Linda Hassing

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Bakgrund
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Valda publikationer

Bakgrund

I was born in Reykjavík, Iceland in 1967. I studied psychology at the University of Reykjavík from which I graduated with a B.A. in 1992. After that I moved to Sweden for Ph.D. studies at the Department of Psychology at the University of Gothenburg. In 1998 I earned my Ph.D. with a thesis on episodic memory functioning in nonagenarians. Between 1998 and 2001 I worked as a researcher at the Stockholm Aging Research Center, at the Karolinska Institute and at the School of Health Sciences at Jönköping University. In 2001 I returned to the Department of Psychology at the University of Gothenburg where I am involved in research, teaching, and supervising. Since 2004 I am an associate professor in psychology. 

Undervisning

I am involved in teaching in various courses at all levels. My teaching includes memory and cognition, psychological aging, aging studies, statistical analyses, and research methods. I also supervise undergraduate students as well as graduate students.

Forskning

I am interested in how lifestyle, across the lifespan, can influence the performance of the human memory and other cognitive functions function in old age. There is a great variation in how well preserved these functions are in old people. In my research I have studied how, for example, overweight in midlife and physical activity relate to later cognitive function and risk of dementia. I am also interested in how emotional stress in midlife can influence later cognitive function as well as life satisfaction. 

Valda publikationer

Hassing, L. B., Dahl, A., Thorvaldsson, V., Berg, S., Gatz, M., Pedersen, N. L. & Johansson, B. (2009). Overweight in midlife and risk of dementia: A 40-year follow-up study. International Journal of Obesity, 33, 893-898. 

Dahl, A., Hassing, L. B., Fransson, E., Berg, S., Gatz, M., Reynolds, C., & Pedersen, N. L. (2009). Being overweight in midlife is associated with lower cognitive ability and steeper cognitive decline in late life. Journals of Gerontology: Medical Sciences.

Berg, A. I., Hassing, L. B., Nilsson, S. E., & Johansson, B. (2009). “As long as I’m in good health”. The relationship between medical diagnoes and life satisfaction in the oldest-old. Aging, Clinical, and Experimental Research.

Berg, A. I., Hoffman, L., Hassing L. B., McClearn, G., & Johansson, B. (2009). What matters, and what matters most for change in life satisfaction in the oldest-old: A study over 6-years among individuals 80+. Aging and Mental Health, 13, 191-201.

Thorvaldsson, V., Hofer, S. M., Hassing, L. B., & Johansson, B. (2008). Cognitive Change as Conditional on Age Heterogeneity in onset of Mortality-Related Processes and Repeated Testing Effects, in Scott M. Hofer and Duane F. Alwin eds., Handbook of Cognitive Aging: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Sage Publications, Inc.: New York. Pages 284-297.

Berg, A. I., Hassing L. B., McClearn, G., & Johansson, B., (2006). What matters for life satisfaction in the oldest-old. Aging and Mental Health. 10, 257-264.