A Longitudinal Comparison of Recovery Responses to Human-Produced Disasters

本项目探讨了导致和抑制人为灾难后长期心理恢复率的因素。该研究小组收集的关于两组不同的灾后恢复受害者的压力症状的初步数据与人们普遍持有的关于极端事件反应差异的假设相矛盾。该项目为研究人员提供了纵向评估灾害管理的机会。该项目的智力价值在于提高了对不同极端环境下恢复和心理健康率之间差异的科学理解，以及对人为灾难的社会文化反应。该项目的更广泛影响是，它将加强国际研究界之间的合作，在研究现场提供专业发展机会，扩大代表性不足的群体在科学领域的参与，并培养研究生掌握以科学为基础和经验数据收集的方法。项目研究结果也将呈现给非学术受众，从而改进向公众传播科学的努力。此外，它还为政治科学家、社会学家、心理学家、公共卫生从业人员和对治理、危害和脆弱性、社会组织和社区恢复感兴趣的应急管理人员等更广泛的受众带来了对影响和恢复的纵向见解。该奖项是在NSF的EAGER资助机制下获得的，该机制支持探索性研究的早期概念资助。关于人为灾害或技术灾害的比较纵向研究很少。该项目将为地理和文化上相似的人口中由于人为疏忽造成的两次技术灾难提供可比较的数据，这些人口在不同程度上呼吁纠正这些事件的错误。具体来说，研究小组将对Sonora河沿岸的150-200人进行第二轮访谈，那里是2014年8月Buenavista铜矿硫酸铜泄漏的发生地。2009年埃莫西约发生的ABC日托中心火灾，在头两年里已经有两轮关于火灾后人们如何应对的采访。数据分析将包括对两个地点的幸福水平差异进行参数和非参数测试，此外还将比较两个地点的网络组成变量与两个地点的幸福水平之间的关联。社会反应和福祉的结果将与应急管理、政治学、人类学、社会学、心理学和公共卫生相关。

This project explores the factors that contribute to and inhibit long-term psychological recovery rates from human-produced disasters. Preliminary data that this research team has gathered on stress symptoms between two different sets of recovering disaster victims contradict widely held assumptions about variation in responses to extreme events. This project provides researchers with the opportunity to assess disaster management longitudinally. The intellectual merit of the project is in the improved scientific understanding of the variance between recovery and psychological wellbeing rates in different extreme settings, and the sociocultural responses to human-made disasters. The broader impacts of the project are that it will strengthen collaboration among research communities internationally, provide professional development opportunities at the research site, broaden the participation of underrepresented groups in the sciences, and train graduate students in methods of scientifically-grounded and empirical data collection. Project findings will also be presented to non-academic audiences, improving efforts to communicate science to the public. Additionally, the brings longitudinal insights on impact and recovery to a broader audience of political scientists, sociologists, psychologists, public health practitioners, and emergency managers interested in governance, hazards and vulnerability, social organization, and community recovery. This award is made under NSF's EAGER funding mechanism, which supports Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research.Very little comparative longitudinal research has been done on human-caused or technological disasters. This project will produce comparable data for two technological disasters caused by human negligence among geographically and culturally similar populations that have engaged to varying degrees in calls for righting the wrongs of the events. Specifically, the research team will do a second round of interviews with 150-200 people along the Sonora River where the Buenavista mine copper sulfate spill occurred in August, 2014. Two rounds of interviews within the first two years already exist for the 2009 ABC day care fire in Hermosillo on how people were doing after the fire. Analysis of data will involve parametric and non-parametric tests of differences between the two sites in terms of levels of wellbeing, in addition to comparisons between the sites in terms of the associations of network composition variables with levels of wellbeing in both sites. Results on social responses and wellbeing will be relevant to emergency management, political science, anthropology, sociology, psychology, and public health.