PROSPECTIVE STUDY OF THE MENTAL HEALTH OF BLACK WOMEN

描述（改编自申请人摘要）：拟定研究将 调查一组老年人的身心健康状况， 非洲裔美国妇女，并研究他们的福祉是如何依赖于 早期和并发的家庭，社会和经济功能。 这 纵向工作将完成一项发展流行病学研究， 1966-67年，所有一年级学生的母亲首次被确定为女性。 来自伍德劳恩，一个贫穷的非洲裔美国人社区， 芝加哥。 人口由1，026名幸存母亲组成。 的 1967年，母亲们第一次接受采访， 1975年，当他们的孩子还是青少年时，他们又一次回到了学校。 这 申请要求提供资源，以便第三次与妇女进行面谈， 1996年，他们的年龄将从49岁到79岁不等，中位数为60岁。 这项拟议的研究是在最近成功的成年人（32岁） 对这一群体的儿童进行随访（80%重新访谈）。 我们的概念框架是生命历程社会场理论， 发展的观点，重点是在主要的社会 生命历程中的各个领域。 (See图2）。 本提案的重点 是要确定跨主要社会领域的角色模式， 家庭，工作和社区，并了解角色之间的关系 身体和心理健康的表现。 拟定研究 提供了一个独特的机会，了解的性质和影响， 在整个生命过程中的代际关系。 总体目标 为： 1. 塑造妇女主要社会领域的延续和变化 从1967年开始 2. 为了模拟妇女心理和心理活动的连续性和变化， 自1967年以来，身体健康。 3. 为成功之间的当前和纵向关系建模 不能满足社会任务的要求，是社会领域的关键 以及妇女的身心健康。 我们将测试关于过去和现在的表现如何的具体假设， 特定社会领域中的社会角色影响着女性的心理 和身体健康 我们还将测试女性的心理和 身体健康影响了他们随后的社会适应。 我们将特别感兴趣的是利用收集到的大量数据， 伍德劳恩的孩子们来研究 在满足社会任务要求方面的成功和失败， 包括母亲和孩子 在这方面，我们将检验具体的假设 关于成年子女的成功或问题，以及关系如何 母亲与其成年子女和孙辈之间的关系 妇女的身心健康。

DESCRIPTION (Adapted from applicant's abstract): The proposed study will investigate the mental and physical health status of a cohort of older African American women and examine how their well-being is dependent on earlier and concurrent family, social, and economic functioning. This longitudinal work will complete a developmental epidemiological study of women first identified in 1966-67 as the mothers of all the first graders from Woodlawn, a poor, African American community on the Southside of Chicago. The population consists of the 1,026 surviving mothers. The mothers were interviewed first in 1967 when their children were in first grade and again in 1975 when their children were adolescents. This application requests resources to reinterview the women for a third time in 1996, when they will range in age from 49 to 79 with a median age of 60. This proposed study follows on the recent successful adult (age 32) follow-up (80 percent reinterviewed) of the children of this cohort. Our conceptual framework is the Life Course Social Field Theory, a developmental perspective that focuses on the roles within the major social fields across the life course. (See figure 2). The focus of this proposal is to determine the patterning of roles across the major social fields of family, work, and community, and to understand the relationship of role performance to physical and psychological well being. The proposed study affords a unique opportunity to understand the nature and effects of intergenerational relationships across the life course. The overall aims are: 1. To model the continuity and change in the women's major social fields since 1967. 2. To model the continuity and change in the women's psychological and physical health since 1967. 3. To model the current and longitudinal relationships between successes and failure at meeting the social task demands key in social fields across the life course and the women's mental and physical health. We will test specific hypotheses about how past and current performances in social roles within specific social fields affect the women's psychological and physical health. We will also test how the women's psychological and physical health have affected their subsequent social adaptation. We will be particularly interested in using the wealth of data collected on the Woodlawn children to examine the reciprocal relationships between successes and failures in meeting the social tasks demands in the lives of both mothers and children. In this regard, we will test specific hypotheses about the adult children's successes or problems, and how relationships between the mothers and their adult children and grandchildren influence the women's psychological and physical health.