Social Relations and Mental Health

描述（由申请人提供）：这个竞争性的续期申请寻求资金，以挖掘有关社会关系和心理健康之间关联的前所未有的数据。我们拥有丰富的横向和纵向数据，并有机会进行跨国比较。我们还通过收集主要和核心网络受访者关于其社会关系和健康的补充报告，特别是在压力环境下，扩大了这项工作。我们的具体目标是1.研究12年来处于生命历程不同阶段的个人在社会关系（结构，支持交流，质量），压力（生活事件，日常麻烦）和健康（心理和身体）方面的稳定和变化模式。2.测试，无论是横截面和纵向，压力的影响，在车队模型和假设的社会关系，压力和健康之间的关联。3.从横截面和纵向两个方面检验护送模式下自我效能感的影响，以及社会关系、效能感和健康之间的假设关联。4.通过使用柏林老龄化研究（BASE）数据进行平行分析，进行有限的复制，这是一项独特的纵向研究，包括多个波和大量重叠的社会关系、压力、效能和健康指标。5.从理论上和方法上进一步扩大社会关系和健康研究，比较主要和核心网络成员对紧张的生活事件、社会关系和福祉的评估，以及每一项评估在多大程度上预测主要答复者的福祉。总之，我们认为，拟议的分析使用独特的纵向数据的“社会关系和心理健康”的研究提供了一个前所未有的，具有成本效益的机会，检查，无论是理论上和方法上，通过社会关系和压力影响心理健康和抑郁症的过程和机制。最终，这些分析应有助于负责制定政策的决策者，以最大限度地提高所有年龄段的个人的健康和福祉;特别是在这个社会中增长最快的老年群体中。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This competing renewal application seeks funding to mine unprecedented data on the associations between social relations and mental health. We have rich cross-sectional and longitudinal data and the opportunity to conduct cross-national comparisons. We have also extended this work by collecting complementary reports of principal and core network respondents concerning their social relations and health, especially under stressful circumstances. Our specific aims are to 1. Examine patterns of stability and change over 12 years in social relations (structure, support exchanges, quality), stress (life events, daily hassles), and health (mental and physical), of individuals who are at different stages of the life course. 2. Test, both cross-sectionally and longitudinally, the influence of stress in the convoy model and the hypothesized associations among social relations, stress and health. 3. Test, both cross-sectionally and longitudinally, the effect of self efficacy in the convoy mode and the hypothesized associations among social relations, efficacy and health. 4. Perform a limited replication by conducting parallel analyses using the Berlin Aging Study (BASE) data, a unique longitudinal study that includes multiple waves and considerable overlapping measures of social relations, stress, efficacy, and health. 5. Further extend research on social relations and health, both theoretically and methodologically, by comparing principal and core network members' assessments of stressful life events, social relations and well-being and the degree to which each predicts the principal respondent's well-being. In sum, we believe that the proposed analyses use the unique longitudinal data of the "Social Relations and Mental Health" study to afford an unprecedented, cost-effective opportunity to examine, both theoretically and methodologically, the processes and mechanisms through which social relations and stress affect mental health and depressive disorders. Ultimately, these analyses should be useful to policy makers charged with developing policies to maximize the health and well-being of individuals of all ages; but especially among the fastest growing older age cohorts in this society.