Migration For Work, Mental Health And Aids In Mali

这一纵向项目与马里邦贾加拉的区域医疗保健中心合作，调查了多贡人（主要是农民）、富拉尼人（主要是牧民）和博佐人（主要是渔民）族裔群体的工作移徙和其他社会环境因素如何影响心理功能、身心健康以及与艾滋病有关的态度和行为的性质。它涉及到一个有代表性的1002马里农村抽样采访。三管齐下的议定书反映了两个单位共同和各自的关切。其中一个方面是测试SSES在工业发达社会的调查结果在马里农村的普遍性，即做自我指导和实质上复杂的工作会导致更多的自我指导和自主方向，以及更有效的智力运作。第二个方面是审查紧张的职业条件对心理健康的影响，包括为工作而移徙。第三个方面是审查a）为工作而移徙和B）文化和社会环境因素对艾滋病相关知识、态度和行为的影响。1996/1997年进行了第一波数据收集。今年我们完成了第二波的数据收集，成功采访了超过80%的原始受访者。完成了第二波数据的编码和录入。使用第一波的数据，我们开发了一系列关键概念的结构方程测量模型（例如，工作的实质性复杂性、威权主义），这与我们从工业化国家的类似调查中得出的结论相似。初步分析表明，这些变量之间的某些关系与我们在工业化社会早期研究中发现的关系有明显不同。

In collaboration with the Centre Regional de Medecine Traditionnelle in Bandiagara Mali, this longitudinal project investigates how migration for work and other socio-environmental factors affect psychological functioning, mental and physical health as well as the nature of AIDS-related attitudes and behaviors, in the Dogon (primarily farmers), Fulani (primarily herders) and Bozo (primarily fishermen) ethnic groups. It involves an interview of a representative sample of 1002 rural Malians. The three-pronged protocol reflects the two units' joint and individual concerns. One prong is the test of the generalizability to rural Mali of the SSES findings in industrially developed societies that doing self-directed and substantively complex work leads to more self-directed and autonomous orientations and more effective intellectual functioning. The second prong is an examination of the consequences for mental health of stressful occupational conditions, including migration for work. The third prong is the examination of the effects of a) migration for work and of b) cultural and socioenvironmental factors on AIDS-related knowledge, attitudes and behaviors. The first wave of data collection was conducted in 1996/1997. This year we finished collecting data from the second wave, successfully conducting interviews with over 80% of the original respondents. We also finished data coding and entry of these second wave data. Using the data from the first wave, we developed a series of Structural Equation measurement models of key concepts (e.g., substantive complexity of work, authoritarianism) that parallel those we have developed from similar surveys in industrialized countries. Preliminary analyses suggest that some of the relationships among these variables are notably different from those that we found in our earlier research in industrialized societies.