Doctoral Dissertation Research: A Biocultural Approach to Evaluating Psychosocial Stress Mediators in Vulnerable Communities

博士论文研究：评估弱势群体心理社会压力调解因素的生物文化方法

• 批准号: 1948653
• 负责人: Rahul Oka
• 金额: $ 2.52万
• 依托单位: University of Notre Dame
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-05-15 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1948653&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Biocultural; Approach

Disruptions in living arrangements create vulnerabilities for individuals whose day-to-day security is affected by displacement. Residence in temporary settlements presents a range of difficulties and vulnerabilities that may have long-term implications for health and resilience. How do displaced individuals negotiate control and regularity over their daily lives in the context of persistent uncertainty and limited availability of critical resources. This project, which trains a graduate student in anthropology in the methods of empirical, scientific data collection and analysis, tests the hypothesis that displaced individuals regain control and enact resilience by engaging in routine activities. The importance of routine in helping people structure their daily lives, impart a sense of control and normalcy, and weather day-to-day stressors has been noted across research settings. Therefore, understanding the role of Routinized Social Practices (RSPs) on well-being is critical for developing programs that may improve long-term health outcomes among vulnerable populations affected by displacement. This multi-sited research will be conducted among vulnerable populations consisting of individuals negotiating displacement in the context of precarity. These populations face different specific contexts leading to displacement, opening the opportunity to discern both specific and general ways that RSPs may affect health and well-being. Specifically, this study will explore whether participation in RSPs is associated with healthier profiles for biological markers related to stress physiology and immune function. The researchers will also investigate the ways in which RSPs may help vulnerable individuals to maintain livable lives and negotiate their vulnerability following temporary residence in novel communities. The researchers will conduct surveys, collect information on RSPs, sources of stress, and lived experiences, and gather data on stress markers (cortisol, Epstein-Barr virus antibody levels, and blood pressure). Findings from this research will provide insights into the role of routine action in health and stress mediation by examining the extent to which RSPs make everyday life structured and regulated in transitional residential contexts.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

生活安排的中断给其日常安全受到流离失所影响的个人造成了脆弱性。居住在临时安置点带来了一系列困难和脆弱性，可能会对健康和复原力产生长期影响。在持续的不确定性和关键资源有限的情况下，流离失所的个人如何谈判对其日常生活的控制和规律性。该项目对一名人类学研究生进行了实证、科学数据收集和分析方法的培训，测试了流离失所的人通过从事日常活动重新获得控制权并发挥复原力的假设。日常生活在帮助人们安排日常生活、传授控制感和正常感以及天气日常压力源方面的重要性已经在各个研究环境中得到了注意。因此，了解常规化社会实践(RSP)在福祉方面的作用，对于制定可能改善受流离失所影响的弱势人口的长期健康结果的方案至关重要。这项多地点研究将在弱势群体中进行，这些人包括在早产情况下谈判流离失所的个人。这些人口面临着导致流离失所的不同具体情况，从而有机会辨别可再生能源可能影响健康和福祉的具体和一般方式。具体地说，这项研究将探索参与RSP是否与与应激生理和免疫功能相关的生物标记物的更健康特征有关。研究人员还将调查RSP如何帮助脆弱的个人维持宜居生活，并在临时居住在新社区后谈判他们的脆弱性。研究人员将进行调查，收集有关RSP、压力源和生活经历的信息，并收集压力标记物(皮质醇、爱泼斯坦-巴尔病毒抗体水平和血压)的数据。这项研究的结果将通过检查RSP在过渡居住环境中组织和规范日常生活的程度，为日常行动在健康和压力调解中的作用提供洞察力。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。