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）：尽管有良好的理论研究可以建立新的理解，但衰老研究中的问题仍然越来越复杂，复杂和多样化。对这些途径的全面理解需要一个广泛的综合框架，以解决（a）对健康和福祉的可靠且理论驱动的衡量的需求，（b）需要对生活挑战的概念和经验表述，（c）需要在不同级别的分析中链接信息的研究设计的研究设计，（d）需要进行创新的统计学方法，并将其整合到策略，并将其整合（d）变化（d），并且（d）的动态变化（d）（d），（d）将动态变化（d）的范围（d）定性数据来源。拟议的研究旨在通过三种机制收集此类数据：（1）每年收集的调查数据五波（对300名受试者收集）； （2）“数据爆发” - 每日日记数据在56天（300名受试者的1、3和5年）中收集了3次； （3）25名参与者的生活故事访谈数据收集了两次（2年和4年）。对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的长期轨迹可能在个体内部有很大差异（AIM 1）； （b）阐明了这些个体内部变化的这些复杂轨迹如何通过选择性个体差异变量（AIM 2）构成； （c）发育生长的分开内部差异与时间现象的各个方面，随着时间的流逝表现出短期变异性（AIM 3）； （d）证明如何使用个体差异的维度来解释重要的，适应性的内部过程（AIM 4）； （e）通过使用生活故事（AIM 5）来澄清个人发展如何嵌入多种情况下（例如生物学，家族，历史，社会和文化）。拟议研究的结果将提供综合的弹性和福祉模型，并在以后的生活中，这将有助于为干预措施提供无残疾年的干预措施，以将无残疾年的年份延长到较大的人群。