Mental Health, Identity and Career Development

心理健康、身份和职业发展

• 批准号: 7119050
• 负责人: VLADIMIR B SKORIKOV
• 金额: $ 12.44万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT HILO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 至
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7119050
• 关键词: Hawaii; adolescence (12-20); career; clinical research; developmental psychology; human subject; identity; longitudinal human study; mental health; mental health epidemiology; racial /ethnic difference; socioeconomics; young adult human (21-34)

The chief goal of this study is to examine the relationships among mental health, identity and career development during the transition from adolescence to adulthood and determine whether successful adjustment in emerging adulthood depends on developmental trajectories in the above domains during adolescence. The study proposes to add to our understanding of the risk and protective factors of mental health. It is hypothesized that the emerging sense of personal, ethnic, and national identity and career preparation during adolescence protects young adults form developing internalizing and externalizing problem behavior and buffers the potentially harmful effects of negative life events. Preliminary studies suggest that identity formation and career development are positively related to psychological well-being and negatively to distress, drug and alcohol abuse, and delinquency. There is some evidence that those relationships become stronger as adolescents move into adulthood. This study will examine the patterns of change in and interactions among overall mental health and its components and individual, national, and ethnic identity and career development from adolescence through young adulthood. The participants in this study will comprise a highly diverse sample representative of both sexes as well as ethnic minority, majority, and mixed individuals and a broad range of socio-economic status groups, who will be recruited from the participants in an ongoing study of adolescent development. Thus, the previously collected data will be used as a baseline, which will allow for studying long-term relationships and lagged effects. The study will utilize a longitudinal design with four waves of data collection throughout the first half of the third decade of life. Data analyses will focus on causal modeling in order to determine the direction of the effects as well as change over time and in relation to the normative transitions of emerging adulthood.

本研究的主要目的是探讨从青少年到成年的过渡期的心理健康，身份和职业发展之间的关系，并确定是否成功的调整在新兴的成年取决于上述领域的发展轨迹在青春期。这项研究旨在增加我们对心理健康风险和保护因素的理解。据推测，在青春期出现的个人，种族和民族认同感和职业准备保护年轻人发展内化和外化的问题行为和缓冲的负面生活事件的潜在有害影响。初步研究表明，身份形成和职业发展与心理健康呈正相关，与痛苦、吸毒和酗酒以及少年犯罪呈负相关。有一些证据表明，随着青少年进入成年期，这些关系变得更加牢固。本研究将探讨从青春期到青年期的整体心理健康及其组成部分和个人，国家和种族认同和职业发展之间的变化和相互作用的模式。这项研究的参与者将包括一个高度多样化的样本，代表两性以及少数民族、多数民族和混合个体以及广泛的社会经济地位群体，他们将从正在进行的青少年发展研究的参与者中招募。因此，以前收集的数据将被用作基线，这将允许研究长期关系和滞后效应。该研究将采用纵向设计，在生命的第三个十年的前半期进行四波数据收集。数据分析将侧重于因果建模，以确定影响的方向以及随时间的变化，并与成年期的规范性转变有关。