RAPID: Amplifying threats during cascading crises: Media's role in shaping psychological responses to the war in Ukraine

RAPID：在级联危机期间放大威胁：媒体在塑造对乌克兰战争的心理反应方面的作用

• 批准号: 2224341
• 负责人: Roxane Silver
• 金额: $ 17.47万
• 依托单位: University of California-Irvine
• 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: 2022-05-01 至 2024-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2224341&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Amplifying; threats; during; cascading

On February 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine with hostile force, starting the most intense military conflict in Europe since World War II and leading to thousands of injuries and deaths and over 4 million Ukrainian refugees in the first month of the war. Reports of this international geopolitical crisis have instantaneously flooded traditional and social media outlets with graphic videos and images of injuries, death, and destruction – media coverage known to correlate with poor physical and mental health outcomes. But the Ukraine War is occurring in the broader context of the COVID-19 pandemic whose worldwide death toll exceeds 6 million people, escalating climate-related crises, economic volatility and inflation, race-driven social unrest, extreme partisanship, and low confidence in the scientific and social institutions tasked with protecting the public. Direct and media-based exposure to these unprecedented cascading collective traumas are likely to have profound effects on the mental and physical health of Americans. Effective management of these compounding crises requires policies that people support and public adoption of recommended behaviors. This project assesses psychological reactions to the Ukraine War among a large probability-based nationally representative sample of over 6,500 Americans from the NORC AmeriSpeak panel. They have been surveyed three times since March 2020. Early responses and beliefs about the war in Ukraine are collected as the media transitions from heavy coverage of COVID-19 to heavy coverage of the conflict. Analyses examine how intolerance for uncertainty, emotion regulation, trust in government, and social identities may explain the association between media exposure and emotional, cognitive, and behavioral responses to the war. This study investigates how fears and worries about these multiple ongoing threats are compounding negative mental health outcomes and impacting those for whom this multiplicative effect is most detrimental. Finally, this project investigates how war-related media exposure may motivate people to take positive action (e.g., prosocial behavior) to help refugees and defend Ukraine’s democracy. Embedding this project in the larger study of the COVID-19 pandemic allows examination of national responses to compounding global crises as they evolve, producing theoretically rich research with practical importance. Results inform policy makers when communicating publicly about multiple existential threats and their potential solutions so they can better promote public well-being without inducing further worry, distress, or emotional exhaustion.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.

2022年2月24日，俄罗斯以敌对的力量入侵了乌克兰，在第二次世界大战以来开始了欧洲最激烈的军事冲突，并在战争的第一个月内造成了数千人受伤和死亡，超过400万乌克兰难民。关于这场国际地缘政治危机的报道瞬间淹没了传统和社交媒体的图形视频以及伤害，死亡和破坏的图像 - 已知与身体和心理健康成果不佳相关的媒体报道。但是，乌克兰战争发生在联盟19日大流行的更广泛背景下，全球死亡人数超过600万人，与气候相关的犯罪，经济波动和通货膨胀率上升，赛车驱动的社会动荡，极端的党派，对科学和社会机构的信心较低。直接和基于媒体的对这些前所未有的级联集体创伤的接触可能会对美国人的身心健康产生深远影响。这些复合犯罪的有效管理需要人们支持和公众采用推荐行为的政策。该项目评估了来自NORC Amerispeak小组中6,500多名美国人的大型国家代表性样本中对乌克兰战争的心理反应。自2020年3月以来，他们已经进行了三次调查。早期的回应，并相信乌克兰战争是从媒体从199号的重大报道到对冲突的重大覆盖范围的转变。分析研究了不确定性，情绪调节，对政府和社会身份的intlerance如何解释媒体暴露与情感，认知和行为对战争之间的关联。这项研究调查了对这些持续不断的威胁的恐惧和构想如何使负面的心理健康成果复杂化，并影响那些对这种乘法效应最有害的人。最后，该项目调查了与战争相关的媒体接触如何激励人们采取积极行动（例如亲社会行为）来帮助难民和捍卫乌克兰的民主。将该项目嵌入了对Covid-19的大流行的更大研究中，可以检查国家的反应，以使全球危机随着发展而发展，从而产生理论上丰富的研究，具有实际的重要性。结果在公开沟通有关多种现有威胁及其潜在解决方案时，结果将为决策者提供信息，以便他们可以更好地促进公众福祉而不会引起进一步的担忧，困扰或情绪疲惫。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的审查标准来评估通过评估而被认为是宝贵的。