MARITAL INSTABILITY AND FAMILY TIES IN LATER LIFE

这个项目将纵向研究亲属关系，因为他们 在离婚和再婚后进行重组。总而言之 目标是确定美国家庭系统的这些变化是如何 影响祖父母的社会融合、健康和福祉 一代。为了检验这些影响，这项研究将集中在三个层面上 对祖父母和他们离婚的采访的分析 儿童：1)代际关系，因为它们在 亲密/距离、冲突/和谐、独立/依赖；2) 亲属关系网络随着离婚和再婚的扩大或收缩； 3)文化定义或管理这些的规范和规则 两性关系。几代人之间的价值契合度将 也要进行检查，因为它与祖父母的融合有关 进入他们孩子的家庭。年龄的变量，时间的变量 祖父母身份、血缘关系和相互竞争的承诺也将 与祖父母的身份有关。 研究小组来自正在进行的研究，因此亲属关系的变化可能是 随着时间的推移而学习。受访者包括59位祖母，其中50位曾 孩子们也接受了采访。样本是按年龄分层的 祖父母一代(65岁以下和65岁及以上)和亲属关系 联系(母系或父系)。它仅限于白人、中产阶级 从公共离婚记录中挑选的家庭。 这些方法将结合人种学、描述性技术和 客观测量社会变量、功能状态和情绪。至 补充调查研究结果，描述性数据将是内容 分析以说明重组过程如何影响 祖父母一代的地位。客观的接触措施， 互惠、功能状态和情绪将被重复，以确定他们的 与不断变化的社会关系联系在一起。

This project will study kinship relationships longitudinally as they undergo reorganization following divorce and remarriage. The over-all objective is to determine how these changes in the American family system affect the social integration, health and well-being of the grandparent generation. To examine these effects, the study will focus on three levels of analysis of interviews with both grandparents and their divorcing children: 1) intergenerational relationships as they vary in intimacy/distance, conflict/harmony, and independence/dependence; 2) the kinship network as it expands or contracts with divorce and remarrriage; and 3) cultural definitions or the norms and rules which govern these relationships. The degree of value congruence between generations will also be examined as it is associated with the grandparents' integration into their children's families. Variables of age, timing of grandparenthood, the kinship linkage, and competing commitments will also be associated with the status of grandparents. The study group comes from ongoing research, so changes in kinship can be studied over time. The respondents include 59 grandmothers of which 50 had children also interviewed. The sample is stratified by age of the grandparent generation (under 65 years and 65 and older) and the kinship linkage (maternal or paternal). It is confined to white, middle-class families selected from public divorce records. The methods will combine ethnographic, descriptive techniques with objective measures of social variables, functional status and mood. To augment the findings of survey research, descriptive data will be content analyzed to illuminate how the processes of reorganization affect the status of the grandparent generation. Objective measures of contact, reciprocity, functional status and mood will be repeated to determine their associations with changing social relationships.