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

该项目将增进我们对企业家如何应对危机和损失的理解，以及各种复原力因素如何促进受战争或其他灾害破坏的社区的恢复和重建。从这个项目中获得的知识将为今后对遭受创伤的企业家的支持提供重要信息。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。具体来说，它将评估与恢复力相关的个性和社会因素，以及他们所经历的创伤和损失的性质。研究人员将对参与者进行为期一年的跟踪调查，评估他们目前的健康状况、应对策略和未来计划。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值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.