Living Arrangements, Parenting & Developmental Outcomes

这一建议的重点是在低收入家庭中长大的幼儿的发展轨迹，其中许多是由十几岁的母亲所生，特别检查了生活安排对幼儿发展结果的影响。我们使用了两个大型示范项目——“新机遇”和“儿童综合发展计划”——的纵向调查数据，这些项目的重点是改善经济弱势父母及其子女的结果。我们还使用了一些观察数据，这些数据是基于对母亲和她们的孩子进行的结构化的录像观察，这些观察是对一部分“新机遇”项目参与者进行的。这种调查和观察措施的结合，以及我们对大量青少年母亲和其他经济弱势家庭样本的纵向数据的使用，为利用为其他目的收集的数据提供了一个独特的机会，这些数据尚未被广泛用于回答一系列重要的研究问题。具体而言，我们将解决以下问题：(1)生活安排与父母行为之间是否存在关联？(2)如果存在教养差异，是否通过生活安排对经济、社会和心理资源的影响来调解？(3)生活安排的变化是否与父母的行为有关？如果是，变化的类型是否重要？(4)生活安排及其变化是否与幼儿的发展结果有关？如果有，怎么做？我们的多学科方法借鉴了研究者各自的社会学、发展心理学和经济学领域。我们的目标是确定对年轻母亲及其子女最有利的生活安排模式，以及那些可能构成风险的模式。回答这些问题将提供有关生活安排如何影响在贫困中成长的幼儿发展的宝贵信息。这样的研究对于理解新的社会福利政策如何影响家庭至关重要。幸福。此外，了解生活安排的作用及其影响儿童发展的途径，有助于确定在家庭经济状况得不到改善的情况下更适合进行政策干预的领域。

This proposal focuses on the developmental trajectories of young children growing up in low-income families, many of whom were born to teenage mothers, specifically examining the effects of living: arrangements on young children's developmental outcomes. We use longitudinal survey data from two large-scale demonstration projects focused on improving outcomes for economically disadvantaged parents and their children-- New Chance and the Comprehensive Child Development Program. We also use observational data based on structured, videotaped observations of mothers and their children conducted on a subset of the New Chance participants. This combination of survey and observational measures, and our use of longitudinal data on a large sample of teen mothers and other economically disadvantaged families, provides a unique opportunity to capitalize on data collected for other purposes that have not been widely used to answer an important set of research questions. Specifically, we will address the following questions: (1) Is there an association between living arrangements and parenting behavior? (2) If differences in parenting exist, are they mediated through the impact of living arrangements on economic, social and psychological resources? (3) Are changes in living arrangements related to parenting behavior and if so, is the type of change important? (4) Are living arrangements and changes therein related to young children's developmental outcomes? If so, how? Our multidisciplinary approach draws from the investigators' respective fields of sociology, developmental psychology and economics. Our aim is to identify patterns of living arrangements that would be most beneficial to young mothers and their children as well as those that could pose risks. Answering these questions will provide valuable information on how living arrangements affect the development of young children growing up in poverty. Such research is essential for understanding how new social welfare policies might affect family. well-being. Additionally, understanding the role of living arrangements and the pathways through which it influences children's development can help identify areas that are more amenable to policy interventions in the absence of family economic improvements.