Ideational Influences on Marriage and Childbearing

观念对婚姻和生育的影响

• 批准号: 7460309
• 负责人: ARLAND D THORNTON
• 金额: $ 60.61万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-05-15 至 2013-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7460309
• 关键词: Affect; Age; Argentina; Behavior; Belief; Build-it; Characteristics; Child; China; Class; Collaborations; Communities; Contraceptive Usage; Contraceptive methods; Data; Data Collection; Development; Dimensions; Economics; Egypt; Event; Family; Family Sizes; Family Study; Fertility; Foundations; Funding; Gender; Goals; Health; Household; Husband; Indium; Individual; Institutes; Interview; Investigation; Life; Marriage; Measurement; Measures; Michigan; Modification; National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; Neighborhoods; Nepal; Nuptiality; Parents; Personal Satisfaction; Pilot Projects; Population; Process; Protocols documentation; Public Health; Purpose; Range; Reproductive Behavior; Research; Research Infrastructure; Research Personnel; Resources; Respondent; Sample Size; Sampling; Socioeconomic Factors; Spouses; Structural Models; Structure; Surveys; Techniques; Testing; Time; United States; Universities; Unmarried; Update; Variant; Wife; Work; behavior change; child bearing; design; experience; innovation; insight; instrument; prospective; social; socioeconomics; theories

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is an application to investigate the influence of ideational factors on family life. In recent years scholars have identified many beliefs and values to be important influences on marriage and reproductive behavior, and these ideational factors have become important elements in theories of family and demographic change. The proposed project will investigate the interrelated influence of these ideational factors on both nuptiality and fertility. We will also examine how these ideational factors intersect with a wide range of socioeconomic structural factors in influencing marriage, contraceptive use, and childbearing. This research will be conducted in Nepal, which provides a particularly useful setting for studying ideational influences on nuptiality and fertility. Our research concerning the influence of ideational factors on family and demographic behavior has five specific aims. First, we will examine how ideational factors influence marriage behavior, focusing primarily on the transition into first marital union. Second, we will investigate how ideational factors intersect with socioeconomic structures to influence entrance into marriage. Third, we will study how ideational factors influence fertility, considering both childbearing and the use of contraception. Fourth, we will examine the ways in which ideational, social, and economic structures intersect and combine to influence contraception and childbearing. Fifth, we will examine how these ideational influences vary by both gender and age and will examine husband-wife dynamics in fertility decisions. We will achieve these goals by modifying and expanding the Chitwan Valley Family Study (CVFS), which already contains extensive information concerning socioeconomic factors measured at the individual, family, and community levels. We will begin by collecting new socioeconomic information and an extensive set of ideational measures and update these ideational measures every six months. We will also collect data about family and demographic events for all months subsequent to the year one interview. We will then use our measures of ideational and structural factors to predict subsequent marriage, contraception, and childbearing. With the pre-existing panel data, a wave of new measures of beliefs and values, regular updates of changes in those beliefs and values, and monthly information about marriage and childbearing, we will investigate the ways in which various dimensions of values and beliefs influence subsequent marriage and childbearing behaviors. We will also study how these ideational factors combine with socioeconomic structures in affecting marriage and childbearing. We will investigate this ideational-structural model using the most advanced analytic techniques available. This study will, thus, produce many new insights into marriage and childbearing behaviors and the forces influencing them. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Timing of marriage, timing of childbearing, contraceptive use and total family size are all known to have wide ranging consequences for the health and well being of families and children. Theories claim that change and variation in ideas are closely associated with change and variation in these key dimensions of family formation processes, but there is little empirical evidence to verify these theories or to say which ideas matter. We propose new research to create the empirical data needed to test these theories and to provide the key tests needed to understand the influence of ideas on family formation processes.

描述（由申请人提供）：这是调查构思因素对家庭生活的影响的应用。近年来，学者们已经确定了许多信念和价值观对婚姻和生殖行为的重要影响，这些构想因素已成为家庭和人口变化理论中的重要因素。拟议的项目将调查这些构想因素对婚礼和生育的相互关联的影响。我们还将研究这些构想因素如何与影响婚姻，避孕药使用和生育的广泛社会经济结构因素相交。这项研究将在尼泊尔进行，该研究为研究对婚礼和生育能力的影响提供了一个特别有用的环境。我们关于构思因素对家庭和人口行为的影响的研究具有五个具体目标。首先，我们将研究构想因素如何影响婚姻行为，主要集中在过渡到第一婚姻联盟。其次，我们将研究构想因素如何与社会经济结构相交以影响进入婚姻的入口。第三，我们将考虑考虑生育和使用避孕措施的观念因素如何影响生育。第四，我们将研究观念，社会和经济结构相交并结合以影响避孕和生育的方式。第五，我们将研究这些观念的影响如何因性别和年龄而异，并将研究生育决策中的夫妻动态。我们将通过修改和扩展Chitwan Valley家庭研究（CVF）来实现这些目标，该研究已经包含有关在个人，家庭和社区层面上衡量的社会经济因素的广泛信息。我们将首先收集新的社会经济信息和一系列广泛的构想措施，并每六个月更新这些概念措施。我们还将收集有关一年级采访后所有月份的家庭和人口活动的数据。然后，我们将使用我们的意识和结构因素的度量来预测随后的婚姻，避孕和生育。借助现有的面板数据，信念和价值观的新措施，这些信念和价值观变化的定期更新以及有关婚姻和生育的每月信息的定期更新，我们将研究价值观和信念的各种维度影响随后的婚姻和生育行为的方式。我们还将研究这些构想因素如何与社会经济结构相结合，以影响婚姻和生育。我们将使用可用的最先进的分析技术研究这种构思结构模型。因此，这项研究将对婚姻和生育行为以及影响他们的力量产生许多新的见解。公共卫生相关性：婚姻时机，生育时机，避孕药使用和全家庭规模都对家庭和儿童的健康以及福祉产生了广泛的影响。理论声称，思想的变化和变化与家庭形成过程的这些关键方面的变化和变化密切相关，但是几乎没有经验证据可以验证这些理论或说哪些思想很重要。我们提出了新的研究，以创建测试这些理论所需的经验数据，并提供了解思想对家庭形成过程的影响所需的关键测试。