The Impact of Romantic Relationships on the Health of Vulnerable Populations during the Transition to Adulthood

浪漫关系对成年过渡期间弱势群体健康的影响

• 批准号: 9809613
• 负责人: Sara Mernitz
• 金额: $ 7.83万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-08-01 至 2021-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9809613
• 关键词: Accounting; Address; Adolescence; Adolescent; Adolescent and Young Adult; Adult; Affect; Age; Alcohol or Other Drugs use; Area; Bisexual; Buffers; Characteristics; Couples; Data; Depression and Suicide; Development; Distress; Event History Analysis; Face; Family Relationship; Feeling suicidal; Future; Gays; Goals; Health; Health Benefit; Health Promotion; Heterosexuals; Individual; Intervention; Knowledge; Lesbian; Lesbian Gay Bisexual; Life; Link; Longitudinal Studies; Marriage; Measures; Mental Depression; Mental Health; Minority; Modeling; National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent to Adult Health; Outcome; Pathway interactions; Persons; Population; Process; Psyche structure; Public Health; Research; Resistance; Risk; Risk Behaviors; Role; Same-sex; Sampling; Scholarship; Sexual Health; Stress; Structure; Testing; Vulnerable Populations; Youth; design; emerging adult; experience; high risk; insight; longitudinal dataset; meetings; minority health; peer; physical conditioning; population health; pressure; programs; same-sex partnership; satisfaction; sex; sexual identity; sexual minority; sexual relationship; social; stressor; young adult

Project Summary/Abstract Romantic relationships are one of the most salient social relationships for health during the transition to adulthood and into adulthood. Different-sex relationships that develop in the typical stage of life, and certain relationship structures, such as marriage, are linked to better physical and mental health for heterosexual individuals. Yet, research on romantic relationships fails to consider the relationship experiences of sexual minority adolescents and young adults, including lesbian, gay, or bisexual individuals. Sexual minorities face unique barriers to developing romantic relationships during the transition to adulthood that may offset any health benefits gained from these relationships. Because sexual minorities experience elevated substance use and mental health problems compared to their heterosexual counterparts, understanding the role of romantic relationships in contributing to sexual minority health is critical. The overarching goal of the proposed project is to establish how associations between sexual minority romantic relationships and health vary by relationship timing, structure, and quality using data from a large, nationally representative sample. To meet this goal, I will first identify how sexual minorities form a first dating relationship and romantic union, defined as cohabitation or marriage, and establish how this timing affects substance use and mental health in adulthood. This research will provide insight into whether, and how much, sexual minorities deviate from heterosexual individuals' well- established relationship trajectories, and, how any deviation affects health. Second, I will test how types of and changes in sexual minority relationship structures throughout the transition to, and into, adulthood contribute to substance use and mental health. Meeting this objective will establish which relationships structures are more vulnerable or resistant to substance use or mental health problems. Third, I will examine how relationship quality moderates the association between relationship structure and health for sexual minorities, which will provide insight into the characteristics of relationships most protective for health. The proposed project will enhance our knowledge about how sexual minority relationship timing and structure are either protective or detrimental for health from adolescence to adulthood, and identify how relationship-specific processes alter these pathways. The knowledge gained from this research will ground the development of future scholarship designed to explore additional mechanisms, such as the role of minority stress, through which sexual minority relationships contribute to, or reduce, health.

项目概要/摘要 浪漫关系是向健康过渡期间对健康最重要的社会关系之一。 成年期和进入成年期。在生命的典型阶段发展的异性关系，以及某些 婚姻等关系结构与异性恋者更好的身心健康有关 个人。然而，对浪漫关系的研究并没有考虑性关系的经历。 少数群体青少年和年轻人，包括女同性恋、男同性恋或双性恋者。性少数面孔 在向成年过渡期间发展浪漫关系的独特障碍可能会抵消任何影响 从这些关系中获得的健康益处。因为性少数群体的物质使用量增加 与异性恋者相比，存在心理健康问题，了解浪漫的作用 人际关系对于促进性少数群体的健康至关重要。拟议项目的总体目标是 确定性少数浪漫关系与健康之间的关联如何因关系而异 使用来自大型全国代表性样本的数据来确定时间、结构和质量。为了实现这个目标，我将 首先确定性少数群体如何形成第一次约会关系和浪漫联盟，定义为同居或 婚姻，并确定这一时机如何影响成年后的物质使用和心理健康。这项研究 将深入了解性少数群体是否偏离异性恋个体的幸福感以及偏离程度 既定的关系轨迹，以及任何偏差如何影响健康。其次，我将测试 type 和 在整个成年过渡过程中，性少数群体关系结构的变化有助于 物质使用和心理健康。实现这一目标将确定哪种关系结构更有效 容易或对药物滥用或心理健康问题有抵抗力。第三，我会检查关系如何 质量调节了性少数群体的关系结构与健康之间的关联，这将 深入了解对健康最有保护作用的关系的特征。拟议的项目将 增强我们对性少数关系的时间和结构如何具有保护性或保护性的了解 从青春期到成年对健康有害，并确定关系特定过程如何改变 这些途径。从这项研究中获得的知识将为未来学术的发展奠定基础 旨在探索其他机制，例如少数群体压力的作用，通过性少数群体 人际关系有助于或降低健康。