Relaying support in disaster-affected areas: the social implications of a "pay-it-forward' network
Relaying support in disaster-affected areas: the social implications of a "pay-it-forward' network
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DOI：
10.1111/disa.12067
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发表时间：
2014-07-01
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影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Atsumi, Tomohide
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作者：
Atsumi, Tomohide
当灾难袭击一个国家时，一个临时的所谓灾后乌托邦出现了，当地居民互相帮助，外人支持幸存者和受害者。然而，这种乌托邦并没有持续下去。幸存者很可能没有机会偿还他们所得到的帮助，因此带着一种债务感回到日常生活中。在东日本大地震后，作者鼓励其他灾难的幸存者帮助日本东部东北地区的幸存者，以回报他们过去得到的支持。研究揭示了两个发现：首先，受灾地区的这种“传递支持”使得灾后乌托邦的间歇性重建成为可能。其次，对网络理论的理论检验也表明，“转发付费”网络可能会迅速扩大并覆盖整个社会。这些发现的心理学和社会学意义也进行了讨论。
When a disaster strikes a country, a temporary so-called post-disaster utopia emerges in which local residents help each other and outsiders support survivors and victims. However, this utopia does not last. Survivors are likely to have no chance to pay people back for the help they have received and thus return to their daily lives with a sense of debt. After the Great East Japan Earthquake the author motivated survivors of other disasters to help survivors in the Tohoku region in eastern Japan in return for the support they had received in the past. Two findings are revealed: firstly, this pay-it-forward support among disaster-affected areas allows for intermittent rebuilding of the post-disaster utopia. Secondly, a theoretical examination of the network theory also suggests that the pay-it-forward network is likely to expand and cover the whole of society very quickly. The psychological and sociological implications of these findings are also discussed.