The impact of uncertainty and communal coping on mental health following natural disasters
The impact of uncertainty and communal coping on mental health following natural disasters
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DOI：
10.1080/10615806.2011.603048
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发表时间：
2012-01-01
影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Afifi, Tamara D.
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作者：
Afifi, Walid A.;Felix, Erika D.;Afifi, Tamara D.
不确定感是灾难经历的一个核心特征。但令人惊讶的是，关于不确定性对灾难幸存者的影响很少有系统的定量研究。此外，公共应对作为压力源负面影响的潜在缓冲剂越来越受到关注，但文献在其应用于灾难方面也受到限制。这项调查应用了不确定性领域的研究以及社区应对理论模型，以更好地了解一年内遭受三场野火的社区的经历。使用随机数字拨号程序来收集 402 人的数据。参与者根据自己经历的三场野火中个人压力最大的一场野火的经历，完成了心理健康、不确定性和社区应对措施的测量。所有分析均针对已疏散和未疏散的人员进行了单独检查。结果支持了疏散和非疏散子样本的不确定性的负面影响，并显示了疏散者的公共应对的强大缓冲作用。指出了这些发现对理解野火幸存者经历的影响，并提出了未来的方向。
Feelings of uncertainty are a central feature of the disaster experience. Surprisingly, though, there is very little systematic quantitative research about the impact of uncertainty on disaster survivors. Moreover, communal coping has increasingly received attention as a potential buffer of the negative effects of stressors but that literature is also limited in its application to disasters. This investigation applies research in the domain of uncertainty, together with the Theoretical Model of Communal Coping to better understand the experience of a community exposed to three wildfires in a one year period. A random-digit dialing procedure was used to gather data from 402 individuals. Participants completed measures of mental health, uncertainty, and communal coping in the context of their experience with the most personally stressful of the three wildfires. All analyses were examined separately for those who were evacuated and those who were not. Results support the negative impact of uncertainty across both evacuated and nonevacuated sub-samples and show a strong buffering role for communal coping among those who evacuated. The implications of these findings for the understanding of wildfire survivors' experiences are noted and future directions are proposed.