Perceptions of Social Usefulness/Value as Predictors of Health in Older Adults

对社会有用性/价值作为老年人健康预测因素的看法

• 批准号: 7485097
• 负责人: TARA LYNN GRUENEWALD
• 金额: $ 12.67万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-01 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7485097
• 关键词: Activities of Daily Living; Address; Adult; Affect; Age; Aging; Attention; Back; Behavioral; Biological; Caring; Child Care; Cognitive; Development; Elderly; Failure; Family; Feeling; Friends; Generations; Goals; Growth; Hand; Health; Health Benefit; Health Promotion; Health Psychology; Health Status; Healthcare; Heterogeneity; Home environment; Hydrocortisone; Inflammation; Institution; Intervention; Intervention Studies; Knowledge; Lead; Life; Longitudinal Studies; Mediator of activation protein; Mental Depression; Mentored Research Scientist Development Award; Metabolic; Morbidity - disease rate; Outcome; Pathway interactions; Perception; Personal Satisfaction; Physical Function; Physiological; Play; Population; Population Sizes; Principal Investigator; Provider; Psyche structure; Psychoneuroimmunology; Psychosocial Factor; Randomized Controlled Clinical Trials; Rate; Relative (related person); Research; Research Activity; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Research Training; Resources; Retirement; Role; Services; Site; Social Development; Social Environment; Social Network; Social Perception; Social Values; Social Work; Social support; Societies; Source; Surveys; System; Talents; Thinking; Time; Training; Training Programs; Universities; Well in self; Wisconsin; Work; abstracting; base; cognitive function; design; desire; experience; member; memory process; middle age; mortality; neglect; processing speed; programs; psychosocial; skills; social; therapy design; volunteer

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The following application details a program of research and training designed to provide the candidate with the knowledge, experience and skills necessary to meet her long-term goal of becoming an independent aging researcher. The candidate's short-term goal is to pursue the proposed program of training and research which will allow her to apply her training in social/health psychology and psychoneuroimmunology to address questions of how the social environment affects functioning and health in older adults. Proposed research will examine whether older adults' perceptions of usefulness and of making valued contributions to others affects cognitive and physical functioning and health outcomes, and the psychosocial, behavioral and biological mediators that may underlie such relationships. In addition, the psychosocial and sociodemographic factors that affect perceptions of social usefulness/value will be examined. These relationships will be examined over time in a nationally-representative, longitudinal study of adults and in a randomized trial of a volunteer intervention in older adults. Training and research activities will occur at the candidate's home institution (UCLA) and at collaborative research sites (University of Wisconsin-Madison, John Hopkins University). The proposed training program, including coursework and supervised tutorials, will provide the candidate with the theoretical, empirical and methodological knowledge and skills needed to carry out proposed research activities and to become an independent aging researcher. Together, proposed training and research activities will help the candidate develop into an aging researcher who will address how the social environment affects older adults' health, and who will examine the psychosocial, behavioral and biological pathways through which social factors affect functioning, morbidity and mortality outcomes in older adults. A greater understanding of the factors that affect older adults' perceptions of their social usefulness/value and the effects of these perceptions on their functioning and health may provide important knowledge as to factors which can have an impact on the health and healthcare spending of this sizable group in the US population. Knowledge derived from this research will also aid in the development of social interventions designed to capitalize on the wisdom, talent and time that older adults can draw on to serve, others, and the health benefits that older adults can derive from such service in return.

描述(由申请人提供)：以下申请详细说明了一项研究和培训计划，旨在为应聘者提供必要的知识、经验和技能，以实现她成为一名独立老龄化研究人员的长期目标。候选人的短期目标是追求拟议的培训和研究计划，使她能够应用她在社会/健康心理学和心理神经免疫学方面的培训，解决社会环境如何影响老年人的功能和健康的问题。拟议的研究将考察老年人对有用和对他人做出有价值贡献的看法是否会影响认知和身体功能以及健康结果，以及可能支撑这种关系的心理社会、行为和生物中介因素。此外，还将研究影响社会效用/价值认知的心理社会和社会人口因素。随着时间的推移，这些关系将在一项具有全国代表性的成年人纵向研究中进行检验，并在一项针对老年人的志愿者干预的随机试验中进行。培训和研究活动将在候选人的母校(加州大学洛杉矶分校)和合作研究地点(威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校，约翰·霍普金斯大学)进行。拟议的培训方案，包括课程作业和指导课程，将为候选人提供开展拟议的研究活动和成为一名独立的老龄研究人员所需的理论、经验和方法知识和技能。总之，拟议的培训和研究活动将帮助候选人发展成为一名老年研究人员，他将研究社会环境如何影响老年人的健康，并将研究社会因素通过哪些途径影响老年人的功能、发病率和死亡率。更深入地了解影响老年人对其社会效用/价值的认知的因素，以及这些认知对他们的功能和健康的影响，可能会为影响美国人口中这一庞大群体的健康和医疗保健支出的因素提供重要的知识。从这项研究中获得的知识还将有助于制定社会干预措施，旨在利用老年人可以利用的智慧、才华和时间为他人服务，以及老年人可以从这种服务中获得的健康益处。