Data Collection for Older NLSY Children Competing Cont.

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案的主要目标是通过2004年和2006年的数据收集回合，将NLSY 79青年成人数据收集扩展到21岁及以上的青年。这些年轻人是NLSY 79名女性受访者所生的最大的孩子。正在进行的赠款为2000年和2002年与21岁以上青年的面谈提供资金。 1986年至2002年期间，在NICHD的支持下，NLSY中女性受访者的子女每两年接受一次各种适合年龄的认知和社会情感评估。将这些儿童测试数据与NLSY整个生命周期内可用的广泛的母亲、家庭和儿童属性、态度和行为联系起来（1979年启动）使社会学，经济学，心理学和儿童发展及相关学科，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。这包括对一些专题领域的研究，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等。 然而，对于相当一部分的研究界，一个关键的问题是关注儿童的成功之间的后续连接这些各种评估，沿着额外的早期青春期行为和随后的成人“成功”在就业，教育和家庭领域。从事件历史的角度来看，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/社会情感发展共同或独立预测早期成人的成功？ 自1994年以来，NICHD通过支持与年满15岁的儿童进行定期“NLSY式”访谈，扩大了他们对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，以采访年龄最大的NLSY“年轻成人”儿童-21岁及以上的儿童。通过持续赠款获得的资金使访谈这些年龄最大的年轻人能够持续到2002年，从而避免了对数据集进行重大的年龄审查，这将基本上否定适当探讨青少年向早期成人过渡的可能性。为延长这一补助金提供资金，将使人们能够开展开创性的工作，了解儿童和青少年智力和社会情感发展对成功完成学业到工作的重要性，以及成年早期家庭过渡的特点，其样本比迄今为止可能的样本更大，更多样化，种族/族裔也更多样。

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.