Relationships with nonresident fathers and offspring well-being during the early

早期与非居民父亲的关系和后代的福祉

• 批准号: 7991413
• 负责人: Mindy E Scott
• 金额: $ 7.94万
• 依托单位: CHILD TRENDS, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-01 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7991413
• 关键词: Academic achievement; Accounting; Address; Adolescence; Adolescent; Adult; Adult Children; Age; Alcohol or Other Drugs use; Biological; Child; Childhood; Complex; Data; Daughter; Development; Dimensions; Divorce; Equation; Family; Family member; Father-Child Relations; Fathers; Gender; Goals; Health; Household; Inequality; Intervention; Investments; Left; Length; Life; Life Cycle Stages; Long-Term Effects; Longitudinal Studies; Mental Depression; Mental Health; Modeling; Outcome; Parent-Child Relations; Pathway interactions; Performance; Personal Satisfaction; Play; Policy Maker; Problem behavior; Program Development; Research; Risk; Role; Sampling; Schools; Shapes; Son; Substance abuse problem; Time; United States; base; child well being; depressive symptoms; design; emerging adulthood; experience; family structure; improved; knowledge base; nonmarital childbearing; offspring; programs; public health relevance; self esteem; young adult

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of the proposed research is to examine differences in well-being, in terms of academic achievement, mental health, and substance use, for adult offspring growing up with nonresident versus resident fathers and to examine whether nonresident father involvement mitigates these potential differences. We address the following research questions: Question 1A: Do differences in well-being between offspring that grew up with a nonresident father versus offspring that grew up with a resident father continue into adulthood? Question 1B: Do the differences between growing up with a nonresident father versus a resident father vary based on the length of time spent without a resident father? Question 2: Among nonresident father families, what are the direct and indirect pathways through which father involvement in adolescence and young adulthood is associated with increased well-being during adulthood? Question 3: What dimensions of nonresident father involvement have the strongest positive associations with adult offspring well-being, and do certain types of involvement matter more for certain dimensions of wellbeing? Question 4: Do the pathways between nonresident father involvement and offspring well-being during adulthood differ for sons versus daughters? The proposed project will use data from Waves I,III and IV of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health and will extend research by examining differences in adult well-being between offspring with resident biological fathers, offspring who never lived with their biological fathers, and offspring with nonresident fathers absent from the household for varying lengths of time. The proposed study will also examine the consequences of nonresident father involvement for adult offspring well-being. The project will use a structural equation modeling framework in Mplus in order to control for complex sampling design, efficiently account for missing data, incorporate latent constructs of key predictors and outcomes, and analyze cross-group differences. The proposed project contributes to prior research by (1) examining differences in adult offspring well-being between resident father families and diverse types of nonresident father families; (2) examining the unique contribution of multiple dimensions of nonresident father involvement over-time; and (3) examining whether problem behaviors observed during adolescence persist into adulthood, and whether nonresident father involvement serves as a protective factor for these outcomes at later ages. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Understanding the long-term implications of childhood family structure and nonresident father involvement for adult offspring's development and well-being is important given high rates of divorce and increasing rates of nonmarital childbearing in the United States, which result in large numbers of children growing up apart from their biological fathers. Clarifying the role of nonresident fathers in shaping offspring's well-being during adulthood will help inform current efforts aimed at increasing and improving nonresident father involvement, and will help programs develop interventions that will have long-lasting benefits for children.

描述(由申请人提供)：这项拟议的研究的目标是考察与非居民父亲一起长大的成年子女在学业成就、心理健康和物质使用方面的差异，并检查非居民父亲的参与是否会缓解这些潜在的差异。我们解决了以下研究问题：问题1A：与非居民父亲一起长大的子女与与居民父亲一起长大的子女之间的幸福感差异是否会持续到成年？问题1B：在非居民父亲和居民父亲的陪伴下成长的差异是否会因没有居民父亲的时间长短而有所不同？问题2：在非居民父亲家庭中，父亲参与青春期和青春期的直接和间接途径是什么与成年后幸福感的增加有关？问题3：非居民父亲参与的哪些方面与成年子女的幸福感有最强的正相关性，某些类型的参与对某些方面的幸福感是否更重要？问题4：成年后非居民父亲的参与和子女的幸福之间的路径是否对儿子和女儿不同？拟议中的项目将使用国家青少年健康纵向研究的第一、第三和第四波数据，并将通过检查子女与居住在家里的亲生父亲、从未与亲生父亲一起生活的子女以及没有居住在家里的父亲离开家庭的时间长短的不同，来扩大研究范围。这项拟议的研究还将研究非居民父亲参与对成年子女幸福的影响。该项目将使用Mplus中的结构方程建模框架，以控制复杂的抽样设计，有效地解释缺失的数据，纳入关键预测因素和结果的潜在结构，并分析跨组差异。这项拟议的项目通过以下方式为先前的研究做出贡献：(1)考察常住父亲家庭和不同类型的非常住父亲家庭在成年子女幸福感方面的差异；(2)检验随时间推移非常住父亲参与的多个维度的独特贡献；(3)检查在青春期观察到的问题行为是否会持续到成年，以及非常住父亲参与是否对以后的结果起到保护因素。 公共卫生相关性：鉴于美国的高离婚率和非婚生育率不断上升，导致大量儿童在与生父分离的情况下长大，了解童年家庭结构和非居民父亲参与对成年子女的发展和福祉的长期影响非常重要。澄清非居民父亲在塑造子女成年幸福方面的作用，将有助于为当前旨在增加和改善非居民父亲参与的努力提供信息，并将有助于制定对儿童具有长期好处的干预措施。