Roles, Aging & Health among African American Women

利用纵向数据，拟议的研究将调查持续和间接的影响 不断变化的家庭、社会和经济状况对身体和心理健康的影响 非裔美国女性最初是在1966年被征召入伍的，当时她们的孩子还在上一年级。数据来了 来自20世纪60年代在伍德劳恩发起的一项关于儿童及其家庭的社区流行病学研究， 芝加哥南侧贫穷的非裔美国人社区。孩子们和他们的母亲 随着时间的推移，这项拟议的研究侧重于母亲(n=1136)。这些妇女接受了采访 在超过25岁的三个时间点：1967年，他们的孩子上一年级(中位数30岁)；1975年， 当他们的孩子十几岁的时候；1997年，当他们的孩子成年的时候。在1997年，1008(89%) 确定了最初的女性队列，她们的年龄从49岁到79岁不等，中位数为60岁。 大多数妇女已经过了传统的育儿阶段，正在接近或已经达到 向退休的过渡。他们还报告了一系列的身体和心理健康状况 由于一些功能模仿和其他残疾。？ 我们的概念框架基于生命过程发展的观点，该观点侧重于 生活过程中的主要社会领域。拟议研究的重点是描绘出 跨家庭、工作和社区等主要社会领域的角色，并确定从这些领域 在早期(1967年，中位年龄31岁)和中年(1975年，中位年龄39岁)的角色，到身体和 晚年心理健康(1997年中位年龄61岁)。拟议的研究将需要几个 不同的分析方法。我们将从描述单变量分布的探索性分析开始。 然后，我们将进行双变量分析，以评估变量之间的关系。我们的多元 技术将包括回归分析、生存分析、过渡分析(潜类和潜类 过渡建模)、结构方程建模、潜变量混合建模和广义 估计方程式(天)。 我们将研究早中期的家庭、工作和社区如何影响老年妇女的健康。 人们对家庭和社会对日后健康的影响知之甚少。这项研究将提供关于 非洲裔美国女性，一个研究不足的群体。

Using longitudinal data, the proposed study will investigate the direct and indirect effects of continuing and evolving family, social, and economic conditions on physical and psychological well-being in a cohort of African American women originally recruited in 1966 when their children were first graders. The data come from a community epidemiological study of children and their families initiated in the 1960s in Woodlawn, a poor African American community on the south side of Chicago. The children and their mothers were followed over time, and the proposed study focuses on the mothers (n=1136). The women were interviewed at three time points over 25 years: 1967, when their children were in first grade (median age of 30); 1975, when their children were adolescents; and 1997, when their children were adults. In 1997, 1008 (89%) of the original cohort of women were located, and their ages ranged from 49 to 79 with a median age of 60. Most of the women were past the traditional childrearing stage of life and were approaching or had made the transition to retirement. They reported a wide array of physical and psychological health conditions as well as a number of functionallimitations and other disabilities. ¿ Our conceptual framework is based on a life course developmental perspective that focuses on roles within major social fields across the life course. The focus of the proposed study is to delineate the patterns of roles across the major social fields of family, work, and community, and to identify the pathways from these roles in early (median age 31, 1967) and mid adulthood (median age 39, 1975), to physical and psychological well being in later life (median age 61, 1997). The proposed research will require several different analytic approaches. We will begin with exploratory analyses to describe univariate distributions then we will conduct bivariate analyses to assess relationships among the variables. Our multivariate techniques will include regression analysis, survival analysis, transition analysis (latent class and latent transitional modeling), structural equation modeling, latent variable mixture modeling, and generalized estimating equations (GEE). We will study how family, work, and community in early and mid adulthood influence health of older women. Little is known about family and social influences on later health. This study will provide knowledge about African American women, an understudied group.