Collaborative Research: RAPID: Resilience and Recovery among Ukrainian Small Business Owners

这个项目将加深我们对企业家如何应对危机和损失以及各种复原力因素如何促进被战争或其他灾难破坏的社区的恢复和重建的理解。该项目的知识将为今后为遭受创伤的企业家提供支持提供重要信息。该项目将评估和跟踪因战争而流离失所的乌克兰小企业主的福祉和应对过程。具体地说，它将评估与复原力相关的个性和社会因素，以及他们经历的创伤和损失的性质。参与者将在一年的时间里被跟踪，并就他们目前的幸福感、应对策略和未来计划进行评估。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。

This project will enhance of our understanding of how entrepreneurs cope with crisis and loss as well as how various resilience factors can facilitate recovery and rebuilding in communities disrupted by war or other disasters. Knowledge from this project will significantly inform the development of future support for entrepreneurs who experience trauma.The project will assess and track the well-being and coping processes of Ukrainian small business owners displaced by war. Specifically, it will assess personality and social factors associated with resilience as well as the nature of the trauma and loss they experienced. Participants will be tracked over the course of a year and assessed on their current well-being, coping strategies, and future plans.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.