Monika Ardelt
Contact
Phone: (352) 294-7166
Room: 3350
Office Hours:
Tues. & Thur. 1:55pm - 2:45pm
Email and Web Page
Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator, Sociology
Degree
Ph.D. Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1994
Areas of Interest
Human Development, Aging and the Life Course
Research
My research focuses on successful human development across
the life course with particular emphasis on the relations between wisdom,
purpose and meaning in life, spirituality, aging well, and dying well.
My overall goal is to identify factors that lead to both aging and dying
well and that might help families and institutions to facilitate well-being
and psychological growth for the elderly until the very end of life under
conditions that are more cost-effective and humane than customary practice.
(Updated: May 4, 2004).
Bio
Monika Ardelt, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Florida and the 2008 Colonel Allan R. and Margaret G. Crow Term Professor. She is a Founding Faculty Member and Member of the Advisory Committee of the University of Florida Center for Spirituality and Health. Dr. Ardelt received her Diploma (M.A.) in Sociology from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University of Frankfurt/Main in Germany and her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Aging Studies and as a deputy editor for the Journal of Family Issues. She is co-editor of the book Faith and Well-Being in Late Life: Linking Theories with Evidence in an Interdisciplinary Inquiry (in press). In 1997, Dr. Ardelt was awarded a grant from NIH/NIA to develop and assess the empirical validity and reliability of a three-dimensional wisdom scale (3D-WS; Ardelt, 2003). In 1999, she was elected as a Brookdale National Fellow to study the similarities and differences between aging and dying well. As a Positive Psychology Templeton Senior Fellow in 2005, she examined the association between spirituality and aging well. Dr. Ardelt has published numerous journal articles and book chapters in the area of successful human development across the life course with particular emphasis on the relations between wisdom, spirituality, aging well, and dying well.
