Social Context and Fertility: A Mixed-Methods Approach to Survey Development

描述(由申请人提供)：社会背景和生育率：调查发展生育率偏好的混合方法测量对于评估个人和人口的生殖健康需求至关重要，并作为评估国家计划生育方案的有效性、人口目标的实现以及个人或夫妇生育意愿实现程度的一种手段。尽管对生育率和生育意向的研究由来已久，但对生育意向的衡量和预测有效性仍然很差，关于不断变化的社会背景对生育率的影响的知识也很少。拟议的K01职业发展奖支持Jessica Gipson博士发展成为一名独立的社会科学和公共卫生研究员，并将两个领域纳入进一步培训和研究：(A)社会背景领域的独立和潜在的协同影响，以及(B)夫妇关系和夫妇互动对生育偏好和行为的作用，目的是扩大生育偏好的概念化和改进生育偏好的衡量。这项研究与NICHD的任务有关，并表明了对与了解影响人口的复杂社会、经济和文化因素有关的研究的兴趣。赠款的目标是(1)扩展吉普森博士的公共卫生和基于人口统计学的与生育意愿和行为有关的培训和知识，以纳入社会心理学理论和研究的最新进展，研究夫妇动态、相互作用和决策，以及它们如何影响生育意愿和行为；(2)对高级统计方法进行教学；(3)使用独特的跨代纵向数据集对生育和生育意图进行新的研究；(4)从心理学理论和二元互动的研究结果和培训中，开发一个新的概念框架，用于研究生育意图及其与生育相关行为的关系，(5)基于这个修订的概念框架、现有的定性数据分析和新收集的定性数据，制定一套新的生育意向措施意向措施，以及(6)在菲律宾的年轻成年夫妇样本中试行这些措施。拟议的培训和研究将由一个全国公认的研究导师核心小组指导，其中包括主要导师安妮·佩布利博士(社会人口学家)、共同导师克里斯蒂娜·邓克尔-谢特博士(健康心理学家)和咨询委员会成员：米歇尔·辛丁博士(公共卫生/社会学)、朱迪思·塞尔策博士(家庭人口学家)和本杰明·卡尼博士(心理学家和关系科学专家)。加州大学洛杉矶分校加州人口研究中心(CCPR)和加州大学洛杉矶分校公共卫生学院将提供基础设施来支持这些努力。总而言之，这一职业发展奖提供的结构化指导计划、高级多学科培训以及对原创混合方法研究的支持，将扩大对生育行为的社会背景和夫妇动态的理解，并促进吉普森博士向独立的社会科学和公共卫生研究员的转变。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Social Context and Fertility: A Mixed-Methods Approach to Survey Development Fertility preference measurements are critical to assessing the reproductive health needs of individuals and populations and serve as a means to assess the effectiveness of national family planning programs, the achievement of demographic goals, and the degree to which individuals' or couples' fertility intentions are achieved. Despite a long history of research on fertility and fertility intentions, the measurement and predictive validity of fertility intentions remains poor and knowledge about the effects of changing social context on fertility is rudimentary. The proposed K01 Career Development Award supports the development of Dr. Jessica Gipson as an independent social science and public health researcher and integrates two areas for further training and investigation: (a) the independent and potentially synergistic effects of social context domains, and (b) the role of couple relationships and couple interactions on fertility preferences and behavior, for the purpose of broadening the conceptualization and improving the measurement of fertility preferences. This research is relevant to the NICHD mission and stated interest in research relevant to understanding the complex social, economic and cultural factors that impact populations. The goals of the grant are to (1) extend Dr. Gipson's public health and demographically-based training and knowledge related to fertility intentions and behavior to incorporate recent advances in social psychological theory and research on couple dynamics, interaction, and decision-making and how they affect fertility intentions and behavior, (2) engage in didactic instruction on advanced statistical methods (3) conduct new research on fertility and fertility intentions using a unique intergenerational, longitudinal dataset, (4) from the research findings and training in psychological theory and dyadic interactions, develop a new conceptual framework for studying fertility intentions and their relationship to fertility-related behavior, (5) develop a new set of fertility intentions measures intentions measures based on this revised conceptual framework, extant qualitative data analysis, and newly-collected qualitative data, and (6) pilot these measures with a sample of young adult couples in the Philippines. The proposed training and research will be guided by a core group of nationally-recognized research mentors including primary mentor Dr. Anne Pebley, PhD (social demographer), co- mentor Dr. Christine Dunkel- Schetter, PhD (healthy psychologist), and Advisory Committee Members: Dr. Michelle Hindin, PhD (public health/sociology), Dr. Judith Seltzer (family demographer), and Dr. Benjamin Karney (psychologist and relationship science expert). The UCLA California Center for Population Research (CCPR) and the UCLA School of Public Health will provide the infrastructure to support these endeavors. In sum, the structured mentoring program, advanced multi-disciplinary training, and support for original mixed- methods research afforded by this career development award will broaden the understanding of social context and couple dynamics on fertility behavior and facilitate Dr. Gipson's transition to an independent social science and public health investigator.