Examining the relationship between parents' endorsed gender norms and their early adolescents' psychosocial health educational engagement, and nutrition in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

检查刚果民主共和国东部父母认可的性别规范与其青少年早期社会心理健康教育参与和营养之间的关系

基本信息

批准号：
10203884
负责人：
Andrew G. Corley
金额：
$ 0.21万
依托单位：
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2020
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2020-07-01 至 2021-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

Project Summary Early adolescence, the time between 10 and 14 years of age, is an important developmental period. Parents retain crucial influence over the physical, emotional, and cognitive development of their early adolescents by providing for their material well-being and through role modeling, monitoring, and socialization. As such, gender norms endorsed by parents strongly influence what adolescents believe to be the socially acceptable sets of behaviors for boys and girls. Gender inequitable constructs resulting from restrictive gender norms are passed down intergenerationally from parents to their children, and also directly affect the mental and physical health of both girls and boys. In low- and middle-income countries both sexes are negatively impacted by inequitable gender attitudes; however, girls are typically disproportionately disadvantaged. An estimated 535 million children live in countries experiencing conflicts, natural disasters and other humanitarian crises. The nature and extent to which parents' endorsed gender norms affect the well-being of early adolescents living in protracted humanitarian crises remains an understudied phenomenon though. The proposed dissertation study will be guided by Blum et al.'s' Conceptual Framework for Early Adolescence and the Social Norms Approach, both adapted by the applicant to analyze parents' gender norms' effect on adolescent mental health, education engagement, and nutrition. The purpose of this proposed mixed methods dissertation study is to examine the relationship between parent-endorsed gender norms and their early adolescents' mental health, education engagement, and nutrition in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. The specific aims of this study are to: 1) examine how level of parental endorsement of equitable gender norms is associated with anxiety/depression, prosocial behavior, school attendance, and food security in early adolescence ; 2) examine how adolescent gender moderates the association between parents' gender norms and adolescents' anxiety/depression, prosocial behavior, school attendance, and food security; and 3) explore adolescents' perceptions of how parents' endorsement of gender norms influence their mental health, educational engagement, and nutrition. A comprehensive gender equality scale will be the primary quantitative measure of parents' attitudes toward gender equality. This study is aligned with the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development strategic priority of identifying the social, environmental, economic, and biological factors that influence early adolescent adaptive behavior development and school functioning, by understanding how parental gender norms impact the mental health, educational engagement, and nutrition of early adolescents living in a protracted humanitarian setting. This training plan will begin a program of research focused on the promotion of the health and well-being of adolescents living in a post-conflict humanitarian setting. This study will inform the development of culturally appropriate interventions to designed to help communities challenge inequitable gender norms and to replace them with norms that value gender equality.

项目摘要青春期早期的时间是10至14岁，是一个重要的发展时期。父母保留对早期青少年的身体，情感和认知发展的关键影响通过角色建模，监视和社会化来提供其物质福祉。像这样，父母认可的性别规范强烈影响青少年认为是社会上可以接受的事物男孩和女孩的行为集。限制性别规范导致的性别不平等构造是从父母到子女，也直接影响了身心健康男孩和男孩的健康。在低收入和中等收入国家，两性都受到负面影响性别态度不公平；但是，女孩通常处于不利地位。估计535 数百万儿童生活在发生冲突，自然灾害和其他人道主义危机的国家中。这父母认可的性别规范的性质和程度影响着早期青少年的福祉持久的人道主义危机仍然是一种研究的现象。拟议的论文研究 Blum等人将指导青春期和社会规范方法的概念框架，申请人都改编了分析父母对青少年心理健康，教育的影响参与和营养。该提出的混合方法论文研究的目的是检查父母认可的性别规范与早期青少年的心理健康，教育之间的关系刚果东部民主共和国的参与和营养。这项研究的具体目的为：1）检查父母的认可水平如何与青春期早期的焦虑/抑郁，亲社会行为，上学和粮食安全； 2）检查青少年性别如何缓和父母的性别规范与青少年之间的关联' 焦虑/抑郁，亲社会行为，上学和粮食安全； 3）探索青少年对父母对性别规范的认可如何影响其心理健康，教育的看法参与和营养。全面的性别平等量表将是对父母对性别平等的态度。这项研究与国家儿童健康研究所和人类发展的战略优先级，确定社会，环境，经济和生物学因素通过了解如何了解父母性别规范会影响早期青少年的心理健康，教育参与和营养生活在旷日持久的人道主义环境中。该培训计划将开始一项研究计划，重点是促进生活后人道主义环境中生活的青少年的健康和福祉。这项研究将为旨在帮助社区挑战的文化上适当干预措施的发展开发不平等的性别规范，并用重视性别平等的规范代替它们。