SBP: Collaborative Research: Testing the Stress-related Cyclical Nature of Socioeconomic Status Stigma

SBP：合作研究：测试社会经济地位耻辱与压力相关的周期性本质

• 批准号: 2220296
• 负责人: Jeffrey Hunger
• 金额: $ 26.89万
• 依托单位: Miami University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-01-01 至 2025-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2220296&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBP; Collaborative; Research; Testing; Stress

Nearly 40 million people live in poverty in the United States. Climbing the socioeconomic ladder requires overcoming many barriers. This project offers a novel analysis of psychological barriers that make upward social mobility so difficult: feeling stigmatized for being lower on the socioeconomic ladder is stressful, and that stress undermines the ability to improve one's educational, occupational, and financial standing. People who are low on the socioeconomic ladder risk feeling stigmatized in the US, a country that embraces the American Dream of improving one's standing. Experiencing stigma-related stress sets into motion a vicious cycle that leads to barriers for achieving higher socioeconomic status. This work examines causes and consequences that guide the self-fulfilling nature of low socioeconomic status, and it tests new targets to remove roadblocks to prosperity for all Americans.This project tests hypotheses from the Cyclical Social Stigma Stress model, which proposes that stress induced by feeling stigmatized disrupts the very things needed for upward social mobility. Study 1 is an experiment with college students testing whether feeling stigmatized because of low socioeconomic status causes physiological stress, which then undermines basic cognitive processes that are necessary for educational and financial success. Study 2 is an experiment that tests how socioeconomic status stigma among students impacts a sense of campus belonging and academic-related outcomes, such as academic persistence. This study also tests targets that could reduce the negative impact of stigma. Study 3 involves community participants who report on their daily lives multiple times a day, to determine whether feeling mistreated due to their socioeconomic status causes them to anticipate similar feelings in the future, which may cause them to change how they interact with others and avoid resources designed to increase socioeconomic success. Studies 1 and 3 include a 1-year follow-up to measure longer-term changes in income, education, and employment. This project also contributes to NSF's efforts to broaden participation in STEM through a summer research program for underrepresented community college students and research support for graduate students. More broadly, this project brings attention to barriers that contribute to limited socioeconomic advancement and provides information for developing targeted intervention strategies.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.

在美国，近4000万人生活在贫困中。攀登社会经济阶梯需要克服许多障碍。该项目对心理障碍进行了新的分析，这些障碍使社会流动性的上升如此困难：因为在社会经济上的阶梯上的较低而感到污名化是压力很大的，并且压力会破坏改善人的教育，职业和财务地位的能力。在美国，人们对社会经济阶梯的风险感到沮丧，这个国家在美国被污名化，这个国家拥护美国梦想的改善自己的地位。经历与污名相关的压力使运动循环陷入运动，从而导致实现更高的社会经济地位的障碍。这项工作研究了指导低社会经济地位的自我实现性质的原因和后果，并测试了新的目标，以消除所有美国人的繁荣障碍。该项目测试假设周期性的社会污名压力模型，这表明，这表明，这会通过感到污名化的社会活动所需的压力引起的压力，使社会移动的事物受到污名化。研究1是对大学生测试的实验，该实验是否由于社会经济状况低而感到污名会导致生理压力，然后破坏了教育和财务成功所必需的基本认知过程。研究2是一项实验，该实验测试了学生之间社会经济地位的污名如何影响属于校园和与学术有关的结果（例如学术持久性）。这项研究还测试了可以减少污名的负面影响的目标。研究3涉及每天多次报告日常生活的社区参与者，以确定由于社会经济地位而感到虐待是否会导致他们预见未来的类似感受，这可能会导致他们改变与他人互动的方式，并避免旨在增加社会经济成功的资源。研究1和3包括一年的随访，以衡量收入，教育和就业的长期变化。该项目还为NSF努力通过夏季研究计划为社区大学生和研究生提供的研究支持来扩大STEM的努力。从更广泛的角度来看，该项目引起了人们对有限的社会经济进步有限的障碍的关注，并为制定有针对性的干预策略提供了信息。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的智力优点评估和更广泛影响的审查标准来通过评估来支持的。