Psychosocial

The Health and Retirement Study (HRS) psychosocial measurement does not include direct measurement of psychological resilience but does include items that can be used to create a resilience measure. Therefore, we developed a simplified resilience score (SRS) designed to capture adjustment and management of adversity. We followed the Wagnild and Young Resilience Scale in developing the SRS. Paralleling the Wagnild and Young (1993), we used five primary psychosocial domains to inform the development of the SRS.

This dataset contains the 4-year probability of mortality as estimated by the social frailty index (SFI). The social frailty index uses age, sex, and 8 social predictors from the core interview and psychosocial questionnaire. Values are only estimated for participants who were eligible for and completed the psychosocial questionnaire (i.e., every 4 years).

The publication detailing the development and validation of the index can be found here: