Intergenerational relationships in contemporary UK

当代英国的代际关系

基本信息

批准号：
ES/K002902/1
负责人：
Tak-Wing Chan
金额：
$ 19.67万
依托单位：
University of Oxford
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2012
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2012 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FK002902%2F1
关键词：
Intergenerational relationships contemporary UK

项目摘要

Family and kinship have been of long-standing interest to social scientists and form the backdrop for the design of many policies, including social security, pensions, child care and personal care for the elderly. Our focus is on the relationships between parents and their adult children, how intergenerational contact and help respond to needs and resources of both generations, and how contact and help affect people's well being. The research would contribute to the ESRC's strategic priority of 'influencing behaviour and informing interventions'.Past research on intergenerational relationships includes the important tradition of the community studies of the 1950s and 1960s, a number of studies based on small local or regional samples and recent research on large nationally representative samples. But nearly all of these studies are cross-sectional in nature, which limits their ability to address issues of causality. In contrast, our research analyses longitudinal data (i.e. repeated observations of the same people). In particular, it uses the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), Understanding Society and the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA). Each of these supports our investigation in different ways. The BHPS is a mature panel study, having interviewed people since 1991, and its sample is now incorporated in Understanding Society. It interviews people from both sides the intergenerational exchange (although parents and adult children are not matched to one another). Understanding Society has a very large sample, with about 80,000 individuals in each wave, but it only started in 2009. It will allow us to explore differences in intergenerational relationships for small social groups like ethnic minorities (who are over-sampled) and single parents. ELSA is a panel study of the over-50s which started in 2002. It currently offers a four-year panel and has excellent measures of health, wealth and income, but it interviews the parent generation only. All three panel studies contain measures of intergenerational support and contact, but to different degrees.We are interested in the help that parents and adult children give to one another. Because the frequency of contact between them is valued in itself, particularly by parents, it is another focus of our research. In addition, both help and contact are constrained by geographical distance. Our research would estimate the impacts of the needs and resources of parents and their adult children on: (1) how far apart they live from one another; (2) how often they are in contact with one another; (3) how much and what kinds of help and support they give each other. It also investigates how proximity, contact and help are related to each other. The important final component of our research gauges how contact and help affect the well-being of parents and their adult children.The research would use a range of quantitative methods which aim to exploit the longitudinal data that we have in the best ways. These include latent class models to establish the underlying structure of intergenerational exchange; instrumental variables to address issues of causality; fixed effects models to account for persistent unobserved differences between individuals; and structural equation models to explore the links between proximity, contact, help and well being. Some of these methods require longitudinal data, others can be applied with greater confidence when such data is available.We expect to publish the findings as 4-5 articles in leading academic journals. In addition, the research would form the foundation for a research monograph with a major University Press. Of equal importance, we plan to have regular meetings with key stakeholders such as AgeUK to inform our research design and questions, set research priorities, and to discuss our findings.

家庭和亲属关系一直对社会科学家表示兴趣，并构成了许多政策设计的背景，包括社会保障，养老金，育儿和个人护理。我们的重点是父母与成年子女之间的关系，代际交往和如何帮助两代的需求和资源以及联系和帮助如何影响人们的健康。这项研究将有助于ESRC的“影响行为和告知干预措施”的战略优先事项。对代际关系的研究包括1950年代和1960年代社区研究的重要传统，许多基于小型或区域样本的研究以及最近对大型国家代表性样本的研究。但是，几乎所有这些研究本质上都是横断面的，这限制了他们解决因果关系问题的能力。相反，我们的研究分析了纵向数据（即对同一人的重复观察）。特别是，它使用英国家庭小组调查（BHP），了解社会和英国衰老纵向研究（ELSA）。这些都以不同的方式支持我们的调查。 BHP是一项成熟的小组研究，自1991年以来就接受了人们的采访，现在将其样本纳入了理解社会。它采访了双方的人际交流（尽管父母和成年子女彼此不匹配）。了解社会的样本很大，每个浪潮中有大约80,000个人，但它才始于2009年。它将允许我们探索小型社会群体（如少数民族（过度采样）和单亲父母）的代际关系的差异。艾尔莎（Elsa）是一项针对50年代超过50年代的小组研究，该研究始于2002年。它目前提供了四年的面板，并具有出色的健康，财富和收入的衡量标准，但仅采访了父母的一代。这三个小组研究均包含代际支持和接触的度量，但在不同程度上。我们对父母和成年子女彼此的帮助感兴趣。因为它们之间的接触频率本身是值得的，尤其是父母，所以这是我们研究的另一个重点。此外，帮助和接触都受地理距离的约束。我们的研究将估算父母及其成年子女的需求和资源的影响：（1）他们相互彼此之间的相距多远；（2）他们彼此接触的频率；（3）他们互相给予了多少和什么样的帮助和支持。它还研究了邻近，接触和帮助如何相互关联。我们研究的重要最终组成部分衡量了接触和帮助如何影响父母及其成年子女的福祉。研究将使用一系列定量方法，旨在利用我们以最好的方式利用我们拥有的纵向数据。其中包括建立代际交换的潜在结构的潜在类模型；工具变量以解决因果关系问题；固定效应模型，以说明个人之间持续的未观察到的差异；以及结构方程模型，以探索接近，接触，帮助和福祉之间的联系。其中一些方法需要纵向数据，当可用的数据可用时，可以更加自信地应用其他方法。我们期望在领先的学术期刊中将发现为4-5篇文章。此外，这项研究将构成主要大学出版社的研究专着的基础。同样重要的是，我们计划与Ageuk等主要利益相关者进行定期会议，以告知我们的研究设计和问题，设定研究重点并讨论我们的发现。