Intergenerational Influences on Adolescent Transitions

描述(由申请者提供)：这个职业发展奖将集中在青少年在迈向成年的过程中做出人口统计决定的时机和预测因素。青春期所做的决定，如结婚的时机、生育相关的行为以及从工作到学校的过渡，对余下的人生历程至关重要。宿务纵向健康和营养调查(CLHNS)始于1983年，对3000多名孕妇进行了调查。从那时起，1983-84年出生的2000多名妇女和2000多名儿童受到了广泛关注。已获得资金，以便在2002年和2005年再收集两轮数据，当时青少年分别为18岁和21岁。该奖项将资助2002年和2005年在青少年同居伴侣中收集的原始数据，并补充1994年从母亲那里收集的关于决策的现有数据。通过CLHNS，我将检验这样一个假设，即家庭决策在青少年做出关键的人口统计决定时是重要的，家庭决策被概念化为自主性和相对权力的衡量标准。具体地说，我将： 目标1：设计新的测量方法，收集有关青少年及其母亲和伴侣的家庭决策自主权和权力的原始数据，并检验这些测量方法的可靠性、稳定性和效度。 目标2：探索婚姻、生育决定、性行为和从学校到工作的转变是否由青少年背景的特定因素(包括自主权和权力)以及他们母亲的婚姻、生育、受教育和工作历史决定，以及 目的3：考察亲密伴侣暴力与决策自主权和权力的关系，以及亲密伴侣暴力与生殖健康结局之间的关系。 在获奖期间，我将重点发展在大规模调查中收集原始数据的新技能，获得问卷验证、量表开发、夫妇分析和复杂数据分析方面的专业知识，并向该领域的领导者学习。包括霍普金斯人口中心在内的机构环境，以及我研究兴趣的量化和实质性领域的专家，将使我能够形成跨学科合作，并发展成功竞争未来研究资金所需的技能。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This career development award will focus on the timing and predictors of demographic decisions adolescents make as they move toward adulthood. Decisions made during adolescence, such as the timing of marriage, fertility-related behavior, and work to school transitions are critical to the remainder of the life course. The Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey (CLHNS) began with over 3,000 pregnant women in 1983. Since that time, over 2,000 of the women and over 2,000 children born in 1983-84 have been extensively followed. Funding has been obtained to collect two more rounds of data in 2002 and 2005, when the adolescents are 18 and 21. This award will fund original data collection in the adolescents' cohabiting partners in 2002 and 2005 and add to existing data on decision-making collected from mothers in 1994. With the CLHNS, I will test the hypothesis that household decision-making, conceptualized as measures of autonomy and relative power, is important as adolescents make key demographic decisions. Specifically, I will: Aim 1: Design new measures and collect original data on household decision-making autonomy and power in adolescents, their mothers, and their partners and examine the reliability, stability, and validity of these measures, Aim 2: Explore if the timing of marriage, fertility decisions, sexual behavior, and the transition from school to work is determined by specific elements of the adolescents' backgrounds (including autonomy and power) as well as by their mothers' marital, reproductive, schooling and work histories, and Aim 3: Examine the relationship of intimate partner violence and decision- making autonomy and power, and consider the relationship between intimate partner violence and reproductive health outcomes. During the award, I will focus on developing new skills in collecting original data in large-scale surveys, gain expertise in questionnaire validation, scale development, couple analysis, and complex data analysis, and learn from leaders in the field. The institutional environment, including the Hopkins Population Center, as well as experts in both the quantitative and substantive areas of my research interests, will allow me to form interdisciplinary collaborations and develop the skills required to successfully compete for future research funding.