# STRATIFICATION, ADAPTATION, AGING AND HEALTH

> **NIH NIH R01** · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · 1993 · $351,911

## Abstract

The project focuses within a life course perspective on how major acute
and chronic psychosocial stressors and resources for adapting to stress
combine to affect health, productive activity, and effective functioning
in middle and later life. Guided by results of our prior work and
developments in the broader scientific literature, the project will focus
on six aims: (1) understanding how the relation of age and aging to health
is stratified by sex, race, and socioeconomic status (SES): (2)
determining prospectively the absolute and relative impact on health and
effective functioning of major potential psychosocial stressors and
adaptive resources, including chronic and acute stress, social
relationships and supports, self-efficacy, health behaviors, activity
levels, and selected early life experiences; (3) determining prospectively
the role of these psychosocial factors in explaining sex, race, and
socioeconomic variations in the relations of age to health and
functioning; (4) developing causal models of the relation of psychosocial
factors to health in middle and later life, with special attention to the
life course patterning of stress and relations between acute and chronic
stress; (5) exploring the interrelations among health, productive activity
(both paid and unpaid) and stress and adaptation over the life course,
especially ways in which productive activity may mediate or moderate the
relations among stratification, stress and health; and (6) engaging in
selective methodological research to improve our methods for studying the
above issues on longitudinal data.

The aims will be achieved primarily through analyses and existing two-wave
national panel survey (ACL) and proposed extensions of it to a third wave.
Special attention is focused on the use of three waves of data to address
unresolved issues regarding: individual change with age; determination of
short-and medium-term prospective impact of psychosocial factors on
health; and distinguishing effects of stable or chronic patterns of
psychosocial stress and adaptive resources from effects of such variables
assessed at a single point in time.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 3121923
- **Project number:** 1R01AG009978-01A2
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
- **SAM.gov UEI:** GNJ7BBP73WE9
- **Principal Investigator:** JAMES S HOUSE
- **Activity code:** R01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 1993
- **Award amount:** $351,911
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 1993-09-30 → 1995-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/3121923

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 3121923, STRATIFICATION, ADAPTATION, AGING AND HEALTH (1R01AG009978-01A2). Retrieved via MORVS 2026-10-25 from https://api.morvs.ai/grant/nih/3121923. Licensed CC0.

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