SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL PREDICTORS OF HEALTH AND LONGEVITY

健康和长寿的社会和情感预测因素

• 批准号: 3120579
• 负责人: HOWARD S. FRIEDMAN
• 金额: $ 13.84万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1990
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1990-08-01 至 1994-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/3120579
• 关键词: alcoholic beverage consumption; attitude; behavioral medicine; body physical activity; coping; emotional adjustment; exercise; gender difference; human middle age (35-64); human morbidity; human mortality; human old age (65+); longevity; longitudinal human study; mood disorders; obesity; personality; physical fitness; psychological stressor; psychometrics; social psychology; social support network; statistics /biometry; stress

This research will examine the relationships between physical health (primarily mortality, secondary morbidity) and certain key social and emotional predictors. In particular, this research will test hypothesized relations between major social stressors/emotional reaction patterns earlier in life and the subsequent development of illness in middle and old age. An important secondary aim is the analysis of sex differences in longevity, as influenced by these same psychosocial variables. The design is an archival prospective cohort study, that is, a longitudinal study involving a rich existing data set. The raw data come from the Gifted Children Study, begun in 1921 by L. Terman and continued by R. Sears and others. The subjects are 857 men and 671 women followed from their childhood in the 1920's until the 1980's, the longest continuous cohort study ever conducted. The initial study of the research involve a culling of the relevant variables from more than 4000 raw variables collected on the subjects, the creation of psychometrically sound variables and indexes, and the examination of the interrelationships among the variables. The later stages of the research involve the prediction of health and longevity as a function of psychosocial stresses and resources --including objective losses, emotional temperament, personality, and social support. The primary "hard" endpoint is date of death (longevity). Key unanswered questions in psychosocial epidemiology, community medicine, and health psychology will be addressed using survival analyses, supplemented by logistic regression analyses as appropriate. As part of the analysis, sex differences in health and longevity at different stages of middle and old age will be examined in an attempt to shed light on puzzling sex differences that have previously been documented. This study will thus provide important information relevant to our understanding of the influence of individual and social factors on morbidity/mortality across the life span.

这项研究将考察身体健康与健康之间的关系 (主要是死亡率、继发性发病率)和某些关键的社会和 情绪预测者。特别是，这项研究将检验假设 主要社会压力源/情绪反应模式之间的关系 在生命的早期和随后的疾病发展到中期和 年纪大了。一个重要的次要目标是分析儿童的性别差异。 长寿，受这些相同的心理社会变量的影响。 设计是一项档案前瞻性队列研究，即 涉及丰富现有数据集的纵向研究。原始数据来自 摘自L·特曼于1921年开始的天才儿童研究，并继续 作者：R.Sears和其他人。受试者为857名男性和671名女性 从他们童年的1920年代的S到1980年代的S，最长的 从未进行过的连续队列研究。 这项研究的初步研究涉及对相关的 从收集的4000多个原始变量中收集的变量， 创建心理健康的变量和指数，以及 检验变量之间的相互关系。后者 这项研究的各个阶段包括对健康和长寿的预测 心理社会压力和资源的功能--包括目标 失落、情感气质、个性和社会支持。这个 主要的“硬”终点是死亡日期(寿命)。按键无人应答 心理社会流行病学、社区医学和卫生方面的问题 心理学将使用生存分析来解决，并补充 适当时进行Logistic回归分析。 作为分析的一部分，在健康和寿命方面的性别差异 中年和老年的不同阶段将被研究，试图 揭示了令人费解的性别差异 有记录在案。因此，这项研究将提供有关的重要信息 对我们理解个人和社会因素对 一生中的发病率/死亡率。