Children's Developmental Outcomes in Cohabiting Unions

同居关系中儿童的发展成果

• 批准号: 7079299
• 负责人: SUSAN L. BROWN
• 金额: $ 11.11万
• 依托单位: BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-07-01 至 2008-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7079299
• 关键词: African American; Hispanic Americans; behavioral /social science research tag; caucasian American; child physical development; child psychology; clinical research; cognition; emotional adjustment; family structure /dynamics; human data; human subject; interview; longitudinal human study; low socioeconomic status; marriage /marital status; parent offspring interaction; public assistance; quality of life; racial /ethnic difference; social adjustment; socioenvironment

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): My research to date has focused on adult well-being in cohabiting unions. The proposed project will allow me to expand my research agenda to investigate the family processes and qualities of cohabiting families and their implications for child and adolescent well-being. Demographers have been slow to integrate these elements in their analyses of individual well-being, focusing instead on larger structural factors. Nevertheless, the demographic and developmental perspectives actually are complementary as together they emphasize the individual, process, and contextual qualities of the family environment, all of which shape children's well-being. I will consider the significance of the family environment at the person, process, and context levels (including parental psychological well-being, parenting behaviors, parent-child relationship quality, economic resources, and family instability) for the development of youth in cohabiting families, paying special attention to the complications presented by poverty and minority status. I will use data from the 1992-2002 Survey of Program Dynamics and the three waves of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health to examine the influence of family processes and qualities on five core domains of children's development: (1) physical, (2) psychological and emotional, (3) social, (4) cognitive and educational, and (5) economic well-being. Both of these data sets permit me to account for prior living arrangement transitions as well as duration in the current family form. Econometric techniques will be use to account for selection effects. I will also conduct in-depth interviews with cohabiting parents to expand on the results I obtain from the SPD and Add Health. This strategy will allow me to explore in greater detail the factors that are most strongly linked to child well-being and identify other key aspects of the family environment that were not examined in the secondary data analyses. The K-01 award will provide me with strong mentorship and specialized training in child and adolescent development as well as econometrics and qualitative methods, which will enable me to expand my demographic research on cohabitation and well-being. By incorporating a developmental perspective, I will be better equipped to address how and why newly emerging family structures such as cohabitation influence children's lives.

描述（由申请人提供）：迄今为止，我的研究集中在同居工会中的成人福祉上。拟议的项目将使我能够扩大研究议程，以调查同居家庭的家庭过程和素质及其对儿童和青少年福祉的影响。人口统计学家在分析个人福祉的分析中，将这些元素纳入较大的元素，而集中在更大的结构因素上。然而，人口和发展观点实际上是互补的，因为他们共同强调了家庭环境的个人，过程和上下文品质，所有这些都塑造了孩子的幸福感。我将考虑家庭环境对人，过程和环境水平的重要性（包括父母的心理健康，育儿行为，亲子关系质量，经济资源和家庭不稳定）对同居家庭中青年的发展，并特别注意贫困和少数派的复杂性。 我将使用1992 - 2002年对计划动态调查以及国家对青少年健康纵向研究的三波调查来研究家庭过程和质量对儿童发展五个核心领域的影响：（1）身体和情感，（2）（3）社会，（3）社会，（4）认知和教育和（5）经济环境。这两个数据集都使我可以考虑当前家庭形式的先前生活安排过渡和持续时间。计量经济学技术将用于说明选择效果。我还将对同居父母进行深入的访谈，以扩大我从SPD获得的结果并增加健康。该策略将使我能够更详细地探索与儿童福祉最密切相关的因素，并确定家庭环境的其他关键方面，这些方面在次要数据分析中未经研究。 K-01奖将为我提供有关儿童和青少年发展以及计量经济学和定性方法的强大指导和专业培训，这将使我能够扩大我对同居和福祉的人口研究。通过结合发展的观点，我 可以更好地解决如何以及为什么新兴的家庭结构（例如同居）影响儿童的生活。