Heterogeneity and Differential Development Across the Lifespan: Conceptual and Methodological Promises and Challenges

整个生命周期的异质性和差异化发展：概念和方法论的承诺和挑战

• 批准号: 15826094
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Denis Gerstorf
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Psychologie
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Fellowships
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2004-12-31 至 2007-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/15826094?language=en
• 关键词: Heterogeneity; Differential; Development; Across; Lifespan

Central to the proposed research are notions about communalities and differences in lifespan developmental processes. To shed light on facets of these notions in old age, I plan to pursue four inter-related projects: (1) learn and apply recent advances in statistical modeling to examine dynamic rather than static relations within and across domains of functioning, (2) add to the consideration of age-related processes by exploiting the utility of alternative time dimensions such as distance to death, (3) use a systemic-wholistic perspective on multiple domains to supplement functionoriented research in single domains, and (4) consider short-term intraindividual variability as a complement to long-term enduring change. I would like to work on these projects over a two-year post-doc phase collaborating together with Profs. McArdle, Salthouse, and Nesselroade (University of Virginia, USA) who are highly acknowledged experts in the field of aging research. Depending upon funding through the DFG, the prospect is that the projects provide a unique context to better understand the diversity of development in old age and its underlying mechanisms as well as for me to expand my substantive expertise and methodological skills considerably.

拟议的研究的核心是关于社区和寿命发展过程的差异的概念。为了阐明这些概念在老年的各个方面，我计划进行四个相互关联的项目：（1）学习和应用统计建模的最新进展，以检查功能领域内和跨功能领域的动态关系，而不是静态关系，（2）通过利用替代时间维度（如死亡距离）的效用，增加对年龄相关过程的考虑，（3）在多个领域使用系统整体观点来补充单一领域的功能导向研究，（4）考虑短期个体内变异作为长期持久变化的补充。我想在这些项目上工作了两年的博士后阶段与教授合作。McArdle，Salthouse和Nesselroade（美国弗吉尼亚大学），他们是衰老研究领域的公认专家。根据通过老年发展基金提供的资金，前景是这些项目提供了一个独特的背景，以更好地了解老年发展的多样性及其基本机制，并使我大大扩展我的实质性专业知识和方法技能。