WELL-BEING IN THE AGED/PERSONAL CONTROL & SELF-ESTEEM

该研究旨在识别和系统化 评估将压力和社会支持与 晚年的心理健康。 特别是，拟议的 研究的目标如下： 1. 发展明确的测量模型的生活压力，感受的 个人控制和自尊，这些都是在高度突出的社会环境中产生的。 角色; 2. 研究压力性生活事件是否会影响 老年人的控制感和自我价值感， 与高度重视的社会角色相关;以及 3. 评估社会支持的多个维度 通过支持特定角色， 控制感和特定角色的自尊感。 拟议的研究要求进行一次面对面的采访， 1，000名老年人随机从 居住在底特律大都市的非机构化老年人 区 主要的研究程序包括概念化和 关键研究结构的测量，结构的估计 在潜在变量框架内的方程模型， 的研究成果。

The proposed research aims toward the identification and systematic evaluation of mechanisms that link stress and social support with psychological well-being in later life. In particular, the proposed study has the following objectives: 1. To develop explicit measurement models of life stress, feelings of personal control, and self-esteem that arise within highly salient social roles; 2. To examine whether stressful life events affect the well-being of the elderly by eroding feelings of control and self-worth that are associated with highly valued social roles; and 3. To assess whether multiple types of dimensions of social support buffer the deleterious effects of stress by bolstering role-specific feelings of control and role-specific feelings of self-esteem. The proposed research calls for one face-to-face interview with 1,000 older adults who have been selected at random from among the noninstitutionalized elderly who reside within the Detroit metropolitan area. Major study procedures include the conceptualization and measurement of key study constructs, the estimation of structural equation models within a latent variable framework, and the replication of research findings.