Family Formation in an Era of Family Change

家庭变革时代的家庭组建

• 批准号: 6935177
• 负责人: NANCY S LANDALE
• 金额: $ 39.24万
• 依托单位: PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-08-15 至 2007-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6935177
• 关键词: African American; Hispanic Americans; academic achievement; adolescence (12-20); behavioral /social science research tag; caucasian American; clinical research; developmental psychology; dyadic interaction; family; family structure /dynamics; gender difference; human data; human population study; interpersonal relations; marriage /marital status; occupations; pregnancy; psychological adaptation; quality of life; racial /ethnic difference; social change; social group process; socioenvironment; young adult human (21-34)

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Using data from Waves I, II, and III of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (ADD Health), the proposed investigation will provide a comprehensive analysis of the family formation behavior of young men and women in the contemporary United States. In particular, we will examine cohabitation, childbearing (nonmarital and marital), and marriage up to the age of 25. The proposed study differs from most prior research on early family formation in four key respects. First, our conceptual framework brings together theories, perspectives, and methods from the fields of family demography and human development. Using theories drawn from both fields, we will analyze the influence of individual and social environmental characteristics in adolescence on cohabitation, marriage, and parenthood in emerging adulthood. In addition, because we assume that decisions about family formation are made jointly with decisions about educational attainment and employment, we will emphasize links between early career development and family formation behaviors. Second, our research will focus both on specific family formation transitions and on the trajectories generated by the timing and sequencing of family formation behaviors, education, and employment. Third, in addition to analyzing the social demographic and developmental precursors of family formation behaviors, we will study the implications of family formation patterns for psychosocial well being in emerging adulthood, including psychological and behavioral adjustment, psycho-social maturity, and intimate relationship quality. Fourth, this project pays rigorous attention to the roles of race/ethnicity and gender in the processes of early family formation and in the implications for well being of divergent family formation patterns.

使用来自全国青少年健康纵向研究（ADD Health）的第一，第二和第三波的数据，拟议的调查将提供当代美国年轻男性和女性的家庭形成行为的全面分析。特别是，我们将研究同居，生育（非婚和婚姻），以及25岁以下的婚姻。这项研究在四个关键方面与大多数早期家庭形成的研究不同。首先，我们的概念框架汇集了家庭人口学和人类发展领域的理论，观点和方法。利用这两个领域的理论，我们将分析青少年时期的个人和社会环境特征对成年后的同居，婚姻和父母身份的影响。此外，由于我们假设家庭形成的决定是与教育程度和就业决定共同做出的，我们将强调早期职业发展和家庭形成行为之间的联系。其次，我们的研究将集中在特定的家庭形成的过渡和家庭形成行为，教育和就业的时间和顺序所产生的轨迹。第三，除了分析家庭形成行为的社会人口统计和发展前体之外，我们还将研究家庭形成模式对成年初期心理社会健康的影响，包括心理和行为调整、心理社会成熟度和亲密关系质量。第四，该项目密切关注种族/族裔和性别在早期家庭形成过程中的作用，以及不同家庭形成模式对福祉的影响。