This career development award will focus on the timing and predictors of demographic decisions adolescents make as they move toward adulthood. Decisions made during adolescence, such as the timing of marriage, fertility-related behavior, and work to school transitions are critical to the remainder of the life course. The Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey (CLHNS) began with over 3,000 pregnant women in 1983. Since that time, over 2,000 of the women and over 2,000 children born in 1983-84 have been extensively followed. Funding has been obtained to collect two more rounds of data in 2002 and 2005, when the adolescents are 18 and 21. This award will fund original data collection in the adolescents' cohabiting partners in 2002 and 2005 and add to existing data on decision-making collected from mothers in 1994. With the CLHNS, I will test the hypothesis that household decision-making, conceptualized as measures of autonomy and relative power, is important as adolescents make key demographic decisions. Specifically, I will:
Aim 1 : Design new measures and collect original data on household decision-making autonomy and power in adolescents, their mothers, and their partners and examine the reliability, stability, and validity of these measures, Aim 2: Explore if the timing of marriage, fertility decisions, sexual behavior, and the transition from school to work is determined by specific elements of the adolescents' backgrounds (including autonomy and power) as well as by their mothers' marital, reproductive, schooling and work histories, and Aim 3: Examine the relationship of intimate partner violence and decision- making autonomy and power, and consider the relationship between intimate partner violence and reproductive health outcomes. During the award, I will focus on developing new skills in collecting original data in large-scale surveys, gain expertise in questionnaire validation, scale development, couple analysis, and complex data analysis, and learn from leaders in the field. The institutional environment, including the Hopkins Population Center, as well as experts in both the quantitative and substantive areas of my research interests, will allow me to form interdisciplinary collaborations and develop the skills required to successfully compete for future research funding.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD)
Type
Research Scientist Development Award - Research & Training (K01)
Project #
5K01HD042540-05
Application #
7085367
Study Section
Pediatrics Subcommittee (CHHD)
Program Officer
Spittel, Michael
Project Start
2002-08-28
Project End
2008-06-30
Budget Start
2006-07-01
Budget End
2008-06-30
Support Year
5
Fiscal Year
2006
Total Cost
$126,767
Indirect Cost
Name
Johns Hopkins University
Department
Miscellaneous
Type
Schools of Public Health
DUNS #
001910777
City
Baltimore
State
MD
Country
United States
Zip Code
21218
Mandal, Mahua; Hindin, Michelle J (2015) Keeping it in the family: intergenerational transmission of violence in Cebu, Philippines. Matern Child Health J 19:598-605
Fehringer, Jessica A; Hindin, Michelle J (2014) ""I get angry if he's always drinking and we have no money"": exploring motivations for male and female perpetrated intimate partner violence in the Philippines. Health Care Women Int 35:476-91
Mandal, Mahua; Hindin, Michelle J (2013) From family to friends: does witnessing interparental violence affect young adults' relationships with friends? J Adolesc Health 53:187-93
Fehringer, Jessica A; Hindin, Michelle J (2009) Like parent, like child: intergenerational transmission of partner violence in Cebu, the Philippines. J Adolesc Health 44:363-71
Gipson, Jessica D; Hindin, Michelle J (2007) 'Marriage means having children and forming your family, so what is the need of discussion?'Communication and negotiation of childbearing preferences among Bangladeshi couples. Cult Health Sex 9:185-98
Upadhyay, Ushma D; Hindin, Michelle J; Gultiano, Socorro (2006) Before first sex: gender differences in emotional relationships and physical behaviors among adolescents in the Philippines. Int Fam Plan Perspect 32:110-9
Upadhyay, Ushma D; Hindin, Michelle J (2006) Do perceptions of friends' behaviors affect age at first sex? Evidence from Cebu, Philippines. J Adolesc Health 39:570-7
Hindin, Michelle J; Gultiano, Socorro (2006) Associations between witnessing parental domestic violence and experiencing depressive symptoms in Filipino adolescents. Am J Public Health 96:660-3
Mullany, Britta C; Hindin, Michelle J; Becker, Stan (2005) Can women's autonomy impede male involvement in pregnancy health in Katmandu, Nepal? Soc Sci Med 61:1993-2006
Hindin, Michelle J (2003) Understanding women's attitudes towards wife beating in Zimbabwe. Bull World Health Organ 81:501-8