National Longitudinal Survey of Youth: Older Children

项目摘要 我们的主要目标是1)将NLSY79青年成人(YA)数据收集扩展到21岁及以上的青年 通过2018年和2020年的数据收集回合，并利用a)身体健康方面的信息加强这一数据收集 和b)与身心健康/情绪健康和福祉有关的因素，2)改善 通过在三个主要领域(关系历史、就业和 环境污染暴露)和3)传播具体与环境污染有关的研究成果和研究结果 NLSY79 YA向包括YA受访者在内的广大受众，使用各种媒体。到2020年，这些年轻人将 在NLSY79名女性受访者所生的孩子中，这一比例接近97%。正在进行的赠款为 2012年、2014年和2016年对21岁及以上青年的采访。 在NICHD的支持下，所有NLSY79儿童都接受了各种认知和社会情绪评估 自1986年以来每两年举办一次。15岁及以上的年轻人在1994年首次接受采访，并被问及类似的问题 这些人问他们青春期的母亲。对21岁及以上的NLSY79 YAS的采访一直是 自2000年以来由NICHD拨款资助，同样包括与在同一时间向母亲提问的问题 年龄。将儿童数据与母亲、家庭和儿童的一系列属性、行为和态度联系起来 NLSY79生命周期允许科学和社会科学中的多个学科的研究人员开展一项 一系列与方案和政策相关的研究。然而，对于许多研究人员来说，一个关键问题与联系有关 儿童和青春期的发展轨迹与成年后的成功、健康和幸福之间的关系。 将数据收集延长至2020年，将使研究人员和政策分析师能够在内部和跨 科学界最感兴趣的代际研究主题，重点是20多岁和30多岁的成年人，以及 已经40多岁了。 NLSY79 YA数据集还有其他与公共卫生相关的质量。关于健康和环境的数据一直在 收集在同一时期和频繁的基础上，包括兄弟姐妹和堂兄弟姐妹，黑人和西班牙裔是 代表人数过多。从每个孩子的母亲那里收集了关于儿童健康的信息，从每个孩子的童年和每个YA 从那以后。YA健康信息可以与青春期和成年期的母亲健康行为联系在一起，并且 有出生前和出生后的行为。此外，它还提供了开始整理跨代人的机会 糖尿病和哮喘等疾病的传播。在2018年和2020年收集关于性别认同和性别认同的信息 性取向、韧性、孤独和社会孤立、自我价值和社会认知将扩大我们的 了解身心健康/情绪健康和幸福。创建其他公共使用变量将 帮助研究人员浏览复杂的跳跃模式，允许跨研究比较研究结果，促进 代际比较，并使公众能够发布与健康有关的重要环境污染 CHRR以外的任何人都无法生成的信息。我们有多个兄弟姐妹的亲属关系结构和 数据中代表的表亲将使家庭内和家庭间的比较研究成为可能，以及我们的大样本 对黑人和拉美裔美国人的研究将使分析能够具体考虑种族/族裔差异。

Project Summary Our primary objectives are 1) to extend the NLSY79 Young Adult (YA) data collection for youth ages 21 and over through the 2018 and 2020 data collection rounds and enhance this data collection with information on a) physical health and b) factors associated with both physical and mental/emotional health and well-being, 2) to improve usability of the YA data by creating additional public use variables in three primary areas (relationship history, employment, and environmental pollution exposure) and 3) to disseminate research results and study findings that specifically relate to the NLSY79 YAs to a broad audience, including YA respondents, using a variety of media. By 2020, these youth will represent almost 97 percent of children born to NLSY79 female respondents. The ongoing grant has provided funds for interviews with youth age 21 and over in 2012, 2014 and 2016. With NICHD support, all NLSY79 children have received a variety of cognitive and socio-emotional assessments biennially since 1986. Young adults ages 15 and over were first interviewed in 1994 and were asked questions paralleling those asked of their mothers in their adolescent years. Interviews with the NLSY79 YAs ages 21 and over have been funded by a grant from NICHD since 2000, again including questions paralleling those asked of their mothers at the same ages. Linking the child data with a range of maternal, family and child attributes, behaviors and attitudes from the full NLSY79 life span has permitted researchers across multiple disciplines in the sciences and social sciences to carry out a range of programmatic and policy-relevant research. For many researchers, however, a critical issue concerns connections between developmental trajectories in childhood and adolescence and subsequent adult success, health and well-being. Extending this data collection through 2020 will enable researchers and policy analysts to explore both within- and cross- generational research topics of core interest to the scientific community, focused on adults through their 20s and 30s, and into their 40s. The NLSY79 YA data set has other qualities relevant to public health. Data on health and environment have been collected on a contemporaneous and frequent basis, siblings and cousins are included, and blacks and Hispanics are overrepresented. Information has been collected on health from each child’s mother through childhood and from each YA since. YA health information can be connected with maternal health behaviors during adolescence and adulthood, and with pre- and post-natal behaviors. It additionally offers the opportunity to begin sorting out cross-generational transferences of illnesses such as diabetes and asthma. Collecting information in 2018 and 2020 on gender identity and sexual orientation, resiliency, loneliness and social isolation, self-worth, and social cognition will expand our understanding of both physical and mental/emotional health and well-being. Creating additional public use variables will help researchers navigate complicated skip patterns, permit comparison of research findings across studies, facilitate intergenerational comparisons and enable the public release of important health related environmental pollution information that could not be generated by anyone outside of CHRR. Our kinship structure with multiple siblings and cousins represented in the data will enable within-family and across-family comparative research, and our large samples of blacks and Hispanics will allow for analyses to specifically consider racial/ethnic differences.