Low-income Women and Marriage Entry: Evidence for Qualitative Data

低收入妇女与婚姻进入：定性数据的证据

• 批准号: 7418351
• 负责人: Rukmalie Jayakody
• 金额: $ 7.41万
• 依托单位: PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-05-05 至 2010-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7418351
• 关键词: Area; Attention; Attitude; Child; Complex; Condition; Costs and Benefits; Data; Data Collection; Decision Making; Development; Disadvantaged; Domestic Violence; Drug Formulations; Economics; Family; Family dynamics; Fertility; Future; General Population; Horns; Individual; Investigation; Joints; Low income; Marriage; Measurement; Methods; Modeling; Mothers; Multiple Partners; Parenting behavior; Perception; Personal Satisfaction; Play; Policies; Problem behavior; Process; Relative (related person); Research; Research Personnel; Resources; Respondent; Role; Sampling; Stepparent; Stress; Surveys; Testing; Woman; base; child well being; concept; design; experience; programs; women employment

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This research focuses on union formation among low-income single mothers. Our specific research questions are: 1) How do low-income single-mothers make decisions about union formation and what are the main factors considered? What role do children from current and former unions play in these decisions? and 2) What do "new" families look like after transitions into marital and cohabiting unions? What implications do these "new" family types have for family dynamics (e.g., domestic violence, parenting and step-parenting), economic and material resources (e.g., material hardship), and child well-being (e.g., behavior problems)? Particular attention is given to the implications of complex family arrangements resulting from multiple partner fertility (i.e., having children with more than one partner) for union formation decisions and its consequences. Most union transitions among low-income individuals involve existing children-joint children, her children, his children, and a mix of all three. The implications of this family complexity need investigation. To investigate these questions, we rely on a nested design using panel survey data from the Women's Employment Study (WES) and qualitative data gathered from a sub-sample of WES respondents. Analyses of the WES qualitative data serve as the basis for this application. In turn, qualitative findings are expected to inform hypotheses development that can be tested using the panel data. Scientifically, this research will result in the formulation of new hypotheses and conceptual models on union formation and its consequences for low income individuals. Methodologically, this research can inform future survey data collections by identifying concepts for inclusion when studying marriage and cohabitation among low-income samples and provide guidance in the measurement of these concepts. Results from this research will also inform the design and implementation of marriage promotion programs and policies.

描述（由申请人提供）：这项研究的重点是低收入单身母亲之间的工会形成。我们的具体研究问题是：1）低收入单身母亲如何决定成立工会，主要考虑的因素是什么？目前和以前婚姻中的子女在这些决定中发挥什么作用？2）在过渡到婚姻和同居后，“新”家庭是什么样子的？这些“新的”家庭类型对家庭动态有什么影响（例如，家庭暴力、养育子女和继父母）、经济和物质资源（例如，物质困难）和儿童福利（例如，行为问题）？特别注意由多个伴侣生育造成的复杂家庭安排的影响（即，与一个以上的伴侣生育子女），以了解组建工会的决定及其后果。大多数低收入人群的婚姻过渡都涉及到现有的子女--共同的子女、她的子女、他的子女，以及三者的混合。这种家庭复杂性的含义需要调查。为了调查这些问题，我们依赖于一个嵌套的设计，使用面板调查数据从妇女就业研究（WES）和定性数据收集的子样本WES受访者。对WES定性数据的分析是这一应用的基础。反过来，定性研究结果预计将告知假设的发展，可以使用面板数据进行测试。从科学的角度来看，这项研究将导致制定新的假设和概念模型，工会的形成及其对低收入个人的影响。在方法上，这项研究可以通过确定在研究低收入样本中的婚姻和同居时纳入的概念，为未来的调查数据收集提供信息，并为这些概念的测量提供指导。这项研究的结果还将为婚姻促进计划和政策的设计和实施提供信息。