Social Relations and Mental Health

描述（由申请人提供）：这一竞争性更新申请寻求资助，以挖掘社会关系和心理健康之间关系的前所未有的数据。我们有丰富的横断面和纵向数据，并有机会进行跨国比较。我们还扩大了这项工作，收集了主要和核心网络答复者关于其社会关系和健康的补充报告，特别是在压力情况下。我们的具体目标是：检查处于生命历程不同阶段的个人在12年内社会关系（结构、支持交换、质量）、压力（生活事件、日常纠纷）和健康（精神和身体）方面的稳定和变化模式。2. 横断面和纵向检验护航模型中压力的影响，以及社会关系、压力和健康之间的假设关联。3. 通过横断面和纵向检验护航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）数据进行平行分析来进行有限的复制，这是一项独特的纵向研究，包括社会关系、压力、疗效和健康的多个波和相当多的重叠测量。5. 通过比较主要和核心网络成员对压力生活事件、社会关系和幸福感的评估，以及每个人预测主要受访者幸福感的程度，进一步扩展社会关系和健康的理论和方法研究。总之，我们认为，拟议的分析利用“社会关系和心理健康”研究的独特纵向数据，提供了一个前所未有的、具有成本效益的机会，从理论上和方法上检查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，这些分析应该对负责制定政策以最大限度地促进所有年龄段个人的健康和福祉的决策者有用；尤其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.