Family Formation in an Era of Family Change

家庭变革时代的家庭组建

基本信息

批准号：
7085366
负责人：
NANCY S LANDALE
金额：
$ 39.59万
依托单位：
PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2004
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2004-08-15 至 2008-07-31
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Using data from Waves I, II, and III of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (ADD Health), the proposed investigation will provide a comprehensive analysis of the family formation behavior of young men and women in the contemporary United States. In particular, we will examine cohabitation, childbearing (nonmarital and marital), and marriage up to the age of 25. The proposed study differs from most prior research on early family formation in four key respects. First, our conceptual framework brings together theories, perspectives, and methods from the fields of family demography and human development. Using theories drawn from both fields, we will analyze the influence of individual and social environmental characteristics in adolescence on cohabitation, marriage, and parenthood in emerging adulthood. In addition, because we assume that decisions about family formation are made jointly with decisions about educational attainment and employment, we will emphasize links between early career development and family formation behaviors. Second, our research will focus both on specific family formation transitions and on the trajectories generated by the timing and sequencing of family formation behaviors, education, and employment. Third, in addition to analyzing the social demographic and developmental precursors of family formation behaviors, we will study the implications of family formation patterns for psychosocial well being in emerging adulthood, including psychological and behavioral adjustment, psycho-social maturity, and intimate relationship quality. Fourth, this project pays rigorous attention to the roles of race/ethnicity and gender in the processes of early family formation and in the implications for well being of divergent family formation patterns.

描述（由申请人提供）：使用浪潮I，II和III的数据，《青少年健康纵向研究》（ADD健康），拟议的调查将对美国当代年轻男女的家庭形成行为进行全面分析。特别是，我们将检查同居，生育（非婚姻和婚姻）以及25岁以下的婚姻。拟议的研究与大多数先前关于早期家庭形成的研究在四个关键方面有所不同。首先，我们的概念框架汇集了家庭人口统计学和人类发展领域的理论，观点和方法。利用从这两个领域中得出的理论，我们将分析青春期个人和社会环境特征对新兴成年期间共同居住，婚姻和育儿的影响。此外，由于我们认为有关家庭形成的决定是由有关教育成果和就业的决定共同做出的，因此我们将强调早期职业发展与家庭形成行为之间的联系。其次，我们的研究将重点放在特定的家庭形成转变上，以及由家庭形成行为，教育和就业的时间和测序产生的轨迹。第三，除了分析家庭形成行为的社会人口统计学和发展前体外，我们还将研究家庭形成模式在新兴成年中的心理社会健康的含义，包括心理和行为调整，心理社会社会成熟和紧密的关系质量。第四，该项目严格关注种族/种族和性别在早期家庭形成过程中的作用，以及对家庭形成不同的福祉的影响。