Social Relations, Aging and Health: Competing Theories and Emerging Complexities

社会关系、衰老与健康：相互竞争的理论和新出现的复杂性

• 批准号: 9330333
• 负责人: TONI Claudette ANTONUCCI
• 金额: $ 7.05万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-01 至 2018-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9330333
• 关键词: Address; Age; Aging; Altruism; Attention; Autacoids; Complex; Data; Data Sources; Development; Emotional; Environment; Health; Individual; Knowledge; Life Cycle Stages; Link; Literature; Longevity; Longitudinal Studies; Measures; Modeling; Online Systems; Participant; Pattern; Public Policy; Research; Risk; Sampling; Scholarship; Shapes; Social Characteristics; Structure; Testing; Time; To specify; age difference; aged; behavioral outcome; contagion; design; eligible participant; follow-up; health disparity; improved; informant; innovation; intervention program; member; programs; social; socioeconomics; theories

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Competing Theories and Emerging Complexities Social relations are widely recognized to influence health and to impact health disparities. Despite theoretical advancements and methodological innovations, we still do not know: 1) how social relationships and support change with age or 2) when social relationships are most beneficial or harmful to health. The proposed research addresses these issues by extending the Social Relations, Age and Health Study (SRS) to examine three waves of data over 20 years and by investigating detailed changes in social relations over one year using both monthly assessments and multiple informants. Specifically, we propose to: 1) Analyze 3 wave longitudinal data over 20 years to test competing theories about age, social relations and health. A third wave of the SRS will allow for unique opportunities to specify the direction and shape of change in the structure and quality of social relations over time. 2) Conduct an in-depth study of support exchanges and social contagion with multiple informants in a one year monthly longitudinal web-based study. We will test the relative strength of the three hypothesized mechanisms of social contagion: induction, homophile and shared environment. 3) Examine whether 20 year longitudinal patterns of social relations predict short term changes in enacted support over one year and identify long-term patterns of support type that predict short-term health trajectories. These unique data will permit an unparalleled examination of competing exchange theories, e.g. altruism, developmental stake, support bank, and their association with health innovation. We propose theoretical (test of competing theories) and methodological (20 year longitudinal data, multiple perspective network data, and web based follow-up) innovations to clarify recent complex and contradictory findings concerning health and social relations. Impact Findings will impact scholarship on the link between social relations and health as well as public policy focused programs designed to improve health and decrease health disparities.

描述（由申请人提供）：社会关系被广泛认为会影响健康和影响健康差异。尽管有理论的进步和方法论创新，但我们仍然不知道：1）社会关系和支持随着年龄的变化或2）当社会关系最有益或对健康有害时。拟议的研究通过扩展社会关系，年龄和健康研究（SRS）来解决这些问题，以在20年内检查三波数据浪潮，并使用每月评估和多个线人研究一年内社会关系的详细变化。具体来说，我们建议：1）分析20年内3波纵向数据，以测试有关年龄，社会关系和健康的竞争理论。 SRS的第三波浪潮将允许独特的机会来指定随着时间的推移，社会关系结构和质量的变化的方向和形状。 2）对 在一年的基于纵向网络的研究中，支持与多个线人的交流和社会传染。我们将测试社会传染的三种假设机制的相对强度：归纳，同质和共享环境。 3）检查社会关系的20年纵向模式是否可以预测一年内颁布的支持的短期变化，并确定预测短期健康轨迹的支持类型的长期模式。这些独特的数据将允许对竞争交换理论的无与伦比的研究，例如利他主义，发展股份，支持银行及其与健康创新的联系。我们提出了理论（对竞争理论的检验）和方法论（20年纵向数据，多个透视网络数据以及基于Web的后续行动）创新，以阐明有关健康和社会关系的最新复杂和矛盾的发现。影响结果将影响奖学金对社会关系与健康之间的联系以及以公共政策为中心的计划，以改善健康和减少健康差异。