Roles, Aging & Health among African American Women

角色、老龄化

基本信息

批准号：
7371024
负责人：
MARGARET E. ENSMINGER
金额：
$ 31.99万
依托单位：
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
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

项目摘要

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 functionallimitations 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.

使用纵向数据，拟议的研究将调查持续和间接影响不断变化的家庭、社会和经济条件对一群人的身心健康的影响非洲裔美国女性最初于 1966 年入伍，当时她们的孩子还是一年级学生。来自 20 世纪 60 年代在 Woodlawn 发起的一项针对儿童及其家庭的社区流行病学研究，芝加哥南部贫困的非裔美国人社区的孩子们和他们的母亲。随着时间的推移，拟议的研究重点关注母亲（n = 1136）。 25 岁以上的三个时间点：1967 年，他们的孩子上一年级（中位年龄 30 岁）； 1997 年，他们的孩子是青少年；1997 年，他们的孩子成年时，1008 人（89%）。找到了最初的女性群体，她们的年龄从 49 岁到 79 岁不等，中位年龄为 60 岁。大多数妇女已经过了传统的育儿阶段，正在接近或已经实现了人生的目标。他们还报告了各种身体和心理健康状况。作为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的角色整个生命过程中的主要社会领域。跨家庭、工作和社区等主要社会领域的角色，并确定这些角色的途径成年早期（中位年龄 31 岁，1967 年）和中年（中位年龄 39 岁，1975 年）的角色晚年的心理健康（中位年龄 61 岁，1997 年）。我们将从探索性分析开始描述单变量分布。然后我们将进行双变量分析来评估变量之间的关系。技术将包括回归分析、生存分析、转换分析（潜在类别和潜在过渡建模）、结构方程建模、潜变量混合建模和广义估计方程（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这些方面的知识。非裔美国女性是一个未被充分研究的群体。