BEREAVEMENT AND ATTRIBUTIONS IN FIRE SURVIVORS

火灾幸存者的丧亲之痛和归因

• 批准号: 3384776
• 负责人: ANNE KEANE
• 金额: $ 39.46万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1990
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1990-08-01 至 1995-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/3384776
• 关键词: accidents; adult human (21+); attribution; bereavement; disasters; family structure /dynamics; human subject; interpersonal relations; interview; locus of control; longitudinal human study; psychological models; psychological tests; self concept

Residential fires are devastating disasters producing loss of life, injury, and emotional, social and financial costs to the survivors. Over 6000 people die yearly residential fires, primarily the elderly, the urban poor and the young children of stressed, single parent, low income families. There is little information on the reactions of survivors of residential fires, perhaps because they are isolated disasters with a relatively low profile. Literature from three different lines of research guide this investigation; the study of disasters, the psychological and physical responses of bereaved persona and the research on causal attributions, particularly that related to self-blame and perceptions of control following negative life events. The aims of the proposed research are 1) to described the process of grieving over time in survivors in residential fires; 2) to compare the process of grieving in survivors of residential fires with varying degrees of losses including fatality and displacement; 3) to examine the relationship between the impact of the event (residential fire) and grief responses; and the relationship between family and personal relationships (prior and subsequent to the fire) and grief responses; 4) to examine whether causal searching or particular attributions and/or feeling of self-blame, control and preventability are associated with grief responses; and 5) to develop a multiple variable predictive model of grieving responses in survivors of fires. The proposed study will use a longitudinal, repeated measure, 3 wave panel design to follow 396 adult fire survivors for 13 months post-fire. Data will be gathered through interview, self report, and psychological questionnaires. Four main kind of analyses are envisioned; mean difference, individual difference, outcome and qualitative. Ordinary least squares multiple regression and path analysis procedures will be used for casual modeling.

住宅火灾是毁灭性的灾难，造成生命损失， 伤害以及幸存者的情感、社会和经济成本。 超过 每年有6000人死于住宅火灾，主要是老年人， 贫穷和年幼的孩子的压力，单亲，低收入 家庭 几乎没有关于幸存者反应的信息。 住宅火灾，也许是因为它们是孤立的灾害， 相对低调。 来自三个不同研究方向的文献 指导这项调查;研究灾害，心理和 丧亲人格的生理反应及其因果关系研究 归因，特别是与自责和对 控制负面生活事件。 拟议研究的目的 1）描述幸存者随着时间的推移而悲伤的过程， 住宅火灾; 2）比较幸存者的悲伤过程， 住宅火灾，造成不同程度的损失， （3）检查影响之间的关系， 事件（住宅火灾）和悲伤的反应;和之间的关系 家庭和个人关系（火灾之前和之后）， 悲伤反应; 4）检查是否因果搜索或特定 归因和/或自责、控制和可预防性的感觉， 与悲伤反应相关; 5）开发一个多变量 火灾幸存者悲伤反应的预测模型。 的 拟议的研究将使用纵向、重复测量、3波面板 该研究旨在对396名成年火灾幸存者进行为期13个月的随访。 数据 将通过访谈、自我报告和心理调查收集 问卷调查 设想了四种主要的分析;平均值 差异、个体差异、结果和定性。 普通 最小二乘多元回归和路径分析程序将 用于休闲造型。