The Wisconsin Longitudinal Study: Tracking the Life Course

这个拟议的持续项目计划将探讨21世纪初不断变化的社会，政治，经济和技术背景对一大群男性和女性过渡到老年的福祉的影响。在这种情况下，我们的几个相互关联的研究计划的动机是与最近转向个人责任的健康，医疗保健和老年人的经济福祉的共同问题。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福祉的决定因素，我们提出了一个为期三年的合作，多学科的项目计划继续老化和生命历程。我们的项目将利用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，沿着其他相关和可比的人口老龄化数据来源，以追求健康和老龄化的社会，经济和心理因素的研究的丰富和重要的议程。该提案由3个核心组成：管理（A）;数据传播：文档，外展和安全（B）;以及补充数据收集和管理（C），这将服务于最初的六个研究项目：生命结束规划对死亡质量的影响&幸存者福祉;非规范性养育对衰老的规范性转变的影响;背景下的认知衰老：能力，基因和社会环境;心理老化的背景：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地位和健康。当我们共同努力并分享研究结果和方法时，我们还将分享WLS核心工作人员的支持和专业知识，项目丰富的现有数据资源以及为几个项目创建的新数据。我们打算并期望我们对WLS数据的新旧浪潮的纵向分析将解决旧问题，并开辟关于健康，衰老和生命历程的跨学科研究的新领域。所有WLS数据一旦被收集、清理和记录后，将直接或通过安全的数据飞地向更广泛的研究界发布，最大限度地符合研究参与者隐私和机密性的高标准保护。

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.