Pilot Core

我们建议更新我们目前资助的NIA Roybal老龄化转化研究中心， 普林斯顿大学，总体目标是（1）继续开发新的方法， 对福祉和健康的衡量，汇集特定的经验，而不是引发全球性的 评估和（2）使用它们来更好地理解和记录老化的经验。我们建议 完善和扩展自下而上的幸福概念化的转变，以提高我们理解 通过将日常生活的实际经验与认知经验明确分开， 这些过程导致了生活满意度或总体幸福感的报告。我们将展示我们目前的 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。 该研究所的研究成果有助于了解人类的福祉和健康状况，并为适应不断变化的环境提供了深入的见解。 这些新方法允许详细分析不同情况（例如， 慢性病、丧偶）和情况（例如，工作，与朋友交往）的综合素质 以及这些贡献在一个人的生命周期中如何变化。测量的组合 情境和活动的情感体验（例如，计算，家务）与测量的 人口在这些活动中花费的时间，目前由劳工统计部收集， 应在2010年期间为发展国民福利账户实验系统作出贡献。 拟议的研究期间。根据Roybal RFA的目标，我们不希望产生明确的答案 我们的目标是将这项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.