Data Collection for Older NLSY Children Competing Cont.

说明(由申请人提供)：这项建议的主要目标是通过2004年和2006年两轮数据收集，将NLSY79青年成人数据收集扩展到21岁及以上青年。这些年轻人是NLSY79名女性受访者所生的年龄最大的孩子。正在进行的赠款提供资金，用于在2000年和2002年采访21岁及以上的青年。 在NICHD的支持下，NLSY的女性受访者的子女在1986年至2002年期间每两年接受一次各种适龄的认知和社会情感评估。这些儿童测试数据与NLSY(始于1979年)在整个生命周期内可获得的广泛的母亲、家庭和儿童的属性、态度和行为相联系，使社会学、经济学、心理学和儿童发展及相关学科领域的大量研究人员能够开展广泛的方案和政策相关研究，将各种儿童发展考虑与社会关注的问题联系起来。这包括专题领域的研究，如家庭背景因素对儿童发展的影响，以及这些因素如何共同或单独影响妇女就业、儿童保育、家庭贫困状况或获得福利。 然而，对于研究界的相当一部分人来说，一个关键问题涉及儿童在这些不同评估中的成功，以及额外的青少年早期行为与随后成人在就业、教育和家庭领域的“成功”之间的后续联系。从事件史的角度来看，家庭背景的哪些方面转化为更好的情感和智力发展，以及家庭背景如何与认知/社会情感发展一起或独立于认知/社会情感发展预测成人早期的成功？ 自1994年以来，消除种族歧视委员会通过支持对年满15岁的儿童进行定期的“NLSY风格”访谈，扩大了对NLSY数据收集的参与。由于资金有限，从2000年开始，有必要通过赠款程序寻求资金，以访谈最年长的NLSY“青壮年”儿童--21岁及以上的儿童。通过正在进行的赠款获得的资金允许对这些年龄最大的年轻人的访谈持续到2002年，从而避免了对数据集进行重大的年龄审查，这基本上否定了适当探索青少年到成年早期过渡的可能性。为这笔赠款的延长提供资金将有助于开展开创性工作，了解儿童和青少年智力和社会情感发展对成功地从学校过渡到工作和家庭的重要性，这是成年初期的特点，抽样范围比目前大得多，更加多样化，加上种族/族裔多样性。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The primary objective of this proposal is to extend the NLSY79 young adult data collection for youth age 21 and over through the 2004 and 2006 data collection rounds. These youth represent the oldest children born to NLSY79 female respondents. The ongoing grant provides funds for interviews with youth age 21 and over in 2000 and 2002. With NICHD support, the children of the female respondents in the NLSY have biennially received a variety of age appropriate cognitive and socio-emotional assessments over the 1986 to 2002 period. The linking of these child test data with the wide range of maternal, family, and child attributes, attitudes, and behaviors which are available for the full life span of the NLSY (initiated in 1979) has permitted a large number of researchers in the areas of sociology, economics, psychology and child development and related disciplines to carry out a wide range of programmatic and policy relevant research linking various child development considerations with issues of social concern. This has included research in topical areas such as the effect of family background considerations on child development and how these factors jointly or separately impact on, for example, female employment, childcare, family poverty status or access to welfare. However, for a substantial portion of the research community, a critical issue concerns the subsequent connections between a child's success on these various assessments, along with additional early adolescent behaviors and subsequent adult "success" in the employment, education and family spheres. From an event history perspective, what aspects of family background translate into preferable emotional and intellectual development, and how does family background, jointly with or independent of cognitive/socio-emotional development predict early adult success? Since 1994, the NICHD has expanded their involvement in the NLSY data collection by supporting regular "NLSY style" interviews with children who have attained age 15. Due to funding limitations, starting in 2000 it became necessary to seek funds through the grant process to interview the oldest NLSY "young adult" children -- those age 21 and over. The funds obtained through the ongoing grant permitted interviewing these oldest young adults to continue through 2002, thus avoiding a significant age censoring of the data set that would have essentially negated the possibility of appropriately exploring adolescent to early adult transitions. Funding an extension of this grant will permit seminal work on understanding the importance of child and adolescent intellectual and socio-emotional development on the success of school to work and family transitions characteristic of early adulthood with a much larger and more heterogeneous plus racially/ethnically varied sample than has been possible until now.