Integrating Demography and Biosocial Stress Models of LGBTI Family Formation

整合 LGBTI 家庭形成的人口统计学和生物社会压力模型

• 批准号: 8735978
• 负责人: William Roger Mills-Koonce
• 金额: $ 13.39万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA GREENSBORO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-17 至 2018-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8735978
• 关键词: Academy; Accounting; Address; Adolescent Psychiatry; Adoption; Adult; American; Behavior; Biosocial; Censuses; Child; Child Development; Child Psychiatry; Child health care; Climate; Community Surveys; Consultations; Couples; Data; Data Analyses; Data Set; Demography; Development; European; Event; Family; Family Process; Family Study; Family dynamics; Foundations; Funding; Gays; Goals; Head; Health Sciences; Heterosexuals; Individual; Institute of Medicine (U.S.); Knowledge; LGBT Health; Legitimacy; Lesbian; Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender; Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Intersex; Life; Literature; Location; Measures; Mediating; Mental Health; Mentors; Mentorship; Methods; Modeling; Outcome; Parenting behavior; Parents; Patient Self-Report; Pattern; Personal Satisfaction; Phase; Pilot Projects; Population; Preparation; Process; Public Policy; Recording of previous events; Reporting; Research; Role; Sampling; Social Change; Social Environment; Social Welfare; Stress; Structure; Subgroup; System; Testing; Time; Training; United States; Work; base; caregiving; comparative; contextual factors; experience; family structure; innovation; interest; meetings; programs; psychobiologic; psychologic; public health relevance; research study; sex; skills; social; sperm cell; success; surrogacy; trend

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Although there is very high interest in the demography and welfare of families headed by lesbian and gay (LG) parents, there is currently very limited longitudinal research on LG families or the transition to LG parenthood. Most of the extant literature is descriptive, comparative, or limited to distinct subgroups of LG parents. Of this research, demography studies that examined trends in LG family structures have rarely considered the family and individual processes that may account for changing trends in LG family formation; meanwhile developmental studies of LG parents have rarely considered the ecological and cultural influences on family and individual functioning, nor systematically considered how family structure may impact the family dynamic. Lastly, no studies that I am aware of have integrated family demography and biosocial approaches to understanding how stress is related to ecological and individual or family decisions and behaviors in LG families. The current research will use both secondary data analyses of longitudinal national datasets such as the U.S. Census and American Community Survey to examine within-state changes in rates of LG family structures over the past 10 years and how these changes correlate with state-level sociopolitical climates and public policies pertinent to LG family formation. This will be followed by a pilot study that will explicitly examine how sociopolitical and ecological factors ar associated with decisions regarding family formation and LG family functioning as mediated by individual mental health, relationship stability, and stress load. I have outlined 3 training goals that are critical for the success of this timely and innovative research study. The first goal is t develop conceptual and methodological expertise in the study of family demography, with an emphasis on contextual influences on family formation for lesbian and gay parents. The second goal is to increase my knowledge and expertise in using established national datasets such as the U.S. Census and the American Community survey to conduct secondary data analyses pertinent to the study of LG families. The third goal is to conduct a multi-state pilot using a biosocial model of individual and family formation and functioning to understand how contextual factors are related to LG individuals' well-being, decisions regarding the timing, method, and location for family formation, and parental functioning in preparation of submitting an R01 proposal on this topic in the later years of this K01 funding period. I have established an extremely strong and accomplished mentorship team that will guide my training and collaborate on each phase of the proposed research. In consultation with my mentors and consultants I have established a training plan that includes (1) mentor-based supervised training and directed activities, (2) formal graduate level coursework and short courses, and (3) participation in relevant research seminars, colloquia and scientific meetings. This training and pilot research will provide me with the skills, experience, and preliminary data necessary to establish an independent research program on this highly significant and innovative topic.

描述（由申请人提供）：尽管对女同性恋和同性恋（LG）父母领导的家庭的人口统计学和福利非常有兴趣，但目前对LG家庭的纵向研究或过渡到LG育儿的纵向研究非常有限。大多数现存的文献都是描述性，比较或限于LG父母不同的亚组。在这项研究中，检查LG家庭结构趋势的人口研究很少考虑家庭和个人过程，这些过程可能解释了LG家庭形成的趋势变化。同时，LG父母的发展研究很少考虑生态和文化对家庭和个人功能的影响，也没有系统地考虑家庭结构如何影响家庭动态。最后，我不知道有整合家庭人口统计学和生物社会方法来理解压力与LG家庭中的生态和个人或家庭决策以及行为如何相关的研究。当前的研究将使用纵向国家数据集（如美国人口普查和美国社区调查）的二级数据分析来检查过去10年中LG家族结构率的州内变化，以及这些变化与州级社会政治气候和与LG家族形式相关的州级社会政治气候和公共政策如何相关。随后将进行一项试点研究，该研究将明确研究与有关家庭形成和LG家庭的决定相关的社会政治和生态因素如何与个人心理健康，关系稳定和压力负荷介导的。我概述了3个培训目标 这对于这项及时和创新研究的成功至关重要。第一个目标是在家庭人口统计学研究中发展概念和方法论专业知识，重点是对女同性恋父母的家庭形成的上下文影响。第二个目标是提高我使用既定国家数据集（例如美国人口普查和美国社区调查）的知识和专业知识，以进行与LG家庭研究有关的辅助数据分析。第三个目标是使用个人和家庭形成的生物社会模型进行多州飞行员，并发挥作用，以了解上下文因素与LG个人的幸福感，有关家庭形成的时机，方法和位置的决定以及在此K01资助期间提交R01提案的父母功能的决定以及父母功能的关系。我已经建立了一个非常强大且有成就的指导团队，该团队将指导我的培训并在拟议研究的每个阶段进行合作。在与我的导师和顾问协商期间，我制定了一项培训计划，其中包括（1）基于导师的监督培训和定向活动，（2）正式的研究生级课程和短期课程，以及（3）参加相关的研究研讨会，教区和科学会议。这项培训和试点研究将为我提供有关这个非常重要和创新性主题的独立研究计划所需的技能，经验和初步数据。