SBP: Collaborative Research: Testing the Stress-related Cyclical Nature of Socioeconomic Status Stigma

SBP：合作研究：测试社会经济地位耻辱与压力相关的周期性本质

• 批准号: 2220296
• 负责人: Jeffrey Hunger
• 金额: $ 26.89万
• 依托单位: Miami University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-01-01 至 2025-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2220296&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBP; Collaborative; Research; Testing; Stress

Nearly 40 million people live in poverty in the United States. Climbing the socioeconomic ladder requires overcoming many barriers. This project offers a novel analysis of psychological barriers that make upward social mobility so difficult: feeling stigmatized for being lower on the socioeconomic ladder is stressful, and that stress undermines the ability to improve one's educational, occupational, and financial standing. People who are low on the socioeconomic ladder risk feeling stigmatized in the US, a country that embraces the American Dream of improving one's standing. Experiencing stigma-related stress sets into motion a vicious cycle that leads to barriers for achieving higher socioeconomic status. This work examines causes and consequences that guide the self-fulfilling nature of low socioeconomic status, and it tests new targets to remove roadblocks to prosperity for all Americans.This project tests hypotheses from the Cyclical Social Stigma Stress model, which proposes that stress induced by feeling stigmatized disrupts the very things needed for upward social mobility. Study 1 is an experiment with college students testing whether feeling stigmatized because of low socioeconomic status causes physiological stress, which then undermines basic cognitive processes that are necessary for educational and financial success. Study 2 is an experiment that tests how socioeconomic status stigma among students impacts a sense of campus belonging and academic-related outcomes, such as academic persistence. This study also tests targets that could reduce the negative impact of stigma. Study 3 involves community participants who report on their daily lives multiple times a day, to determine whether feeling mistreated due to their socioeconomic status causes them to anticipate similar feelings in the future, which may cause them to change how they interact with others and avoid resources designed to increase socioeconomic success. Studies 1 and 3 include a 1-year follow-up to measure longer-term changes in income, education, and employment. This project also contributes to NSF's efforts to broaden participation in STEM through a summer research program for underrepresented community college students and research support for graduate students. More broadly, this project brings attention to barriers that contribute to limited socioeconomic advancement and provides information for developing targeted intervention strategies.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.

美国有近 4000 万人生活在贫困之中。攀登社会经济阶梯需要克服许多障碍。该项目对导致社会向上流动如此困难的心理障碍进行了新颖的分析：因社会经济阶梯较低而感到耻辱是有压力的，而这种压力会削弱一个人提高教育、职业和财务地位的能力。在美国这个崇尚提高个人地位的美国梦的国家，社会经济地位较低的人可能会感到受到耻辱。经历与耻辱相关的压力会引发恶性循环，导致实现更高社会经济地位的障碍。这项工作研究了导致低社会经济地位自我实现的原因和后果，并测试了消除所有美国人走向繁荣的障碍的新目标。该项目测试了周期性社会耻辱压力模型的假设，该模型提出，由受到侮辱的感觉破坏了社会向上流动所需的一切。研究 1 是一项针对大学生的实验，测试因社会经济地位低而感到耻辱是否会导致生理压力，从而破坏教育和经济成功所必需的基本认知过程。研究 2 是一项实验，旨在测试学生的社会经济地位耻辱如何影响校园归属感和学术相关成果（例如学业坚持）。这项研究还测试了可以减少耻辱负面影响的目标。研究 3 涉及社区参与者，他们每天多次报告自己的日常生活，以确定由于其社会经济地位而感到受到虐待是否会导致他们预期未来会有类似的感觉，这可能会导致他们改变与他人互动的方式并避免资源旨在提高社会经济成功。研究 1 和 3 包括为期 1 年的随访，以衡量收入、教育和就业方面的长期变化。该项目还有助于 NSF 通过针对代表性不足的社区学院学生的夏季研究计划和对研究生的研究支持，扩大对 STEM 的参与。更广泛地说，该项目引起了人们对限制社会经济进步的障碍的关注，并为制定有针对性的干预策略提供了信息。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。