WLS Researchers
Understanding health and well-being across the life course

Appendix M

Health, Caregiving, Alcohol, Depression, and Utilization of Health Care

  • memo114.asc – “Scales for the personality items (5-factor model of personality structure, cognition assessment, alcohol, depression, self evaluation and social comparisons, similarity, closeness, and contact, and menopause).”
  • memo145.doc – Implementation of World Health Survey Health Vignettes
  • cor437.pdf – “Comparative survey measurement of health, psychological well-being and social responsibility in the WLS, NSFH, and Whitehall Survey of British Civil Servants.”
  • cor483h.asc – 1993/94, Health problems
  • cor571a.asc – 1993/94, “References and variable creation for psychological, personality, health, work and family, and organization items. Tenacious Goal Pursuit (TGP) andFlexible Goal Adjustment (FGA) by Brandtstader and Renner. (Complete Preliminary English Version)(rev.9/00)”
  • cor814.txt – Decision rules for 2004 Graduate Telephone Health variable creation (ghealth).
  • cor821.doc – Attractivness coding from 1957 high school yearbook photos.
  • cor835.doc – Relative Body Mass from 1957 Yearbook Photo
  • cor847GeneralHealthVignettes.doc – Sampling for Health Vignettes in 2005 Sibling Health Module
  • cor849.rtf – Variable Creation for the Alcohol Module – 2004 Graduate Instrument
  • cor852.txt – Variable Creation for the Depression Module – 2004 Graduate Instrument
  • cor890.rtf – Variable Creation for the Graduate Spouse 2004 Alcohol module
  • cor903.txt – Variable Creation for the Depression Module – 2004 Graduate Spouse Instrument
  • cor932.txt – Variable Creation for the 2004 Graduate Spouse Health Module (hhealth)
  • cor956.txt – Variable Creation for the 2005 Sibling Depression Module
  • cor959.rtf – Variable Creation for the 2005 Sibling Alcohol Module
  • cor966.txt – Variable Creation for the 2005 Sibling Health Module