Intergenerational Patterns of Relationship Turbulence

描述(由申请人提供)：项目摘要：本项目研究儿童时期的家庭结构史与年轻人在向成年过渡期间形成的动荡、类型和质量的关系之间的代际联系。它将提供关于家庭变化的代际影响的新知识，为当前关于婚姻和家庭形成的政策讨论提供信息。这项研究旨在填补现有研究基础的空白，采用纵向、跨代的方法来了解父母的工会形成和解散行为最终是如何影响他们孩子自己的早期工会形成行为的。这项拟议的研究将探讨：1)家庭结构动荡的哪些维度最能预测儿童未来的关系模式；2)童年家庭结构动荡如何影响青少年自身的关系动荡、类型和质量；以及3)家庭动荡与青春期关系动荡、类型和质量之间的关联可能如何通过青少年关系的动荡来调节。该项目将使用三波全国青少年健康纵向研究的数据，其中包括受访者父母的关系史以及受访者自己在青春期和青春期形成的关系的详细信息。这项研究将使用结构方程模型来检验直接和间接(中介)影响，所有的分析都将按性别分组单独进行。相关性：这项研究将通过更好地了解影响年轻人选择婚姻关系的因素，为当前关注健康婚姻和创建成功的婚姻促进计划的政策提供信息。了解父母和孩子之间的关系经历之间的联系可能有助于防止家庭动荡的代际循环，从而改善后代的子女结果。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Project Summary: This project examines the intergenerational link among childhood family structure history and the turbulence, type, and quality of relationships young people form during the transition to adulthood. It will provide new knowledge about the intergenerational influences of family change, informing current policy discussions regarding marriage and family formation. The study aims to fill a gap in the existing research base by taking a longitudinal, intergenerational approach to understand how parents' union formation and dissolution behaviors ultimately affect their children's own early union formation behaviors. The proposed study will investigate: 1) which dimensions of family structure turbulence are most predictive of children's later relationship patterns; 2) how childhood family structure turbulence influences young adults' own relationship turbulence, type, and quality; and 3) how the association between family turbulence and young adulthood relationship turbulence, type, and quality may be mediated by turbulence in adolescent relationships. The project will use data from 3 waves of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health that includes detailed information on the respondents' parents' relationship histories as well as relationships the respondents themselves formed in their adolescent and young adult years. The study will use structural equation models to examine both direct and indirect (mediating) influences, and all analyses will be conducted separately by gender subgroups. Relevance: This research will inform the current policy focus on healthy marriage and the creation of successful marriage promotion programs, by better understanding the factors that influence the relationships young people choose. Understanding links between parents and children's relationship experiences may help prevent intergenerational cycles of family turbulence and thus improve child outcomes in future generations.