Research Initiatives

Current Research Projects

Openness to Experience and Successful Aging

Does your personality affect how your brain ages? This project explores the role of openness to experience, a personality factor, in successful aging and brain health.

Jessica Fleck, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology and SCOSA's Assistant Director

The Effect of Visual Manipulation on Postural Responses of Young and Older Adults-Phase III.

Rania Almajid, PT, MS, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Physical Therapy

Get Fit Seniors 2025

Alysia Mastrangelo, Ph.D., Professor of Physical Therapy with colleagues Mary Kientz (OT) and Joan Perks (NURS)

Gender, Age, and the Shape of Depressive Symptoms Over 13 Years of the ORANJ BOWL Longitudinal Study of Aging in New Jersey.

By analyzing long-term patterns, we aim to provide insights into mental health disparities among older adults.

Kaite Yang, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology

Aging Over the Rainbow

Stockton’s Lifespan-REACT Lab and SHINE Lab are collaboratively recruiting participants for a paid research study, "Aging Over the Rainbow," to explore how stressors and resilience factors shape the health and wellbeing of older sexual minority (lesbian, gay, bisexual) adults.

To Participate you must:

Be 65+ years of age or older
Identify as lesbian, bisexual, queer, and/or non-heterosexual (LGB) person
Reside in the United States
Have access to the internet

Study Involves...

Completing an online 30-minute survey that asks about stress, discrimination experiences, coping behaviors, diet, and alcohol use.
Participants will be compensated with a $10 Amazon e-gift card

If you are interested:

Fill out our interest form by clicking HERE.

What we will do with your data:

Your participation in the project is completely confidential! We are looking for patterns across all participants and not the performance of any one participant. All results will be reported for the overall dataset and no individual data will be reported.