Migration For Work, Mental Health And Aids In Mali

这一纵向项目与马里班达卡拉传统医学区域中心合作，调查工作移徙和其他社会环境因素如何影响多贡(主要是农民)、富拉尼(主要是牧民)和博佐(主要是渔民)族裔群体的心理功能、身心健康以及与艾滋病有关的态度和行为的性质。它涉及对1002名马里农村人的代表性样本的采访。三管齐下的议定书反映了两个单位的共同和个人关切。其中一个问题是对工业发达社会中SSES研究结果在马里农村地区的普适性的测试，这些发现表明，自我指导和实质性复杂的工作会导致更多的自我指导和自主取向，以及更有效的智力运作。第二个方面是研究紧张的职业条件对心理健康的影响，包括为了工作而迁移。第三个方面是审查a)工作移徙和b)文化和社会环境因素对与艾滋病有关的知识、态度和行为的影响。第一波数据收集是在1996/1997年进行的。去年，我们完成了第二次浪潮的数据收集，成功地采访了超过80%的原始受访者。今年，我们致力于这些第二波数据的数据编码和输入。使用这两波数据，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)，这些模型与我们从工业化国家的类似调查中开发的模型类似。初步分析表明，这些变量之间的一些关系与我们在工业化社会的早期研究中发现的那些明显不同。

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 b) cultural and socioenvironmental factors on AIDS-related knowledge, attitudes and behaviors. The first wave of data collection was conducted in 1996/1997. Last year, we finished collecting data from the second wave, successfully conducting interviews with over 80% of the original respondents. This year, we worked on data coding and entry of these second wave data. Using the data from both waves, 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.