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.

生活安排的破坏会给日常安全受到流离失所影响的个人造成脆弱性。临时定居点中的居留涉及一系列困难和脆弱性，这些困难可能对健康和韧性具有长期影响。流离失所的个人如何在持续的不确定性和关键资源的可用性有限的背景下谈判对日常生活的控制和规律性。该项目在经验，科学数据收集和分析的方法中培训人类学研究生，检验了一个假设，即流离失所的个体通过从事常规活动来恢复控制和实现韧性。在研究环境中注意到，日常工作在帮助人们构建日常生活，传达控制感和日常压力方面的重要性。因此，了解常规社会实践（RSP）对幸福感的作用对于制定可能改善受流离失所影响的脆弱人群的长期健康结果的计划至关重要。这项多人研究将在由个人在不稳定的情况下进行谈判流离失所的人组成的脆弱人群中进行。这些人群面临导致流离失所的不同特定环境，为辨别RSP可能影响健康和福祉的特定方式和一般方式的机会。具体而言，这项研究将探讨参与RSP是否与与压力生理和免疫功能有关的生物学标记的更健康的概况有关。研究人员还将调查RSP可以帮助脆弱的人在新型社区临时住所后维持宜居生活并谈判其脆弱性的方式。研究人员将进行调查，收集有关RSP，压力来源和生活经验的信息，并收集有关压力标记的数据（皮质醇，Epstein-Barr病毒抗体水平和血压）。这项研究的结果将通过检查RSP在过渡居民环境中构成和调节的日常生活的程度，从而为常规行动在健康和压力调解中的作用提供见解。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并认为通过基金会的知识和更广泛的影响，可以通过评估来进行评估，以评估值得通过评估。