Notre Dame Study of Resiliency in Later Life

描述（由申请人提供）：这项研究建立在圣母大学晚年恢复力研究（NDSRL，R 01 AG 023571）的进展基础上。其目标是通过收集关于另一组中年人的信息来扩展和丰富国家统计研究基准数据。总体目标是促进对导致成年中期（40-60）和后期（60-75）成功发展的多种途径的理解。拟议工作的广泛范围强调了对跨多个领域（例如，心理的、社会的、情感的）在成年生活过程中（例如，中年早期、中年晚期和老年早期）。为了推进这些优先事项，拟议的研究议程要求一系列重叠的纵向和短期突发性研究，可以在概念上整合发展和生命过程的观点。主要目的是通过使用加速纵向设计，在相对较短的时间跨度（五年的数据收集）内构建一个广泛的年龄范围内的个人发展的画像。个体内变异和变化的建模过程可以帮助揭示健康和幸福的长期轨迹，这些轨迹在不同个体之间是合理一致的，但在不同的个体亚组中可能会有很大的不同（目标1和2）;阐明这些复杂的个体内变化轨迹是如何通过选择性个体差异变量来勾画的（目标3）;将发育变化中的个体内差异与随时间推移表现出短期变异性的时间现象的各个方面分开（目标4）;展示个体间差异的维度如何用于解释适应性个体内过程（目标5）;并通过使用生活故事（目标6）澄清个人发展如何嵌入多种生态（例如，生物、家庭、历史、社会和文化），这些因素既限定了机会，也限定了限制。对中年和老年的风险和弹性的研究为干预和预防领域的公共卫生政策带来了巨大的希望。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This research builds on the progress of the Notre Dame Study of Resilience in Later Life (NDSRL, R01 AG023571). The goal is to extend and enrich the NDSRL data by collecting information on an additional cohort of middle age adults. The overarching objective is to advance understanding of the multiple pathways that lead to successful development during the middle (40-60) and later (60-75) years of adulthood. The broad purview of the proposed work underscores the need for methodologies that are responsive to individual variation in development and growth across multiple domains (e.g., psychological, social, emotional) over the adulthood lifecourse (e.g., early midlife, late midlife, and early old age). To advance these priorities, the proposed research agenda calls for a series of overlapping longitudinal and short-term burst studies that can conceptually integrate developmental and life-course perspectives. The major aim is to construct a portrait of individual development across a broad range of ages within a comparatively short time span (five years of data collection) by using an accelerated longitudinal design. Modeling processes of intraindividual variability and change can help to reveal how long-term trajectories of health and well-being, which are reasonably consistent across different individuals, may differ dramatically within different subgroups of individuals (Aims 1 and 2); elucidate how these complex trajectories of intraindividual changes are contoured by selective individual differences variables (Aim 3); separate intraindividual differences in developmental change from aspects of temporal phenomena that exhibit shorter-term variability overtime (Aim 4); demonstrate how dimensions of interindividual differences may be used to explain adaptive intraindividual processes (Aim 5); and clarify, through the use of life stories (Aim 6), how individual development is embedded in multiple ecologies (e.g., biological, familial, historical, social, and cultural) that delimit both opportunities and constraints. The study of risk and resiliency across mid-life and old age holds great promise for public health policy in the areas of intervention and prevention.