Self-Regulation and Aging: Substrates and Health Consequences

描述（由申请人提供）：Suzanne C. Segerstrom是一位独立的研究者（博士，1997），他在人格，自我调节和生理学方面建立了一个富有成效的研究项目。该申请建议通过释放她的教学，服务和行政责任来保护高水平的研究工作（80%）。这种支持将促进她的研究计划在自我调节，生理，幸福和老年人健康之间的相互作用的扩展。该应用具有三个焦点：（i）执行认知功能和心率变异性被预测为与自我调节成功协变，（ii）跨域的自我调节成功（例如，控制重复性思维，获得社会或地位资源）被预测与心理和身体健康相关，（iii）社会资源将随着年龄的增长对健康产生不成比例的影响，正如社会情感选择性理论所预测的那样。该奖项下的职业发展活动将包括老龄化，纵向设计和分析以及负责任的研究行为的教学和体验培训;与认知，神经心理学，免疫学，神经学和方法学的专门老龄化研究人员合作;并率先开展特别项目和会议。研究活动将包括在她现有的R 01资助的社区居住老年人纵向研究（N = 150）中分析执行功能和自我调节之间的关系，以及在R 01样本中进行自我调节和健康研究，这是一项针对年轻和老年女性的横断面研究，重点是免疫衰老（N=76），一项始于1994年的中年成人研究（N = 96）的纵向随访，以及一项肌萎缩侧索硬化症患者和护理人员的纵向研究（N = 266）。说明未来方向的拟议研究检查目标选择和优化的作用，促进心理和生理健康的老年女性疼痛和自我调节的作用，在社会情绪的选择性和执行认知功能和心率变异性的贡献，这种关系在老年人。肯塔基州大学和心理学系为这项工作的发展提供了丰富的环境。预计K 02的支持将使Segerstrom博士能够获得认知，生理学和衰老方面的额外专业知识;制作和传播自我调节，衰老和健康方面的前沿研究;扩大她的赠款组合以继续这一研究路线;并培训博士生进行这项研究。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Suzanne C. Segerstrom is an independent investigator (PhD, 1997) who has established a productive research program in personality, self-regulation, and physiology. The application proposes to protect a high level of research effort (80%) by releasing her from teaching, service, and administrative responsibilities. This support will facilitate an expansion of her research program in the interactions among self-regulation, physiology, well-being, and health in older adults. The application has three foci: (i) executive cognitive function and heart rate variability are predicted to covary with self-regulatory success, (ii) self-regulatory success across domains (e.g., control of repetitive thought, acquisition of social or status resources) is predicted to correlate with mental and physical health, and (iii) social resources will have disproportionate effects on health with increasing age, as predicted by socioemotional selectivity theory. Career development activities under the award will include didactic and experiential training in aging, longitudinal design and analysis, and the responsible conduct of research; collaborations with dedicated aging researchers in cognition, neuropsychology, immunology, neurology, and methodology; and spearheading special projects and meetings. Research activities will include analysis of the relationship between executive function and self- regulation in her existing R01-funded, longitudinal research with community-dwelling older adults (N = 150) and studies of self-regulation and health in the R01 sample, a cross-sectional study of younger and older women focusing on immunosenescence (N=76), a longitudinal follow-up in a study of middle-aged adults (N = 96) that began in 1994, and a longitudinal study of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients and caregivers (N = 266). Proposed studies illustrating future directions examine the role of goal selection and optimization in promoting psychological and physiological well-being in older women with pain and the role of self-regulation in socioemotional selectivity and the contributions of executive cognitive function and heart rate variability to this relationship in older adults. The University of Kentucky and the Department of Psychology provide a rich environment for the development of this work. It is expected that K02 support would allow Dr. Segerstrom to acquire additional expertise in cognition, physiology, and aging; produce and disseminate cutting-edge research in self-regulation, aging, and health; expand her grant portfolio to continue this line of research; and train PhD students in the conduct of this research.