Predicting the everyday life events of older adults.
Predicting the everyday life events of older adults.
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预测老年人的日常生活事件。
DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-6494.1991.tb00258.x
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发表时间：
1991
影响因子：
5
通讯作者：
Guarnaccia,CA
中科院分区：
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作者：
Zautra,AJ;Finch,JF;Reich,JW;Guarnaccia,CA
预测人们的日常生活事件是一个相对未被探索的话题，尽管有几个主要的理论方法处理相关问题。性格理论认为人格是因果关系，而情境理论认为人的环境是因果关系。这两个极端主题的变体引发了互动主义的解释。除此之外，真正的交易方法侧重于在人们处理重大和日常生活事件时建立的持久的人-环境关系。本研究调查了206名老年人样本中每日阳性、阴性和不良健康事件的广泛预测因素。结果表明，性格变量在预测日常事件中只发挥了很小的作用，尽管外向性和社会网络规模之间的相互作用是显著的。背景人口统计变量和最近的配偶丧亲和身体残疾的主要压力因素在日常事件发生中发挥了作用。总的来说，事件的最强可预测性来自事件本身：随着时间的推移，高度的事件稳定性表明了真正的事务模型在理解日常事件发生方面的价值。
Predicting the everyday life events of people is a relatively unexplored topic, although several major theoretical approaches deal with related issues. The dispositional approach would assign a causal role to personality, while the situational approach would locate causation in the person's environment. Variations on these two extreme themes invoke an interactionist interpretation. Beyond this, a genuinely transactional approach focuses on the enduring person‐environment relationship established as people deal with major and everyday life events. This study investigated a wide range of predictors of daily positive, negative, and ill‐health events over time in a sample of 206 older adults. Results showed that personality variables played only a minor role in predicting daily events, although an interaction between extraversion and social network size was significant. Background demographic variables and the major stressors of recent conjugal bereavement and physical disability played a role in daily event occurrences. Overall, the strongest degree of predictability of events came from the events themselves: The high degree of event stability over time indicated the value of a genuinely transactional model in understanding the occurrence of everyday events.