Help-seeking comfort and receiving social support: The role of ethnicity and context of need
Help-seeking comfort and receiving social support: The role of ethnicity and context of need
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DOI：
10.1023/a:1005192616058
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发表时间：
2000-08-01
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
Norris, FH
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作者：
Kaniasty, K;Norris, FH
调查了拉美裔、非裔美国人和欧洲裔美国人在两种情况下寻求帮助-安慰和接受社会支持的情况：在社区范围的紧急情况(飓风安德鲁)和两年后在非紧急情况下。总体而言，寻求帮助的舒适度是获得支持的有力预测因素。尽管这两个群体之间有许多相似之处，但族裔的影响因背景而异。在紧急情况下，所有群体都报告了类似的高水平寻求帮助的安慰，并得到了支持。在非紧急情况下，黑人和白人寻求帮助的舒适度下降，但拉丁裔没有下降。尽管所有族裔都报告称，在非紧急情况下获得的社会支持较少，但在各种背景下，得到的支持的下降对拉丁裔来说最为戏剧性。本研究提供了情境、文化和差异资源流失的解释来解释研究结果。
Examined help-seeking comfort and receiving social support among Latinos, African Americans, and European Americans across two contexts: in a communitywide emergency (Hurricane Andrew) and 2 years later in a nonemergency situation. In general, help-seeking comfort was a strong predictor of received support. Notwithstanding many similarities between the groups, the effects of ethnicity differed according to the context. In emergency, all groups reported similarly high levels of help-seeking comfort and received support. In nonemergency, help-seeking comfort declined for blacks and whites but not for Latinos. Although all ethnic groups reported receiving less social support in nonemergency, the decline in received support across contexts was most dramatic for Latinos. Situational, cultural, and differential resource loss explanations are offered to account for the findings.