SOCIAL AND CULTURAL DYNAMICS OF DISASTER RECOVERY

描述(改编自申请人的摘要)：本提案旨在 继续研究灾难恢复的社会和文化动态 这是通过在样本中研究飓风安德鲁的影响开始的 由拉美裔、非西班牙裔白人和非西班牙裔黑人组成。 作为这项研究的一部分，一种具有已知心理测量学的西班牙语乐器 特性被开发出来。拟议研究的目标是进行一项 通过收集墨西哥灾难后的数据进行真正的跨文化研究 这可以与飓风过后在美国收集的数据进行比较 安德鲁。墨西哥提供了截然不同的文化和经济 将产生对灾难恢复的洞察力的背景 国家。虽然大多数灾难发生在发展中国家 在世界范围内，很少有研究位于那里。 拟议的项目分四个阶段进行。在第一阶段，幸存者 过去的灾难将提供关于意义和民族志的数据 待研究的结构的表现形式。在第二阶段，样本 墨西哥3个城市的代表将提供流行病学数据 其他创伤、创伤后应激障碍、抑郁症状和神经症状。在第三阶段，受害者 将提供有关这一过程的比较数据 灾难恢复。在第四阶段，相同的参与者将提供 关于灾难恢复时间的纵向数据。社交， 心理和物质资源被假设为调解 创伤暴露严重程度与精神预后的关系。一个 提出了创伤研究的生态框架，区分了 在坚不可摧的资源之间，那些不受创伤影响的资源， 如社会阶层；脆弱资源，那些可能被 创伤，如评估的社会、心理和物质资源；以及 紧急资源，为应对创伤而产生的资源，如收到的 社会支持、应对努力和财政援助，以保护或 替换易受攻击的资源。 研究团队结合了压力和创伤、拉丁裔文化、 和墨西哥社会。临床心理学、社会学的学科 心理学、社区心理学、社会人类学和医学 代表了人类学。团队中的两名成员之前 在墨西哥进行了调查研究。之间的协作关系 申请组织和瓜达拉哈拉大学的研究人员 在瓦哈卡的国家人类学研究所 已经成立了。

DESCRIPTION (Adapted from applicant's abstract): This proposal is to continue research into the social and cultural dynamics of disaster recovery that was begun by studying the effects of Hurricane Andrew in a sample composed equally of Latinos, non-Hispanic Whites, and non-Hispanic Blacks. As part of that study, a Spanish language instrument with known psychometric properties was developed. The goal of the proposed study is to conduct a truly cross-cultural study by collecting data in Mexico following a disaster that can be compared to the data collected in the U.S. following Hurricane Andrew. Mexico provides a strikingly different cultural and economic context that will yield insights into disaster recovery in developing countries. Although the majority of disasters occur in the developing world, very little of the research has been situated there. The proposed project takes place in four phases. In Phase 1, survivors of past disasters will provide ethnographic data on the meaning and manifestation of the constructs to be studied. In Phase 2, samples representative of 3 cities in Mexico will provide epidemiologic data on other trauma, PTSD, depressive symptoms, and nervios. In Phase 3, victims of a recent disaster in Mexico will provide comparative data on the process of disaster recovery. In Phase 4, the same participants will provide longitudinal data on the timing of disaster recovery. Social, psychological, and material resources are hypothesized to mediate the relation between severity of trauma exposure and psychiatric outcomes. An ecological framework for the study of trauma is proposed that differentiates between invulnerable resources, those impervious to the effects of trauma, such as social class; vulnerable resources, those potentially damaged by trauma, such as appraised social, psychological, and material resources; and emergent resources, those that arise in response to trauma, such as received social support, coping efforts, and financial aid that serve to protect or replace the vulnerable resources. The research team combines expertise in stress and trauma, Latino culture, and Mexican society. The disciplines of clinical psychology, social psychology, community psychology, social anthropology, and medical anthropology are represented. Two members of the team have previously conducted survey research in Mexico. Collaborative relationships between the applicant organization and researchers at the University of Guadalajara and at the National Institute of Anthropology in Oaxaca have been established.