A Web-Based Survey of Daily Experienced Well-Being in Older Couples

描述（由申请人提供）：作为政策制定者寻找指数，以补充现有的人口为基础的经济指标，有新的兴趣在调查措施的福祉，捕捉人们如何思考和感受他们的生活环境。例如，Kahneman及其同事（2004）开发了一种日重建方法（DRM），该方法将情感体验的评估与昨天活动的详细时间日记相结合。DRM提供了与全球健康报告不同的在线体验信息。包括我们在内的几个研究团队（ROBUST：RC1 AG035576 - 02）已经独立开发并测试了适用于老年人大型代表性调查（如健康与退休研究（HRS））的短期CATI/CAPI调查措施。然而，2012 - 2016年HRS的更新提出了新的挑战，以适应网络模式的这一措施，并考虑夫妇之间的数据依赖关系的影响。HRS采访了老年家庭的伴侣。迄今为止，对体验幸福感的研究只采访了个人。该项目的目标有三个方面。他们解决了重要的方法和概念问题的模式和夫妇的影响，在全球和经验的福祉测量。首先，我们利用2008年至2011年收集的HRS数据，研究了老年夫妇双方在三种模式（电话，面对面，网络）下获得的关于全球幸福感的反应的可比性。HRS数据的这种组合为在代表50岁以上人群的子样本中进行组间和人内（夫妇）模式分析提供了独特的机会。其次，我们进行了一项随机实验，在当地招募的老年夫妇的样本，以探索模式和夫妇的影响，在经历过的幸福。这项研究将使用新的短期幸福感测量方法，将其纳入未来的HRS浪潮。由于年龄，性别，种族，教育，健康和50岁后的认知能力下降可能与幸福感测量的模式和类型相互作用，我们将在对次要数据和实验的分析中研究这些因素。第三，在一个试点7天的日记研究中，我们探讨了不同的合作伙伴和夫妇的参与跨天，重复测量的影响，并获得初步数据的日常动态合作伙伴的影响体验幸福。一个基于网络的经验幸福的措施可以是一个宝贵的资源，间歇性模块在大型纵向小组研究适应过程中发生在老年夫妇失业后，从有偿工作退休，健康挑战或适应残疾。我们的探索性研究将提供有关未来这种努力的可行性的初步信息。所获得的信息将促进对老年人大型调查中的幸福感评估，以及我们对晚年生活质量的理解。 公共卫生相关性：这个R21项目探讨了关于调查模式在测量老年夫妇的全球和经验丰富的幸福感方面的影响的开放性问题。我们使用2008年至2011年收集的HRS夫妇数据来分析三种模式（电话，面对面，网络）中获得的关于全球幸福感的反应的组间和人内（夫妇）差异。这是由一个随机实验的模式和夫妇的影响，对短期的经验幸福的措施，包括在未来的波HRS和探索性的7天网络日记研究经验幸福。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): As policy makers search for indices to complement existing population-based economic markers, there is new interest in survey measures of wellbeing that capture how people think and feel about their life circumstances. Kahneman and colleagues (2004), for example, developed a Day Reconstruction Method (DRM) that integrates the assessment of affective experience with a detailed time diary of yesterday's activities. The DRM provides on-line information about experience that is distinct from global reports of wellbeing. Several research teams, including ours (ROBUST: RC1 AG035576-02) have independently developed and tested short CATI/CAPI survey measures of experienced wellbeing suitable for large representative surveys of older adults such as the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). The 2012-2016 HRS renewal, however, posed new challenges to adapt this measure for the web mode and to consider the implications of data dependencies within couples. HRS interviews both partners in older households. To date, studies of experienced wellbeing have only interviewed individuals. The goals of this project are threefold. They address important methodological and conceptual issues about mode and couple effects in the measurement of global and experienced wellbeing. First, we utilize available HRS data collected between 2008 and 2011 to examine the comparability of responses about global wellbeing obtained from both partners in older couples across three modes (telephone, in-person, web). This constellation of HRS data provides a unique opportunity for comparative between-group and within-person (couple) mode analyses in subsamples representative of the population over age 50. Second, we conduct a randomized experiment with a locally recruited sample of older couples to explore mode and couple effects in experienced wellbeing. This study will use the new short measure of experienced wellbeing to be included in future waves of HRS. Because age, gender, race, education, health, and cognitive decline after age 50 could interact with mode and type of wellbeing measure, we will examine these factors in our analyses of the secondary data and the experiment. Third, in a pilot 7-day diary study, we explore differential partner and couple participation across days, the effects of repeated measurement, and also obtain preliminary data about the day-to-day dynamics of partner influences on experienced wellbeing. A web-based measure of experienced wellbeing could be a valuable resource for intermittent modules in large longitudinal panels to study the adaption processes that occur in older couples following loss of employment, retirement from paid work, health challenges or adaptation to disability. Our exploratory study will provide preliminary information about the feasibility of such future endeavors. The information obtained will advance assessment of wellbeing in large surveys of older adults and our understanding of life quality in late life. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This R21 project explores open questions about survey mode effects in the measurement of global and experienced wellbeing in older couples. We use HRS couple data collected between 2008 and 2011 to analyze between-group and within-person (couple) differences in responses about global wellbeing obtained in three modes (telephone, in-person, web). This is supplemented by a randomized experiment of mode and couple effects on a short experienced wellbeing measure to be included in future waves of HRS and an exploratory 7- day web diary study of experienced wellbeing.