Emily Willroth’s research focuses on well-being and health across the lifespan.
Willroth’s current research examines how different components of well-being (e.g., emotion, life satisfaction, sense of purpose) vary and change across time, both in the short-term from moment-to-moment and in the long-term across the adult lifespan. She applies insights from this research to examine links between well-being and important health outcomes in middle and older adulthood, such as chronic illness, mortality, and dementia risk.
Selected Publications
Willroth, E.C., Pfund, G.N., McGhee, C., & Rule, P. (2023). Wellbeing as a protective factor against cognitive decline and dementia risk: A review of the literature and directions for future research. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Science. Online ahead of print.
Willroth, E.C., James, B.D., Graham, E.K., Kapasi, A., Bennett, D.A., & Mroczek, D.K. (2022). Well-being and cognitive resilience to dementia-related neuropathology. Psychological Science. Online ahead of print.
Willroth, E.C., John, O.P., Biesanz, J., & Mauss, I.B. (2020). Understanding short-term variability in life satisfaction: The individual differences in evaluating life satisfaction (IDELS) model. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 119, 229-248.
Willroth, E.C., Atherton, O.E, & Robins, R.W. (2021). Life satisfaction trajectories during the transition from adolescence to young adulthood: Findings from a longitudinal study of Mexican-origin youth. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 120, 192-205.
Willroth, E.C., Graham, E.K, & Mroczek, D.K. (2020). Comparing the predictive utility of trait affect and average daily affect for the prospective prediction of health outcomes. Journal of Research in Personality, 87, 103966.
Willroth, E.C. (2022). The benefits and challenges of a unifying conceptual framework for well-being constructs. Affective Science. Online ahead of print.
Willroth, E.C., Graham, E.K., & Mroczek, D.K. (2022). Challenges and opportunities in preregistration of coordinated data analysis: A template and tutorial. Psychology and Aging, 37, 136-140.
