The Wisconsin Longitudinal Study: As We Age

描述(由申请人提供)：我们建议继续威斯康星州 45年后，进行了一轮主要数据收集的纵向研究(WLS) 参加高中毕业典礼的原来有10317人。我们想要 利用世界劳工组织独特的科学价值来追求广泛的议程 健康与老龄化中的社会经济因素研究。我们代表 不同的科学领域-社会学、人口学、流行病学、经济学、 社会和认知心理学、工业工程、神经科学、社会 工作、精神病学、护理和医学。我们的数据收集计划- 这些拟议的调查只是第一阶段--将涉及许多模式： 电话和邮件调查、大脑成像、个人访谈、人体测量 测量、生物指标、录音访谈的内容分析，以及 链接的管理记录。我们打算并期待这些新的数据，以及 利用WLS目前提供的丰富数据，将解决旧问题 并开辟了关于健康、老龄化和 生命历程。所有WLS数据将尽快发布给研究界 它们已被收集、清理并记录在案。我们建议一小时 2002-03年度对9600多名幸存者进行的电话和48页邮件调查 作为高中毕业生首次接受采访的美国男性和女性 1957年入学，1964年、1975年和1992年跟进；他们将是63岁的 当他们接受调查时，他们的年龄是15岁。(二)我们建议电话和邮寄并行 对7150名随机挑选的毕业生兄弟姐妹进行的调查；他们的差异很大 在年龄方面，大多数人在1994年首次接受调查；约2100人首次接受采访 1977年。(C)我们建议对配偶进行较短时间(30分钟)的电话访问 毕业生及其兄弟姐妹的遗孀(N=850)。WLS是 作为对成年人及其家庭的大规模纵向研究，这是独一无二的 将很快覆盖近半个世纪。这是一项宝贵的公共资源， 老龄化与生命过程、代际转移和 关系、家庭功能、教育的长期影响和 认知能力、职业生涯、身心健康，以及 发病率和死亡率。我们的目标是扩展和丰富我们的观察 从他们青春期开始的WLS队列将回答重要的问题 未来几十年的老龄化研究问题。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose to continue the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS) with a major round of data collection, 45 years after the high school graduation of the original 10,317 participants. We want to exploit the unique scientific value of the WLS to pursue a broad agenda of research on social and economic factors in health and aging. We represent diverse scientific fields - sociology, demography, epidemiology, economics, social and cognitive psychology, industrial engineering, neuroscience, social work, psychiatry, nursing, and medicine. Our plan for data collection - of which these proposed surveys are only the first phase - will span many modes: telephone and mail surveys, brain imaging, personal interview, anthropometric measurement, bio-indicators, content analysis of recorded interviews, and linked administrative records. We intend and expect that these new data, along with the rich data presently available from the WLS, will resolve old questions and open new areas of interdisciplinary inquiry about health, aging, and the life course. All WLS data will be released to the research community as soon as they have been collected, cleaned, and documented. We propose one-hour telephone and 48 page mail surveys in 2002-03 of more than 9600 surviving American men and women who were first interviewed as graduating seniors in high school in 1957 and were followed up in 1964, 1975, and 1992; they will be 63-64 years old when they are surveyed. (b) We propose parallel telephone and mail surveys of 7150 randomly selected siblings of the graduates; they vary widely in age and most were first surveyed in 1994; about 2100 were first interviewed in 1977. (c) We propose shorter (30 minute) telephone interviews with spouses (N = 10,150) and widows of graduates and their siblings (N = 850). The WLS is unique as a large scale longitudinal study of adults and their families that will soon cover almost half a century. It is a valuable public resource for studies of aging and the life course, inter-generational transfers and relationships, family functioning, long-term effects of education and of cognitive ability, occupational careers, physical and mental well-being, and morbidity and mortality. Our goal is to extend and enrich our observations of the WLS cohort since their adolescence in ways that will answer important research questions in aging for decades to come.