MARITAL STATUS AND HEALTH IN MIDDLE AND LATE LIFE

描述（改编自申请人的摘要）：婚姻状况是 与死亡率、身体健康和心理健康密切相关。 先前 研究表明，婚姻状况可能通过各种方式影响健康。 这些机制对男性和女性来说是不同的。 我们几乎知道 没有任何关于婚姻状况和健康之间的关系如何随着 其他社会人口特征，包括种族和民族，以及如何 婚姻状况与健康之间的联系机制因群体而异。 此外，我们不太了解婚姻之间的联系， 地位和健康取决于所考虑的健康层面。 最后，几乎没有研究这两种类型的预期影响。 婚姻破裂、守寡和离婚对健康、社会、 中年和老年的经济成果。 最终，调查人员计划 广泛探讨婚姻状况的影响，特别是， 对健康，社会和经济地位的破坏 中年和晚年，以及这种影响的性质如何根据 重要 社会人口特征 该试点项目有三个 主要目标：1）确定之间的关联的显着变化 按性别、年龄（中年与老年）、种族/族裔分列的婚姻状况和健康状况， 2）测试社会和社会经济地位的干预效果， 经济变量在解释健康的显着群体差异 婚姻状况的影响; 3）详细审查婚姻状况的影响 中年和晚年对健康、社会和经济地位的破坏， 这些影响对男性和女性有何不同。 研究人员将使用数据 来自两项对近老年人和老年人的研究：健康和退休调查 (HRS)老年人的资产和健康动态（AHEAD）。 他们将使用 HRS 1992年的初次调查和1994年、1996年和1998年的HRS重新访谈， AHEAD 1993年的初次调查以及1995年和1998年的再次调查。 这些 调查涵盖了广泛的数据，包括广泛的家庭支持， 经济状况和健康信息。 调查人员将探索 更广泛的健康结果身体功能，心理健康，认知 健康，自我评估的健康，和慢性疾病比以前 在婚姻状况和健康方面的研究。 拟议的努力将 为开发R 01应用程序奠定基础，以探索 婚姻状况和婚姻破裂对健康及其他社会和经济 结果，在中年和晚年，并确定哪些人口统计学亚组 或多或少容易受到特定的婚姻状况和婚姻状况的影响。 破坏

DESCRIPTION (adapted from the applicant's abstract): Marital status is strongly related to mortality, physical health, and mental health. Previous research shows that marital status may influence health through a variety of mechanisms, and that these mechanisms vary for men and women. We know almost nothing about how the relation between marital status and health varies by other sociodemographic characteristics, including race and ethnicity, nor how the mechanisms linking marital status and health varies across groups. Moreover, we do not understand very well how the association between marital status and health depends on the dimension of health under consideration. Finally, little work has examined the prospective impact of both types of marital disruption, widowhood and divorce, on health, social, social, and economic outcomes in midlife and old age. Ultimately, the investigators plan to explore extensively the impact of marital status and, especially, marital disruption on wellbeing including health, social, and economic status in midlife and late life, and how the nature of this impact varies according to important sociodemographic characteristics. This pilot project has three primary goals: 1) To identify significant variation in the association between marital status and health by sex, age (midlife vs. Old age), race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic status; 2) Test the intervening effects of social and economic variables in explaining significant group differences in the health impact of marital status; 3) Examine in rich detail the effects of marital disruption in midlife and late life on health, social and economic status and how these effects vary for men and women. The investigators will use data from two studies of near elderly and elderly: the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS) and Assets and Health Dynamics of the Oldest Old (AHEAD). They will use the initial HRS 1992 survey and the 1994, 1996, and 1998 HRS reinterviews and the initial AHEAD 1993 survey and the 1995 and 1998 AHEAD reinterviews. These surveys cover a wide range of data including extensive family support, economic status and health information. The investigators will explore a much larger array of health outcomes physical functioning, mental health, cognitive health, self-assessed health, and chronic conditions than has been previously studied in research on marital status and health. The proposed effort will lay the groundwork for developing and R01 application to explore the impact of marital status and marital disruption on health and other social and economic outcomes, in midlife and late life and identify which demographic subgroups are more or less vulnerable to particular marital statuses and to marital disruption.