Wellbeing of Children at Risk: Granparents as Resources

面临风险的儿童的福祉：祖父母作为资源

• 批准号: 7017798
• 负责人: Merril D. Silverstein
• 金额: $ 28.85万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-02-01 至 2009-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7017798
• 关键词: adolescence (12-20); behavioral /social science research tag; child (0-11); child behavior disorders; child psychology; child rearing; clinical research; divorce /separation; emotional dependency; family structure /dynamics; grandparent; human data; interpersonal relations; life cycle; longitudinal human study; meta analysis; parent deprivation; psychological stressor; quality of life; role; self concept; social support network; socioeconomics; socioenvironment; statistics /biometry; young adult human (21-34)

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this research is to investigate how grandchildren experiencing adverse risk factors are benefitted by their relations with grandparents. In this formulation, grandparents are considered to be latent resources who help their grandchildren adapt to stressful events such as divorce, single parenting, negative parental attachment styles, and behavioral difficulties. The aims of the research are to better understand (1) how the investment of emotion, attention, and support by grandparents buffers the impact of family disruption and other stressors on the psychological, social, and material well-being of (a) pre-adolescent grandchildren as they make the transition to adolescence, (b) on adolescent children as they make the transition to young adulthood and beyond, and (2) how the investment in grandchildren has changed over the last quarter century of historical time, and whether grandparent involvement is more important to today's grandchildren than it was to an earlier generation of grandchildren. Outcomes include psychological well-being, such as self-esteem, depression, anxiety, affect balance, and socio-economic achievement such as occupational mobility. These aims will be addressed with two longitudinal data sets, one a long-term study of several cohorts of grandchildren taken from adolescent members of multigenerational families surveyed over the last 30 years (the Longitudinal Study of Generations), and the other a nationally representative five- and fourteen- year longitudinal study of adolescent and younger grandchildren and their parents (National Survey of Families and Households). Longitudinal models will predict change in prospective well-being outcomes as a function of the interaction between the nature of relationships with grandparents and family stressors/behavioral risk factors. Transitions over three, five, and fourteen years will be analyzed to investigate the short-term and enduring contributions that grandparents make to the well-being of the grandchildren. Multiple regression and structural equation modeling will be used to estimate the strength of these effects. This research will extend our understanding of the value of extended family relations by documenting how and with what effect grandparents buffer the impact of social stressors on the long-term well-being of grandchildren.

描述(申请人提供)：这项研究的目标是调查经历不利风险因素的孙辈如何受益于他们与祖父母的关系。在这种说法中，祖父母被认为是帮助他们的孙子孙女适应压力事件的潜在资源，如离婚、单亲养育、消极的父母依恋方式和行为困难。这项研究的目的是为了更好地了解(1)祖父母对情感、注意力和支持的投资如何缓冲家庭破坏和其他压力源对心理、社交和物质健康的影响，(A)青春期前的孙辈在过渡到青春期时，(B)在青春期和成年后对青春期子女的影响，以及(2)在过去四分之一个世纪的历史时间里，对孙辈的投资发生了怎样的变化，以及祖父母的参与对今天的孙辈是否比对上一代孙辈更重要。结果包括心理健康，如自尊、抑郁、焦虑、情感平衡，以及社会经济成就，如职业流动性。 将通过两套纵向数据集来实现这些目标，一套是对过去30年调查的多代家庭青少年成员孙辈的若干长期研究(世代纵向研究)，另一套是对青春期和年幼孙辈及其父母的具有全国代表性的五年和十四年纵向研究(全国家庭和家庭调查)。纵向模型将根据与祖父母的关系性质和家庭压力源/行为风险因素之间的相互作用来预测预期幸福结果的变化。三年、五年和十四年的过渡将被分析，以调查祖父母对孙子孙女幸福的短期和持久贡献。将使用多元回归和结构方程模型来估计这些影响的强度。这项研究将通过记录祖父母如何以及在何种程度上缓冲社会压力对孙子孙女长期幸福的影响，来扩大我们对扩大家庭关系的价值的理解。