EXCEED THE SPACE PROVIDED. The purpose of this revised competing renewal application is to seek additional funds to continue work on the NIA-supported project, 'Well-Being Among the Aged: Personal Control and Self-Esteem' (RO1 AG09221). Three waves of face-to-face interviews with a nationally representative sample of older adults were collected during the first eight years of this project (1991-1999). Analyses with these data provide strong support for the core study hypotheses. In particular, the data suggest that stressors arising in roles that are valued highly have a noxious impact on health and well-being in late life, while events arising in roles that are less important fail to exert significant effects. , Additional funds are requested to conduct three more waves of interviews with two groups of elders consisting of those who have participated in the project to date, as well as a new supplemental sample (total N = 1,500). These data will be used to address the following objectives: 1. To see whether the effects of events arising in highly valued roles become progressively stronger in groups consisting of the young-old, old-old, and the oldest-old; 2. To infuse this research with a life-course perspective by evaluating whether lifetime trauma tends to exacerbate the effects of recent salient role stressors on health and well-being in these age groups;and 3. To further refine the theoretical underpinningsof our work by assessing whether the effects of events arising in highly valued roles affect health and well-being by eroding a sense of personal meaning in late life. These issues will be addressed with a range of data analytic procedures including latent variable models, as well as individual growth curve models. PERFORMANCE SITE ========================================Section End===========================================
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