Motherhood Biographies and Midlife Women's Health

摘要 母亲传记和中年妇女健康R01项目描绘了母亲身份的差异 经历导致了越来越大的中年健康差距。如今，大约85%的中年女性都是母亲， 但是，成为母亲的途径--我们称之为母亲传记--在许多维度上越来越多样化 与健康相关的数据，包括第一次出生的年龄和生育间隔。家长项目测试了母亲的身份 传记对中年妇女的健康很重要，特别关注种族/民族和社会经济地位。我们 比较母亲和非母亲以及母亲不同的母亲传记档案使用国家 来自1979年至2016年全国青年纵向研究浪潮的代表性数据(NLSY79；N=4,271名妇女)。 我们正在用这一多样性补充材料测试以下目标，以及Bijou专注于目标3的努力： 目标1：确定母亲传记--包括无子女--与中年健康有何关系。我们正在使用 关于母亲状况、子女数量/间隔、每次生育时的年龄和婚姻状况、生育率的信息 期望，和怀孕损失，以确定1957年至1964年出生的女性的母亲传记使用潜伏期 类分析和替代方法(例如，序列分析)。我们正在研究为人母之间的联系 传记和中年时的身体、心理和认知健康及健康行为。 目标2：确定母亲传记对健康的影响如何取决于孩子-母亲的特征 中年时的恋情。使用调解和缓和分析，我们正在研究孩子和母亲是如何在 母亲的中年生活解释并塑造了母亲传记与中年健康之间的联系。 目标3：通过母亲传记的教育程度和种族/民族确定不同的影响 关于中年健康。考虑到教育-母亲和教育-健康的联系以及种族/民族-- 母性和种族/民族-健康之间的联系，我们正在使用适度分析来测试母性状态 母亲传记协会对中年健康的影响因受教育程度和 种族/民族。 鉴于研究生Bijou的兴趣，拟议的补充项目将侧重于种族/族裔部分 目标3.在这样做时，这一分项目直接促进与种族/族裔和健康有关的父项目目标 妇女之间的差距。在行政补充期间，Bijou将与Thomeer合作 (MPI)、Reczek(MPI)和Colen(顾问)为AIM 3的出版物进行研究-专门专注于 种族/民族差异方面的目标3.Bijou将进行分析，审查动态且往往复杂的 母亲传记与种族/民族群体之间和群体内的健康之间的关系。托麦尔，雷切克，还有 科伦还将在研究期间协助Bijou开发NIH F32博士后应用程序。

Abstract The Motherhood Biographies and Midlife Women’s Health R01 project maps how divergence in motherhood experiences contributes to growing midlife health disparities. About 85 percent of midlife women today are mothers, but pathways to motherhood—what we call motherhood biographies—are increasingly diverse across many dimensions relevant to health, including age at first birth and spacing of children. The parent project tests how motherhood biographies matter for midlife women’s health with a specific focus on race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status. We compare mothers and non-mothers as well as mothers with differing motherhood biography profiles using nationally representative data from the 1979-2016 waves of the National Longitudinal Study of Youth (NLSY79; N=4,271 women). We are testing the following aims with this diversity supplement and Bijou’s efforts focused on Aim 3: AIM 1: Identify how motherhood biographies—including childlessness—relate to midlife health. We are using information on motherhood status, number/spacing of children, age and marital status at each birth, fertility expectations, and pregnancy loss to identify motherhood biographies among women born 1957 to 1964 using Latent Class Analysis and alternative methods (e.g., Sequence Analysis). We are examining associations between motherhood biographies and physical, mental, and cognitive health and health behaviors at midlife. AIM 2: Identify how the impact of motherhood biographies on health depends on characteristics of child-mother relationship at midlife. Using mediation and moderation analysis, we are examining how child-mother ties in the mother’s midlife both explain and shape associations between the motherhood biography and midlife health. AIM 3: Identify the heterogeneous effects by educational attainment and race/ethnicity of motherhood biographies on midlife health. Given the education-motherhood and education-health linkages as well as the race/ethnicity- motherhood and race/ethnicity-health linkages, we are using moderation analysis to test whether motherhood status and motherhood biography associations have heterogeneous impacts on midlife health by educational attainment and race/ethnicity. Given graduate student Bijou’s interest, the proposed supplemental project will focus on the race/ethnicity component of Aim 3. In doing so, this sub-project directly contributes to parent project aims related to race/ethnicity and health disparities among women. Throughout the duration of the administrative supplement, Bijou will work with Thomeer (MPI), Reczek (MPI), and Colen (Consultant) to conduct research for publications from Aim 3—specifically focused on the racial/ethnic disparity aspect of Aim 3. Bijou will conduct analyses examining the dynamic and often complex relationship between motherhood biographies and health across and within racial/ethnic groups. Thomeer, Reczek, and Colen will also assist Bijou in developing an NIH F32 post-doc application during the study period.