International: Early Intergenerational Cohesiveness and Later Proximity to Parents: Cross-National Contexts of Intergenerational Solidarity

该项目将支持一名美国研究生在荷兰乌得勒支大学进行研究。在之前与美国国家青年纵向调查(NLSY)研究的基础上，这名学生将利用荷兰亲属小组的研究来调查居住选择、代际团结和向成年的过渡。成年子女和父母之间的代际交流是年轻人和老年人的关键资源，居住距离是这些交流的最好预测因素。到目前为止，还没有研究表明情感上与父母关系更密切的孩子会在多大程度上选择住在附近。该项目有两个目标：测试纵向模型，评估年轻人及其父母早期的亲子凝聚力和后来的居住邻近性之间的关系；比较美国和荷兰这两个社会背景下的代际家庭动态，这两个社会背景在许多显著维度上存在差异。这项拟议的研究将有助于确定早期的亲子情感亲近是否与后来的空间亲近父母有关。再加上来自美国的分析，这项使用荷兰数据集的工作将提供迄今为止最有说服力的证据，证明情感亲子团结和结构性亲子团结之间的关系。这两个国家的比较将说明儿童与父母之间团结-亲近关系的普遍性或背景依赖性。此次访问还将促进研究荷兰和美国数据集的研究人员之间的联系，并使美国学生能够与欧洲合作者建立长期网络。

This project will support a U.S. graduate student to conduct research at the Universiteit Utrecht in the Netherlands. Building on prior research with the U.S. National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), the student will work using the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study to investigate residential choice, intergenerational solidarity, and the transition to adulthood. Intergenerational exchanges between adult children and their parents are a critical resource for young and old, and residential proximity is the best predictor of these exchanges. No research to date has addressed the extent to which children who are emotionally closer to parents choose to live nearby. This project has two objectives: to test longitudinal models which evaluate the relationship between earlier parent-child cohesion and later residential proximity of young adults and their parents; and to compare intergenerational family dynamics for two societal contexts, the U.S. and the Netherlands, which differ along a number of salient dimensions. This proposed research will contribute to determining whether early parent-child emotional closeness is related to later spatial proximity to parents. Coupled with analysis from the United States, the work using the Netherlands data set will provide the most persuasive evidence to date of the relationship between affectual and structural parent-child solidarity. The two country comparison will speak to the universality or context dependency of the solidarity-proximity relation between children and parents. The visit will also foster linkages between researchers working with the Dutch and U.S. datasets, and enable a U.S. student to build a long-term network with European collaborators.