RELIGION, AGING, AND HEALTH

描述（改编自研究者摘要）：本研究的目的 研究的目的是制定一套全面和多层面的措施， 在以后的生活中评估宗教性。特别是，拟议的研究 有以下目标：1）进行一系列的焦点小组， 深入访谈和认知访谈，以确定 宗教的内容领域，因为它是由老年人生活; 2）使用 从这些定性方法中获得的数据用于制作封闭式调查 衡量宗教的项目; 3）进行随机社区调查， 为最先进的验证性因素分析评估提供数据 新设计的指标; 4）审查 新设立的关于健康和福祉的宗教项目;以及5）支付 特别注意宗教性在 经验丰富，表达和衡量的群体组成的老年白人 和年长的非裔美国人

DESCRIPTION (adapted from investigator's abstract): The purpose of this study is to develop a comprehensive and multidimensional set of measures to assess religiousness in later life. In particular, the proposed research has the following objectives: 1) To conduct a series of focus groups, in-depth interviews, and cognitive interviews in order to identify the content domain of religion as it is lived by older adults; 2) To use the data obtained from these qualitative methods to craft closed-ended survey items to measure religion; 3) To conduct a random community survey that will provide data for a state-of-the- art confirmatory factor analytic assessment of the newly devised indicators; 4) To examine the potential impact of the newly created religion items on health and well-being; and 5) To pay particular attention to differences in the way that religiousness is experienced, expressed, and measured in groups consisting of older whites and elderly African Americans.