Gordon Rachel A, Lindsay Chase-Lansdale P, Brooks-Gunn Jeanne
Department of Sociology and Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois at Chicago, 60607, USA.
Child Dev. 2004 Jul-Aug;75(4):1013-38. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2004.00723.x.
This paper examined whether the greater average schooling and employment, and lower parenting competence, of young mothers who reside with adult relatives reflect preexisting differences versus potential causal mechanisms. The sample included 554 young mothers (ages 13 to 25; nearly two thirds African American) from the Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP) a random-assignment intervention study of premature, low birth weight babies followed 8 times from birth to age 3. Ordinary least squares, fixed-effects, and random-effects models indicated that young mothers of low birth weight babies sorted into extended households based on preexisting characteristics that were correlated with their lower parenting skills and knowledge. In contrast, coresidence predicted greater schooling or employment across models, with some variations for different subgroups.
本文探讨了与成年亲属同住的年轻母亲平均受教育程度和就业率较高但育儿能力较低的情况，是反映了预先存在的差异还是潜在的因果机制。样本包括来自婴儿健康与发展项目（IHDP）的554名年轻母亲（年龄在13至25岁之间；近三分之二是非裔美国人），这是一项对早产、低体重婴儿进行随机分配干预的研究，从出生到3岁共随访8次。普通最小二乘法、固定效应模型和随机效应模型表明，低体重婴儿的年轻母亲是基于与她们较低的育儿技能和知识相关的预先存在的特征而进入大家庭的。相比之下，在各个模型中，同住都预示着更高的受教育程度或就业率，不同亚组存在一些差异。
