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- Title
Behavioral Gerontology Research: Where are the Male Participants?
- Authors
LaLonde, Kate B.; Zimmermann, Zachary J.; Poling, Alan
- Abstract
It has been reported that females are underrepresented in several areas of psychological research, which may have significant clinical and theoretical implications. No one has reported, however, whether women are underrepresented in behavioral gerontology research. To make this determination we recorded the gender of participants in behavioral gerontology studies published in six journals. In 129 published studies that included older adults (i.e. people 55 or more years of age) there were a total of 3070 participants, and most (69%) were female. Underrepresentation of men is significant insofar as treatment effects are sometimes gender specific, making it inappropriate to generalize results from females to males (or vice versa). Moreover, underrepresentation of older men suggests that their behavioral needs may not be generating the attention they deserve. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- Subjects
GERIATRIC psychiatry; SEX distribution; SYSTEMATIC reviews; BEHAVIORAL research; HUMAN research subjects
- Publication
Behavioral Interventions, 2015, Vol 30, Issue 4, p378
- ISSN
1072-0847
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/bin.1416