Marital Processes, Husband-Wife Relationships, and Fertility Behaviors

婚姻过程、夫妻关系和生育行为

基本信息

批准号：
7920831
负责人：
Dirgha J Ghimire
金额：
$ 7.67万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2009
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2009-09-01 至 2011-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a proposal to study the influence of marital processes on childbearing practices in a society just beginning a dramatic fertility transition. This study will focus on the most significant aspects of fertility decline: rates of contraceptive use both for postponement and termination of childbearing. The setting, rural Nepal, is in the midst of transitions in both marital processes and childbearing practices. Both theory and preliminary evidence point toward the importance of changes in multiple dimensions of marital processes as key links between individuals' community context, non-family experiences, and childbearing behaviors. However, the specific mechanisms responsible for creating these links remain unknown. We build on an ongoing program of research that has already made numerous contributions to our understanding of the influence of various community and individual level factors on both marital and childbearing behaviors. We propose to investigate multiple martial processes as mechanisms linking community and individual level factors to fertility specifically contraceptive use. To accomplish this we will integrate existing, culturally appropriate measures of multiple dimensions of marital processes into models of contraceptive use to conduct direct tests of these mechanisms. The data we propose to use contain a particularly rich body of contextual measures, detailed personal interviews with both husbands and wives, and record of contraceptive use spanning more than 50 years. With this wealth of information from and about husbands and wives, we have the measures necessary to significantly advance the scientific understanding of role of marital processes and marital relationships in explaining the effects of context and non-family experience on contraceptive use. The insights we gain from this study are particularly significant because marital processes may strongly affect contraceptive use, and ultimately influence both family and child health and wellbeing. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The project described in this proposal is designed to provide new information regarding the specific factors that promote fertility decline though contraceptive use, including both delayed childbearing and reduced childbearing. It is designed to inform public policy and public health about factors that can reduce fertility and slow population growth in extremely poor countries in which reduced childbearing and lower population growth are likely to improve standards of living and women and children's health and well-being.

描述（由申请人提供）：这是研究婚姻过程对社会育儿实践影响的一项建议，只是开始了急剧的生育过渡。这项研究将重点放在生育能力下降的最重要方面：避孕速度用于推迟和终止生育。尼泊尔农村地区的环境正处于婚姻过程和生育实践中的过渡中。理论和初步证据都表明，婚姻过程多个维度变化的重要性是个人社区环境，非家庭经历和生育行为之间的关键联系。但是，负责创建这些链接的具体机制仍然未知。我们以正在进行的研究计划为基础，该计划已经为我们理解各个社区和个人层面因素对婚姻和生育行为的影响做出了许多贡献。我们建议将多个武术过程作为将社区和个人水平因素与专门使用避孕剂使用联系起来的机制。为了实现这一目标，我们将将现有的，文化上适当的婚姻过程的衡量标准整合到避孕药的模型中，以对这些机制进行直接测试。我们建议使用的数据包含了一系列特别丰富的上下文措施，与丈夫和妻子的详细个人访谈以及跨越50年以上的避孕药使用记录。借助来自丈夫和妻子的大量信息，我们采取了必要的措施，可以显着促进对婚姻过程和婚姻关系的作用的科学理解，并在解释上下文和非家庭经验对避孕药的影响中的影响。我们从这项研究中获得的见解特别重要，因为婚姻过程可能会强烈影响避孕药的使用，并最终影响家庭和儿童健康和福祉。公共卫生相关性：本提案中描述的项目旨在提供有关避孕药使用促进生育能力下降的特定因素的新信息，包括延迟生育和减少生育。它旨在为公共政策和公共卫生提供有关可以降低生育能力和人口增长缓慢的国家的因素，在极度贫困的国家中，育儿减少和人口增长的降低可能会改善生活，妇女以及儿童的健康和福祉的标准。