PERSONALITY AND WELL BEING TRAJECTORIES IN ADULTHOOD

描述(改编自研究人员摘要)：本研究的目标是 对：(1)估计个性和幸福感的个体差异 老年人随时间的变化，(2)估计暴露和决定因素 老年人的日常事件和压力源，以及与这些 对较长期、多年轨迹的估计，以及(3)检查 健康、生活事件、 和社会人口学特征。研究人群来自退伍军人事务部 标准老龄化研究(NAS)，一项35年的老龄化研究(年龄范围：49-90岁 年)。将进行两项调查，包括一项新的纵向数据 收集三波数据，并将这些数据与现有的 从1975年到1999年收集的纵向数据。增加了一组女性， 特别是NAS男人的妻子。在第二项研究中，每天写日记 设计在NAS夫妻配对的子集内进行，为期8天 句号。这两项研究一起调查了 不同时期的个性和幸福感。 事实上，大多数关于幸福感和人格的理论都侧重于改变或 个人层面的稳定性，加上样本层面的研究，只有 对个体内部变化进行建模将调和这一差异。多年来 研究将允许检查人格特征的变化和稳定性 和幸福感，而8天的日记研究允许检查状态 幸福感的压力源和情感成分的变异性。个体 用于估计个体内部轨迹和等级的增长建模 建模以评估直接应激源和日常影响的影响 将分别受雇于。性别和个性对日常生活的影响 还将审查变异情况。夫妻人格相互关系 将会被检查。日常可变性(例如，影响)将被检查为 多年人格和幸福轨迹的潜在预测因子。 通过这项研究，更好地理解了为什么有些人会改变，为什么有些人会改变 做不到就会实现。

DESCRIPTION (adapted from investigator's abstract): The goals of this study are to: (1) estimate the individual differences in personality and well-being change in older adults over time, (2) estimate exposure and determinants of day-to-day events and stressors among older adults, as well as relating these estimates to the longer-term, multi-year trajectories, and (3) examine differences among persons in intraindividual change due to health, life events, and sociodemographic characteristics. The study population is from the VA Normative Aging Study (NAS), a 35-year old study of aging (age range: 49-90 years). Two investigations will be conducted including a new longitudinal data collection over three waves, and combining these data with existing longitudinal data collected from 1975 to 1999. A cohort of women are added, specifically the wives of the NAS men. In the second study, a daily diary design is employed within a subset of NAS husband-wife pairs over an 8-day period. Together, the two studies investigate change and stability in personality and well-being over different periods of time. The fact that most theories on well-being and personality focus on change or stability at the personal level coupled with research at the sample level, only modeling intraindividual change will reconcile this discrepancy. The multi-year study will allow the examination of change and stability in personality traits and well-being, whereas the 8-day diary study permits the examination of state variability in stressors and affective components of well-being. Individual growth modeling to estimate intraindividual trajectories and hierarchical modeling to evaluate the impact of immediate stressors and day-to-day affect will be employed respectively. Gender and personality influences on daily variation will also be examined. Husband-wife personality interrelationship will be examined. Day-to-day variability (e.g., affect) will be examined as potential predictors of multi-year personality and well-being trajectories. With this study a better understanding of why some people change and why some do not will be achieved.