LIFE EVENTS & DEMORALIZATION IN THE ELDERLY

该项目包括评估和实验分析 生活事件在两个高危人群的士气低落和幸福感中的作用 最近失去亲人和最近残疾的老年人(加上匹配的 控制)：N=240。纵向评估包括10个月的访谈 其中包括对一半的人进行实验性干预 样本。该项目的指导性概念主题涉及个人 掌握和感觉到的个人控制；事件测量和特定量表 评估它，而干预直接操纵它。训练有素的老年人 同行执行合同。 更新建议：(1)延长时间和支持大量数据 分析和(2)延长时间和支助进行两次为期6个月的 后续行动。当前项目的参与者被问及他们是否 希望稍后与面试官联系，并已提醒面试人员 进行后续评估的可能性。维护相对容易 正在进行的项目活动为获取后续数据提供了独特的 有机会研究这两个事件的时间进程和调整 高危人群。 从原来的赠款中收集数据将由拟议的 续订的开始日期。然而，在获取参与者方面的拖延已经 将数据采集的完成日期提前；完成 最终分析已提前到本报告所涵盖的时间段 续签申请。 对到目前为止收集的数据的初步分析显示出明显的差异 风险组之间和被评估变量之间的显著关系。 尤其令人震惊的是反复应激之间的关系 日常生活和士气低落。 这些关系需要更广泛的分析。复杂的休闲造型 方差分析和多元回归的技巧和高阶分析 这是必要的。干预的影响必须从更长期的角度进行评估 因为有必要确定其影响是否持久 仅在期限上是短期的。评估数据的长期趋势 将为调整的时间进程提供有价值的见解，以及 只有通过这种长期覆盖才能进行的前瞻性分析提供了 被调查变量的预测能力的证据。

This project involves both assessmental and experimental analyses of the role of life events in demoralization and well-being of two at risk groups of the elderly, recently bereaved and recently disabled (plus matched controls): N=240. A longitudinal assessment covers 10 monthly interviews within which is contained an experimental intervention for half the sample. The guiding conceptual theme of the project concerns personal mastery and perceived personal control; event measures and special scales assess it and the intervention directly manipulates it. Trained elderly peers conduct the contracts. The renewal proposes: (1) extension of time and support for extensive data analyses and (2) extension of time and support for conducting two 6-month follow-ups. Participants in the current project are being asked if they wish to be contacted later and the interviewer staff has been alerted to the possibility of follow-up assessment. The relative ease of maintaining ongoing project activities to acquire the followup data provides a unique opportunity to study the time course of events and adjustment in these two at risk populations. Data collection from the original grant will be completed by the proposed start date for renewal. However, delays in acquiring participants has moved forward the date of completion of data acquisition; completion of final analysis has been moved forward into the time period covered by this renewal application. Preliminary analyses of data gathered to date are showing clear differences between risk groups and significant relationship among assessed variables. Particularly striking are the relationships among recurrent stresses of daily living and demoralization. These relationships need more extensive analysis. Complex casual modeling techniques and high order analyses of variance and multiple regression are necessary. The intervention's impact must be assessed over a longer term since it is necessary to determine if its effects endure and are not short-term in duration only. Long-term trends in the assessmental data would provide valuable insights into the time course of adjustment, and prospective analyses made possible only by such long-term coverage provide evidence of the predictive power of the variables under investigation.