Family Connections Across Generations and Nations

描述（由申请人提供）：这项拟议的研究的目的是调查团结，支持和冲突的过程，以及健康和福祉的结果，内和跨种族和国家不同的人口样本的三代家庭。 社会支持的联系模型（Antonucci，2002）和多代家庭的团结和冲突（Bengtson et al，2001）为研究提供了概念基础。它将利用NIMH资助的非裔美国人心理健康国家研究（字段名称-美国生活全国调查[NSAL]），以确定三代家庭血统的国际代表性样本。 根据目前正在进行的NSAL（将于2002年11月完成）中的识别率，预计完成的样本中有60%以上是非洲裔美国人、加勒比黑人和非西班牙裔背景的白色人的合格三代血统家庭成员，其成员居住在美国和国际上。我们建议以随机抽样方式访问4 158名三合会成员，即1 386名三代同堂的三合会成员。 此外，我们还将链接到两个单独资助的平行研究：一个在日本进行的方法学和概念上平行的3代电话研究和一个欧洲共同体资助的5个国家的研究。 这项建议的具体目标是：1.确定和探讨代际联系的性质，并比较研究其结构，功能，稳定性和变化的影响，移民，文化适应，民族，种族，性别和年龄，在代表性的人口样本; 2。探讨不同的家庭结构、支持和团结以及代际成员之间的冲突的影响，以及对健康和福祉的影响; 3.详细探讨在与社会和全球老龄化有关的家庭中，特别是在移民和文化差异、族裔、种族、性别和年龄组之间，各代人日益增长的社会服务需求和利用模式;考察美国、欧洲和日本在上述结构和家庭内部、代际联系功能方面的跨国相似性和差异性的性质。 急剧的人口变化带来了独特的挑战，正在改变世界各地社会的基本结构。 这项研究将有助于我们预测、理解和设计支持计划，以科普新世纪各个世代、家庭和社会中个人面临的挑战和问题。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The purpose of this proposed study is to investigate solidarity, support and conflictual processes, and health and well-being outcomes, within and across ethnically and nationally diverse population samples of three-generation families. The Convoy Model of Social Support (Antonucci, 2002) and Solidarity and Conflict in Multi-Generation Families (Bengtson et al, 2001) provide a conceptual base for the study. It will capitalize on the NIMH funded National Study of African American Mental Health (field name - National Survey of American Life [NSAL]) to identify internationally representative samples of three-generation family lineages. Based upon current rates of identification in the ongoing NSAL (to be completed in November 2002), over 60% of the completed sample is expected to be members of eligible three-generation lineage families of African American, Caribbean black, and white non-Hispanic backgrounds, with members who reside both in the U.S. and internationally. We propose to obtain a random sample of 4158 individuals, or 1386 three-generation triads, to be interviewed in this proposed survey. Moreover, we would also link to two separately funded, parallel studies: a methodologically and conceptually parallel 3-generation telephone study in Japan and a European Community-funded study of five nations. The specific aims of this proposal are to: 1. Identify and explore the nature of intergenerational linkages and examine comparatively their structure, function, stability, and change as affected by migration, acculturation, ethnicity, race, gender and age, in representative population samples; 2. Explore the implications of different family structures, support and solidarity and conflict among generational members and the influences on health and well-being; 3. Explore in detail the growing social service needs and utilization patterns across generations, within families linked to societal and global aging, especially across migrational and acculturative differences, ethnicity, race, gender and age groupings; and 4. Examine the nature of cross-national similarities and differences in the previously noted structures and the function of intra-familial, intergenerational linkages in the United States, Europe and Japan. Dramatic demographic transformations create unique challenges that are changing the basic structure of societies around the world. The proposed study will help us anticipate, understand, and design support programs to cope with the challenges and problems facing individuals at all generation positions, families, and societies in the new century.