Couple Relationships and Health during Transition to Later Adulthood

该申请寻求五年的支持，以收集来自近400对夫妇的新两波数据（2014-2019），这些夫妇参加了家庭过渡项目（FTP; 1989，1990，1991，1992和1994）和中年过渡项目（MTP; 2001）的早期浪潮。回到这个小组的目的是记录夫妻关系和健康（广义上包括心理和身体健康）从中年到晚年的连续性和变化。在FTP和MTP下收集的数据现在正在通过第三个项目-全基因组关联研究（GWAS）-得到扩充，通过该项目，从同一个成年人收集遗传数据。几乎所有的参与者都是婴儿潮时期出生的人，他们已经到了退休年龄。在过去的两波数据基础上增加新的两波数据，提供了大量关于男性和女性目前过渡到退休年龄的前瞻性数据。 以前关于老年夫妇关系和健康的连续性和变化的研究是混合的。这可能是由于以前的研究能力有限，调查夫妇的互动和关系质量的背景下，长期的夫妇关系和生活史，以及未能采取配偶的 考虑到工作和经济情况。此外，大多数关于老年夫妇关系的研究都未能利用有关遗传标记的新研究。拟议的研究完全可以解决这些问题。通过将新数据与上述早期数据相结合，我们将获得25年来收集的大量夫妇信息。这些数据将包括对婚姻、经济和工作历史、父母经历、社会地位、支持、身心健康以及基因型信息的深入评估。这种全面的视角和“长远的眼光”为解决现有研究中的矛盾提供了前景。我们将把从中年到成年后期的过渡放在长期的生活过程和家庭环境中，并研究夫妻关系和健康的连续性和变化。我们还将考虑到持久的脆弱性，包括遗传标记造成的脆弱性的缓和作用。我们将使用尖端的分析技术，这是我们过去研究的标志。

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.