The Predictors and Consequences of Cohabitation Dissolution versus Divorce

描述（由申请人提供）：我正在寻求K 01人口研究指导研究科学家发展奖，以实现我职业生涯中的三个目标：1）将我在人类发展和家庭研究方面的跨学科培训应用于人口研究，2）使用人口统计学方法研究人类和家庭在整个生命过程中的发展，以及3）利用这些见解为围绕人类和家庭发展的公共政策辩论提供信息。我的培训和工作经验使我具备了从多学科角度研究人类发展和家庭问题的知识基础，并使我具备了作为社会科学家的强大方法论背景。K 01奖将扩大这一基础，包括在两名家庭人口统计学家--社会学家伊丽莎白·库克西和经济学家H.伊丽莎白·彼得斯。拟议的研究计划将比较经济，心理，关系的过程，和家庭的预测因素和后果的同居解体与婚姻解体。本项目将在两个方面扩展以前的研究：第一，与离婚相比，同居解除对夫妻和家庭的后果差异研究很少，第二，本项目超越学科界限，对同居和婚姻解除进行综合全面的比较。这些分析依赖于四个补充来源的数据：脆弱家庭和儿童福利研究，1979年全国青年纵向调查，全国青少年健康纵向调查和1997年全国青年纵向调查。总的来说，这个奖项将使我1）获得人口统计方法的专业知识，并将这些方法与家庭和人类发展的社会，心理和经济模型相结合，2）完成我的研究计划并应用我将学习的方法所需的时间，3）在学术会议上展示我的工作并在领先的期刊上发表，（4）准备一份资助计划，以支持一项独立的研究计划。拟议的研究对政策制定者和社区成员具有重要意义，因为成年人和家庭的经济和情感健康和福祉受到同居和婚姻成功和失败的影响，同居解体不成比例地由穷人经历，但家庭学者对其后果知之甚少。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): I am seeking a K01 Mentored Research Scientist Development award in Population Research to achieve three goals in my career: 1) apply my interdisciplinary training in human development and family studies to the study of populations, 2) use demographic methods to study human and family development across the life course, and 3) use these insights to inform public policy debates surrounding human and family development. My training and work experiences have given me a knowledge base in the study of human development and family issues from multiple disciplinary perspectives and has given me a strong methodological background as a social scientist. A K01 award would expand this base to include training in demographic methods under the supervision of two family demographers - sociologist Elizabeth Cooksey and economist H. Elizabeth Peters. The proposed research plan will compare the economic, psychological, relationship process, and family predictors and consequences of cohabitation dissolution versus marital dissolution. This project will extend previous research in two ways: first, there is little research on differences in the consequences of cohabitation dissolution as compared to divorce for couples and families, and second, this project moves beyond disciplinary boundaries for an integrated and comprehensive comparison of cohabitation and marital dissolution. The analyses rely on data from four complementary sources: the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997. Overall, this award will allow me 1) to gain expertise in demographic methods and integrate these methods with social, psychological, and economic models of family and human development, 2) the time needed to complete my research plan and apply the methods I will learn, 3) to present my work at scholarly conferences and publish in leading journals, and 4) to prepare a grant proposal to support an independent program of research. The proposed research has significant implications for policy makers and community members because the economic and emotional health and well-being of adults and families are affected by the success and failure of cohabitation and marriage, cohabitation dissolution is disproportionately experienced by the poor, and yet family scholars know very little about its consequences.