New Parents' Mental Health in Socio-Cultural Context

社会文化背景下新父母的心理健康

• 批准号: 6827395
• 负责人: MAUREEN A PERRY-JENKINS
• 金额: $ 31.73万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-06-01 至 2007-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6827395
• 关键词: African American; behavioral /social science research tag; caucasian American; clinical research; dyadic interaction; employment /unemployment; employment of women; expectancy; family structure /dynamics; human subject; interview; longitudinal human study; marriage /marital status; mental health; preschool child (1-5); psychological adaptation; quality of life; racial /ethnic difference; sex roles; social adjustment; social support network; women' s health; work site

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Given the dramatic increase in women's employment over the past half century, the transition to parenthood is now followed by the early transition back to paid work for the majority of new mothers. Pressures associated with parental employment and childcare have become growing concerns for new parents. Research highlights the lack of consensus about the short- and long-term consequences of early parental employment for both parents and children. Even less is known about how socio-cultural factors, such as race, class, and family structure, affect parents' and children's mental health across these multiple transitions. The primary goal of the proposed research is to explore how the transition to parenthood, coupled with the early return to paid employment affects the mental health and family relationships of working-class parents and children over the short- (1-year) and long-term (6 years), with the aim of exploring how these processes differ as a function of race and family structure. The first aim is to explore the long-term effects of the transition to parenthood and early parental employment on parents' and children's mental health five years later. A sample of 153 couples, who experienced the transition to parenthood between 1996 and 2001, will be re-interviewed as their first child enters kindergarten, affording the unique opportunity to examine how patterns established in the first year of parenthood are related to family members' mental health and relationships five years later. The second aim is to examine how race and family structure moderate how new parents fare as they become new parents and manage full-time employment. The original transition to parenthood study will be replicated with three new sub-samples including, African-American, single-mother and two-parent families and European-American single mothers. The objectives of the replication are: (1) to examine change in new parents' mental health and intimate relationships as they become new parents and soon thereafter return to full-time work, (2) to identify how work conditions, social support, gender ideology, expectations about parenthood, and characteristics of the child and parents mediate the effects of the multiple transitions on parents' mental health, (3) to examine change in family roles and behaviors across the first year of parenthood, and (4) to determine the effects of family-friendly workplace policies on parents' mental health across the transition to parenthood.

描述（由申请人提供）：鉴于在过去的半个世纪中妇女就业的急剧增加，大多数新妈妈在向父母过渡之后，现在又提前过渡到有报酬的工作。与父母就业和育儿有关的压力已成为新父母日益关注的问题。研究突出表明，对于父母过早就业对父母和子女的短期和长期影响缺乏共识。更不知道社会文化因素，如种族，阶级和家庭结构，如何影响父母和孩子的心理健康在这些多重过渡。拟议研究的主要目标是探讨如何过渡到父母，再加上早期返回有偿就业影响的心理健康和家庭关系的工人阶级的父母和孩子在短期（1年）和长期（6年），探索这些过程如何不同的种族和家庭结构的功能的目的。第一个目的是探讨五年后向父母身份过渡和父母早期就业对父母和儿童心理健康的长期影响。在1996年至2001年期间经历了父母身份转变的153对夫妇的样本将在他们的第一个孩子进入幼儿园时再次接受采访，这提供了一个独特的机会来研究父母身份第一年建立的模式如何与五年后家庭成员的心理健康和关系有关。第二个目的是研究种族和家庭结构如何调节新父母在成为新父母和管理全职工作时的表现。最初的父母身份转变研究将用三个新的子样本进行复制，包括非洲裔美国人，单亲母亲和双亲家庭以及欧洲裔美国人单身母亲。复制的目标是：（1）研究初为人父母者在成为父母后不久即重返全职工作岗位时心理健康和亲密关系的变化，（2）确定工作条件、社会支持、性别意识形态、对父母身份的期望以及子女和父母的特征如何调节多重转变对父母心理健康的影响，（3）检查父母身份第一年中家庭角色和行为的变化，（4）确定家庭友好型工作场所政策对父母在父母身份过渡期间心理健康的影响。