Wellbeing of Children at Risk: Granparents as Resources

面临风险的儿童的福祉：祖父母作为资源

• 批准号: 6845373
• 负责人: Merril D. Silverstein
• 金额: $ 30.02万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-02-01 至 2007-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6845373
• 关键词: adolescence (12-20); behavioral /social science research tag; child (0-11); child behavior disorders; child psychology; child rearing; clinical research; divorce /separation; emotional dependency; family structure /dynamics; grandparent; human data; interpersonal relations; life cycle; longitudinal human study; meta analysis; parent deprivation; psychological stressor; quality of life; role; self concept; social support network; socioeconomics; socioenvironment; statistics /biometry; young adult human (21-34)

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this research is to investigate how grandchildren experiencing adverse risk factors are benefitted by their relations with grandparents. In this formulation, grandparents are considered to be latent resources who help their grandchildren adapt to stressful events such as divorce, single parenting, negative parental attachment styles, and behavioral difficulties. The aims of the research are to better understand (1) how the investment of emotion, attention, and support by grandparents buffers the impact of family disruption and other stressors on the psychological, social, and material well-being of (a) pre-adolescent grandchildren as they make the transition to adolescence, (b) on adolescent children as they make the transition to young adulthood and beyond, and (2) how the investment in grandchildren has changed over the last quarter century of historical time, and whether grandparent involvement is more important to today's grandchildren than it was to an earlier generation of grandchildren. Outcomes include psychological well-being, such as self-esteem, depression, anxiety, affect balance, and socio-economic achievement such as occupational mobility. These aims will be addressed with two longitudinal data sets, one a long-term study of several cohorts of grandchildren taken from adolescent members of multigenerational families surveyed over the last 30 years (the Longitudinal Study of Generations), and the other a nationally representative five- and fourteen- year longitudinal study of adolescent and younger grandchildren and their parents (National Survey of Families and Households). Longitudinal models will predict change in prospective well-being outcomes as a function of the interaction between the nature of relationships with grandparents and family stressors/behavioral risk factors. Transitions over three, five, and fourteen years will be analyzed to investigate the short-term and enduring contributions that grandparents make to the well-being of the grandchildren. Multiple regression and structural equation modeling will be used to estimate the strength of these effects. This research will extend our understanding of the value of extended family relations by documenting how and with what effect grandparents buffer the impact of social stressors on the long-term well-being of grandchildren.

描述（由申请人提供）：这项研究的目的是研究孙子与祖父母的关系如何受益。在这种表述中，祖父母被认为是潜在资源，他们帮助孙子们适应了压力大事，例如离婚，单身育儿，负面父母的依恋风格和行为困难。该研究的目的是更好地理解（1）祖父母对情感，关注和支持的投资如何缓解家庭破坏的影响以及其他压力源对（a）预先预期的心理，社会和物质福祉的影响青春期的孙子在过渡到青春期时，（b）对青春期的孩子过渡到年轻成年及以后的过渡，以及（2）（2）孙子的投资在历史时期的最后一个四分之一世纪以及祖父母是否发生了变化参与对当今的孙子来说比对早期孙子的孙子更重要。结果包括心理健康，例如自尊，抑郁，焦虑，影响平衡和社会经济成就，例如职业流动性。 这些目标将通过两个纵向数据集来解决，一项长期研究对过去30年来调查的多代家庭的几个孙子（一代人的纵向研究），另一个是全国代表的五个。 - 以及十四年对青少年和年轻孙子及其父母（全国家庭和家庭调查）的纵向研究。纵向模型将预测预期福祉结果的变化，这是与祖父母与家庭压力源/行为风险因素的关系性质之间相互作用的函数。将分析三个，五年和十四年的过渡，以调查祖父母对孙子福祉的短期和持久贡献。多元回归和结构方程模型将用于估计这些效果的强度。这项研究将通过记录祖父母如何以及如何缓冲社会压力源对孙子长期福祉的影响，从而扩展我们对扩展家庭关系价值的理解。