Roles, Aging & Health among African American Women

利用纵向数据，拟议的研究将调查持续和 不断变化的家庭、社会和经济条件对一群人的身心健康的影响 非洲裔美国妇女最初于1966年招募，当时她们的孩子是一年级学生。数据来源 从20世纪60年代在伍德劳恩开始的儿童及其家庭的社区流行病学研究中， 芝加哥南部的一个贫穷的非裔美国人社区。孩子们和他们的母亲 随着时间的推移，拟议的研究重点是母亲（n=1136）。这些妇女接受了采访 在25年中的三个时间点：1967年，当他们的孩子在一年级时（中位数年龄为30岁）; 1975年， 当他们的孩子是青少年时; 1997年，当他们的孩子成年时。1997年， 最初的一批妇女被找到，她们的年龄从49岁到79岁不等，年龄中位数为60岁。 大多数妇女已经过了传统的养育子女的阶段，正在接近或已经达到了 过渡到退休。他们还报告了各种各样的身体和心理健康状况 as a number数of functional功能limitations限制and other disabilities残疾.¿ 我们的概念框架是基于生命历程发展的观点，重点是在 贯穿生命历程的主要社会领域。拟议研究的重点是描绘模式， 在家庭，工作和社区的主要社会领域的作用，并确定从这些途径 在成年早期（中位年龄31，1967年）和中期（中位年龄39，1975年），对身体和 晚年的心理健康（1997年，中位年龄61岁）。这项研究需要几个 不同的分析方法。我们将开始探索性分析来描述单变量分布 然后进行双变量分析，评估变量之间的关系。我们的多元 技术将包括回归分析、生存分析、转换分析（潜在类和潜在类）、 过渡模型），结构方程模型，潜变量混合模型，和广义 估计方程（GEE）。 我们将研究成年早期和中期的家庭、工作和社区如何影响老年女性的健康。 人们对家庭和社会对后期健康的影响知之甚少。这项研究将提供有关 非裔美国女性，一个被忽视的群体。

Using longitudinal data, the proposed study will investigate the direct and indirect effects of continuing and evolving family, social, and economic conditions on physical and psychological well-being in a cohort of African American women originally recruited in 1966 when their children were first graders. The data come from a community epidemiological study of children and their families initiated in the 1960s in Woodlawn, a poor African American community on the south side of Chicago. The children and their mothers were followed over time, and the proposed study focuses on the mothers (n=1136). The women were interviewed at three time points over 25 years: 1967, when their children were in first grade (median age of 30); 1975, when their children were adolescents; and 1997, when their children were adults. In 1997, 1008 (89%) of the original cohort of women were located, and their ages ranged from 49 to 79 with a median age of 60. Most of the women were past the traditional childrearing stage of life and were approaching or had made the transition to retirement. They reported a wide array of physical and psychological health conditions as well as a number of functionallimitations and other disabilities. ¿ Our conceptual framework is based on a life course developmental perspective that focuses on roles within major social fields across the life course. The focus of the proposed study is to delineate the patterns of roles across the major social fields of family, work, and community, and to identify the pathways from these roles in early (median age 31, 1967) and mid adulthood (median age 39, 1975), to physical and psychological well being in later life (median age 61, 1997). The proposed research will require several different analytic approaches. We will begin with exploratory analyses to describe univariate distributions then we will conduct bivariate analyses to assess relationships among the variables. Our multivariate techniques will include regression analysis, survival analysis, transition analysis (latent class and latent transitional modeling), structural equation modeling, latent variable mixture modeling, and generalized estimating equations (GEE). We will study how family, work, and community in early and mid adulthood influence health of older women. Little is known about family and social influences on later health. This study will provide knowledge about African American women, an understudied group.