PREDICTORS OF HEALTH AND LONGEVITY

健康和长寿的预测因素

• 批准号: 2442236
• 负责人: HOWARD S. FRIEDMAN
• 金额: $ 9.36万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1990
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1990-08-01 至 1999-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/2442236
• 关键词: alcoholic beverage consumption; behavioral /social science research tag; behavioral medicine; child psychology; coping; early experience; emotional adjustment; epidemiology; exercise; gender difference; health behavior; human data; human middle age (35-64); human morbidity; human mortality; human old age (65+); longevity; longitudinal human study; marriage /marital status; obesity; personality; psychobiology; psychological stressor; smoking; social psychology; social support network; tobacco abuse

The research of this revised competing continuation grant will examine the relationships between longevity/cause of death and key behavioral and psychosocial predictors. In particular, this research will test hypothesized relations between major stressor patterns and response patterns earlier in life and subsequent premature death in middle and old age. The design is an archival prospective cohort study. The raw data come from the longitudinal Terman Life Cycle Study, begun in 1921 by L. Terman and continued by R. Sears and others, plus additional data on cause of death recently collected in the ongoing research. The subjects are 857 men and 671 women followed from their childhood in the 1920's until the present, the longest continuous cohort study ever conducted. In the ongoing research, reliable indices of childhood personality, childhood stress (e.g. broken families), adult health behaviors (alcohol use, smoking, body mass), actual and perceived social support, and related indices have been created or gathered, and it has been established through statistical survival analyses that some of these key variables predict longevity across the life-span. The planned research involves the explaining of cause of death and longevity--i.e. the testing of models.--employing these and related psychosocial stresses and resources. Significant questions in behavioral medicine, psychosocial epidemiology, and health psychology involving the long-term effects of conscientiousness, optimism' social ties, and health-relevant behaviors (smoking, drinking, overeating, exercise) will be addressed using survival analyses, supplemented by logistic regression analyses as appropriate. Male/female differences in longevity, including documented differences in longevity correlates of marriage, also will be examined further in an attempt to shed light on puzzling gender differences. This study will thus provide important information relevant to our understanding of the influence of social, individual, and behavioral factors on longevity and cause of death across the life span.

对这一修订后的竞争延续拨款的研究将 检查长寿/死因与关键因素之间的关系 行为和心理社会预测者。特别是，这一点 研究将检验主要应激源之间的假设关系 生命早期及以后的模式和反应模式 中老年过早死亡。设计是一个档案馆 前瞻性队列研究。原始数据来自纵向 特曼生命周期研究，由L.特曼于1921年开始，并继续 由R.Sears和其他人提供，以及关于死因的更多数据 最近收集的正在进行的研究。研究对象为857人 男性和671名女性从20世纪20年代的童年一直跟踪到S 目前，这是有史以来进行的持续时间最长的队列研究。 在正在进行的研究中，儿童个性的可靠指数， 童年压力(如破碎的家庭)、成人健康行为 (饮酒、吸烟、体重)、实际和感知的社交 支持，并已创建或收集相关指数，并且它 是通过统计生存分析来确定的 其中一些关键变量可以预测人的一生中的寿命。 计划中的研究包括死因解释和 长寿--即模型的测试。--使用这些和相关的 心理社会压力和资源。中的重要问题 行为医学、心理社会流行病学和健康 涉及责任心的长期影响的心理学， 乐观主义的社会联系和与健康相关的行为(吸烟、 饮酒、暴饮暴食、锻炼)将用生存来解决 分析，辅之以Logistic回归分析，如下 恰如其分。男性和女性的寿命差异，包括 记录在案的长寿与婚姻相关的差异也 将被进一步研究，试图阐明令人费解的 性别差异。因此，这项研究将提供重要的 与我们对影响的理解相关的信息 社会、个人和行为因素对长寿及其原因的影响 整个生命中的死亡。