WORK, FAMILY, & HEALTH--PRELIMINARY ANALYSES

这个试点项目使用了来自威斯康星州纵向调查的数据 (WLS)健康和退休调查（HRS）， 工作、家庭、社会支持和健康之间的关系。 试点项目中的大部分工作将使用WLS，但该项目 将与HRS进行一些初步分析。 项目 有两个具体目标。首先，项目将检查工作效果 和家庭经历对社会的影响 为即将退休的个人提供支持。 虽然 工作领域影响物质和社会支持网络， 在许多方面，试点项目将集中在其中两个方面-连接 工作和地域流动之间的冲突，以及 在工作和家庭之间。 有时候，地域流动性 求职或作为职业发展的一部分， 它可以破坏家庭和朋友的网络， 支持. 家庭和工作承诺之间的冲突也可能 影响个人获得的社会支持。 工作可以 提供各种形式的社会支持，但它也会阻碍 发展牢固的家庭关系，正如家庭承诺 可以限制一个人对工作的投入。主要 试点项目将重点关注的家庭经历的特点是 童年或成年时的家庭破裂。家庭破裂 不仅会影响个人与他或她的关系， 前配偶，但也与他或她的父母，兄弟姐妹，和/或 孩子例如，一个人的家庭或出身的破裂 可能会影响他或她与兄弟姐妹以及父母的关系。 一 一个人的家庭生育中断可能会影响他或她的 与孩子的关系。 因此，具有不同经历的个人 家庭稳定性可能有不同类型的家庭社会支持 网络. 该项目的第二个目标是研究 工作、家庭和社会对健康的支持。 大多数以前的研究 社会支持与健康之间的关系依赖于 社会支持的简单措施，并没有审查各种 关于社会支助的信息，可在工作和学习系统中查阅， HRS. 虽然WLS和HRS数据包含许多 健康措施，试点项目将主要侧重于 这是一种广泛使用的自我报告健康状况的衡量标准。

This pilot project uses data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Survey (WLS) and the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS) to examine the relationships between work, family, and social support, and health. Most of the work in the pilot project will use the WLS, but the project will carry out some preliminary analyses with the HRS. The project has two specific aims. First, the project will examine the effect of work and family experiences over the life course on the amount of social support available to individuals as they approach retirement. Although the domain of work affects material and social support networks in many ways, the pilot project will focus on two of these--the connection between work and geographical mobility, and the perceived conflict between work and family. Geographical mobility is sometimes necessary to seek employment or as part of career advancement, and it can disrupt the networks of family and friends that provide social support. Conflicts between family and work commitments may also influence the social support available to an individual. Work can provide forms of social support, but it can also impede the development of strong family relationships, just as family commitments can limit one's commitment to, an involvement in, work. The major features of family experiences that the pilot project will focus on are family disruptions during childhood or as an adult. Family disruptions may not only influence an individuals' relationships with his or her former spouse, but also with his or her parents, siblings, and/or children. The disruption of an individual's family or origin, for example may affect his or her relationships with siblings as well as parents. A disruption of an individual's family of procreation may affect his or her relationships with children. Thus, individuals with differing experiences of family stability may have different kinds of family social support networks. The second aims of the project is to look at the effects of work, family, and social support on health. Most previous research on the relationship between social support and health has relied on fairly simple measures of social support, and has not examined the variety of information on social support that is available in the WLS and the HRS. Although the WLS and HRS data contain a number of measures of health, the pilot project will focus primarily on one of these, a widely used measure of self-reported health.