DHS and NSF Collaboration: General Social Survey Module on Citizen Preparedness for Terrorist Acts in the United States

国土安全部和国家科学基金会的合作：关于美国公民应对恐怖主义行为准备情况的一般社会调查模块

• 批准号: 0647911
• 负责人: Tom Smith
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: National Opinion Research Center
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-10-01 至 2008-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0647911&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: DHS; NSF; Collaboration; General; Social

SES- 0647911Tom SmithNational Opinion Research Center (NORC) Over fifty years of social science research on the topic of public response to information about risk of natural and technological hazards has produced a well-grounded and empirically validated mid-range theory (rooted in the general theory of symbolic interaction or SI) of effective hazards risk communication regarding public disaster preparedness and protective action behavior. Despite the rich understanding that this theory provides, and the elaborate empirical record on which it rests, it requires further validation, expansion, and restructuring both to improve it's applicability to terrorism and to incorporate changes that have occurred in how and from whom the public receives information and what motivates action. The theory needs to be expanded to include additional constructs and/or propositions suggested by other disciplinary sub-specializations or topical research areas. And, finally, the theory needs to be empirically re-structured from linear to non-linear assumptions about how risk is actually communicated in order to accommodate recent societal changes. This project adds a module (20-25 items) on public terrorism preparedness to the General Social Survey (GSS), a regular, ongoing interview survey of U.S households conducted by the National Opinion Research Center annually or biennially since 1972. The survey module would be developed by a multi-disciplinary team and would provide measures of citizen terrorism preparedness and allow for validation and expansion of the fundamental social scientific theory that addresses the root causes for citizen preparedness actions/inactions. This information will enable the policymakers to craft and implement the most effective public education campaigns to foster ever increasing national levels of citizen readiness for future disasters or acts of terrorism.

SES-0647911汤姆·史密斯国家舆论研究中心（NORC）在公众对自然和技术灾害风险信息的反应这一主题上，50多年的社会科学研究已经产生了一个有充分依据和经验验证的关于公共灾害准备和保护行动行为的有效危害风险沟通的中档理论（植根于符号互动或SI的一般理论）。尽管这一理论提供了丰富的理解，以及它所依赖的详尽的经验记录，但它需要进一步的验证，扩展和重组，以提高其对恐怖主义的适用性，并纳入公众如何以及从谁那里获得信息以及什么激励行动方面发生的变化。 该理论需要扩展，以包括其他学科的子专业或专题研究领域提出的其他结构和/或命题。 最后，为了适应最近的社会变化，理论需要从经验上重新构建，从线性假设到非线性假设，关于风险实际上是如何传播的。 该项目在一般社会调查（GSS）中增加了一个关于公共恐怖主义准备的模块（20-25个项目），GSS是自1972年以来每年或每两年由国家民意研究中心对美国家庭进行的定期持续访谈调查。 调查模块将由一个多学科小组开发，将提供公民防范恐怖主义的措施，并允许验证和扩展基本社会科学理论，以解决公民防范行动/不行动的根本原因。这些信息将使决策者能够制定和实施最有效的公共教育运动，以促进不断提高的国家公民对未来灾害或恐怖主义行为的准备程度。