Fomby Paula, Mollborn Stefanie, Sennott Christie A
Department of Sociology, University of Colorado Denver, Campus Box 105, P.O. Box 173364, Denver, CO 80217-3364, (
J Marriage Fam. 2010 Apr;72(2):234-253. doi: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2010.00696.x.
We used data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (N = 7,686) to determine whether racial and ethnic differences in socioeconomic stress and social protection explained group differences in the association between family structure instability and three risk behaviors for White, Black, and Mexican American adolescents: delinquent behavior, age at first nonmarital sex, and age at first nonmarital birth. The positive association between mothers' union transitions and each outcome for White adolescents was attenuated by social protection. The association of instability with age at first sex and first nonmarital birth was weaker for Black adolescents, but not for Mexican American adolescents. The weaker association was explained by Black adolescents' more frequent exposure to socioeconomic stress in the context of union instability.
我们使用了青少年健康全国纵向研究的数据（N = 7,686），以确定社会经济压力和社会保护方面的种族和族裔差异是否能解释家庭结构不稳定与白人、黑人及墨西哥裔美国青少年的三种风险行为之间关联的群体差异，这三种风险行为分别是犯罪行为、首次非婚性行为的年龄以及首次非婚生育的年龄。母亲婚姻状况转变与白人青少年的每种结果之间的正相关关系因社会保护而减弱。对于黑人青少年，家庭结构不稳定与首次性行为年龄及首次非婚生育年龄之间的关联较弱，但对于墨西哥裔美国青少年并非如此。这种较弱的关联可由黑人青少年在家庭结构不稳定情况下更频繁地面临社会经济压力来解释。
