Residential Density and Psychological Health: The Mediating Effects of Social Support

本研究关注的是住宅的影响， 密度，其对心理健康的影响（广义）， 以及社会支持如何调节这一点 关系 PI将调查（通过纵向调查 心理健康、社会支持系统，以及 人们在不同拥挤程度的住宅中的社交退缩。 调查将重复进行（以相同的受访者为样本） 在3个月和6个月。 第一次访谈后， 极端四分位数（或人口密度）将被要求 参与实验室研究（术后6周和16周 初次面试）。 实验创造性地研究了这些 人的慢性生理应激水平， 他们与其他处于类似困境的人联系在一起，他们的能力 寻求和接受社会支持。 该提案攻击了 密度的影响，在社会心理和 心理生理水平。 它承诺告诉我们很多关于 社会支持对应激反应的影响 环境. 它对理论和应用的贡献 应该是巨大的

The research is concerned with the effects of residential density, its effects on psychological health (broadly defined), and the ways in which social support can mediate this relationship. The PI will investigate (via longitudinal survey techniques) the psychological health, social support system, and social withdrawal of people in residences of varying crowdedness. The survey will be repeated (with the same sample of respondents) at 3 and 6 months. After the first interview, respondents in the extreme quartiles (or population density) will be asked to participate in laboratory research (at 6 and 16 weeks post initial interview). The experiments creatively investigate these people's chronic physiological stress level, the extent to which they affiliate with others in similar straits, and their ability to seek and receive social support. This proposal attacks the effects of density at both the social psychological and the psychophysiological levels. It promises to tell us much about the effects of social support on people's reaction to stressful environments. Its contributions to both theory and application should be enormous.