Does Emotional Well-Being Promote Successful Aging?

情绪健康是否能促进成功老龄化？

基本信息

批准号：
6909465
负责人：
Richard E Lucas
金额：
$ 6.44万
依托单位：
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2005
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2005-06-15 至 2007-05-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6909465
关键词：
Germany aging behavioral /social science research tag clinical research emotional adjustment human data human mortality life cycle longitudinal human study occupational psychology occupations psychological aspect of aging quality of life

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Emotional well-being reflects an individual's global evaluation of his or her life as a whole. Well-being is thought to be influenced by a variety of factors in a person's life, including life events, life circumstances, and a number of personality characteristics. Because these characteristics may change in systematic ways over the course of the life span, age differences in well-being can be expected. Yet existing studies are limited in their ability to resolve debates about the nature of these changes. In addition, research shows that emotions are not simply reactive. Recent theoretical advances suggest that emotional well-being may be functional and adaptive. Thus, high levels of well-being may promote successful aging. In the proposed project, the investigators will: (a) document changes in well-being across the life span, (b) test hypotheses about the effects of well-being on occupational outcomes, and (c) test hypotheses about the effects of well-being on risk of mortality. Data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (a nationally representative longitudinal study in which over 35,000 respondents aged 16 to 102 were surveyed yearly for up to 20 years) will be analyzed. Growth modeling will be used to assess the extent to which well-being changes over time and across cohorts. Regression analyses will be used to assess the extent to which initial levels of well-being predict positive occupational outcomes. Survival analyses will be used to determine whether happy individuals have a lower risk of mortality. In all analyses, variables related to health and work will be included to help elucidate the processes involved in these effects. Results from this study will provide one of the most comprehensive pictures of well-being change over the course of the life span. In addition, this study will inform both basic theories of emotion and more applied theories about mechanisms that may prevent mental and physical health declines over the course of the life span.

描述（由申请人提供）：情感健康反映了个人对他或她整体生活的全球评估。人们认为幸福感受到一个人生活中各种因素的影响，包括生活事件，生活环境和许多人格特征。由于这些特征在整个寿命过程中可能会在系统的方式上发生变化，因此可以预期幸福感的年龄差异。然而，现有研究的能力有限解决有关这些变化性质的辩论的能力。此外，研究表明，情绪不仅是反应性的。最近的理论进步表明，情感健康可能是功能性和适应性的。因此，高水平的幸福感可能会促进成功的衰老。在拟议的项目中，研究人员将：（a）文档在整个寿命中的福祉变化，（b）关于幸福感对职业结果的影响的测试假设，以及（c）检验关于幸福感对死亡风险影响的假设。来自德国社会经济小组研究的数据（一项全国代表性的纵向研究，将对35,000多名16至102岁的受访者每年进行每年最多20年的调查）。增长建模将用于评估福祉随着时间和跨人群的变化程度。回归分析将用于评估福祉的初始水平在多大程度上预测积极的职业成果。生存分析将用于确定幸福的人是否具有较低的死亡风险。在所有分析中，将包括与健康和工作有关的变量，以帮助阐明这些效果所涉及的过程。这项研究的结果将为整个生命过程中最全面的福祉变化图片之一提供。此外，这项研究将为情感的基本理论提供信息，又将更多的应用理论介绍，这些理论可能会阻止在整个生命过程中进行精神和身体健康的下降。