Social Integration, Stress, and Ambition in Transitions to Adulthood

摘要本研究探讨青少年的压力暴露，社会融合和愿望如何影响他们的幸福，因为他们过渡到成年。我们专注于一个孤立的农村地区的青年，那里的社区曾经依靠纸浆和造纸米尔斯的工作来维持，近年来这些米尔斯已经关闭。我们的研究探讨了青年的成果，如健康，偏差，教育和工作，是如何与家庭，学校和社区相关的压力经验，整合和愿望。基于社会学中的压力过程文献，本研究同样探讨了幸福感中的性别、年龄和社会经济差异如何与压力、社会融合和愿望联系在一起。最后，这项研究审查了压力暴露与上述形式的福祉之间的联系在多大程度上因青年的社会融合水平和愿望而异。我们建立在现有的两波人口为基础的定量调查的青年谁是在7日和11日年级在2008年，和定性访谈的子样本24个7年级学生和他们的母亲。我们将从最初的青少年参与者那里收集额外一波调查数据，并对最初的定性研究参与者进行后续访谈。我们的跨学科（例如，社会学、司法研究、家庭研究和教育）和混合方法的方法将使我们能够深入研究，并随着时间的推移，在一个面临一系列独特的经济和发展挑战的未充分研究的人口中，成功过渡到成年人的相关经验。我们研究的更广泛的影响包括我们在研究的所有阶段都有本科生和研究生助理的参与，从数据收集和管理到分析和传播。对学生的好处包括各种机会来完成高级，硕士和博士论文和论文，以及许多其他的研究和推广与教师和社区领袖合作的可能性。高级教师研究人员将继续通过学术期刊和国家会议报告传播项目信息，结果和政策相关材料，其中跨学科的学生合著将是优先事项。此外，我们的团队将继续建立和促进地方合作伙伴关系，长期目标是设计，实施和评估创新干预措施，促进面临独特经济挑战的农村社区成功过渡到成人角色。为了与新罕布什尔州大学卡西研究所的“为家庭和社区建立知识”的使命保持一致，从该项目中收集的信息将成为介绍、讲座、政策简报和其他与促进当地和全国青年和青年人福祉有关的公共服务活动的主题。该项目将通过促进压力和生命历程理论、研究和政策制定来促进科学探究和实践。

AbstractThis study examines how youths' stress exposure, social integration, and aspirations affect their well-being as they transition to adulthood. We focus on youth in an isolated rural region where communities that were once sustained by jobs in pulp and paper mills have experienced the closing of these mills in recent years. Our research explores how youth outcomes,such as health, deviancy, education, and work,are related to family-, school-, and community-related stress experiences, integration, and aspirations. Building on the stress-process literature in sociology, this research likewise examines how sex, age, and socioeconomic differences in well-being are linked to stress, social integration, and aspirations. Finally, this research examines the degree to which links between stress exposure and the above forms of well-being differ depending on youths' levels of social integration and aspirations. We build on an existing two-wave population-based quantitative survey of youth who were in 7th and 11th grades in 2008, and on qualitative interviews with a subsample of 24 7th graders and their mothers. We will collect an additional wave of survey data from the original youth participants, and conduct follow-up interviews with the original qualitative study participants. Our interdisciplinary (e.g., Sociology, Justice Studies, Family Studies, and Education) and mixed-method approach will allow us to examine in-depth and over time the experiences relevant for successful transitions to adulthood in an understudied population facing a unique set of economic and developmental challenges.The broader impacts of our study include our involvement of undergraduate and graduate student assistants across all phases of the research, ranging from data collection and management to analysis and dissemination. Benefits to students include various opportunities to complete senior, MA, and PhD theses and dissertations, and many other possibilities for collaboration on research and outreach with faculty and community leaders. Senior faculty researchers will continue to disseminate project information, results, and policy-relevant material via scholarly journals and national conference presentations, on which student co-authorship across disciplines will be a priority. In addition, our team will continue to establish and foster local collaborative partnerships with the long-term goal of designing, implementing, and evaluating innovative interventions that promote the successful transition to adult roles in rural Communities facing unique economic challenges. In keeping with the University of New Hampshire Carsey Institute's mission of "building knowledge for families and communities," the information gleaned from the project will be the subject of presentations, lectures, policy briefs, and other public service activities relevant to the promotion of youth and young adult well-being locally and nationally. The project will promote scientific inquiry and practice by contributing to stress and life course theory, research, and policy development.