Family Background and Subsequent Helping Behavior

家庭背景和随后的帮助行为

• 批准号: 6710538
• 负责人: MARK Ottoni WILHELM
• 金额: $ 10.8万
• 依托单位: INDIANA UNIV-PURDUE UNIV AT INDIANAPOLIS
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-09-26 至 2005-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6710538
• 关键词: altruism; behavioral /social science research tag; child rearing; clinical research; community; developmental psychology; family structure /dynamics; generation difference; human data; imitative behavior; learning; low socioeconomic status; marriage /marital status; morals; parent deprivation; psychological models; socioeconomics; volunteer; young adult human (21-34)

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The objective of the proposed research is to estimate the relationship between children's family background and their subsequent helping behavior as young adults. Three outcomes will be used as measures of young adults' helping behavior: charitable giving, volunteering, and the emphasis they place on helping behavior in parenting their own children. The specific aspects of family background to be examined are family income and structure (absence of a biological parent and remarriage of a custodial parent). The conceptual framework is based on developmental stages of prosocial moral reasoning (e.g., Eisenberg 1982) and the mechanisms by which family background can be expected to affect that development. Hence, the estimation of these effects will be stage-specific. Models of young adults' charitable giving and volunteering will be estimated using semi-parametric techniques which provide robust results against a wide range of assumptions about unobservable influences on the outcomes (see, e.g., Chay and Honore 1998). Models of young adults' emphasis on helping in the parenting of their own children will be estimated using ordered probit and Iogit as well as semi-parametric techniques. The data used to estimate the models will be drawn from the 1968-2001 waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and two of its components: the 1997 Child Development Supplement (CDS) and the 2001 Center on Philanthropy Panel Study (COPPS). The results from this research will be important for several reasons. First, although there is laboratory evidence supporting various stage theories of prosocial development, there is no evidence concerning whether significant events during the lives of children have subsequent effects on their policy-relevant helping behavior as adults. Likewise, it is not known whether such events have ripple effects on the parenting of the next generation. Second, the literature that has examined family background effects on children's behavior has predominately focused on "negative" behavior (Moore, Evans, Brooks-Gunn and Roth 1999). Positive behaviors, such as helping, have been only lightly researched. Finally, evidence indicating which stages of childhood are important for these domains of helping behaviors would suggest ages at which interventions promoting altruism should be targeted.

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议研究的目的是估计儿童的家庭背景和他们随后的帮助行为之间的关系，作为年轻的成年人。三个结果将被用来衡量年轻人的帮助行为：慈善捐赠，志愿服务，以及他们在养育自己的孩子时对帮助行为的重视。需要审查的家庭背景的具体方面是家庭收入和结构（没有生身父母和监护父母再婚）。 概念框架基于亲社会道德推理的发展阶段（例如，Eisenberg（1982），以及家庭背景可能影响这种发展的机制。因此，这些影响的估计将是阶段特定的。 将使用半参数技术来估计年轻人的慈善捐赠和志愿活动的模型，这些技术提供了针对结果不可观察影响的广泛假设的稳健结果（参见，例如，Chay和Honore 1998）。模型的年轻成年人的重视，以帮助在自己的子女的养育将估计使用有序的概率和Iogit以及半参数技术。 用于估计模型的数据将来自1968-2001年收入动态小组研究（PSID）及其两个组成部分：1997年儿童发展补充（CDS）和2001年慈善小组研究中心（COPPS）。 这项研究的结果将是重要的，原因有几个。首先，虽然有实验室证据支持亲社会发展的各种阶段理论，但没有证据表明儿童生活中的重大事件是否会对他们成年后的政策相关帮助行为产生后续影响。同样，也不知道这些事件是否会对下一代的养育产生涟漪反应。 其次，研究家庭背景对儿童行为影响的文献主要集中在“消极”行为上（摩尔，埃文斯，布鲁克斯-冈恩和罗斯，1999）。积极的行为，如帮助，只得到了轻微的研究。最后，有证据表明，儿童的哪些阶段对这些领域的帮助行为很重要，这将表明促进利他主义的干预措施应该针对的年龄。