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

随着年龄的增长，他们在生活的许多方面都经历了转变。这些转变包括社会、经济和卫生方面的转变。人们回顾他们的生活，反思过去的选择。未来的时间是有限的日益接近生命的结束。这可能会导致后悔，并且在有能力使用补偿机制的人中，加倍努力实现有价值的目标或重新确定有价值的目标的优先级。在老龄化的背景下，个体的过去、现在和未来导向的主观幸福感（SWB）可能会发生变化。对主观幸福感、个人内部和个人之间的资源以及结果（特别是健康和医疗保健成本结果）之间的关系的理解不完全。这些问题使SWB指标的使用变得复杂，我们只能用预期寿命、婴儿死亡率、财富和贫困等传统指标来评估健康老龄化，从而导致健康老龄化的不完整。本研究将探讨主观幸福感、个人内部和个人间资源与健康和医疗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，以帮助政策制定者评估改善主观幸福感对健康和医疗成本的潜在好处。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）如何：（1）受到生活转型的影响，以及（2）影响生活转型后的结果。

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.