Doctoral Dissertation Research: Social Support and Stress Among Religious Migrants

博士论文研究：宗教移民的社会支持与压力

• 批准号: 2147796
• 负责人: Carolyn Smith-Morris
• 金额: $ 0.76万
• 依托单位: Southern Methodist University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-02-15 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2147796&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Social; Support

Migration is a stressful process, with unique stressors emerging before, during, and after migration. For religious migrants, people in their congregations are important sources of support. However, providing the support necessary to cope with the stressors of migration may be complicated if what constitutes support differs between the giver and the receiver. The purpose of this dissertation research is to compare religious migrant and non-migrant understandings of social support and whether their adherence to local expectations of social support is associated with stress (perceived stress as well as hormonal measures). By approaching migration from both a biological and a cultural perspective, this project provides clarity with respect to the impact of chronic stressors among migrants. It also broadens the participation of women in STEM, as it provides training for a woman graduate student in lab and field work. The findings of this research will be disseminated broadly to participant communities and academic and non-academic audiences.The researcher applies a biocultural approach to understandings of migrant religion and post-national theory to answer the questions: 1. Do migrants and non-migrants of the same religion understand social support the same way? 2. In what ways are migrant understandings of social support similar to or different from those currently described in scientific scholarship? 3. How does secular and non-secular education influence how migrants and non-migrants understand social support? 4. Is the degree to which a migrant or non-migrant gives and receives culturally appropriate social support associated with stress (perceived stress as well as hormonal measures of stress)? To answer these questions, the researcher employs methods that measure the presence of shared cultural norms (cultural consensus) as well as individual adherence to these norms (cultural consonance). Cortisol, a hormone associated with stress and accessible in hair, is used to measure biological stress. The combination of these theoretical approaches and methods provides a novel approach to understanding the migrant experience.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.

迁移是一个压力的过程，在迁移之前，期间和之后出现了独特的压力。对于宗教移民而言，会众中的人们是重要的支持来源。但是，如果构成的支持在给予者和接收者之间的不同之处，那么提供应对迁移压力所需的支持可能会变得复杂。这项论文研究的目的是比较宗教移民和非移民对社会支持的理解，以及他们对当地对社会支持的期望是否与压力有关（感知到的压力以及荷尔蒙措施）。通过从生物学和文化的角度接近迁移，该项目就慢性压力源在移民的影响方面提供了清晰度。它也扩大了女性在STEM中的参与，因为它为女性研究生提供了实验室和野外工作的培训。这项研究的发现将大致传播给参与者社区以及学术和非学术受众。研究人员将生物文化方法应用于对移民宗教和国家后理论的理解来回答问题：1。同一宗教的移民和非移民是否以同样的方式理解社会支持？ 2。移民对社会支持的理解与与科学奖学金中当前所描述的社会支持相似或不同？ 3。世俗和非遗传教育如何影响移民和非移民如何理解社会支持？ 4。移民或非移民给予并获得与压力相关的文化适当社会支持的程度（感知压力以及压力的荷尔蒙测量）？为了回答这些问题，研究人员采用了衡量共同文化规范（文化共识）的存在以及个人遵守这些规范（文化辅音）的方法。皮质醇是一种与胁迫相关的激素，可在头发中易于获得，用于测量生物胁迫。这些理论方法和方法的结合为理解移民经验提供了一种新颖的方法。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并且使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准，被认为值得通过评估来获得支持。