A Longitudinal Comparison of Recovery Responses to Human-Produced Disasters

该项目探讨了促进和抑制人类灾难的长期心理恢复率的因素。该研究小组收集的关于两组不同恢复中的灾难受害者之间压力症状的初步数据与人们普遍认为的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率和心理健康率之间差异的科学理解，以及对人为灾害的社会文化反应。该项目更广泛的影响是，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，扩大科学领域代表性不足的群体的参与，并培训研究生以科学为基础和经验数据收集方法。项目的研究结果也将向非学术界的听众介绍，从而加强向公众传播科学的努力。此外，还为政治学家、社会学家、心理学家、公共卫生从业者和对治理、灾害和脆弱性、社会组织和社区恢复感兴趣的应急管理人员带来了对影响和恢复的纵向见解。该奖项是在NSF的EAGER资助机制下颁发的，该机制支持探索性研究的早期概念赠款。该项目将为两次技术灾难提供可比较的数据，这两次灾难是在地理和文化上相似的人群中因人为疏忽而造成的，这些人群在不同程度上参与了纠正错误事件的呼吁。具体来说，研究小组将对索诺拉河沿着的150-200人进行第二轮采访，2014年8月，索诺拉河发生了布埃纳维斯塔铜矿硫酸铜泄漏事故。2009年美国广播公司在埃莫西约发生的日托火灾在头两年已经进行了两轮采访，内容是火灾后人们的表现。数据分析将涉及两个网站之间的差异的参数和非参数测试的幸福水平，除了网站之间的比较网络组成变量与幸福水平在两个网站的关联。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，心理学和公共卫生有关。

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.