Princeton Center for Research on Expierence and Wellbeing

描述（由申请人提供）：我们提议更新我们目前资助的普林斯顿大学NIA Roybal老龄化转化研究中心，其总体目标是(1)继续发展衡量幸福和健康的新方法，这些方法汇总了特定的经验，而不是引发全局评估；(2)利用它们更好地理解和记录衰老的经验。我们建议完善和扩展一种自下而上的幸福概念化的转变，通过明确地将日常生活的实际经历与产生生活满意度或整体幸福感的认知过程分开，来增强我们理解衰老过程的许多方面的能力。我们将展示我们目前对自下而上方法的应用已经提高了我们对自我报告的幸福感和健康的明显异常的理解，并为适应不断变化的环境的过程提供了见解。这些新方法可以详细分析不同情况（例如，慢性病、丧偶）和情况（例如，工作、与朋友交往）对总体生活质量的影响，以及这些影响在一个人的生命周期中如何变化。目前由劳工统计局收集的对情况和活动（例如通勤、家务）的情感体验的测量与对人口在这些活动中花费的时间的测量相结合，应有助于在拟议的研究期间建立国民福利核算的实验系统。根据皇家RFA的目标，我们不期望对提案中涉及的所有问题提供明确的答案；我们的目标是将目前的资助扩展到后续的大规模研究。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): 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 clearly 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., commuting, 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.