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

描述（由申请人提供）：长期目标： 1.扩大我的知识和能力，在老年心理学进行独立的研究。 2.更好地了解创伤和创伤后应激障碍（PTSD）等因素如何影响后期的心理社会发展和功能。 3.进行一个独立的跨学科研究计划，对老化的心理学，从神经心理学，分子遗传学和神经影像学的方法集成。 具体目标： 1.探索遗传和环境对婚姻结果的影响;具体来说，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离婚的影响。 2.研究中年时期婚姻状况和婚姻适应与青年时期战斗创伤暴露和创伤后应激障碍发展之间关系的性质。 3.研究作为战后适应的一部分，宽恕是否会调节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.