EFFECTS OF IDENTITY/CAREER DEVELOPMENT ON MENTAL HEALTH

身份/职业发展对心理健康的影响

• 批准号: 6215629
• 负责人: VLADIMIR B SKORIKOV
• 金额: $ 11.07万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT HILO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1977
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1977-06-01 至 2004-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6215629
• 关键词: adolescence (12-20); behavioral /social science research tag; career; data collection methodology /evaluation; developmental psychology; gender difference; human subject; identity; interpersonal relations; longitudinal human study; mathematical model; mental health; occupations; psychological models; racial /ethnic difference; rural area; socioeconomics; statistics /biometry; urban area

The chief goal of this study is to examine the effects of identify and career development on mental health during adolescence, including the transition from school to work. The study proposes to add to our understanding of the protective factors of adolescent mental health. It is hypothesized that the emerging sense of personal, ethnic, and national identity and career preparation protect adolescents from developing internalizing and externalizing problems behavior in middle to late adolescence whereas failure to establish an identity increases the risks of developing mental health problems. Preliminary studies suggest that there is a positive relationship between adolescent personal and ethnic identity and measures of psychological well being and negative relationships between identify formation and deteriorated mental health, alcohol abuse, and deviancy. This study will examine the interaction between the formation of an individual, national, and ethnic identity and career development during late adolescence and the pattern of change in their relationships with the overall mental health and its components. The participants in this study will comprise an ethnically diverse sample of 500 adolescents from a rural and urban area in Hawaii, representative of both sexes. The major characteristic of this sample will be that it will incorporate approximately equal numbers of adolescents from minority, majority, and ethnically mixed groups. The study will utilize a longitudinal design with four waves of data collection throughout the high school years and during the first year after graduation. Data analyses will focus on comparing different causal models in order to determine the direction of the effects and its change over time and in relation to the normative developmental transitions in adolescence.

这项研究的主要目的是考察认同和职业发展对青春期心理健康的影响，包括从学校到工作的过渡。这项研究建议增加我们对青少年心理健康保护因素的理解。研究假设，新出现的个人、民族和国家认同感以及职业准备保护了青少年在青春期中后期发展内化和外化问题行为，而未能建立认同感则增加了发展心理健康问题的风险。初步研究表明，青少年的个人认同和种族认同与心理健康水平之间存在正相关关系，而认同形成与心理健康恶化、酗酒和偏差行为之间存在负相关关系。本研究将探讨青春期后期个人、民族和种族认同的形成与职业发展之间的相互作用，以及它们与整体心理健康及其组成部分之间关系的变化模式。这项研究的参与者将包括来自夏威夷农村和城市地区的500名不同种族的青少年样本，他们具有性别代表性。这个样本的主要特点是，它将包括来自少数群体、多数群体和种族混合群体的大致相同数量的青少年。这项研究将采用纵向设计，在高中期间和毕业后的第一年进行四次数据收集。数据分析将侧重于比较不同的因果模型，以确定影响的方向及其随时间的变化，以及与青春期正常发展过渡的关系。