International: Early Intergenerational Cohesiveness and Later Proximity to Parents: Cross-National Contexts of Intergenerational Solidarity

该项目将支持一名美国研究生在荷兰乌得勒支大学进行研究。在美国全国青年纵向调查（NLSY）之前的研究基础上，学生将使用荷兰亲属小组研究来调查居住选择，代际团结和向成年的过渡。成年子女和父母之间的代际交流是年轻人和老年人的重要资源，而居住距离是这些交流的最佳预测指标。到目前为止，还没有研究表明，在多大程度上，与父母情感上更亲近的孩子会选择住在附近。该项目有两个目的：测试纵向模型，该模型评估早期亲子凝聚力与后来年轻人与其父母的居住邻近度之间的关系；并比较美国和荷兰两种社会背景下的代际家庭动态，这两种社会背景在许多显著方面存在差异。本研究将有助于确定早期的亲子情感亲密是否与后来与父母的空间接近有关。再加上来自美国的分析，使用荷兰数据集的工作将提供迄今为止情感和结构亲子团结之间关系的最有说服力的证据。这两个国家的比较将说明儿童与父母之间的团结-接近关系的普遍性或语境依赖性。这次访问还将促进使用荷兰和美国数据集的研究人员之间的联系，并使一名美国学生能够与欧洲合作者建立长期网络。

This project will support a U.S. graduate student to conduct research at the Universiteit Utrecht in the Netherlands. Building on prior research with the U.S. National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), the student will work using the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study to investigate residential choice, intergenerational solidarity, and the transition to adulthood. Intergenerational exchanges between adult children and their parents are a critical resource for young and old, and residential proximity is the best predictor of these exchanges. No research to date has addressed the extent to which children who are emotionally closer to parents choose to live nearby. This project has two objectives: to test longitudinal models which evaluate the relationship between earlier parent-child cohesion and later residential proximity of young adults and their parents; and to compare intergenerational family dynamics for two societal contexts, the U.S. and the Netherlands, which differ along a number of salient dimensions. This proposed research will contribute to determining whether early parent-child emotional closeness is related to later spatial proximity to parents. Coupled with analysis from the United States, the work using the Netherlands data set will provide the most persuasive evidence to date of the relationship between affectual and structural parent-child solidarity. The two country comparison will speak to the universality or context dependency of the solidarity-proximity relation between children and parents. The visit will also foster linkages between researchers working with the Dutch and U.S. datasets, and enable a U.S. student to build a long-term network with European collaborators.