., Kim, K., Cichy, K. E., & Fingerman, K. L. (2020). Middle-aged children’s support for parents-in-law and marital satisfaction. Gerontology, 66(4), 340–350. https://doi.org/10.1159/000505589
2019
Kim, Y.,* Kim, K., Boerner, K., Birditt, K. S., Zarit, S. H., & Fingerman, K. L. (2019). Recent parental death and relationships between midlife adults and their own children. Journal of Marriage and Family, 81, 616–630. doi:10.1111/jomf.12549
2018
Fingerman, K. L., Huo, M.*, Graham, J. L.*, Kim, K., & Birditt, K. S. (2018). A family affair: Family typologies of life problems and midlife well-being. The Gerontologist, 58, 1054-1064. doi:10.1093/geront/gnx131
Huo, M.*, Graham, J. L.,* Kim, K., Zarit, S. H., & Fingerman, K. L. (2018). Aging parents’ disabilities and daily support exchanges with middle-aged children. The Gerontologist, 58, 872–882. doi:10.1093/geront/gnx144
Heid, A. R., Kim, K., Zarit, S. H., Birditt, K. S., & Fingerman, K. L. (2018). Relationship tensions and mood: Adult children’s daily experience of aging parents’ stubbornness. Personal Relationships, 25, 87-102. doi: 10.1111/pere.12229
Jensen, A. C., Whiteman, S. D., & Fingerman, K. L. (2018). “Can’t live with or without them”: Transitions and young adults’ sibling relationships. Journal of Family Psychology, 32, 385–395. doi:10.1037/fam0000361
Hartnett, C. S., Fingerman, K. L., & Birditt, K. S. (2018). Without the ties that bind: Young adults who lack active parental relationships. Advances in Life Course Research, 35, 103-113.
2017
Fingerman, K. L., Huo, M., Kim, K., & Birditt, K. S. (2017). Coresident and noncoresident young adults’ daily experiences with parents. Emerging Adulthood, 5, 337–350. doi:10.1177/2167696816676583
Birditt, K. S., Manalel, J. A., Kim, K., Zarit, S. H., & Fingerman, K. L. (2017). Daily interactions with aging parents and adult children: Associations with negative affect and diurnal cortisol. Journal of Family Psychology, 31, 699–709. doi:10.1037/fam0000317 PMCID: PMC5608619
2016
Fingerman, K. L., Cheng, Y.-P.*, Kim, K.*, Fung, H. H., Han, G., Lang, F. R., Lee, W.*, & Wagner, J. (2016). Parental involvement with college students in Germany, Hong Kong, Korea, and the United States. Journal of Family Issues, 37, 1384-1411.
2012
Fingerman, K. L., Cheng, Y. P., Birditt, K. S., & Zarit, S. (2012). Only as happy as the least happy child: Multiple grown children’s problems and successes and middle-aged parents’ well-being. The Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 67, 184-193. doi:10.1093/geronb/gbr086 PMCID 3410695. PMCID: 3410695
Fingerman, K. L., Cheng, Y. P., Wesselmann, E. D., Zarit, S., Furstenberg, F., & Birditt, K. S. (2012). Helicopter parents and landing pad kids: Intense parental support of grown children. Journal of Marriage and Family, 74, 880-896. doi: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2012.00987.x PMCID: Journal in Process
Fingerman, K. L., Gilligan, M., VanderDrift, L., & Pitzer, L. M. (2012). In-law relationships before and after marriage: Husbands, wives, and their mothers-in-law. Research on Human Development, 9, 106-125. PMCID: 3686301
2011
Fingerman, K. L., Pitzer, L. M., Chan, W., Birditt, K. S., Franks, M. M., & Zarit, S. (2011). Who gets what and why: Help middle-aged adults provide to parents and grown children. The Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, 66B, 87-98. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbq009 PMCID: 3031309
2010
Fingerman, K. L. & Charles, S. T. (2010). It takes two to tango: Why older people have the best relationships. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 19, 172-176. doi: 10.1177/0963721410370297