Prof. Daniel K. Mroczek
United States of America
Dan Mroczek’s research focuses on 1.) lifespan personality development, including change, stability, and trajectory models of key traits, 2) the influence of personality (and personality change) on physical health, cognitive aging, dementia, and mortality risk. He also has several methodological interests, in particular multilevel modeling, survival analysis, longitudinal modeling, secondary and archival data analysis, and coordinated (multi study) data analysis.
Professional experience
Dan Mroczek received his B.S. at Loyola University Chicago and his Ph.D. in developmental psychology at Boston University. After completing a postdoc in epidemiology at the Univ. of Michigan, he was a psychology professor at Fordham University for 10 years. He then moved to Purdue University where he held the Berners-Hanley Chair of Gerontology within the Human Development & Family Studies department. After 8 years at Purdue he moved to Northwestern where he has a dual appointment across the Feinberg School of Medicine (Medical Social Sciences department) and the Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences (Psychology department).
Education
Dan Mroczek received his B.S. at Loyola University Chicago and his Ph.D. in developmental psychology at Boston University. He then completed a postdoc in epidemiology at the University of Michigan.
United States of America
- Place of affiliation
- Mroczek DK, Hauner K, Greene, GJ, Kaiser, K, Peipert JD, Golf, M, Kircher, S, Shaunfield, S, Lylerohr, M, Cella, D. (in press). Obstacles to Biosimilar Acceptance and Uptake in Oncology: The Critical Role of Non-Economic Factors. JAMA Oncology.
- Mroczek, D.K., Graham, E.K., Yoneda, T., & Luo, J. (in press) Personality Change and Development in Adulthood. In Lachman, M. Spro, A., Charles, S., & Neupert, S. (Es.), APA Handbook of Adult Development & Aging. Washington, DC: APA Books.
- Condon, D. M., Graham, E. K., & Mroczek, D. K. (in press). Replication research. In B. J. Carducci (Editor-in-Chief & Vol Ed.), The Wiley-Blackwell encyclopedia of personality and individual differences: Vol. II. Research methods and assessment techniques. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
- Lam, P., Mroczek, D., & Chen, E. (In press). Life course Perspectives in Health Psychology. In Health Psychology Handbook.
- Jacobson, LP, Parker, CB, Cella, D, Mroczek DK, and Lester, BM (in press) Approaches to Protocol Standardization and Data Harmonization in the ECHO-wide Cohort Study. Pediatric Research
- Atherton, O.E., Willroth, E.C., Weston, S.J., Mroczek, D.K., & Graham, E.K. (2024). Longitudinal associations among the Big Five personality traits and healthcare utilization in the U.S. Social Science and Medicine, 340, 116494. DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116494.
- Graham, EK, Atherton, OE, Mroczek, DK, McGhee, C., Pieramici, LD., Lewis-Thames, MW, Curtis, LM, Cella, D., Opsasnick, LA, Lovett, RM, O’Conor, R, Wolf, M. (2024) Longitudinal Associations Between Multimorbidities and Patient-Reported Quality of Life. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences. 79(2): 1-11. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbad173.
- Anthony D Ong, Eileen K Graham, Kathryn Jackson, Olivia E Atherton, Jing Luo, Emily C Willroth, Emorie D Beck, Tomiko Yoneda, Dakota W Cintron, Daniel K Mroczek, Andrew Steptoe (2024), Associations Between Generativity and Social Asymmetry Among Older Adults in Japan , The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Volume 79, Issue 2, February 2024, gbad183, https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbad183
- Kaiser K, Hauner K, Shaunfield S, Greene GJ, Lyleroehr M, Peipert JD, Kircher S, Cella D, Golf M, and Mroczek DK.(2023). A Qualitative Study of Medical Oncologists’ Knowledge and Views of Biosimilars in the United States. Medical & Clinical Research: Open Access. 2023 (1):1-5.
- Luo, J., Zhang, B., Graham, E. K., & Mroczek, D. K. (2023). Does personality always matter for health? Examining the moderating effect of age on the personality-health link from life span developmental and aging perspectives. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 125(5), 1189–1206. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000485
- Beck, E. D., Yoneda, T., James, B., Bennet, D. A., Hassenstab, J., Katz, M. Lipton, R., Morris, J. Mroczek, D.K., Graham, E. K. (2023). Personality Predictors of Dementia Diagnosis and Neuropathological Burden: An Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis. Alzheimer’s & Dementia, https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/gbc6s
- Atherton, O. E., PhD, Willroth, E. C., Whang, P. H., Graham, E. K., & Mroczek, D. (2023). Personality Predictors of Risky Health Behaviors Across the Lifespan: A Coordinated Analysis of 13 Longitudinal Studies. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/3UTD5
