Integrating Demography and Biosocial Stress Models of LGBTI Family Formation

整合 LGBTI 家庭形成的人口统计学和生物社会压力模型

• 批准号: 9091590
• 负责人: William Roger Mills-Koonce
• 金额: $ 13.39万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA GREENSBORO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-17 至 2018-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9091590
• 关键词: Academy; Accounting; Address; Adolescent Psychiatry; Adoption; Adult; American; Behavior; Biosocial; Censuses; Child; Child Development; Child Psychiatry; Child Rearing; Child health care; Climate; Community Surveys; Consultations; Couples; Data; Data Analyses; Data Set; Demography; Development; European; Event; Family; Family Process; Family Study; Family dynamics; Foundations; Funding; Gays; Goals; Head; Health; Health Sciences; Heterosexuals; Individual; Institute of Medicine (U.S.); Knowledge; LGBT Health; Legitimacy; Lesbian; Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender; Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Intersex; Life; Literature; Location; Measures; Mediating; Mental Health; Mentors; Mentorship; Methods; Modeling; Outcome; Parents; Patient Self-Report; Pattern; Personal Satisfaction; Phase; Pilot Projects; Population; Preparation; Process; Public Policy; Recording of previous events; Reporting; Research; Role; Sampling; Social Change; Social Environment; Social Welfare; Stress; Structure; Subgroup; System; Testing; Time; Training; United States; Work; base; caregiving; comparative; contextual factors; experience; family structure; innovation; interest; meetings; programs; psychobiologic; psychologic; rate of change; research study; same-sex partnership; sex; skills; social; sperm cell; success; surrogacy; trend

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Although there is very high interest in the demography and welfare of families headed by lesbian and gay (LG) parents, there is currently very limited longitudinal research on LG families or the transition to LG parenthood. Most of the extant literature is descriptive, comparative, or limited to distinct subgroups of LG parents. Of this research, demography studies that examined trends in LG family structures have rarely considered the family and individual processes that may account for changing trends in LG family formation; meanwhile developmental studies of LG parents have rarely considered the ecological and cultural influences on family and individual functioning, nor systematically considered how family structure may impact the family dynamic. Lastly, no studies that I am aware of have integrated family demography and biosocial approaches to understanding how stress is related to ecological and individual or family decisions and behaviors in LG families. The current research will use both secondary data analyses of longitudinal national datasets such as the U.S. Census and American Community Survey to examine within-state changes in rates of LG family structures over the past 10 years and how these changes correlate with state-level sociopolitical climates and public policies pertinent to LG family formation. This will be followed by a pilot study that will explicitly examine how sociopolitical and ecological factors ar associated with decisions regarding family formation and LG family functioning as mediated by individual mental health, relationship stability, and stress load. I have outlined 3 training goals that are critical for the success of this timely and innovative research study. The first goal is t develop conceptual and methodological expertise in the study of family demography, with an emphasis on contextual influences on family formation for lesbian and gay parents. The second goal is to increase my knowledge and expertise in using established national datasets such as the U.S. Census and the American Community survey to conduct secondary data analyses pertinent to the study of LG families. The third goal is to conduct a multi-state pilot using a biosocial model of individual and family formation and functioning to understand how contextual factors are related to LG individuals' well-being, decisions regarding the timing, method, and location for family formation, and parental functioning in preparation of submitting an R01 proposal on this topic in the later years of this K01 funding period. I have established an extremely strong and accomplished mentorship team that will guide my training and collaborate on each phase of the proposed research. In consultation with my mentors and consultants I have established a training plan that includes (1) mentor-based supervised training and directed activities, (2) formal graduate level coursework and short courses, and (3) participation in relevant research seminars, colloquia and scientific meetings. This training and pilot research will provide me with the skills, experience, and preliminary data necessary to establish an independent research program on this highly significant and innovative topic.

描述（由申请人提供）：尽管人们对以男女同性恋（LG）父母为户主的家庭的人口统计和福利非常感兴趣，但目前对 LG 家庭或向 LG 父母身份过渡的纵向研究非常有限。大多数现有文献都是描述性的、比较性的或仅限于 LG 父母的不同亚组。在这项研究中，考察 LG 家庭结构趋势的人口学研究很少考虑可能解释 LG 家庭形成变化趋势的家庭和个人过程；同时，LG父母的发展研究很少考虑生态和文化对家庭和个人功能的影响，也很少系统地考虑家庭结构如何影响家庭动态。最后，据我所知，没有研究整合家庭人口统计学和生物社会方法来理解压力与 LG 家庭的生态和个人或家庭决策和行为之间的关系。目前的研究将使用美国人口普查和美国社区调查等纵向国家数据集的二次数据分析来研究过去10年州内LG家庭结构比率的变化，以及这些变化如何与州级社会政治气候和与LG家庭形成相关的公共政策相关。随后将进行一项试点研究，该研究将明确研究社会政治和生态因素如何与个人心理健康、关系稳定性和压力负荷介导的家庭形成和 LG 家庭功能决策相关。我列出了 3 个训练目标 这对于这项及时且创新的研究的成功至关重要。第一个目标是发展家庭人口学研究中的概念和方法专业知识，重点是男女同性恋父母的家庭形成的背景影响。第二个目标是增加我使用现有国家数据集（例如美国人口普查和美国社区调查）进行与 LG 家庭研究相关的二次数据分析的知识和专业知识。第三个目标是利用个人和家庭形成和功能的生物社会模型进行多州试点，以了解背景因素如何与 LG 个人的福祉、有关家庭形成的时间、方法和地点的决策以及父母功能相关，准备在 K01 资助期的后期提交有关该主题的 R01 提案。我已经建立了一支极其强大且卓有成效的导师团队，他们将指导我的培训并在拟议研究的每个阶段进行协作。在与我的导师和顾问协商后，我制定了一项培训计划，其中包括（1）基于导师的监督培训和指导活动，（2）正式的研究生水平课程和短期课程，以及（3）参加相关的研究研讨会、座谈会和科学会议。这次培训和试点研究将为我提供必要的技能、经验和初步数据，以便我就这一高度重要和创新的主题建立独立的研究计划。