SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL PREDICTORS OF HEALTH AND LONGEVITY

健康和长寿的社会和情感预测因素

• 批准号: 3120578
• 负责人: HOWARD S. FRIEDMAN
• 金额: $ 13.58万
• 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 1993-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/3120578
• 关键词: alcoholic beverage consumption; attitude; behavioral medicine; body physical activity; coping; emotional adjustment; exercise; gender difference; human middle age (35-64); human morbidity; human mortality; human old age (65+); longevity; longitudinal human study; mood disorders; obesity; personality; physical fitness; psychological stressor; psychometrics; social psychology; social support network; statistics /biometry; stress

This research will examine the relationships between physical health (primarily mortality, secondary morbidity) and certain key social and emotional predictors. In particular, this research will test hypothesized relations between major social stressors/emotional reaction patterns earlier in life and the subsequent development of illness in middle and old age. An important secondary aim is the analysis of sex differences in longevity, as influenced by these same psychosocial variables. The design is an archival prospective cohort study, that is, a longitudinal study involving a rich existing data set. The raw data come from the Gifted Children Study, begun in 1921 by L. Terman and continued by R. Sears and others. The subjects are 857 men and 671 women followed from their childhood in the 1920's until the 1980's, the longest continuous cohort study ever conducted. The initial study of the research involve a culling of the relevant variables from more than 4000 raw variables collected on the subjects, the creation of psychometrically sound variables and indexes, and the examination of the interrelationships among the variables. The later stages of the research involve the prediction of health and longevity as a function of psychosocial stresses and resources --including objective losses, emotional temperament, personality, and social support. The primary "hard" endpoint is date of death (longevity). Key unanswered questions in psychosocial epidemiology, community medicine, and health psychology will be addressed using survival analyses, supplemented by logistic regression analyses as appropriate. As part of the analysis, sex differences in health and longevity at different stages of middle and old age will be examined in an attempt to shed light on puzzling sex differences that have previously been documented. This study will thus provide important information relevant to our understanding of the influence of individual and social factors on morbidity/mortality across the life span.

这项研究将探讨身体健康与 （主要是死亡率，继发性发病率）和某些关键的社会和 情绪预测器 特别是，这项研究将测试假设 主要社会压力源/情绪反应模式之间的关系 早期的生活和随后的疾病发展， 老年。 一个重要的次要目的是分析性别差异， 长寿，同样受到这些社会心理变量的影响。 该设计是一项存档前瞻性队列研究，即， 纵向研究涉及丰富的现有数据集。 原始数据来自 从天才儿童研究，开始于1921年由L。特曼继续说 由R.西尔斯和其他人。 研究对象为857名男性和671名女性 从20世纪20年代的童年到80年代， 连续队列研究。 这项研究的初步研究涉及挑选相关的 从4000多个原始变量收集的主题， 创建心理测量上健全的变量和指数，以及 检查变量之间的相互关系。 后期 研究的各个阶段包括预测健康和寿命， 心理社会压力和资源的作用-包括目标 损失，情绪气质，个性和社会支持。 的 主要“硬”终点是死亡日期（寿命）。 未应答的密钥 心理社会流行病学、社区医学和健康问题 心理学将使用生存分析，补充 适当时进行逻辑回归分析。 作为分析的一部分， 我们将探讨中年和老年的不同阶段， 揭示了令人困惑的性别差异， 记录在案。 因此，这项研究将提供重要的信息， 我们对个人和社会因素影响的理解 发病率/死亡率在整个生命周期。