Intergenerational Influences on Adolescent Transitions

描述（由申请人提供）：该职业发展奖将重点关注青少年在走向成年时所做的人口决策的时机和预测因素。在青春期做出的决定，如结婚的时间、与生育有关的行为以及从工作到学校的过渡，对人生的其余阶段至关重要。宿务纵向健康和营养调查（CLHNS）于1983年开始对3 000多名孕妇进行调查。从那时起，对1983年至1984年出生的2000多名妇女和2000多名儿童进行了广泛跟踪。在2002年和2005年，当青少年分别年满18岁和21岁时，已经获得了再收集两轮数据的资金。该奖项将资助2002年和2005年青少年同居伙伴的原始数据收集，并补充1994年从母亲那里收集的关于决策的现有数据。通过CLHNS，我将检验一个假设，即家庭决策，作为自主性和相对权力的衡量标准，在青少年做出关键的人口决策时很重要。具体来说，我会：

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This career development award will focus on the timing and predictors of demographic decisions adolescents make as they move toward adulthood. Decisions made during adolescence, such as the timing of marriage, fertility-related behavior, and work to school transitions are critical to the remainder of the life course. The Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey (CLHNS) began with over 3,000 pregnant women in 1983. Since that time, over 2,000 of the women and over 2,000 children born in 1983-84 have been extensively followed. Funding has been obtained to collect two more rounds of data in 2002 and 2005, when the adolescents are 18 and 21. This award will fund original data collection in the adolescents' cohabiting partners in 2002 and 2005 and add to existing data on decision-making collected from mothers in 1994. With the CLHNS, I will test the hypothesis that household decision-making, conceptualized as measures of autonomy and relative power, is important as adolescents make key demographic decisions. Specifically, I will: Aim 1: Design new measures and collect original data on household decision-making autonomy and power in adolescents, their mothers, and their partners and examine the reliability, stability, and validity of these measures, Aim 2: Explore if the timing of marriage, fertility decisions, sexual behavior, and the transition from school to work is determined by specific elements of the adolescents' backgrounds (including autonomy and power) as well as by their mothers' marital, reproductive, schooling and work histories, and Aim 3: Examine the relationship of intimate partner violence and decision- making autonomy and power, and consider the relationship between intimate partner violence and reproductive health outcomes. During the award, I will focus on developing new skills in collecting original data in large-scale surveys, gain expertise in questionnaire validation, scale development, couple analysis, and complex data analysis, and learn from leaders in the field. The institutional environment, including the Hopkins Population Center, as well as experts in both the quantitative and substantive areas of my research interests, will allow me to form interdisciplinary collaborations and develop the skills required to successfully compete for future research funding.