Roles, Aging & Health among African American Women

角色、老龄化

• 批准号: 7008646
• 负责人: MARGARET E. ENSMINGER
• 金额: $ 33.47万
• 依托单位: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-02-15 至 2010-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7008646
• 关键词: African American; age difference; aging; behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; community; family structure /dynamics; female; human data; human middle age (35-64); human old age (65+); longevity; longitudinal human study; occupations; quality of life; role; socioenvironment; women' s health; young adult human (21-34)

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): 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 functional limitations 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.

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议的研究将使用纵向数据来调查持续和不断变化的家庭、社会和经济状况对最初于 1966 年招募的非裔美国女性群体的身心健康的直接和间接影响当他们的孩子上一年级时。这些数据来自 20 世纪 60 年代在芝加哥南部贫困非裔美国人社区伍德劳恩 (Woodlawn) 发起的一项针对儿童及其家庭的社区流行病学研究。对孩子和他们的母亲进行了长期跟踪，拟议的研究重点关注母亲 (n=1136)。这些女性在 25 年的三个时间点接受了采访：1967 年，她们的孩子上一年级（中位年龄 30 岁）；1967 年，她们的孩子上一年级（中位年龄 30 岁）； 1975年，他们的孩子正值青春期； 1997年，他们的孩子已经成年。 1997年，找到了1008名（89%）最初的妇女群体，她们的年龄从49岁到79岁，中位年龄为60岁。大多数妇女已经过了传统的育儿阶段，正在接近或已经生育。向退休的过渡。他们报告了各种各样的身体和心理健康状况以及一些功能限制和其他残疾。我们的概念框架基于生命历程发展视角，重点关注生命历程中主要社会领域的角色。拟议研究的重点是描绘家庭、工作和社区等主要社会领域的角色模式，并确定这些角色在早期（中位年龄 31，1967）和中年（中位年龄 39）的路径。 ，1975 年），以保证晚年的身心健康（中位年龄 61 岁，1997 年）。拟议的研究将需要几种不同的分析方法。我们将从探索性分析开始描述单变量分布，然后进行双变量分析以评估变量之间的关系。我们的多变量技术将包括回归分析、生存分析、转换分析（潜在类和潜在转换模型）、结构方程模型、潜在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以后健康的影响知之甚少。这项研究将提供有关非裔美国女性这一未被研究群体的知识。