Women’s Social Ties and Psychosocial Well-Being in a Resource-Limited Patriarchal Setting: A Longitudinal Perspective

项目总结 这项拟议的研究将调查中年女性的关系，并支持与晚年女性的交流。 青少年和成年儿童，以及与其他亲属和非亲属的关系，以及这些关系的影响 促进撒哈拉以南农村地区妇女心理社会福祉的关系和交流。这项研究 将利用并扩展由五轮调查和定性数据组成的独特的专家小组数据库 2006年至2018年从农村妇女收集的数据，作为男性移民和女性项目的一部分 住在莫桑比克。我们建议扩展这个现有的小组，进行两次新的调查和 定性数据收集相隔三年。新数据将侧重于物质、工具和社会- 小组参与者与其子女、亲属、姻亲和非亲人之间的情感支持交流 亲属和小组参与者的生活满意度、幸福感、自我效能感、抑郁、焦虑和相关 心理社会后果。社会互动和交流的动态及其相互作用的分析 在两个拟议的浪潮之间对女性心理社会健康的影响将整合 关于参与者婚姻和生育轨迹、丈夫分娩经历的现有面板数据 移徙、与子女同居的历史、对他们的健康和教育的投资以及 妇女身体健康和经济状况的变化，以引发塑造 感兴趣的结果。该项目将由一个经验丰富的两国多学科小组执行， 互补的专业知识和长期的成功研究合作记录。该研究的结果将 有助于更好地了解快速变化中的农村中年妇女的健康和福祉 资源有限的家长制环境，并将为旨在改善这一大型和 弱势群体。

PROJECT SUMMARY The proposed study will investigate midlife women's relationships and support exchanges with their late- adolescent and adult children, as well as with other relatives and non-relatives, and the implications of these relationships and exchanges for women's psychosocial well-being in a rural sub-Saharan setting. The study will leverage and expand upon a unique panel database consisting of five rounds of survey and qualitative data collected from rural women between 2006 and 2018 as part of the project Men's Migrations and Women's Lives in Mozambique. We propose to extend this existing panel by conducting two new waves of survey and qualitative data collection three years apart. The new data will focus on material, instrumental, and socio- emotional support exchanges between panel participants and their children, relatives, in-laws, and non- relatives and on panel participants' life satisfaction, happiness, self-efficacy, depression, anxiety, and related psychosocial outcomes. The analyses of the dynamics of social interactions and exchanges and of their consequences for women's psychosocial well-being between the two proposed waves will integrate the existing panel data on participants' marital and reproductive trajectories, experience of husband's labor migration, history of co-residence with children and investment in their health and education, as well as changes in women's physical health and economic conditions, to elicit longer-term processes that shape the outcomes of interest. The project will be carried out by an experienced bi-national multidisciplinary team with complementary expertise and a long record of successful research collaboration. The results of the study will contribute to greater understanding of midlife rural women's health and well-being in rapidly changing resource-limited patriarchal settings and will inform policies aimed at improving the welfare of this large and vulnerable population segment.