Wisconsin Longitudinal Study: Tracking the Life Course

描述（由申请人提供）：我们提出了一个关于老龄化和生命过程的多学科合作项目，该项目将利用并增加威斯康星纵向研究（WLS）的核心资源。该项目将使用现有的纵向数据和新的数据，这些数据是在1957年高中毕业45年后收集的，最初的10,317名参与者。我们有50多名研究人员和同事来自威斯康星大学和全国各地。我们希望利用WLS的独特科学价值，以及其他相关和可比较的人口老龄化数据，开展关于健康和老龄化的社会和经济因素的广泛研究议程。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，护理学和医学。我们的分析工作将反映，并且，我们希望，融合我们国内学科的所有理论，模型和方法。无论个人和集体的计划如何，所有的WLS数据将在收集、清理和记录后尽快发布给研究界。我们将在威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校和其他地方招募、鼓励和支持一批研究人员（和正在接受培训的研究人员），他们将充分利用威斯康星纵向研究的独特资源。我们将用来自个人行政记录、组织记录和小区域数据的关联数据补充现有和新的WLS数据。我们将通过包括公共和安全访问在内的几种方式传播WLS数据。我们将赞助和组织本地和校外研讨会和讲习班，以鼓励使用WLS数据并报告正在进行的研究，我们将组织一个小型项目竞赛和讲习班，以鼓励创新使用（和新用户）WLS数据。我们将为七个主要的分析研究项目提供公共资源和有效的科学互动途径，这些项目将使用WLS的数据：衰老思维的社会和行为背景；生命末期规划与晚年幸福感非规范性父母教养对中老年儿童的影响近老年人获得护理和健康结果；工作、健康和幸福；职业、健康和退休教育；以及生命历程中的情感大脑。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose a collaborative, multidisciplinary program of projects on aging and the life course that will both exploit and add to core resources of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS). The program will use existing longitudinal data and new data, collected 45 years after the 1957 high school graduation of the original 10,317 participants. We are more than 50 investigators and colleagues at the University of Wisconsin and across the nation. We want to exploit the unique scientific value of the WLS, along with other relevant and comparable data on population aging, 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 analytic work will reflect and, we hope, intermingle the full range of theories, models, and methods of our home disciplines. Regardless of individual and collective plans, all WLS data will be released to the research community as soon as they can be collected, cleaned, and documented. We will recruit, encourage, and support a cadre of researchers (and researchers-in-training) at the UW-Madison and elsewhere who will fully exploit the unique resources of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. We will supplement existing and new WLS data with linked data from individual administrative records, organizational records, and small area data. We will disseminate WLS data by several means including both public and secure access. We will sponsor and organize local and extramural seminars and workshops to encourage use of WLS data and to report research in progress, and we will organize a small project competition and workshops to encourage innovative uses (and new users) of WLS data. We will provide common resources and avenue for productive scientific interaction for an initial set of seven major analytic research projects that will use data from the WLS: Social and Behavioral Contexts of the Aging Mind; End-of-Life Planning and Well-Being in Late Life; Non-normative Parenting Impacts in Midlife and Old Age; Access to Care and Health Outcomes in the Near Elderly; Work, Health, and Well Being; Education in Careers, Health, and Retirement; and The Emotional Brain Across the Life Course.