Ethnicity & Socioemotional Functioning in Later Life

描述(由申请者提供)：目的：本申请旨在回应NACA少数民族老龄化审查委员会的呼吁，即对少数民族样本进行基于人口的纵向研究，并澄清种族在人类发展和老龄化中的作用。本研究涉及对晚年社会情绪功能及其与健康和复原力的关系的研究。在1996-1996年间，关于经济、社会情感和文化变量的数据是通过分层随机抽样的个人(N=1118)收集的，年龄从65岁到86岁不等，包括四个种族群体：在美国出生的非洲裔美国人、非洲加勒比人、在美国出生的欧洲裔美国人和来自东欧的欧洲移民。在本申请中，我们提出了具有两个主要目标的两波后续数据。第一个目标是考察离散情绪、依恋类型和社会网络的稳定性和变化模式，并检验离散情绪理论、依恋理论和社会情绪选择性理论模型的相关性和跨文化共性。第二个目标是一方面确定存活率和恢复力的预测因素，另一方面确定发病率和死亡率的预测因素。更具体地说，这项研究旨在预测作为社会情感变量的函数的生存，包括情绪特征、情绪调节方式、依恋风格和社会网络，控制得克萨斯州的自尊、生活方式风险因素和健康，并建立预测非裔美国人和欧洲裔美国人种族亚群的发病率和死亡率的模型。方法：将重新联系受访者，参与另外两波数据收集。实际上，德州仪器收集的所有措施都将重新实施给那些认知完好无损的人。这些数据将被用来测试从离散情绪、依恋和社会情绪选择性理论中得出的公式。在拨款的第五年，国家数据指数将提供那些在这段时间内死亡的受访者的时间和死因数据。分析：将对三波数据进行交叉滞后面板分析，以评估社会情绪功能的稳定性和变化。生存分析将应用于死亡率数据

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Aims: This application addresses the NACA's Minority Aging Review Committee's call for longitudinal population-based research on minority samples and the clarification of the role of ethnicity in human development and aging. The present research involves an examination of socioemotional functioning in later life and its relation to health and resiliency. In 1996-1996 data on economic, socioemotional, and cultural variables were collected on a stratified random sample of individuals (N=1 118), ranging in age from 65-86 years and comprising four ethnic groups: US-born African Americans, African Caribbeans, US-born European Americans, and Immigrant Europeans from Eastern Europe. In the present application we propose two waves of follow-up data with two major objectives. The first objective is to examine patterns of stability and change with respect to discrete emotions, attachment styles, and social networks, and to test the relevance of, and cross-cultural generality of, theoretical models of discrete emotions theory, attachment theory, and socioemotional selectivity theory. The second objective is to determine the predictors of survival and resilience on the one hand and morbidity and mortality on the other. More specifically, the study aims to predict survival as a function of socioemotional variables, including emotion traits, emotion regulation style, attachment style, and social networks, controlling for SES, lifestyle risk factors, and health at TI, and to develop models for predicting morbidity and mortality in ethnic sub-populations of African Americans and European Americans.Method: Respondents will be re-contacted to participate in two more waves of data collection. Virtually all of the measures collected at TI will be re-administered to those who are cognitively intact. These data will be used to test formulations derived from discrete emotions, attachment, and socioemotional selectivity theories. In the fifth year of the grant, the National Data Index will provide data on time and cause of death for those respondents who have died during the interim.Analysis: Cross-lagged panel analysis will be applied to the three waves of data to assess stability and change in socioemotional functioning. Survival analysis will be applied to the mortality data