SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL CORRELATES OF OCCUPATIONAL CONDITIONS

该项目调查社会环境条件如何影响 老年人的心理功能。它测试了关于如何， 随着年龄的增长，这种社会结构决定的环境 复杂性会影响认知功能、自主自我 定向和一个人对自己和自己的感觉 情节该数据来自对707名受访者的跟踪调查 最初于1964年被选为全国代表性样本的一部分， 被选中调查职业环境如何影响 心理功能。 在1996财政年度，我们在第一阶段的数据方面取得了非常大的进展 分析-结构方程模型（SEM）的心理和 职业措施。我们也仔细检查了编码数据， 完成了为SEM建模做准备的艰苦过程。的SEM 我们进行的分析表明，心理和职业 我们二十多年前估计的测量模型继续 是有效和可靠的。我们还开发了一种新的认知模型， 功能，包括智力的标准化措施， 我们在1994年的调查中增加了这些功能。该模型承诺将增加 这对我们理解宇宙的本质和结构 智力功能。 1996财政年度还完成并接受了一个品种的出版 关于占领研究结果的论文， 行为科学和社会科学领域的重要问题 学科

This project investigates how socio-environmental conditions affect the psychological functioning of the elderly. It tests hypotheses about how, as one grows older, such social-structurally determined environmental conditions as complexity affect cognitive functioning, autonomous self- directed orientations and one's feelings about oneself and one's circumstances. The data come from a follow-up survey of 707 respondents originally selected in 1964 as part of a nationally representative sample picked for an investigation of how occupational conditions affect psychological functioning. In FY96 we made very substantial progress in the first stage of data analysis-- structural equation modeling (SEM) of the psychological and occupational measures. We have also carefully checked the coded data and completed the laborious process of preparing it for SEM modeling. The SEM analyses that we carried out show that the psychological and occupational measurement models that we estimated over twenty years ago continue to be valid and reliable. We have also developed a new model of cognitive functioning that incorporates the standardized measures of intellectual functioning that we added to our 1994 survey. This model promises to add significantly to our understanding of the nature and structure of intellectual functioning. FY96 also saw the completion and acceptance for publication of a variety of papers by Schooler relating the findings of the occupation study to important questions in a range of behavioral and social science disciplines.