PRECURSORS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING IN OLD AGE

一项关于成年期稳定性和变化的长期纵向研究 将继续对94人的密集开放式采访进行分析 伯克利老一辈研究的幸存成员，一个拥有 之前曾在青壮年、中年和青年时期接受过采访 年龄，以及现在是老年人或年龄最大的人。四大类问题 将讨论：(1)青年与老年之间的过渡； (2)高龄(75岁至84岁)与高龄(85岁至84岁)的差异 超越)变化的数量和质量上的人；(3)前驱 成年期的稳定和变化及其对心理的影响 老年幸福感；以及(4)数量和数量的个体差异 晚年的变化方向。信息已收集在 智力功能、健康、生活满意度、社交领域 关系，社会支持，婚姻，家庭关系， 回顾过去的事件、个性特征和 人口统计信息。所有这些都将在许多分析中得到借鉴 本资助期关注的三大领域：(A) 智力运作，(B)社会关系和社会支持，以及 (C)婚姻。这项研究旨在增加我们对 内部变化或连续性与情景之间的关系， 整个成年期与环境有关的活动及其对 高龄老人的心理健康。这会影响到 公共政策也是如此：了解成功的重要先兆 老龄化在预防干预计划的设计中至关重要，以 优化老龄化。

A long-term longitudinal study of stability and change throughout adulthood will be continued with analysis of intensive open-ended interviews with 94 surviving members of the Berkeley Older Generation Study, a group who have previously been interviewed in young adulthood, middle age, and young-old age, and who are now old-old or oldest-old. Four broad sets of questions will be addressed: (1) the transition between young-old and old-old age; (2) difference between old-old (age 75 to 84) and oldest-old (age 85 and beyond) persons in the quantity and quality of change; (3) the precursors of stability and change across adulthood and their impact on psychological well-being in old age; and (4) individual differences in amount and direction of change in old age. Information has been collected in the areas of intellectual functioning, health, life satisfaction, social relationships, social supports, marriage, family relationships, retrospective perceptions of past events, personality characteristics, and demographic information. All of these will be drawn upon in many analyses of the three major domains of interest in this funding period: (a) intellectual functioning, (b) social relationships and social supports, and (c) marriage. The research is designed to increase our understanding of the relationships between internal change or continuity and situational, environmentally-linked events throughout adulthood and their input on psychological well-being in advanced old age. There are implications for public policy, as well: a knowledge of important precursors of successful aging is crucial in the design of preventive intervention programs to optimize aging.