RELIGION, AGING, AND HEALTH

说明(改编自调查员摘要)：目的 研究是制定一套全面和多层面的措施，以 在以后的生活中评估宗教信仰。特别是，拟议的研究 目标如下：1)开展一系列焦点小组活动； 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的；2)使用 从这些定性方法获得的数据编制封闭式调查 测量宗教的项目；3)进行随机的社区调查， 为最先进的验证性因素分析评估提供数据 最新制订的指标；4)研究 新设立的关于健康和福祉的宗教项目；以及5)支付 特别注意宗教信仰方式的不同 由年长的白人组成的有经验的、表达的和测量的群体 以及上了年纪的非裔美国人。

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.