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Relationship quality and family transitions: The UK in international comparison

关系质量和家庭转变：国际比较中的英国

基本信息

批准号：
ES/R005907/1
负责人：
Brienna Perelli-Harris
金额：
$ 20.6万
依托单位：
University of Southampton
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2019
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2019 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FR005907%2F1
关键词：
Relationship quality family transitions UK

项目摘要

In this project we will analyse couple relationship quality and how it is related to partnership formation, dissolution, and childbearing in the UK and across Europe. With our research we are able to follow both partners over time and accompany them through the first years of their relationship and into parenthood. This provides the unique opportunity to examine why cohabiting couples marry or break up and have children. This is an area policy makers are increasingly paying attention to, as the breakdown of relationships may not only have negative consequences for partners, but also for child wellbeing. Using data from Understanding Society, we are able to examine relationship quality along a number of specific dimensions, for example, shared interests, communication, frequency of conflict, and regret of having formed the relationship. Our analysis will allow us to assess which dimensions are most relevant for engendering good outcomes and enable policy makers to enact more targeted interventions. In this respect, our research will differ from previous studies in this field which often only use a single indicator of relationship quality.A particular focus of our study will be on differences between marriage and cohabitation, as the latter has increasingly become a more common living arrangement for couples and a setting for childbearing. While previous research has indicated that cohabiting couples have lower relationship quality, we are interested in whether these differences diminish the longer cohabiting unions last or if they have children. Furthermore, we will examine whether cohabitors with high relationship quality have unions which are as stable as those who are married, and whether they are as likely to become parents as their married counterparts. The survey design of Understanding Society and our use of advanced quantitative methods will allow us to gain a number of valuable insights. We will be able to examine both partners' perceptions of their relationship and whether the man or woman's view matters more for marriage, childbearing, and union dissolution. We will pay particular attention to financial problems and changes in employment to see whether disadvantaged individuals with poor relationship quality are more or less likely to have a child than those in a better economic situation. We will also consider the role of selection mechanisms that originate in early childhood - such as whether individuals come from separated families or disadvantaged backgrounds. Our longitudinal approach provides a unique opportunity to advance causal explanations regarding relationship quality and outcomes, as well as new insights into the key factors that determine partnership stability and duration.A further aspect of our study will be a comparison between the UK and other European countries using Understanding Society and The Generations and Gender Surveys. Due to differences in survey design, such comparisons have proved difficult; however, we will create a harmonized dataset of detailed fertility and partnership histories that will be made publicly available and ensure that the UK is not left out of international comparisons in the future. This will promote comparative research across this field, as well as providing further useful insights for policy makers and stakeholders both in the UK and abroad. Moreover, the results of our research will be disseminated internationally, both with other researchers and relationship quality practitioners.

在这个项目中，我们将分析夫妻关系的质量，以及它是如何与伙伴关系的形成，解散，在英国和整个欧洲生育。通过我们的研究，我们能够随着时间的推移跟踪双方，并陪伴他们度过他们关系的最初几年，直到成为父母。这提供了一个独特的机会来研究为什么同居夫妇结婚或分手并生孩子。这是决策者日益关注的一个领域，因为关系破裂不仅可能对伴侣产生负面影响，而且也会对儿童的福祉产生负面影响。利用了解社会的数据，我们能够沿着一些特定的维度来检查关系质量，例如，共同的兴趣，沟通，冲突的频率，以及对建立关系的后悔。我们的分析将使我们能够评估哪些方面与产生良好成果最相关，并使政策制定者能够制定更有针对性的干预措施。在这方面，我们的研究将不同于以往在这一领域的研究，往往只使用一个单一的指标的关系质量。我们的研究将特别侧重于婚姻和同居之间的差异，因为后者越来越成为一个更常见的生活安排的夫妇和设置生育。虽然以前的研究表明，同居伴侣的关系质量较低，但我们感兴趣的是，这些差异是否会减少同居婚姻的持续时间，或者他们是否有孩子。此外，我们还将研究关系质量高的同居者是否与已婚者一样稳定，以及他们是否与已婚者一样有可能成为父母。了解社会的调查设计和我们使用先进的定量方法将使我们获得一些有价值的见解。我们将能够检查双方对他们关系的看法，以及男性或女性的观点对婚姻，生育和工会解散是否更重要。我们将特别关注经济问题和就业变化，以了解关系质量差的弱势个体是否比经济状况较好的人更有可能生孩子。我们还将考虑起源于幼儿期的选择机制的作用-例如个人是否来自分离的家庭或弱势背景。我们的纵向方法提供了一个独特的机会，以推进因果关系的解释关系的质量和结果，以及新的见解的关键因素，确定伙伴关系的稳定性和duration. A我们的研究的另一方面将是英国和其他欧洲国家之间的比较使用理解社会和世代和性别调查。由于调查设计的差异，这样的比较已经证明是困难的;然而，我们将创建一个详细的生育率和伙伴关系历史的协调数据集，该数据集将公开提供，并确保英国不会被排除在未来的国际比较之外。这将促进整个领域的比较研究，并为英国和国外的政策制定者和利益相关者提供进一步有用的见解。此外，我们的研究结果将在国际上传播，与其他研究人员和关系质量从业者。