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: 7007433
• 负责人: Merril D. Silverstein
• 金额: $ 0.78万
• 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/7007433
• 关键词: Wellbeing; Children; Risk; Granparents; Resources

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）：本研究的目的是调查经历不利风险因素的孙辈如何从与祖父母的关系中受益。在这个表述中，祖父母被认为是潜在的资源，可以帮助孙辈适应压力事件，如离婚、单亲养育、消极的父母依恋风格和行为困难。该研究的目的是更好地了解 (1) 祖父母对情感、关注和支持的投入如何缓冲家庭破裂和其他压力源对 (a) 出生前儿童的心理、社会和物质福祉的影响。 (b) 青春期的孙辈在向青春期过渡时的情况，(b) 青春期的儿童在向成年早期及以后过渡时的情况，以及 (2) 在过去 25 年的历史时间里，对孙辈的投资发生了怎样的变化，以及祖父母是否参与度更高对于今天的孙辈来说，比对上一代的孙辈来说更重要。结果包括心理健康，如自尊、抑郁、焦虑、情感平衡，以及社会经济成就，如职业流动性。这些目标将通过两个纵向数据集来实现，一个是对过去 30 年调查的多代家庭青少年成员中的几组孙辈的长期研究（世代纵向研究），另一个是全国代表性的五个- 对青少年和年幼的孙辈及其父母进行的十四年纵向研究（全国家庭和住户调查）。纵向模型将预测未来幸福结果的变化，作为与祖父母的关系性质和家庭压力源/行为风险因素之间相互作用的函数。将分析三年、五年和十四年的转变，以调查祖父母对孙辈福祉做出的短期和持久贡献。将使用多元回归和结构方程模型来估计这些影响的强度。这项研究将通过记录祖父母如何以及如何缓冲社会压力因素对孙辈长期福祉的影响，加深我们对大家庭关系价值的理解。