Intergenerational Influences on Adolescent Transitions

描述（由申请人提供）：这个职业发展奖将侧重于青少年在走向成年时所做的人口统计学决定的时机和预测因素。在青春期做出的决定，如结婚的时间，生育相关的行为，以及从工作到学校的过渡，对生命历程的其余部分至关重要。宿务纵向健康和营养调查始于1983年，调查对象为3 000多名孕妇。从那时起，对1983-84年出生的2 000多名妇女和2 000多名儿童进行了广泛的跟踪。已获得资金，以便在2002年和2005年收集另外两轮数据，届时青少年年龄分别为18岁和21岁。该奖项将资助2002年和2005年在青少年同居伙伴中收集原始数据，并补充1994年从母亲那里收集的关于决策的现有数据。与CLHNS，我将测试的假设，家庭决策，概念化的自主性和相对权力的措施，是重要的青少年作出关键的人口决策。具体而言，我将： 目标1：设计新的测量方法，收集有关青少年、其母亲及其伴侣的家庭决策自主权和权力的原始数据，并检查这些测量方法的可靠性、稳定性和有效性， 目标二：探索婚姻的时机，生育决定，性行为，以及从学校到工作的过渡是否由青少年背景的特定因素（包括自主权和权力）以及母亲的婚姻，生育，学校教育和工作历史决定， 目标3：审查亲密伴侣暴力与决策自主权和权力的关系，并考虑亲密伴侣暴力与生殖健康结果之间的关系。 在获奖期间，我将专注于开发在大规模调查中收集原始数据的新技能，获得问卷验证，规模开发，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。机构环境，包括霍普金斯人口中心，以及在我的研究兴趣的定量和实质性领域的专家，将使我能够形成跨学科的合作，并发展所需的技能，成功地竞争未来的研究资金。

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.