RELIGION, HEALTH & PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING IN THE AGED

宗教、健康

• 批准号: 2050819
• 负责人: JEFFREY S LEVIN
• 金额: $ 10.52万
• 依托单位: EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1991
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1991-02-01 至 1995-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/2050819
• 关键词: African American; Mexican Americans; aging; computer program /software; health; human subject; longitudinal human study; psychological models; quality of life; racial /ethnic difference; religion; social adjustment; socioeconomics; statistics /biometry

The proposed research aims to analyze patterns of several dimensions of religiosity, to create multidimensional measurement models of these constructs, and to structurally model their effects on other endogenous constructs, including health status and psychological well-being. Exogenous constructs include education, income, marital status, and other correlates or predictors of religiosity or the other latent constructs. Through replicated secondary data analysis using seven national or regional datasets on aging, differences in these patterns and the factorial invariance of these measurement models and structural effects of religiosity will be examined comparatively by gender, race and ethnicity, and age. Both cross-sectional and multiwave panel models will be analyzed, and several multivariable and multivariate statistical techniques will be employed. These include analysis of covariance with multiple-comparison tests, confirmatory factor analysis, and structural-equation modeling. The latter two analyses will be conducted using LISREL-7.16 and EQS/EM-3.0, statistical software packages for covariance-structure modeling. The seven datasets to be used include the NORC General Social Survey, the NCOA Myth and Reality of Aging survey, the Quality of American Life survey, the National Survey of Black Americans, the Americans' Changing Lives study, the Three-Generations Study of Mexican Americans, and the San Antonio Longitudinal Study of Older Mexican Americans. In sum, the proposed research seeks to advance empirical health-related research on religiosity within gerontology through (a) the use of covariance-structure modeling techniques, (b) confirmation of multidimensional latent constructs for measuring religiosity, (c) multisample and split-sample replication, (d) the positing of alternative, testable, operational models based on mid-range theory, and (e) a comparative approach focused on gender, race and ethnicity, and age.

拟议的研究旨在分析几个维度的模式， 宗教性，以创建这些多维测量模型 结构，并在结构上模拟其对其他内源性 结构，包括健康状况和心理健康。外源 结构包括教育、收入、婚姻状况和其他相关因素 或宗教信仰的预测者或其他潜在的结构。通过 使用七个国家或区域数据库进行重复的二级数据分析， 关于衰老的数据集，这些模式的差异以及 这些测量模型的不变性和 宗教信仰将按性别、种族和民族进行比较， 和年龄。将分析横截面和多波面板模型， 和几个多变量和多变量统计技术将是 就业。其中包括多重比较协方差分析 测试，验证性因素分析和结构方程模型。的 后两项分析将使用LISREL-7.16和EQS/EM-3.0进行， 协方差结构建模的统计软件包。七 使用的数据集包括NORC一般社会调查、NCOA神话 和老龄化的现实调查，美国生活质量调查， 美国黑人全国调查，美国人改变生活的研究， 墨西哥裔美国人三代研究和圣安东尼奥 对墨西哥裔美国老年人的纵向研究。总而言之，拟议的 研究旨在推进关于宗教信仰的实证健康相关研究 在老年学中，通过（a）使用协方差结构建模 技术，（B）确认多维潜在构造， 测量宗教信仰，（c）多样本和分裂样本复制，（d） 提出可供选择的、可测试的、可操作的模型， （e）侧重于性别、种族、性别、性别、种族、性别 种族和年龄。