Family Connections Across Generations and Nations

说明(申请人提供)：这项拟议研究的目的是调查三代家庭中不同族裔和国家的人口样本内和之间的团结、支助和冲突过程以及健康和福祉结果。《社会支持的护航模式》(Antonucci，2002)和《多代家庭中的团结与冲突》(Bengtson et al，2001)为这项研究提供了一个概念基础。它将利用NIMH资助的非裔美国人精神健康国家研究(字段名称-美国生活全国调查[NSAL])来确定具有国际代表性的三代家庭谱系样本。根据目前正在进行的NSAL(将于2002年11月完成)的识别率，预计超过60%的完成样本将是符合条件的非裔美国人、加勒比黑人和白人非西班牙裔背景的三代世系家庭的成员，成员居住在美国和国际上。我们建议随机抽样4158人，即1386名三代三合会成员，在这项拟议的调查中接受访问。此外，我们还将链接到两项独立资助的平行研究：日本的一项在方法和概念上平行的3代电话研究，以及一项由欧洲共同体资助的针对五个国家的研究。这项建议的具体目的是：1.确定和探索代际联系的性质，并在具有代表性的人口样本中比较研究其结构、功能、稳定性和受移徙、文化适应、族裔、种族、性别和年龄影响的变化；2.探讨不同的家庭结构、世代成员之间的支持、团结和冲突的影响以及对健康和福祉的影响；3.详细探讨与社会和全球老龄化有关的家庭内跨代人日益增长的社会服务需求和利用模式，特别是跨越移徙和文化差异、族裔、种族、性别和年龄分组；以及4.审查美国、欧洲和日本以前提到的结构和家庭内代际联系的跨国相似性和差异的性质和功能。戏剧性的人口结构变化带来了独特的挑战，正在改变世界各地社会的基本结构。这项拟议的研究将帮助我们预测、理解和设计支持计划，以应对新世纪所有代际职位、家庭和社会中面临的挑战和问题。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The purpose of this proposed study is to investigate solidarity, support and conflictual processes, and health and well-being outcomes, within and across ethnically and nationally diverse population samples of three-generation families. The Convoy Model of Social Support (Antonucci, 2002) and Solidarity and Conflict in Multi-Generation Families (Bengtson et al, 2001) provide a conceptual base for the study. It will capitalize on the NIMH funded National Study of African American Mental Health (field name - National Survey of American Life [NSAL]) to identify internationally representative samples of three-generation family lineages. Based upon current rates of identification in the ongoing NSAL (to be completed in November 2002), over 60% of the completed sample is expected to be members of eligible three-generation lineage families of African American, Caribbean black, and white non-Hispanic backgrounds, with members who reside both in the U.S. and internationally. We propose to obtain a random sample of 4158 individuals, or 1386 three-generation triads, to be interviewed in this proposed survey. Moreover, we would also link to two separately funded, parallel studies: a methodologically and conceptually parallel 3-generation telephone study in Japan and a European Community-funded study of five nations. The specific aims of this proposal are to: 1. Identify and explore the nature of intergenerational linkages and examine comparatively their structure, function, stability, and change as affected by migration, acculturation, ethnicity, race, gender and age, in representative population samples; 2. Explore the implications of different family structures, support and solidarity and conflict among generational members and the influences on health and well-being; 3. Explore in detail the growing social service needs and utilization patterns across generations, within families linked to societal and global aging, especially across migrational and acculturative differences, ethnicity, race, gender and age groupings; and 4. Examine the nature of cross-national similarities and differences in the previously noted structures and the function of intra-familial, intergenerational linkages in the United States, Europe and Japan. Dramatic demographic transformations create unique challenges that are changing the basic structure of societies around the world. The proposed study will help us anticipate, understand, and design support programs to cope with the challenges and problems facing individuals at all generation positions, families, and societies in the new century.