Doctoral Dissertation Research: Trauma and Insecurity: Understanding Sources of Stress, Resilience, and Mental Health

博士论文研究：创伤和不安全感：了解压力、弹性和心理健康的来源

• 批准号: 1260270
• 负责人: Craig Hadley
• 金额: $ 2.52万
• 依托单位: Emory University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-02-15 至 2014-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1260270&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Trauma; Insecurity

The researcher, Bronwyn Nicole Kaiser, under the supervision of Dr. Craig Hadley will explore how stress is manifested and negotiated under situations of extraordinary duress. A growing group of anthropologists and others have theorized that everyday stressors (poverty, social relationships, and other cultural obligations) have more important impacts on mental health than previously thought. This perspective contrasts with theorizing among other disciplines, which regard trauma and disasters as central forces driving distress. This project will test these contrasting theories in Haiti, where people have long suffered from many daily hardships because of poverty, but have also experienced trauma because of the recent earthquake. Using a mixed method ethnographic and biocultural approach, the researcher will investigate the links between stressors, mental health outcomes, and physiological stress through an ethnographic exploration of distress, coping, and resilience. The study contributes to the debates in anthropology and the social sciences more broadly about stress and coping, mental health and resilience. The project has strong potential to inform work in global mental health broadly by rigorously testing links between sociocultural and physiological phenomena to understand the salient manifestations of suffering and distress. The project thus provides a particularly timely contribution to debates both within anthropology and of general scholarly and public interest.The project will contribute to the training of a female doctoral student, and through the dissemination of findings to healthcare providers and policymakers, will help to inform health care provision, particularly among historically disadvantaged groups.

研究人员布朗温·妮可·凯泽在克雷格·哈德利博士的监督下将探索压力是如何表现出来的，以及在非常胁迫的情况下是如何谈判的。越来越多的人类学家和其他人提出理论，认为日常压力源（贫困，社会关系和其他文化义务）对心理健康的影响比以前认为的更重要。这种观点与其他学科的理论形成鲜明对比，其他学科将创伤和灾难视为导致痛苦的核心力量。这个项目将在海地检验这些对比鲜明的理论，那里的人们长期以来因贫困而遭受许多日常困难，但也因最近的地震而遭受创伤。使用混合方法人种学和生物文化的方法，研究人员将调查压力源，心理健康结果和生理压力之间的联系，通过人种学探索的痛苦，应对和弹性。这项研究有助于人类学和社会科学更广泛地讨论压力和应对，心理健康和恢复力。该项目具有强大的潜力，通过严格测试社会文化和生理现象之间的联系，了解痛苦和痛苦的突出表现，广泛地为全球精神卫生工作提供信息。因此，该项目为人类学内部以及一般学术和公共利益的辩论提供了特别及时的贡献，该项目将有助于培训一名女博士生，并通过向医疗保健提供者和决策者传播研究结果，将有助于为提供医疗保健提供信息，特别是在历史上处于不利地位的群体中。