Couple Relationships and Health during Transition to Later Adulthood

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请寻求五年的支持，从参加家庭过渡项目（FTP； 1989年，1990年，1991年，1992年和1994年）和中年过渡项目（MTP； 2001年）的早期浪潮的近400对夫妇的小组中收集新的两波数据（2014-2019年）。回到这个小组的目的是记录夫妻关系和健康（广泛定义为包括心理和身体健康）从中年到晚年过渡期间的连续性和变化。在FTP和MTP下收集的数据现在正被第三个项目——全基因组关联研究（GWAS）——所补充，该项目正在从相同的成年人中收集遗传数据。几乎所有的参与者都是处于退休年龄的婴儿潮一代。在过去两波数据的基础上增加新的两波数据，提供了丰富的关于男性和女性目前正在过渡到退休年龄的前瞻性数据。以前关于夫妻关系的连续性和变化以及老年健康的研究是混杂的。这可能是由于以前的研究在长期夫妻关系和生活史的背景下调查夫妻之间的互动和关系质量的能力有限，以及未能将配偶的

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application seeks five years of support to collect new two waves of data (2014-2019) from a panel of nearly 400 couples who participated in earlier waves of the Family Transitions Project (FTP; 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, and 1994) and the Midlife Transition Project (MTP; 2001). The purpose of returning to this panel is to document the continuity and change in couple relationships and health (broadly defined to include mental and physical health) over transition from middle to later years. The data assembled under FTP and MTP are now being augmented by a third project, a Genome Wide Association Study (GWAS), whereby genetic data are being collected from the same adults. Nearly all of the participants are baby-boomers who are in their retirement years. Adding new two waves of data to these past waves provides a wealth of prospective data on men and women as they currently transition through the retirement years. Previous research on the continuity and change in couple relationships and health over elder years is mixed. This may be attributed to the limited ability of previous studies to investigate the couples' interactions and relationship quality withi the contexts of long-term couple relationships and life histories, and the failure to take spouses' work and economic circumstances into account. Furthermore, most studies on couples' relationship in elder years have not been able to capitalize on new research regarding genetic markers. The proposed study is well-positioned to address these concerns. By combining new data with the earlier data described above, we will have extensive information on couples collected over a 25 year period. The data will include intensive assessments of marital, economic, and work histories, parental experiences, social status, support, and physical and mental health as well as genotypic information. This comprehensive perspective and the 'long-term view' offer the prospect of resolving contradictions in existing research. We will place the transition from midlife to later adulthood in a long-term life course and family contexts and examine continuity and change in couple relationships and health. We will also take into account the moderating effects of enduring vulnerabilities including those attributable to genetic markers. We will use the cutting-edge analytical techniques that have been the hallmark of our past research.