Living Arrangements, Parenting & Developmental Outcomes

该提案侧重于在低收入家庭中成长的幼儿的发展轨迹，其中许多是十几岁的母亲所生，具体审查生活的影响：安排对幼儿发展成果的影响。我们使用了两个大型示范项目的纵向调查数据，这些项目的重点是改善经济困难父母及其子女的结果--新机会和儿童综合发展计划。我们还使用了基于对母亲及其子女的结构化、录像观察的观察数据，这些观察是在新机会参与者的子集上进行的。这种调查和观察措施的结合，以及我们对青少年母亲和其他经济困难家庭的大样本纵向数据的使用，提供了一个独特的机会，可以利用为其他目的收集的数据，这些数据尚未被广泛用于回答一系列重要的研究问题。具体来说，我们将解决以下问题：(1)生活安排与父母养育行为之间是否存在关联？(2)如果父母养育方式存在差异，它们是否通过生活安排对经济、社会和心理资源的影响来调节？(3)生活安排的变化是否与父母的养育行为有关，如果是，这种变化类型是否重要？(4)生活安排及其变化是否与幼儿的发展结果有关？如果是这样的话，是如何做到的呢？我们的多学科方法借鉴了研究人员各自的社会学、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，以及可能构成风险的生活安排模式。回答这些问题将提供关于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可能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没有家庭经济改善的情况下更容易接受政策干预的领域。

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.