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Ecological instability over early childhood and children's health and wellbeing

幼儿期的生态不稳定以及儿童的健康和福祉

基本信息

批准号：
9405324
负责人：
Kate Chambers Prickett
金额：
$ 4.66万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2016
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2016-07-18 至 2018-04-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9405324
关键词：
9 year old Address Adult Affect Attention Behavioral Caliber Caring Characteristics Chicago Child Child Care Child Development Child health care Childhood Chronic Disease Collection Data Set Data Sources Demographer Demography Development Ecology Economically Deprived Population Education Environment Equation Exposure to Family Fellowship Gap Junctions Goals Health Health behavior Inequality Intervention Interview Life Life Cycle Stages Link Literature Longitudinal trends Marriage Measures Mentorship Modeling Mothers National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Nature Obesity Outcome Parents Pattern Play Policies Population Proxy Regression Analysis Research Risk Role Scientist Selection Bias Shapes Signal Transduction Single Parent Social Behavior Social Change Socioeconomic Status Sociology Structure Techniques Time Training Translational Research Unemployment Universities Unmarried Woman Work career design developmental psychology early childhood experience externalizing behavior family structure interdisciplinary collaboration intergenerational labor force participation life course persistent longitudinal dataset neglect outcome prediction parental role peer physical conditioning policy implication population health public health relevance research and development social socioeconomic disadvantage socioeconomic disparity socioeconomics transmission process trend

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this fellowship is to examine the stability of early childhood environmental ecologies and how instability in these ecological settings affect childhood health and well-being and broader patterns of population-level inequality. Prior literature investigating childhood inequality and ecological instability has typically examined point-in-time exposure to ecological contexts or focused on instability in only one domain. This study extends the existing literature by taking a dynamic, multi-dimensional, and child-centered approach to the short- and long-term developmental implications of ecological instability. This study bridges conceptual ideas from sociology, demography, and developmental psychology to accomplish this goal. In this effort, this study asks three main questions: (1) what does instabiliy in the work-family-care nexus look like during the first five years of children's lives; (2) do children influence their own experience of ecological instability during early childhood, and if so what factors (e.g., physical health, social behavior) are most likely to affect these settings; (3)is early childhood instability associated with children's middle and late childhood health and well-being? Moreover, an important component of this research is to examine how these trends differ by children's socioeconomic status, which can speak to how ecological instability shapes the intergenerational transmission of inequality. In answering these questions, this study draws on two complementary sources of data: The NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (SECCYD) and the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCW). These datasets allow for the close examination of changes in family structure, mothers' work characteristics, and children's extra-familial care because of the detailed collection of information during frequent interviews with families over early childhood. In addition, both datasets have objective and subjective measures of children's development, including their physical health, behavioral, and academic outcomes in middle and late childhood. The analytic plan uses latent class analysis (LCA) to identify the ecological instability experience over early childhood, and cross-lagged structural equation models and regression analysis to examine the role children play in influencing their ecological contexts and how early childhood instability may be associated with children's poorer health and well-being in middle and late childhood. Additional statistical techniques will be used to address selection bias and causal inference. This theoretically grounded study has important implications for policy. Understanding what types of instability put specific groups of families at risk for subsequent instability in other domains and which instability profiles are associated with poorer childhood health and well-being can inform policy and interventions targeting vulnerable children and families and speak to larger trends in population health and well-being inequalities.