Ethnicity & Socioemotional Functioning in Later Life

描述（由申请人提供）：目的：本申请旨在解决NACA少数民族老龄化审查委员会对少数民族样本进行纵向人口研究的呼吁，并澄清种族在人类发展和老龄化中的作用。目前的研究包括对晚年社会情绪功能及其与健康和弹性的关系的检查。1996-1996年，我们对年龄在65-86岁之间的个体（N= 1118）进行了分层随机抽样，收集了经济、社会情感和文化变量的数据，包括四个种族：美国出生的非洲裔美国人、非洲加勒比人、美国出生的欧洲裔美国人和来自东欧的欧洲移民。在目前的应用中，我们提出了两波具有两个主要目标的后续数据。第一个目标是研究离散情感、依恋类型和社会网络的稳定性和变化模式，并测试离散情感理论、依恋理论和社会情感选择理论模型的相关性和跨文化普遍性。第二个目标是确定生存和恢复能力的预测因素，以及发病率和死亡率的预测因素。更具体地说，本研究旨在预测生存率作为社会情绪变量的函数，包括情绪特征、情绪调节风格、依恋风格和社会网络，控制SES、生活方式风险因素和TI的健康，并开发预测非裔美国人和欧裔美国人种族亚人群发病率和死亡率的模型。方法：将重新联系受访者，再进行两波数据收集。实际上，在TI收集的所有测量将被重新管理给那些认知完好的人。这些数据将用于测试从离散情感、依恋和社会情感选择理论中得出的公式。在赠款的第五年，国家数据索引将为在此期间死亡的答复者提供有关时间和死因的数据。分析：交叉滞后面板分析将应用于三波数据来评估社会情绪功能的稳定性和变化。将生存分析应用于死亡率数据

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Aims: This application addresses the NACA's Minority Aging Review Committee's call for longitudinal population-based research on minority samples and the clarification of the role of ethnicity in human development and aging. The present research involves an examination of socioemotional functioning in later life and its relation to health and resiliency. In 1996-1996 data on economic, socioemotional, and cultural variables were collected on a stratified random sample of individuals (N=1 118), ranging in age from 65-86 years and comprising four ethnic groups: US-born African Americans, African Caribbeans, US-born European Americans, and Immigrant Europeans from Eastern Europe. In the present application we propose two waves of follow-up data with two major objectives. The first objective is to examine patterns of stability and change with respect to discrete emotions, attachment styles, and social networks, and to test the relevance of, and cross-cultural generality of, theoretical models of discrete emotions theory, attachment theory, and socioemotional selectivity theory. The second objective is to determine the predictors of survival and resilience on the one hand and morbidity and mortality on the other. More specifically, the study aims to predict survival as a function of socioemotional variables, including emotion traits, emotion regulation style, attachment style, and social networks, controlling for SES, lifestyle risk factors, and health at TI, and to develop models for predicting morbidity and mortality in ethnic sub-populations of African Americans and European Americans.Method: Respondents will be re-contacted to participate in two more waves of data collection. Virtually all of the measures collected at TI will be re-administered to those who are cognitively intact. These data will be used to test formulations derived from discrete emotions, attachment, and socioemotional selectivity theories. In the fifth year of the grant, the National Data Index will provide data on time and cause of death for those respondents who have died during the interim.Analysis: Cross-lagged panel analysis will be applied to the three waves of data to assess stability and change in socioemotional functioning. Survival analysis will be applied to the mortality data