Doctoral Dissertation Research: Interactions among socio-demographic characteristics and identity in shaping aging

博士论文研究：社会人口特征和身份在塑造老龄化过程中的相互作用

• 批准号: 2215263
• 负责人: Eugene Raikhel
• 金额: $ 1.98万
• 依托单位: University of Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-07-15 至 2023-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2215263&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Interactions; among

Individuals experience aging differently according to both individual and community attributes. How these factors interact to affect well-being in old age, however, remains poorly understood. This project uses theory from scientific cultural anthropology to test among multiple possible life courses in old age among individuals of varying identities and socio-economic characteristics to understand whether specific factors emerge as particularly salient in predicting aging and welfare among older individuals. In addition to training a graduate student in scientific research, this project trains undergraduate students, disseminates its findings broadly to academic and non-academic audiences, and develops undergraduate curricula. Research on aging has principally concentrated on analyses of a single aspect of an individual’s identity. This study complements this focus by investigating how a number of socio-demographic characteristics interact with aspects of identity to affect an individual’s life and aging experiences. This project employs ethnographic methods, including participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and focus groups, to investigate aging and welfare within a diverse senior population. It advances knowledge of human aging processes and outcomes by investigating predictive factors at multiple levels of an individual’s identity and livelihood, providing much-needed nuance to studies attempting to unravel how patterns and consequences of human aging.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

然而，根据个人和社区属性，个体经历不同的衰老过程，然而，人们对这些因素如何相互作用影响老年福祉仍知之甚少。该项目对具有不同身份和社会经济特征的个人进行了研究，以了解特定因素在预测老年人的衰老和福利方面是否特别重要。除了培训研究生进行科学研究外，该项目还培训本科生，并向学术界广泛传播其研究结果。和非学术观众，以及开发本科课程。关于老龄化的研究主要集中于对个人身份的单个方面的分析，这项研究通过调查许多社会人口特征如何与身份的各个方面相互作用以影响个人的生活和老龄化经历来补充这一重点。该项目采用人种学方法，包括参与观察、半结构化访谈和焦点小组，来调查老年多样化预测人群中的衰老和福利，它通过调查个人身份的多个层面的因素来增进对人类衰老过程和结果的了解。和该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。