Archiving the Hawaii Personality and Health Project

描述（由申请人提供）：夏威夷人格与健康队列是目前可用于研究儿童人格特征作为生活结果的前瞻性预测因素的最有价值的数据集之一。这项研究开始于50多年前，在夏威夷的一个大型多种族小学生队列（n = 2,418）中进行了教师人格评级。从1998年开始，研究人员找到并招募了参与者进行成人随访评估。在过去的15年里，这些研究包括一次基线诊所访问，以评估客观的健康标志物、认知能力和个性，向参与者邮寄了5份问卷，向他们的父母邮寄了1份问卷。这些评估包括使用多个评估者视角的复杂人格测量，健康结果的测量，以及解释人格与健康之间寿命关联的潜在机制的测量。这些数据产生了许多新颖而重要的结果。最初，童年时期的人格评估对建立目前公认的人格模型，即大五人格方法产生了影响。随后，这些童年特征被证明可以预测40年后的临床评估和自我报告的健康状况。解释这些关联的机制的证据包括教育程度和健康行为。我们现在要准备这些数据，沿着详细的文件，以便将它们存款国家老龄问题计算机化数据档案馆。收集并向其他研究人员提供这些数据对于该领域的持续进展至关重要。公开儿童和成人的个性数据 将为人格研究者提供一个无价的工具。由于这项研究涵盖了广泛的人口统计学和心理社会变量以及健康的客观衡量标准，我们希望这些数据对人口学，生物人口学，流行病学，公共卫生，医学，经济学和老年学以及心理学和社会学等领域的研究人员具有价值。这些数据还将为研究生培训提供教学机会。该项目的目的是：（1）准备儿童个性数据和文件，以便在NACDA存档;（2）准备成人诊所和调查问卷数据以及必要的存档文件;（3）生成（a）公共使用数据文件和附带文件，其中包括儿童个性评估和成人诊所和调查数据的部分内容;以及（B）包括生物标记、健康信息和任何其它敏感数据的限制使用文件。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Hawaii Personality and Health cohort is one of the most valuable data sets currently available for studying childhood personality traits as prospective predictors of life outcomes. The study began over 50 years ago with teacher ratings of personality in a large multi-ethnic cohort of elementary school children in Hawaii (n = 2,418). Starting in 1998, researchers have located and recruited participants for adult follow up assessments. Over the past fifteen years these have included a baseline clinic visit to assess objective health markers, cognitive abilities and personality, five mailed out questionnaires to participants, and one questionnaire to their parents. These assessments have included sophisticated measures of personality using multiple rater perspectives, measures of health outcomes, and measures of potential mechanisms to account for the lifespan associations between personality and health. The data have produced many novel and important results. Initially, the childhood personality assessments were influential in establishing the current accepted model of personality, the Big Five approach. Subsequently, these childhood traits have been shown to predict, among other outcomes, both clinically assessed and self-reported health over 40 years later. Evidence for mechanisms to explain these associations include educational attainment and health behaviors. We would now like to prepare these data, along with detailed documentation, in order to deposit them with the National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA). Archiving and making these data available to other researchers is essential for continued progress in the field. Making the child and adult personality data publicly available will provide an invaluable tool for personality researchers. Because the study covers a wide range of demographic and psychosocial variables and objective measures of health, we expect the data to be of value for researchers in fields such as demography, bio- demography, epidemiology, public health, medicine, economics, and gerontology as well as in psychology and sociology. These data will also provide pedagogical opportunities for graduate training. The aims of this project are to (1) Prepare the child personality data and documentation for archiving at NACDA, (2) Prepare the adult clinic and questionnaire data and necessary documentation for archiving, and then (3) Generate (a) a public use data file and accompanying documentation that includes the child personality assessments and portions of the adult clinic and survey data, and (b) a restricted use file including biomarkers, health information, and any other sensitive data.