PROSPECTIVE STUDY OF THE MENTAL HEALTH OF BLACK WOMEN

描述(改编自申请人的摘要)：建议的研究将 调查一组老年人的心理和身体健康状况 并研究她们的幸福是如何依赖于 早期和同时的家庭、社会和经济功能。这 纵向工作将完成一项发展流行病学研究 女性在1966-67年间首次被认定为所有一年级学生的母亲 来自伍德劳恩，一个贫穷的非裔美国人社区，位于 芝加哥。人口由1026名幸存的母亲组成。这个 1967年，母亲们首次接受采访，当时她们的孩子还在第一个孩子。 1975年，当他们的孩子还在青春期时，他们又一次这样做了。这 应用程序请求资源，以便在#年第三次重新采访这些妇女 1996年，他们的年龄将从49岁到79岁不等，中位数为60岁。 这项拟议的研究是对最近成功的成年人(32岁)进行的。 对这一队列中的孩子进行了跟踪(80%重新采访)。 我们的概念框架是生命历程社会场论，一个 关注主要社会领域中的角色的发展视角 生命历程中的田野。(参见图2)。这项提案的重点是 是确定主要社会领域的角色模式 家庭、工作和社区，并理解角色之间的关系 表演对身心健康的影响。建议进行的研究 提供了一个独特的机会来了解 生命过程中的代际关系。总体目标 包括： 1.塑造女性主要社会领域的延续和变化 从1967年开始。 2.模拟女性心理和心理的连续性和变化性 自1967年以来身体健康。 3.对成功之间的当前和纵向关系进行建模 未能满足社会任务需求是社会领域的关键 贯穿整个生命历程和女性的身心健康。 我们将测试有关过去和当前表现如何的特定假设 特定社会领域中的社会角色影响女性的心理 和身体健康。我们还将测试女性的心理和 身体健康影响了他们随后的社会适应。 我们将特别感兴趣的是使用在 伍德劳恩的孩子们考察两者之间的相互关系 满足老年人生活中的社会任务需求的成败 无论是母亲还是孩子。在这方面，我们将检验具体的假设 关于成年子女的成功或问题，以及如何建立关系 母亲和他们的成年子女和孙子之间的关系影响着 女性的心理和身体健康。

DESCRIPTION (Adapted from applicant's abstract): The proposed study will investigate the mental and physical health status of a cohort of older African American women and examine how their well-being is dependent on earlier and concurrent family, social, and economic functioning. This longitudinal work will complete a developmental epidemiological study of women first identified in 1966-67 as the mothers of all the first graders from Woodlawn, a poor, African American community on the Southside of Chicago. The population consists of the 1,026 surviving mothers. The mothers were interviewed first in 1967 when their children were in first grade and again in 1975 when their children were adolescents. This application requests resources to reinterview the women for a third time in 1996, when they will range in age from 49 to 79 with a median age of 60. This proposed study follows on the recent successful adult (age 32) follow-up (80 percent reinterviewed) of the children of this cohort. Our conceptual framework is the Life Course Social Field Theory, a developmental perspective that focuses on the roles within the major social fields across the life course. (See figure 2). The focus of this proposal is to determine the patterning of roles across the major social fields of family, work, and community, and to understand the relationship of role performance to physical and psychological well being. The proposed study affords a unique opportunity to understand the nature and effects of intergenerational relationships across the life course. The overall aims are: 1. To model the continuity and change in the women's major social fields since 1967. 2. To model the continuity and change in the women's psychological and physical health since 1967. 3. To model the current and longitudinal relationships between successes and failure at meeting the social task demands key in social fields across the life course and the women's mental and physical health. We will test specific hypotheses about how past and current performances in social roles within specific social fields affect the women's psychological and physical health. We will also test how the women's psychological and physical health have affected their subsequent social adaptation. We will be particularly interested in using the wealth of data collected on the Woodlawn children to examine the reciprocal relationships between successes and failures in meeting the social tasks demands in the lives of both mothers and children. In this regard, we will test specific hypotheses about the adult children's successes or problems, and how relationships between the mothers and their adult children and grandchildren influence the women's psychological and physical health.