Children's Developmental Outcomes in Cohabiting Unions

描述（由申请人提供）：到目前为止，我的研究主要集中在同居联盟中的成年人幸福。拟议的项目将允许我扩大我的研究议程，以调查同居家庭的家庭过程和质量及其对儿童和青少年福祉的影响。人口统计学家在将这些因素纳入他们对个人幸福的分析方面进展缓慢，而是关注更大的结构性因素。然而，人口和发展观点实际上是相辅相成的，因为它们共同强调家庭环境的个人、过程和背景素质，所有这些都影响儿童的福祉。我将考虑家庭环境在个人、过程和背景层面（包括父母心理健康、父母行为、亲子关系质量、经济资源和家庭不稳定）对同居家庭青少年发展的重要性，特别关注贫困和少数民族身份所带来的并发症。我将使用1992-2002年项目动态调查和全国青少年健康纵向研究的三波数据来检验家庭过程和质量对儿童发展的五个核心领域的影响：(1)身体，(2)心理和情感，(3)社会，(4)认知和教育，(5)经济福利。这两个数据集都允许我解释之前的生活安排的转变以及当前家庭形式的持续时间。计量经济学技术将用于解释选择效应。我还将对同居父母进行深入访谈，以扩展我从SPD和Add Health中获得的结果。这一策略将使我能够更详细地探索与儿童福祉最密切相关的因素，并确定在二次数据分析中未检查的家庭环境的其他关键方面。K-01奖项将为我提供在儿童和青少年发展以及计量经济学和定性方法方面的强大指导和专业培训，这将使我能够扩大我在同居和幸福方面的人口统计学研究。通过结合发展的观点，我

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): My research to date has focused on adult well-being in cohabiting unions. The proposed project will allow me to expand my research agenda to investigate the family processes and qualities of cohabiting families and their implications for child and adolescent well-being. Demographers have been slow to integrate these elements in their analyses of individual well-being, focusing instead on larger structural factors. Nevertheless, the demographic and developmental perspectives actually are complementary as together they emphasize the individual, process, and contextual qualities of the family environment, all of which shape children's well-being. I will consider the significance of the family environment at the person, process, and context levels (including parental psychological well-being, parenting behaviors, parent-child relationship quality, economic resources, and family instability) for the development of youth in cohabiting families, paying special attention to the complications presented by poverty and minority status. I will use data from the 1992-2002 Survey of Program Dynamics and the three waves of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health to examine the influence of family processes and qualities on five core domains of children's development: (1) physical, (2) psychological and emotional, (3) social, (4) cognitive and educational, and (5) economic well-being. Both of these data sets permit me to account for prior living arrangement transitions as well as duration in the current family form. Econometric techniques will be use to account for selection effects. I will also conduct in-depth interviews with cohabiting parents to expand on the results I obtain from the SPD and Add Health. This strategy will allow me to explore in greater detail the factors that are most strongly linked to child well-being and identify other key aspects of the family environment that were not examined in the secondary data analyses. The K-01 award will provide me with strong mentorship and specialized training in child and adolescent development as well as econometrics and qualitative methods, which will enable me to expand my demographic research on cohabitation and well-being. By incorporating a developmental perspective, I will be better equipped to address how and why newly emerging family structures such as cohabitation influence children's lives.