National Social Life Health and Aging Project: Wave 3

描述（由申请人提供）：国家社会生活、健康和老龄化项目（NSHAP）是一项针对老年人的纵向研究，旨在研究社会因素（如亲密关系、社会网络）影响健康和受健康影响的机制。2005- 2006年，从具有全国代表性的3,005名57-85岁的社区居民（W1）中收集了问卷调查和生物测量数据。在2010-11年度，这些参考受访者与共同配偶/合伙人（W2）一起再次接受了采访。我们寻求资金在2015-16年（W3）重新采访所有幸存的参考受访者和W2配偶/伴侣。这第三波将允许NSHAP研究者和更广泛的研究界：1)测试一个总体假设，即拥有牢固、正常关系的老年人有更好的健康轨迹；2)研究那些从W1到W2经历重大社会或健康事件的人在W3中如何应对；3)探索在更大的背景下（即夫妻、家庭、家庭、社区）产生和维持健康和社会关系的程度；4)估计社会关系对健康影响的因果模型，反之亦然。虽然NSHAP的W1和W2提供了广泛的健康和社会信息，但W3将使研究人员能够追踪个人健康和死亡率的途径以及社会背景下的亲密伙伴关系。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The National Social Life, Health and Aging Project (NSHAP) is a longitudinal study of older adults designed to examine mechanisms by which social factors (e.g., intimate relationships, social networks) affect and are affected by health. I 2005-06, questionnaire and biomeasure data were collected from a nationally-representative sample of 3,005 community-dwelling adults 57-85 (W1). These referent respondents were reinterviewed in 2010-11, together with coresident spouses/partners (W2). We seek funding to reinterview all surviving referent respondents and W2 spouses/partners in 2015-16 (W3). This third wave will allow NSHAP investigators and the broader research community to: 1) test the overarching hypothesis that older adults with strong, functioning relationships have better health trajectories; 2) examine how those who experience a major social or health event from W1 to W2 respond in W3; 3) explore the extent to which health and social relationships are produced and maintained in a larger context (i.e., couple, household, family, community); and 4) estimate causal models of the effect of social relationships on health and vice versa. While NSHAP's W1 and W2 provide extensive health and social information, W3 will allow researchers to trace pathways of health and mortality for individuals and intimate partnerships within social context.