Combat Trauma & Mid-Life Marital Outcomes: A Twin Study

描述(由申请人提供)：长期目标： 1.拓展自己在衰老心理学方面的独立研究知识和能力。 2.更好地了解创伤和创伤后应激障碍(PTSD)等因素如何影响后来的心理社会发展和功能。 3.结合神经心理学、分子遗传学和神经影像学方法，开展关于衰老心理学的独立跨学科研究计划。 具体目标： 1.探索遗传和环境对婚姻结果的影响；具体而言，我们将评估遗传因素、家庭环境和非共享环境对个人是否结婚和是否离婚的影响。 2.探讨中年婚姻状况与婚姻适应、青年时期战斗创伤暴露与创伤后应激障碍发展的关系。 3.调查宽恕作为战后适应的一部分，是否缓和了暴露于严重战斗创伤、创伤后应激障碍和婚姻结局之间的关系。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Long-term goals: 1. To expand my knowledge and ability to conduct independent research in the psychology of aging. 2. To better understand how factors such as trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) affect later psychosocial development and functioning. 3. To conduct an independent interdisciplinary research program on the psychology of aging that integrates methods from neuropsychology, molecular genetics, and neuroimaging. Specific Aims: 1. To explore genetic and environmental influences on marital outcomes; specifically we will assess the influences of genetic factors, the family environment, and the non-shared environment on whether an individual ever marries and whether an individual ever divorces. 2. To examine the nature of the relationships among marital status and marital adjustment in middle age and exposure to combat trauma and the development of PTSD during young adulthood. 3. To investigate if forgiveness, as part of post-war adaptations, moderates the relationship between exposure to severe combat trauma, PTSD, and marital outcome.