Social Psychological Correlates Of Occupational Conditio

该项目调查社会环境条件如何影响老年人的心理功能。它测试的假设是，随着年龄的增长，社会结构决定的环境条件，如复杂性如何影响认知功能，自主自我导向的方向和一个人对自己和自己的情况，以及心理和身体健康的感觉。这些数据来自一项三波纵向调查，该调查基于美国工人及其妻子的代表性样本。调查波发生在1964年、1974年和1994年。今年，我们使用基于1994年第三波访谈的数据，测试了早期基于1964年和1974年访谈的结果，即自我导向的职业条件增加了智力功能，自我导向的取向在受访者20岁时是否成立。结果证实，即使在生命的后期，工作的自我导向性仍然会影响智力功能和自我导向性。这些心理特征反过来又影响社会结构地位，从而增加了弱势群体与弱势群体之间的差距。从社会学的角度来看，研究结果表明，一个社会的工人的职业自我导向可能会影响其社会规范，价值观和生产模式。

This project investigates how socio-environmental conditions affect the psychological functioning of the elderly. It tests hypotheses about how, as one grows older, social-structurally determined environmental conditions such as complexity affect cognitive functioning, autonomous self-directed orientations and one's feelings about oneself and one's circumstances, as well as mental and physical health. The data come from a three wave longitudinal survey based on a representative sample of American working men and their wives. The survey waves took place in 1964, 1974 and 1994. This year using data based on the 1994 third wave interviews, we tested whether the earlier findings based on the 1964 and 1974 interviews that self-directed occupational conditions increase intellectual functioning and self-directed orientations hold when the respondents are twenty years older. The results confirmed that even late in life self-directedness of work continues to affect intellectual functioning and self-directedness of orientation. These psychological characteristics, in turn, affect social-structural position in ways that increase disparities between advantaged and disadvantaged. From a sociological perspective, the findings suggest that the occupational self-directedness of a society's workers may affect its social norms, values and modes of production.