Doctoral Dissertation Research: Low Income Youth and Perceptions of Mortality

博士论文研究：低收入青年和对死亡率的看法

• 批准号: 1031612
• 负责人: Michele Lamont
• 金额: $ 0.84万
• 依托单位: Harvard University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-01 至 2011-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1031612&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Low; Income

SES-1031612Michele LamontNathan FosseHarvard University As a corrective to the cultural deficit models of inner-city culture, and drawing from more nuanced cultural analyses of the poor, this project examines risk-taking by incorporating low-income men?s perceptions toward their own mortality. The main research questions are: How does belief in imminent mortality inform low-income men's sexual behavior? What are the aspects of low-income men's lives that they draw upon when accounting belief in imminent mortality? and What are the racial and ethnic differences in perceptions of imminent mortality? Using data on belief in mortality from the NLSY97 (National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997) data set, as well as from in-depth interviews with low-income men in Boston, this study provides the first comprehensive study examining the salience and predictive value of belief in imminent mortality on sexual risk taking. In contrast, all previous research has either been cross-sectional or restricted to one geographic state or neighborhood; no research has examined how perceptions of mortality are incorporated into low income men?s subjective experiences of sexuality. In addition, no research has examined racial and ethnic differences in belief in imminent mortality. Preliminary evidence suggests that belief in imminent mortality is predicted by both family socioeconomic background and by youths? race, and that it is a robust predictor of risk-taking. The findings from this project will have relevance for understandings the causes and consequences of urban poverty. The research contributes to understanding racial and socioeconomic disparities in health, in particular the ways in which exposure to violence may increase the propensity to engage in sexual risk. By relying on a risk and resilience framework, this study moves from a ?deficit? model of risk, to one that examines the diversity of behaviors among disadvantaged men, contributing to research on what makes societies and individuals ?successful." This research also informs psychological and demographic studies of health, by incorporating empirically the perspectives of low-income men.

作为对市中心文化的文化赤字模型的纠正，并从对穷人的更细致的文化分析中吸取教训，该项目通过纳入低收入男性来检验冒险行为。他们对自己死亡的看法。主要的研究问题是：对即将死亡的信念如何影响低收入男性的性行为？低收入男性在计算死亡迫在眉睫的信念时，他们利用了生活中的哪些方面？种族和民族对即将到来的死亡的看法有什么差异？利用NLSY97（1997年全国青年纵向调查）数据集的死亡率信念数据，以及对波士顿低收入男性的深入访谈，本研究提供了第一个综合研究，检验了性冒险即将死亡信念的显著性和预测价值。相比之下，之前的所有研究要么是横断面的，要么局限于一个地理州或社区；没有研究调查过低收入男性对死亡率的认知是如何被纳入其中的？对性的主观体验。此外，没有研究考察过种族和民族对即将死亡的信念的差异。初步证据表明，家庭、社会经济背景和年轻人都能预测即将死亡的信念。种族，它是冒险行为的有力预测指标。该项目的研究结果将有助于理解城市贫困的原因和后果。这项研究有助于理解健康方面的种族和社会经济差异，特别是接触暴力可能增加性风险倾向的方式。通过依赖于风险和弹性框架，本研究从“赤字”转向“赤字”。风险模型，研究弱势男性行为的多样性，有助于研究是什么让社会和个人成功。”这项研究还结合了低收入男子的经验观点，为健康的心理和人口研究提供了信息。