Pathways to Child Health and Function

这项研究汇集了一个由流行病学家、心理学家、社会学家、经济学家和统计学家组成的跨学科团队，专注于评估儿童的身体、情感和认知状态在多大程度上反映了父母的社会经济地位、收入轨迹、经济压力和社区特征的影响。对这些问题的分析将使用收入动态小组研究（PSID）进行，该研究自1968年以来一直是美国关于美国家庭经济状况的首要数据来源，并产生了600多篇期刊文章，250本书籍和书籍章节，以及350份政府报告，工作论文和论文。1997年，社会发展研究所提供了一份儿童补充材料，采访了所有社会发展研究所参与者，他们都是13岁以下儿童的父母，也有1至2个孩子。PSID-CDS-收集有关儿童身心健康、儿童行为问题、父母和儿童的心理社会状况（自我效能、自尊、社会支持等）的信息，儿童的认知能力、家长的态度数据以及社区和学校的特点。通过将CDS中收集的数据与PSID中收集的数据联系起来，代表了数十年来关于儿童家庭（在某些情况下还有祖父母）的数据，将有可能解决有关儿童健康和心理社会状态决定因素的一系列重点问题。(1)父母的社会经济地位（SES），几十年来的SES轨迹，以及父母的经济压力与儿童的身心健康，心理社会状态和认知发展有什么关系？(2)社区环境对儿童的身心健康、心理社会状态和认知发展有何影响？3)种族/民族和移民身份与儿童身心健康、心理社会状态和认知发展之间有何关联？社会经济地位的个人措施和/或社区环境的措施占或修改种族/民族和移民身份对儿童的身心健康，心理社会状态和认知发展的影响？(4)父母的行为和态度，家庭环境和家庭结构调解SES和种族/民族的影响和儿童的身心健康，心理社会状态和认知发展之间的关联？(5)社区特征与父母教养行为和态度、家庭环境和家庭结构之间有何关联？

DESCRIPTION (adapted from investigator's abstract): The proposed study brings together an interdisciplinary team of epidemiologists, psychologists, sociologists, economists, and statisticians focused on assessing the extent to which children's physical, emotional, and cognitive status reflect the influence of parental socioeconomic status, income trajectories, economic stress, and community characteristics. Analysis of these issues will be conducted using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), which has been the premier U.S. source of data on the economic status of U.S. families since 1968, and has resulted in over 600 journal articles, 250 books and book chapters, and 350 government reports, working papers, and dissertations. In 1997, the PSID fielded a Child Supplement (PSID-CDS) that interviewed all PSID participants who were the parents of children under 13 as well as one to two of their children. The PSID-CDS-collected information on the physical and mental health of the children, child behavior problems, psychosocial states of parent and child (self-efficacy, self-esteem, social support, etc.), cognitive abilities of the child, attitudinal data from parents, and community and school characteristics. It represents a depth and breadth of data collection never before found in a nationally representative sample By linking data collected in the CDS with data collected in the PSID, representing decades of data on the children's families (and grandparents, in some cases), it will be possible to address a series of focused questions regarding the determinants of health and psychosocial states in children. (1) How are parental socioeconomic status (SES), SES trajectories over decades, and parental economic strain associated with children's physical and mental health, psychosocial states, and cognitive development? (2) What is the impact of the community environment on the children's physical and mental health, psychosocial states, and cognitive development? 3) What is the association between race/ethnicity and immigrant status and child physical and mental health, psychosocial states, and cognitive development? Do individual measures of SES and/or measures of the community environment account for or modify race/ethnicity and immigrant status effects on children's physical and mental health, psychosocial states, and cognitive development? (4) Do parenting behavior and attitudes, home environment, and family structure mediate the association between SES and race/ethnicity effects and children's physical and mental health, psychosocial states and cognitive development? (5) What is the association between community characteristics and parenting behavior and attitudes, home environment, and family structure?