Romantic relationships of adolescents and young adults: Reproducing gendered ideologies and identities?

该项目旨在探索浪漫关系如何塑造年轻人的性别意识形态和职业伙伴偏好，因为他们在青春期和青年期的过渡。它旨在促进对整个生命过程中性别意识形态和身份发展的更细致入微的理解，这对于理解许多现代后工业社会朝着性别平等主义信仰和实践的缓慢变化至关重要。研究青年性别意识形态和职业伙伴偏好的形成也很重要，因为它们已被证明可以预测成年人在各个领域持续存在的性别做法和结果。 本研究假设一个生命历程的观点，并整合性别的概念，作为一个社会结构（Risman，2004）认知发展理论（Kohlberg，1966），社会认同理论（Stets & Burke，2000）和社会学习理论（班杜拉，1971年），探讨浪漫关系的经验可能会减缓年轻人对性别平等的日益增长的愿望的机制。我们通过借鉴来自不同国家背景的代表性纵向数据集，并通过探索可能缓和浪漫关系如何塑造性别信念的三种具体机制来扩展以前的研究：i）适应伴侣的信念，ii）关系质量和沟通行为，iii）起源于家庭和劳动力市场机构长期差异的性别文化。借鉴德国家庭小组pairfam（亲密关系和家庭动力学的小组分析），我们首先计划探索是否过渡到同居关系或同居关系以及增加关系持续时间与异性恋年轻人，特别是女性，随着时间的推移，平等主义性别意识形态和职业伙伴关系偏好的较小增长相关。为了更好地理解在夫妻层面上形成浪漫关系体验影响的相关机制，项目的第二部分将研究浪漫伴侣之间态度一致的重要性以及与关系质量和沟通行为的相互依赖性。第三，我们将研究在具有更传统性别文化的国家背景下，过渡到分居或同居关系以及增加关系持续时间的预期传统化效应是否更强。除了比较东西德国，我们将进行跨国比较分析的14个现代后工业社会的基础上两波面板数据从世代和性别调查。通过调查与规范的背景和互动关系过程的相互依赖性，该项目旨在确定促进或阻碍性别在早期浪漫关系中的撤销的情况。

This project aims to explore how romantic relationships shape young people’s gender ideologies and career-partnership preferences as they transition across adolescence and young adulthood. It seeks to contribute to a more nuanced understanding of gender ideology and identity developments across the life course, which is crucial to make sense of the slow(ing) pace of change towards more gender egalitarian beliefs and practices in many modern post-industrial societies. Studying the formation of gender ideologies and career-partnership preferences in youth is also important, as they have been shown to predict persistently gendered practices and outcomes of adults in various domains. This research assumes a life-course perspective and integrates the conceptualization of gender as a social structure (Risman, 2004) with cognitive-developmental theory (Kohlberg, 1966), social identity theory (Stets & Burke, 2000) and social learning theory (Bandura, 1971) to explore the mechanisms how romantic relationship experiences may slow down young people’s increasing aspirations towards gender equality. We extend previous studies by drawing on representative longitudinal data sets from different country contexts and by exploring three specific mechanisms that may moderate how romantic relationships shape gender beliefs: i) adaptation to one’s partner’s beliefs, ii) relationship quality and communication behaviours, and iii) gender cultures that originate in long-standing differences in family and labour market institutions. Drawing on the German Family Panel pairfam (Panel Analysis of Intimate Relationships and Family Dynamics), we first plan to explore whether transitions into living-apart-together relationships or cohabitations and increasing relationship duration are associated with smaller growth in egalitarian gender ideologies and career-partnership preferences among heterosexual young people, especially women, over time. To gain a better understanding of relevant mechanisms that shape the impact of romantic relationship experience at the interactional couple level, the second part of the project will investigate the importance of attitude alignment between romantic partners and the interdependence with relationship quality and communication behaviours. Third, we will examine whether the expected traditionalising effect of transitions into living-apart-together relationships or cohabitations and increasing relationship duration are stronger in country contexts with more traditional gender cultures. In addition to comparing East and West Germany, we will conduct a cross-nationally comparative analysis of 14 modern postindustrial societies based on two-wave panel data from the Generations and Gender Survey. By investigating the interdependencies with normative context and interactional relationship processes, the project seeks to identify circumstances which facilitate or hinder the undoing of gender in early romantic relationships.