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Member Profiles
Gary T. Reker Selected Publications Reker, G. T. (2002). Prospective predictors of successful aging in community-residing and institutionalized Canadian elderly. Ageing International, 27, 42-64. Reker, G. T. (2002). Provisional manual of the Spiritual Meaning Index (SMI-24). Trent University, Peterborough, ON: Student Psychologists Press. Reker, G. T. (1997). Personal meaning, optimism, and choice: Existential predictors of depression in community and institutional elderly. The Gerontologist, 37, 709-716. Reker, G. T. (1992). Manual of the Life Attitude Profile-Revised (LAP-R). Trent University, Peterborough, ON: Student Psychologists Press. Reker, G. T. (1985a). Toward a holistic model of health, behavior, and aging. In J. E. Birren & J. Livingston (Eds.), Cognition, stress, and aging (pp. 47-71). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. Reker, G. T. (1985b). Personal optimism, physical, and mental health: The triumph of successful aging. In J. E. Birren & J. Livingston (Eds.), Cognition, stress, and aging (pp. 134-173). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. Reker, G. T., & Chamberlain, K. (Eds.)(2000), Exploring existential meaning: Optimizing human development across the life span. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Reker, G. T., & Fry, P. S. (2003). Factor structure and invariance of personal meaning measures in cohorts of younger and older adults. Personality and Individual Differences, 34, 1-17. Reker, G. T. , Peacock, E. J., & Wong, P. T. P. (1987). Meaning and purpose in life and well- being: A life-span perspective. Journal of Gerontology, 42, 44-49. Wong, P. T. P., Reker, G. T., & Gesser, G. (1994). The Death Attitude Profile-Revised (DAP- R): A multidimensional measure of attitudes toward death. In R. A. Neimeyer (Ed.), Death anxiety handbook: Research, instrumentation, and application (pp. 121-148). Washington, DC: Taylor and Francis. Articles accepted, under review, or in progress Reker, G. T. (under review). Meaning in life of young, middle-aged, and older adults: Factorial validity, age, and gender invariance of the Personal Meaning Index (PMI). Personality and Individual Differences. Reker, G. T. (in progress). Spirituality, religiosity, and perceived well-being in early and late adulthood: The mediating role of personal meaning. Reker, G. T. , & Leclerc, G. (in progress). Cultural, gender, and longitudinal invariance of the Personal Meaning Index (PMI) in English and French Canadian Elderly. Canadian Journal on Aging. Reker, G. T., & Woo, L. (in progress). Personal meaning orientations and psychosocial adjustment in the elderly. International Journal of Aging and Human Development. Organizational Membership Current: Gerontological
Society of America Prior: Alzheimer’s
Society of Peterborough and Victoria List of Courses dealing with health issues 1. Adult Development
and Aging: Psychosocial Perspectives (PSY 363H) Current Funding SSHRC Committee on Research: "Personal meaning orientations and psychosocial adjustment in the elderly" ($3,284.00).
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I
am interested in the investigation of quality of life across the
entire life span, but with particular emphasis on the later years
of life. I am an advocate of growth models of aging and the "salutogenic" approach,
an orientation that focusses on positive, healthy development. I
am particularly interested in the investigation of existential constructs
such as personal meaning, personal optimism, and spirituality and
their adaptive role in moderating and/or mediating between sources
of stress and physical and mental health outcomes. I have a secondary
interest in the development of measuring instruments in the areas
of health, personality, personal meaning, death attitudes, stress,
spirituality, and subjective well-being.