Immigrant Elders: Living Arrangements, 1850-2000

移民长者：生活安排，1850-2000

• 批准号: 6892809
• 负责人: BRIAN GRATTON
• 金额: $ 19.9万
• 依托单位: ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY-TEMPE CAMPUS
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-06-01 至 2007-08-14
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6892809
• 关键词: African American; British; Chinese; European; German; Hispanic Americans; Japanese; Mexican Americans; Puerto Rican; Scandinavian; caucasian American; clinical research; culture; family structure /dynamics; gender difference; generation difference; human data; human old age (65+); immigrant; racial /ethnic difference; socioeconomics

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This project seeks to improve models for explaining the living arrangements of the elderly, comparing immigrant origin groups to native whites and blacks between 1850 and 2000. It explores the poles of interdependence and autonomy across U.S. history, using a broad array of ethnic/racial groups. The research is particularly significant given the growing importance of the ethnic elderly in the aged population of the U.S. and the health and social implications of household arrangements. By broadening the range of ethnicities and time periods, this project will bring greater certainty to standard models that contrast ethnocultural, economic, and demographic effects on the living arrangements of elderly men and women. The research goes beyond current models by evaluating period effects and the overarching impact of the immigration experience itself. Recent theoretical debate, focused on the competing claims of familism and rational choice models, concentrates almost exclusively on the current era and on contemporary immigrant groups. It assumes that autonomy is the core norm of white native elderly. The project will add six new data sets to a currently used series, encompassing 150 years and three major immigration eras, breaking with a conventional comparison between the most recent and the 1890-1920 eras. It will add five ethnic groups, bringing the total to thirteen, including native whites and blacks. Gender differentiated analyses begin by showing long-term trends in the lived experience of the elderly. Multivariate logistic regressions will be used in each census year to assess the relative effect and interaction of dominant variables, testing familism, assimilation, and segmented assimilation theory. The multivariate models will be compared across time to assess period effects. The final step in the research will lead to a comparative analysis of the families of the elderly and children, relying on the project work and previous research on children. The research provides a strong foundation for conclusions about culture, economics and other factors on family formation in the United States and will make innovative contributions to theory about living arrangements. The project's specific aims are to a) extend the temporal range of scholarly research and to broaden the set of groups compared; b) model the living arrangements of female and male elderly across the entire series, testing familism, rational choice, demographic, and period factors; c) prepare four articles from the results, including a summary article using outcomes for both children and the elderly.

描述（由申请人提供）：该项目旨在改善解释老年人的生活安排的模型，将移民起源群体与1850年至2000年之间的本地白人和黑人进行比较。它使用一系列种族/种族群体探索了美国历史上相互依存和自治的杆子。鉴于美国老年人在美国老年人口的重要性以及家庭安排的健康和社会影响，这项研究尤为重要。通过扩大种族和时间段的范围，该项目将为标准模型带来更大的确定性，这些模型将民族文化，经济和人口统计学对老年男女生活安排的影响进行对比。这项研究通过评估时期效应和移民体验本身的总体影响而超越了当前的模型。最近的理论辩论着重于家族主义和理性选择模型的竞争主张，几乎完全集中在当前时代和当代移民群体上。它假设自治是白人本地老年人的核心规范。该项目将在当前使用的系列中添加六个新数据集，其中包括150年和三个主要的移民时代，并在最新和1890 - 1920年的时代之间进行了常规比较。它将增加五个族裔，使总数达到13个，包括当地的白人和黑人。性别差异化的分析首先显示了老年人的生活经验的长期趋势。在每个人口普查年中，将使用多元逻辑回归来评估主要变量，测试家族主义，同化和分割同化理论的相对效果和相互作用。将在整个时间内比较多元模型以评估周期效应。研究的最后一步将导致对老年人和儿童家庭的比较分析，依靠项目工作以及对儿童的先前研究。这项研究为美国关于文化，经济学和其他因素的家庭形成的结论奠定了坚实的基础，并将为有关生活安排的理论做出创新的贡献。该项目的具体目的是a）扩展学术研究的时间范围，并扩大比较组的集合； b）模拟整个系列中男性和男性老年人的生活安排，测试家族主义，理性的选择，人口统计和时期因素； c）从结果中准备四篇文章，包括使用儿童和老年人的结果的摘要文章。