Measuring Developmental Idealism and Family Life

衡量发展理想主义和家庭生活

• 批准号: 6955454
• 负责人: ARLAND D THORNTON
• 金额: $ 15.87万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-08-05 至 2007-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6955454
• 关键词: China; Egypt; South America; United States; behavior test; behavioral /social science research tag; belief; child rearing; clinical research; concept; culture; data collection methodology /evaluation; developmental psychology; divorce /separation; experimental designs; family structure /dynamics; goal oriented behavior; human population dynamics; human subject; method development; population survey; questionnaires; social model; social psychology; socioeconomics

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a proposal for an exploratory/developmental research grant (R21) focusing on developmental idealism and marriage, childbearing, and divorce. The purpose of the proposed project is to create and test questionnaires and protocols that will be appropriate for measuring developmental idealism and its relationship to marriage, childbearing, and divorce in a wide variety of settings around the world. Developmental idealism, which grows out of the influential models of modernization and development, identifies goals to be pursued, a means for evaluating family life, a causal framework identifying causal influences between family and social and economic life, and statements about human rights. There are four main propositions of developmental idealism: (a) modern social and economic life is good and attainable; (b) modern family life is good and attainable; (c) modern families and modern socioeconomic conditions causally influence each other; and (d) human beings have the right to be free and equal, with relationships based on consent. We believe that these propositions have been disseminated widely around the world and have had great influence on family and demographic life. Despite the theoretical and practical importance of developmental idealism for family life, there are no well-recognized tools to measure acceptance or rejection of developmental idealism in the world's populations. This dearth of measurement tools makes it difficult to implement a research program investigating developmental idealism and its influence on family life. This project will create and evaluate measures of beliefs concerning developmental idealism and their relationship to marriage, childbearing, and divorce. Qualitative studies will guide the creation of these measurement tools, and we will conduct pilot studies in Argentina, China, Egypt, and the United States to test the extent to which our measures are appropriate in these disparate settings. The measures created in this project will provide the means to launch in a future project an international program of research concerning developmental idealism and its role in family life.

描述（由申请人提供）：这是探索/发展研究赠款（R21）的提案，重点是发展唯心主义和婚姻，生育和离婚。拟议项目的目的是创建和测试调查表和协议，这些问卷和协议适合衡量发展唯心主义及其与婚姻，生育和离婚的关系，在世界各地的各种环境中。发展唯心主义是从有影响力的现代化和发展模式中发展出来的，它确定了要追求的目标，一种评估家庭生活的手段，一个因果框架，确定了家庭与社会和经济生活之间的因果影响以及对人权的陈述。发展唯心主义有四个主要主张：（a）现代的社会和经济生活是良好而可以实现的； （b）现代家庭生活是良好而可以实现的； （c）现代家庭和现代社会经济条件因果关系相互影响； （d）根据同意，人类有权自由和平等。我们认为，这些命题在世界范围内广泛传播，并对家庭和人口生活产生了很大的影响。尽管发展唯心主义对家庭生活具有理论上和实践的重要性，但尚无良好认可的工具来衡量世界人口中对发展唯心主义的接受或拒绝。缺乏测量工具使得很难实施研究发展计划及其对家庭生活的影响。该项目将创建并评估有关发展唯心主义及其与婚姻，生育和离婚的信念的措施。定性研究将指导创建这些测量工具，我们将在阿根廷，中国，埃及和美国进行试点研究，以测试我们在这些不同环境中我们的措施适当的程度。该项目中创建的措施将为未来项目启动一项有关发展唯心主义及其在家庭生活中的作用的国际研究计划。