Shelbie G. Turner, MPH

Shelbie G. Turner, MPH

Ph.D. Student
turneshe@oregonstate.edu

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PDF icon Shelbie G. Turner, MPH (January 2021)

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At OSU
Affiliation(s): 
Human Development and Family Sciences
School of Social and Behavioral Health Sciences
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Major Professor: Karen Hooker, Ph.D.
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The underlying question that threads all of Shelbie’s work together is: “How do thoughts about the future shape behaviors in the present?”

Currently, she is studying how intergenerational relationships shape middle-aged people’s thoughts about who they may be in old age and, in turn, how those thoughts motivate them to prepare for their own age-related change.

Her dissertation study – titled the ACHIEVE (Assessing Caregiver Health In Everyday Contexts) Study – analyzes how women who are caring for parents with Alzheimer’s Disease or a Related Dementia think about their own aging processes and how those thoughts shape their pursuit of personally-identified physical activity goals.

You can learn more about Shelbie’s research projects here: shelbiegturner.weebly.com

Other research interests include:

  • Intergenerational relationships, especially intergenerational caregiving of older adults
  • Anticipating and transitioning into old age; possible selves; goal pursuit
  • Social cognition; views on age and aging; self-perceptions of aging
  • Women’s aging
  • Disparities in health behavior and health outcomes
  • Developmental methodology, especially intraindividual variability
My Publications

2020

Journal Article

S. Turner, Hooker, K., and Stawski, R. S., “Women's Self-Relevant Goal Pursuit in the Presence of Physical Pain: An Intraindividual Variability Approach.”, J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci, 2020.
S. Borowski, Wenzel, S., Smith, L., and Turner, S., “An Evaluation of the Community Recovery Program: A Case Management Approach to Assisting Individuals Recover from Substance Use and Incarceration”, Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 149 - 160, 2020.
S. Turner, Hooker, K., and Geldhof, G. J., “Self-Perceptions of Aging: Factorial Structure and Invariance by Gender.”, Gerontologist, 2020.

2019

Book Chapter

S. Turner and Hooker, K., “Possible Selves Theory”, in Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging, Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019, pp. 1 - 6.

Journal Article

S. Turner, Mejía, S. T., Stawski, R. S., and Hooker, K., “A Microlongitudinal Approach to Studying Grandmother-Grandchild Daily Interactions”, Innovation in Aging, vol. 3, no. Supplement_1, pp. S281 - S282, 2019.

2018

Journal Article

K. Hooker, Phibbs, S., Irvin, V. L., Mendez-Luck, C. A., Doan, L. N., Li, T., Turner, S., and Choun, S., “Depression Among Older Adults in the United States by Disaggregated Race and Ethnicity.”, Gerontologist, 2018.

2017

Journal Article

S. Turner, Brown, A. M., and Jarrott, S. E., “For Students, By Students: Service-Learner Involvement in the Development of Visiting Kits to Facilitate Student Interactions with Old Adults”, Journal of Intergenerational Relationships, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 181 - 187, 2017.