Family Structure and Socio-Emotional Well-Being

描述（由申请人提供）：本研究的目的是探讨儿童、青少年和年轻人的社会情感健康（如心理功能和社会关系）是如何受到父母婚姻历史的影响的。根据NICHD的幼儿保育和青少年发展研究以及国家青少年健康纵向研究，将构建三个队列（例如，SECCYD中期儿童队列，Add Health青少年队列和Add Health青年队列），以解决两个研究目标：1)反映变化水平和变化发生的生命阶段的家庭结构历史的动态、纵向指标如何塑造年轻人在每个生命阶段的心理功能和社会关系；2)在什么条件下家庭变化可能对年轻人有益。这些分析还将密切关注种族和民族、贫困状况和性别对这些关联的调节作用。我将使用一类统计模型来估计纵向动态（例如，成长曲线分析，事件历史分析，滞后逻辑和OLS回归）在家庭结构史和社会情感幸福感之间的影响。这项研究将有助于我们从理论上理解家庭和个人福祉之间的相互联系，并扩大我们对家庭环境如何影响家庭变化的认识。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The objective of this research is to explore how the socio-emotional well-being (e.g., psychological functioning and social relationships) of children, adolescents, and young adults is shaped by the marital histories of their parents. Drawing on the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development and the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, three cohorts (e.g., SECCYD middle childhood cohort, Add Health adolescent cohort, and Add Health young adult cohort) will be constructed to address two research objectives: 1) how family structure history, captured with dynamic, longitudinal indicators of family structure history that reflect level of change and the life stage in which change occurs, shapes a young person's psychological functioning and social relationships at each life stage; and 2) under what conditions family change might be beneficial to young people. These analyses will also pay close attention to the moderating role of race and ethnicity, poverty status, and gender on these associations. I will use a class of statistical models to estimate the effects of longitudinal dynamics (e.g., growth curve analysis, event history analysis, lagged logistic and OLS regression) between family structure history and socio-emotional well-being. This research will contribute to our theoretical understanding of the interlocking nature of the family and individual well-being and expand our knowledge of how the family context conditions the effects of family change.