Promoting Well-Being Across Adulthood: The Role of Conflict Avoidance

促进成年后的福祉：避免冲突的作用

• 批准号: 8145552
• 负责人: KIRA S BIRDITT
• 金额: $ 23.92万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-08-15 至 2013-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8145552
• 关键词: Adult; Age; Area; Beds; Biological; Biology; Cardiovascular Diseases; Chronic stress; Conflict (Psychology); Coping Behavior; County; Data; Diabetes Mellitus; Elderly; Goals; Health; Hydrocortisone; Instruction; Interdisciplinary Study; Interview; Knowledge; Link; Mental Depression; Mission; National Institute on Aging; Participant; Pathway interactions; Patient Self-Report; Personal Satisfaction; Psychology; Public Health; Quality of life; Reporting; Research; Research Personnel; Role; Salivary; Sampling; Source; Stress; Stress and Coping; System; Telephone; Time; Training; Walking; Writing; aged; alpha-amylase; biological systems; career; coping; dehydroepiandrosterone; demographics; diaries; experience; improved; psychologic; response; skills; social

The proposed three-year plan involves three goals: 1) collect daily diary data to examine links between biological indicators of stress, coping with interpersonal tensions, and daily psychological well-being, 2) continue research using existing data regarding stress and Cortisol, and 3) use the knowledge gained to write an ROl to examine biological indicators of stress, coping strategies, and implications for later well-being. The candidate's overall research goal is to identify links between biological indicators of stress, coping behaviors and daily psychological well-being. Interpersonal tensions are the most common and detrimental source of stress for well-being. People are most likely to use avoidance (e.g., do nothing) to cope with interpersonal problems and the use of avoidance increases with age, but there little research on the implications of daily avoidance. The proposed study assesses how people respond to daily tensions, whether responses vary by age, and associations among coping strategies, biological indicators of stress, and well-being. The daily diary project will include a regionally representative sample of 108 adults (aged 40 to 80+) from the Detroit Tri-County area. Participants will complete a baseline interview regarding social relationships and demographics, followed by daily phone interviews regarding tensions each night for 14 days. On days 6 through 9, participants will provide salivary samples four times a day (waking, 30 minutes after waking, before lunch, and bed time) as well as salivary samples after they experience interpersonal tensions. Samples will be analyzed for Cortisol, DHEA-S, and alpha-amylase. It is predicted that older people will report greater avoidance and that avoidance will be more highly associated with well-being (e.g., lower Cortisol, higher self-reported well-being) among older adults. It is also expected that certain types of avoidance are more beneficial (e.g., accepting the situation) than others (e.g., walking away) for well-being. These goals parallel the National Institutes on Aging missions to: 1) improve the health and quality of life of older people; and 2) understand the biological and psychological pathways through which social relationships may influence health.

拟议的三年计划涉及三个目标：1）收集每日日记数据以检查之间的联系 压力、应对人际关系紧张和日常心理健康的生物指标，2) 使用有关压力和皮质醇的现有数据继续研究，并且 3）使用获得的知识来编写 ROl 用于检查压力的生物指标、应对策略以及对以后福祉的影响。这 候选人的总体研究目标是确定压力、应对行为的生物指标之间的联系 以及日常心理健康状况。人际关系紧张是最常见也是最有害的根源 为了幸福而承受压力。人们最有可能使用回避（例如，什么都不做）来应对人际关系 问题和回避的使用随着年龄的增长而增加，但很少有关于日常问题的影响的研究 回避。拟议的研究评估了人们如何应对日常紧张局势，以及反应是否因人而异。 年龄以及应对策略、压力生物指标和幸福感之间的关联。每日 日记项目将包括来自底特律的 108 名成年人（40 至 80 岁以上）的区域代表性样本 三县地区。参与者将完成有关社会关系和 人口统计数据，然后是 14 天的每晚关于紧张局势的电话采访。第 6 天 到 9 点，参与者每天将提供四次唾液样本（醒来时、醒来后 30 分钟、 午餐前和睡觉前）以及经历人际关系紧张后的唾液样本。 将分析样品的皮质醇、DHEA-S 和 α-淀粉酶。据预测，老年人将 报告更多的回避行为，并且回避行为与幸福感的相关性更高（例如，较低的 皮质醇，老年人自我报告的幸福感较高）。还预计某些类型的 回避（例如，接受这种情况）比其他行为（例如，走开）更有利于幸福。 这些目标与国家老龄化研究所的使命相一致：1) 改善老年人的健康和生活质量 老年人； 2）了解社交的生物和心理途径 人际关系可能会影响健康。