Temporally-Oriented Subjective Well-being Across Transitions?Resources & Outcomes

随着年龄的增长，人们在生活的许多方面都会经历转变。这些转型包括社会、经济和卫生转型。人们回顾自己的生活，反思过去的选择。未来的时间受到越来越接近生命终点的限制。这可能会导致后悔，对于那些有能力使用补偿机制的人来说，他们会加倍努力实现有价值的目标，或者重新确定有价值目标的优先级。在老龄化背景下，个体的过去、现在和未来导向的主观幸福感（SWB）可能发生变化。对于主观幸福感、个人内部和人际资源与结果（特别是健康和医疗保健成本结果）之间的关系，人们的理解并不完全。这些问题使SWB指标的使用变得复杂，我们只能使用预期寿命、婴儿死亡率、财富和贫困等传统指标来评估健康老龄化，导致健康老龄化的图景不完整。该项目将审查主观幸福感、个人内部和人际资源以及健康和医疗保健成本结果之间的关系。它将促进对主观幸福感及其在健康老龄化中的作用的理解，以帮助决策者评估改善主观幸福感对健康和医疗保健成本的潜在好处。我们将通过以下具体目标来实现这一目标：目标1：确定SWB（过去、现在和未来导向）：(1)受生活转变的影响，(2)影响生活转变后的结果。

As individuals age, they undergo transitions in many aspects of their lives. These transitions include social, economic and health transitions. People review their lives, and reflect on past choices. Future time is limited by the increasing proximity to end of life. This may lead to regrets and, in people with the ability to use compensatory mechanisms, a redoubling of efforts to achieve valued goals or a reprioritization of valued goals. In the context of aging, individuals' past, present, and future-oriented subjective well-being (SWB) may change. There is an incomplete understanding of the relationship of SWB, intra- and inter- personal resources, and outcomes, (particularly health and healthcare-cost outcomes). These issues have complicated the use of SWB measures and we are left with traditional metrics such as life expectancy, infant mortality, wealth, and poverty to assess healthy aging, resulting in an incomplete picture of healthy aging. The project will examine the relationships among SWB, intra- and inter-personal resources, and health and healthcare-cost outcomes. It will advance the understanding of SWB and its role in healthy aging in order to assist policy makers in valuing the potential benefits of improving SWB on health and healthcare costs. We will accomplish this through the following specific aim: Aim 1: To determine how SWB (past, present, and future-oriented): (1) is affected by life transitions, and (2) affects outcomes after life transitions.