PERSONALITY AND RESPONSES TO LIFE EVENTS IN THE ELDERLY

临床心理健康学术奖（CMHAA-K 07）将帮助 申请人作为教育工作者和调查员的发展， 人格过程和生活事件对心理健康的贡献 在老年人中。申请人将启动一系列研究， 将他在自杀人群中的工作扩展到另一个普通的生活 老年人的情况--丧亲之痛。在这项研究中， 罗切斯特大学癌症中心的肺癌患者 将进行前瞻性跟踪。数据将在一个 配偶已经进入肺癌治疗，6个月，18个月， 配偶死亡后37个月。本研究的目的是（1） 为了描述受试者的轴I诊断，抑郁水平（评估 通过自我报告和临床评级）和功能水平 在整个研究期间， （2）以婚姻为对照样本进行损失后; 丧前人格与丧后人格的关联 结果;（3）探讨人格与社会性的关系 支持;（4）描述受试者对特定 在整个研究过程中的人格测量。此外，申请人 我将使用在一个前瞻性的研究中收集的数据来研究类似的问题。 对底特律地区老年夫妇的调查研究（n= 1，532）。

This Clinical Mental Health Academic Award (CMHAA-K07) will assist the applicant's development as an educator and investigator in the contribution of personality processes and life events to mental health in the elderly. The applicant will initiate a series of studies designed to extend his work in suicidal populations to another common life circumstance of the elderly--bereavement. In this study, the spouses of lung cancer patients seen at the University of Rochester Cancer Center will be followed prospectively. Data will be collected shortly after a spouse has entered treatment for lung cancer, and 6 months, 18 months, and 37 months after the spouse's death. The aims of this study are (1) to describe the subjects' Axis I diagnoses, level of depression (assessed via self-report and clinical ratings), and level of functioning throughout the study period and to compare bereaved spouses six months after loss with a married comparison sample; (2) to test the hypothesized association between prebereavement personality and postbereavement outcome; (3) to examine the relationship between personality and social support; and (4) to describe the subjects' responses to specific personality measures throughout the study period. As well, the applicant will examine similar questions using data collected in a prospective survey study of elderly couples in the Detroit area (n=1,532).