The Wisconsin Longitudinal Study: Tracking the Life Course

描述(由申请人提供)：这一拟议的、持续的项目计划将探索21世纪初不断变化的社会、政治、经济和技术背景对一大批向老年过渡的男性和女性的福祉的影响。在这种背景下，我们的几个相互关联的研究计划的动机是与最近老年人对健康、医疗保健和经济福祉的个人责任转变有关的共同问题。为了更好地了解美国老年人在社会、政治、经济和技术变革时代的幸福感的决定因素，我们建议将我们关于老龄化和生命历程的多学科项目的合作项目延续三年。我们的项目将开发和增加威斯康星州纵向研究(WLS)的核心公共资源。我们希望最大限度地发挥WLS的独特科学价值，以及其他有关人口老龄化的相关和可比较的数据来源，以追求丰富和重要的研究议程，研究健康和老龄化中的社会、经济和心理因素。这项建议由三个核心组成：行政(A)；数据传播：文件、外展和安全(B)；以及补充数据收集和管理(C)，这将为最初的六个研究项目服务：生命终结计划对死亡和生存福祉的质量的影响；非规范性养育对年龄标准转变的影响；背景下的认知老龄化：能力、基因和社会环境；背景下的心理老龄化：个性、心理健康和痛苦；工作和家庭职业对成年后期生活结果的影响；以及威斯康星州纵向研究中的社会经济状况和健康。在我们共同努力并分享结果和方法的同时，我们还将分享WLS核心工作人员的支持和专业知识、该项目丰富的现有数据资源以及为几个项目创建的新数据。我们打算并期待我们对新旧WLS数据的纵向分析将解决旧的问题，并开启关于健康、老龄化和生命过程的跨学科调查的新领域。所有WLS数据一旦被收集、清理和记录后，将在最大程度上符合对研究参与者隐私和机密性的高标准保护，直接或通过安全的数据飞地向更广泛的研究社区发布。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposed, continuing program of projects will explore the implications of the changing social, political, economic, and technological contexts of the early 21st century for the well-being of a large cohort of men and women transitioning to old age. In this context, our several inter-related research plans are motivated by common issues related to the recent shift towards individual responsibility for health, health care, and economic well-being among older adults. In order to better understand the determinants of well-being of older Americans in an era of social, political, economic, and technological change, we propose a three-year continuation of our collaborative, multidisciplinary program of projects on aging and the life course. Our project will both exploit and add to core, public resources of the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS). We want to maximize the unique scientific value of the WLS, along with other relevant and comparable sources of data on population aging, to pursue a rich and important agenda of research on social, economic, and psychological factors in health and aging. This proposal consists of 3 Cores: Administration (A); Data Dissemination: Documentation, Outreach, and Security (B); and Complementary Data Collection and Management (C), which will serve an initial set of six research projects: The Impact of End of Life Planning on the Quality of Death & Survivor Well Being; The Effect of Nonnormative Parenting on the Normative Transitions of Aging; Cognitive Aging in Context: Abilities, Genes, and the Social Environment; Psychological Aging in Context: Personality, Psychological Well Being, and Distress; The Impact of Work and Family Careers on Life Outcomes in Late Adulthood; and Socioeconomic Status and Health in the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. As we work together and share findings and methods, we will also share in the support and expertise of the core WLS staff, the rich existing data resources of the project, and new data created for the several projects. We intend and expect that our longitudinal analyses of old and new waves of WLS data will resolve old questions and open new areas of interdisciplinary inquiry about health, aging and the life course. All WLS data will be released to the wider research community, either directly or through a secure data enclave, to the maximum extent consistent with high standards of protection for the privacy and confidentiality of research participants, as soon as they have been collected, cleaned, and documented.