Intergenerational trauma, identity, and well-being: How the trauma of the Troubles conflict has impacted social identities in Northern Ireland.

北爱尔兰政治暴力的历史，被称为“麻烦”，在那些认同为联合主义者和民族主义者的人之间留下了不信任和糟糕的社区关系的遗产。创伤性身份改变的社会认同模型（SIMTIC）表明，创伤可以增强社会认同和归属感，从而缓解创伤对幸福感的负面影响（中介模型）。将此模型应用于“麻烦”的创伤，本项目将从三方面探讨身份在创伤和幸福中的作用。首先，本项目将重点关注可能亲身经历过“麻烦”的北爱尔兰老一辈父母，分析那些具有较强身份认同的父母是否会对创伤经历做出不同的反应（适度模型），并将其与成熟的调解模型进行比较。其次，关于父母的身份如何影响后代的创伤，人们知之甚少。因此，通过对父母和年轻人的二元分析，第二个目标是研究父母对政治暴力的暴露及其身份如何影响其后代的创伤、身份和福祉。第三，作为一种分析身份在创伤和幸福感中的作用的新方法，该项目将通过潜在特征分析寻求识别表现出特定类型创伤和社会认同的父母和年轻人的不同亚群，并分析这些亚群在幸福感方面是否存在差异。总的来说，通过三个新颖的问题，这个项目将有助于对身份、创伤和幸福的研究。

The history of political violence in Northern Ireland (NI), known as 'The Troubles' has left a legacy of distrust and poor community relations between those who identify as Unionists and Nationalists. The Social Identity Model of Traumatic Identity Change (SIMTIC) shows that trauma can strengthen social identities and belonging, which then alleviate the negative effects of trauma on well-being (mediation model). Applying this model to the trauma of the Troubles, this project will investigate the role of identity in trauma and well-being in three ways. First, focusing on an older generation of parents in NI who might have experienced the Troubles first-hand, this project will analyse whether those with stronger identities might respond differently to traumatic experiences (moderation model), comparing it to the well-established mediation model. Second, less is known about how parents' identities can inform their offspring's traumas. Thus, focusing on parent and young person dyads, a second aim is, via dyadic analyses, to examine how parental exposure to political violence and their identities affects their offspring's traumas, identity, and well-being. Third, as a novel approach to analyse the role of identity in trauma and well-being, the project will seek to identify different subpopulations of parents and young persons who exhibit specific types of traumas and social identifications via latent profile analyses and analyse whether these subpopulations differ in terms of well-being. Overall, with three novel questions, this project will contribute to the growing research on identity, trauma, and well-being.