Culture and Individual Adaptation

文化和个人适应

• 批准号: 0091903
• 负责人: William Dressler
• 金额: $ 29.34万
• 依托单位: University of Alabama Tuscaloosa
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-05-01 至 2005-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0091903&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Culture; Individual; Adaptation

This project studies the influence of culture on individual adaptationthrough investigating cultural, social-psychological and dietary influenceson individual differences in physiological and psychological adaptation.Individual differences in variables such as blood pressure, serum lipids,anxiety and depression have most often been attributed to individual-levelfactors such as diet or stressful experiences. This project will usecontemporary culture theory and methods to examine how cultural modelsconstruct shared meanings, which in turn affect the behavior of individualsand their health status. The research hypothesizes that high culturalconsonance, the degree to which individuals approximate shared culturalmodels, will be associated with better physiological and psychologicaladaptation, as measured by lower blood pressure and other variablesassociated with stress and distress. The research will be done in RibeiraoPreto, Brazil, a community with a considerable amount of socio-cultural anddietary variability. The research will take place in four diverseneighborhoods in three stages: unstructured interviewing will be used toelicit cultural domains; then cultural consensus analysis will be used totest for shared knowledge; and finally data on individual psycho-biologicaladaptation will be collected from a survey sample. The research willcontribute to our understanding of how individuals adapt in their culturalsetting as well as advance our knowledge of this important region of theworld.

本项目通过调查文化、社会心理和饮食对个体生理和心理适应差异的影响，研究文化对个体适应的影响。血压、血脂、焦虑和抑郁等变量的个体差异通常被归因于饮食或压力经历等个人层面的因素。本项目将使用当代文化理论和方法来研究文化模式如何构建共享意义，进而影响个人的行为和健康状况。该研究假设，高度的文化一致性，即个人接近共同文化模式的程度，将与更好的生理和心理适应有关，这可以通过较低的血压和其他与压力和痛苦相关的变量来衡量。这项研究将在巴西的RibeiraoPreto进行，这是一个社会文化和饮食差异很大的社区。研究将分三个阶段在四个不同的社区进行：非结构化访谈将用于引出文化领域；然后，文化共识分析将用于测试共享知识；最后将从调查样本中收集个体心理-生物适应的数据。这项研究将有助于我们理解个体如何适应他们的文化环境，并促进我们对世界上这一重要地区的认识。