Penn State Family Issues Symposium

摘要 此申请要求为宾夕法尼亚州立大学家庭问题研讨会提供额外五年的支持，该研讨会每年举行一次 旨在将注意力集中在对理解家庭很重要的未被研究的问题上的跨学科会议 结构和功能及其对家庭成员，特别是儿童的行为、健康和发育的影响 和青春。我们的应用程序响应了NICHD的科学愿景：下一个十年中的呼吁，其中确定了 将人口动态作为优先事项，并辩称，在这一领域推进知识“始于理解快速的 以及塑造美国和世界各地家庭的深刻变化。这包括了解如何 生物、社会和其他环境因素，与人口动态相一致，影响健康和健康- 是母亲、父亲、孩子、家庭、社区和社会的。“这项提议建立在26年来 由社会学系和人文系的教职员工共同组织的年度研讨会 由宾夕法尼亚州立大学社会科学人口研究所资助的发展和家庭研究 研究所、宾夕法尼亚州立大学其他许多与特定专题相关的部门和中心，以及 NICHD。 研讨会系列的目标是：(1)促进对话，促进和促进新的跨学科和 关于家庭问题的翻译研究；(2)促进对基础和翻译方面的理解和学术成就 关于家庭的研究；以及(3)确定和解决家庭研究领域中出现的重大问题，这些问题具有 尚未得到实质性的研究关注或成为其他会议的焦点，其中 跨学科和翻译研究可以促进知识的发展。 为了达到这些目标，研讨会系列旨在促进学者之间的讨论，这些学者的工作范围包括 更基本的到更实用的，否则可能找不到交流的机会，为以下对象制作系列书籍 广泛传播研讨会的知识贡献，并吸引学生和初级学者−下一步 一代家庭研究人员。

ABSTRACT This application requests an additional five years of support for the Penn State Family Issues Symposium, an annual interdisciplinary conference designed to focus attention on understudied issues that are important for understanding family structure and function and their impacts on the behavior, health and development of family members, particularly children and youth. Our application is responsive to the call in NICHD’s Scientific Vision: The Next Decade, which identified population dynamics as a priority and argued that advancing knowledge in this area “starts with understanding the rapid and profound changes shaping families in the United States and around the world. This includes understanding how biological, social, and other environmental factors, in concert with population dynamics, influence the health and well- being of mothers, fathers, children, families, communities, and societies.” This proposal builds on a 26-year tradition of annual symposia that have been co-organized by faculty members from the departments of Sociology and Human Development and Family Studies with financial support from Penn State’s Population Research Institute, Social Science Research Institute, numerous other Penn State departments and centers as relevant for particular symposium topics, and the NICHD. Aims of the symposium series are: (1) to promote dialogue that stimulates and advances novel interdisciplinary and translational research on family issues; (2) to promote understanding of and scholarly excellence in basic and translational research on families; and (3) to identify and address significant, emerging issues in the field of family studies that have not yet received substantial research attention or been the focus of other conferences and meetings and wherein knowledge can be advanced by interdisciplinary and translational research. To address these aims, the symposium series is designed to foster discussion among scholars whose work ranges from more basic to more applied and who might not otherwise find opportunities for exchange, to produce a book series for broad dissemination of the symposium’s knowledge contributions, and to engage students and junior scholars−the next generation of family researchers.