PRECURSORS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING IN OLD AGE

对整个成年期的稳定性和变化的长期纵向研究 将继续分析密集的开放式访谈94 伯克利老年一代研究的幸存成员，一个拥有 以前在青年、中年和中老年接受过采访 老了，还是老了，还是老了。 四大类问题 将解决：（1）老年-老年期的过渡; (2)老年人（75至84岁）和最老的老年人（85至84岁）之间的差异 （3）在数量和质量上的变化;（4）前体 在成年期的稳定性和变化及其对心理的影响 （4）老年人的幸福感;（4）个体差异， 老年人的变化方向。 信息已收集在 智力功能、健康、生活满意度、社会 人际关系，社会支持，婚姻，家庭关系， 对过去事件的回顾性感知，人格特征，以及 人口统计信息。 所有这些都将在许多分析中得到借鉴 在这段资助期内，政府会关注以下三个主要范畴：（a） 智力功能，（B）社会关系和社会支持，以及 (c)婚姻 这项研究旨在增加我们对 内部变化或连续性与情境之间的关系， 整个成年期与环境相关的事件及其对环境的影响 老年人的心理健康。 这意味着 公共政策，以及：成功的重要前兆的知识 老龄化在预防性干预计划的设计中至关重要， 优化老化。

A long-term longitudinal study of stability and change throughout adulthood will be continued with analysis of intensive open-ended interviews with 94 surviving members of the Berkeley Older Generation Study, a group who have previously been interviewed in young adulthood, middle age, and young-old age, and who are now old-old or oldest-old. Four broad sets of questions will be addressed: (1) the transition between young-old and old-old age; (2) difference between old-old (age 75 to 84) and oldest-old (age 85 and beyond) persons in the quantity and quality of change; (3) the precursors of stability and change across adulthood and their impact on psychological well-being in old age; and (4) individual differences in amount and direction of change in old age. Information has been collected in the areas of intellectual functioning, health, life satisfaction, social relationships, social supports, marriage, family relationships, retrospective perceptions of past events, personality characteristics, and demographic information. All of these will be drawn upon in many analyses of the three major domains of interest in this funding period: (a) intellectual functioning, (b) social relationships and social supports, and (c) marriage. The research is designed to increase our understanding of the relationships between internal change or continuity and situational, environmentally-linked events throughout adulthood and their input on psychological well-being in advanced old age. There are implications for public policy, as well: a knowledge of important precursors of successful aging is crucial in the design of preventive intervention programs to optimize aging.