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我们建议更新我们目前资助的NIA Roybal老龄化翻译研究中心，地址为 普林斯顿大学，总体目标是(1)继续开发新的方法 对幸福和健康的衡量，聚集特定的经历，而不是引出全球 评估和(2)使用它们来更好地理解和记录衰老的经历。我们建议 改进和扩展向自下而上的幸福感概念化的转变，以增强我们理解 通过清楚地将日常生活的实际经验与认知区分开来，使衰老过程的许多方面 产生生活满意度或总体幸福感的过程。我们将展示我们目前的情况 自下而上方法的应用提高了我们对自我报告中明显异常的理解 它还提供了对适应不断变化的环境的过程的见解。 这些新方法允许对不同情况的贡献进行详细分析(例如， 慢性病、寡妇)和情况(例如，工作、与朋友交往)与 生命，以及这些贡献在一个人的生命周期中如何变化。测量结果的组合 对情境和活动(例如，竞争、家务)的情感体验 人口在这些活动中花费的时间，目前由劳动统计局收集， 应有助于在#年期间建立国民福利账户试验性制度 建议的研究期。根据Roybal RFA的目标，我们预计不会产生明确的答案 对于提案中涉及的所有问题；我们的目标是将工作从目前的赠款扩展到支持 随后的大规模研究。

We propose a renewal to our currently funded NIA Roybal Center for Translational Research on Aging at Princeton University, with the overall objectives of (1) continuing our development of new methods for the measurement of well-being and health that aggregate particular experiences rather than eliciting global evaluations and (2) using them to better understand and document the experience of aging. We propose to refine and extend a shift to a bottom-up conceptualization of well-being to enhance our ability to understand numerous facets of the aging process by clearty separating actual experiences of daily life from the cognitive processes that give rise to reports of life satisfaction or overall happiness. We will show our current application of bottom-up methods has improved our understanding of apparent anomalies in self-reported well-being and health and has provided insights into the process of adaptation to changing circumstances. These new methods have allowed detailed analyses of the contribution of different circumstances (e.g., chronic disease, widowhood) and situations (e.g., working, socializing with friends) to the overall quality of life, and of how these contributions change over a person's life cycle. The combination of measurements of the affective experience of situations and activities (e.g., comrtiuting, housework) with measurements of the time spent by the population in these activities, currently collected by the Department of Labor Statistics, should contribute to the development of an experimental system of National Well-being Accounts during the proposed study period. As per the goals of the Roybal RFA, we do not expect to produce definitive answers to all of questions addressed in the proposal; our goal is to extend the work from the current grant to support subsequent large-scale studies.