A Longitudinal Comparison of Recovery Responses to Human-Produced Disasters

该项目探讨了人为灾难的长期心理恢复率的影响因素和抑制因素。这个研究团队收集了两组不同的康复灾民之间的压力症状的初步数据，这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。该项目的学术价值在于提高了对不同极端情况下恢复率和心理幸福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，扩大未被充分代表的群体在科学领域的参与，并对研究生进行以科学为基础和经验数据收集方法的培训。项目成果也将向非学术受众展示，以加强向公众传播科学的努力。此外，这本书还为更多对治理、危害和脆弱性、社会组织和社区恢复感兴趣的政治学家、社会学家、心理学家、公共卫生从业者和应急管理人员提供了关于影响和恢复的纵向见解。这一奖项是在美国国家科学基金会的热切资助机制下颁发的，该机制支持探索性研究的早期概念拨款。几乎没有对人为或技术灾难进行比较的纵向研究。该项目将产生两个技术灾难的可比数据，这两个灾难是由于地理和文化相似的人口中的人为疏忽造成的，这些人口在不同程度上参与了纠正事件的错误的呼吁。具体地说，研究小组将在2014年8月布埃纳维斯塔铜矿硫酸铜泄漏发生的索诺拉河沿岸对150-200人进行第二轮采访。2009年美国广播公司Hermosillo托儿所火灾发生后，人们在头两年内进行了两轮采访。数据分析将涉及两个站点之间在幸福感水平方面的差异的参数和非参数检验，以及两个站点之间在网络组成变量与幸福感水平之间的关联方面的比较。关于社会反应和幸福感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.