Notre Dame Study of Resiliency in Later Life

圣母大学对晚年生活弹性的研究

• 批准号: 6972979
• 负责人: Cindy S Bergeman
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-09-15 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6972979
• 关键词: aging; behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; family structure /dynamics; functional ability; human subject; interview; longitudinal human study; personal log /diary; psychological adaptation; psychological aspect of aging; psychological stressor; quality of life; questionnaires; statistics /biometry

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Although there is a good body of theoretical research to build new understanding, questions in aging research remain increasingly complex, intricate, and diverse. Comprehensive understanding of these pathways requires a broad integrative framework that addresses (a) the need for reliable and theory-driven measures of health and well-being, (b) the need for conceptual and empirical formulations of life challenges, (c) the need for study designs that link information at different levels of analysis, (d) the need for innovative statistical methodologies that are sensitive to complex dynamic changes, and (e) the need for strategies that integrate quantitative and qualitative sources of data. The proposed research is designed to collect such data through three mechanisms: (1) survey data-five waves collected on a yearly basis (collected on 300 subjects); (2) "data bursts"-daily diary data collected three times for a 56-day period (years 1, 3, and 5 on 300 subjects); and, (3) life story interview data collected twice (years 2 and 4) on 25 of the participants. Modeling processes of intraindividual variability and change can help to (a) reveal how long-term trajectories of gains and losses that are reasonably consistent across different individuals may differ dramatically within individuals (Aim 1); (b) elucidate how these complex trajectories of intraindividual changes are contoured by selective individual differences variables (Aim 2); (c) separate intraindividual differences in developmental growth from aspects of temporal phenomena that exhibit shorter-term variability over time (Aim 3); (d) demonstrate how dimensions of interindividual differences may be used to explain important, adaptive intraindividual processes (Aim 4); and (e) clarify, through the use of life stories (Aim 5), how individual development is embedded in multiple contexts (e.g., biological, familial, historical, social, and cultural). The results of the proposed research will provide an integrated model of resilience and well being in later life that will help inform intervention efforts to extend disability-free years to larger segments of the population.

描述（由申请人提供）：尽管有大量的理论研究来建立新的认识，但老龄化研究中的问题仍然越来越复杂、错综复杂和多样化。全面了解这些途径需要一个广泛的综合框架，以解决(a)对健康和福祉的可靠和理论驱动措施的需要，(b)对生活挑战的概念和经验表述的需要，(c)对将不同分析层次的信息联系起来的研究设计的需要，(d)对复杂动态变化敏感的创新统计方法的需要。(e)需要制定综合定量和定性数据来源的战略。拟议的研究旨在通过三种机制收集这些数据：(1)调查数据-每年收集五波数据（收集300名受试者）；(2)“数据爆发”——每天收集三次日记数据，为期56天（第1、3、5年，共300名受试者）；(3)对25名参与者进行了两次（第2年和第4年）的生活故事访谈。个体内部变异性和变化的建模过程可以帮助(a)揭示在不同个体之间合理一致的长期收益和损失轨迹如何在个体内部产生巨大差异（目标1）；(b)阐明这些复杂的个体内部变化轨迹是如何被选择性的个体差异变量所塑造的（目标2）；(c)将发育生长的个体内部差异与随时间变化而表现出短期变化的时间现象的各个方面分开（目标3）；(d)展示如何利用个体间差异的维度来解释重要的、适应性的个体内部过程（目标4）；(e)通过使用生活故事（目标5）阐明个人发展如何嵌入多种背景（例如，生物，家庭，历史，社会和文化）。拟议的研究结果将提供一个综合的复原力和晚年幸福的模型，这将有助于为干预工作提供信息，使更多的人能够享受无残疾的生活。