Read-Wahidi Mary Rebecca, DeCaro Jason A
Social Science Research Center, Mississippi State University.
Department of Anthropology, The University of Alabama.
Med Anthropol Q. 2017 Dec;31(4):572-591. doi: 10.1111/maq.12372. Epub 2017 May 17.
This study considers how shared devotion to the Virgin of Guadalupe among Mexican immigrants in rural Mississippi buffers the effects of immigration stress. Rural destinations lacking social services can quickly compound the already stressful experience of immigration. Guadalupe devotion provides a way of coping with the daily life stressors of immigration. We test the hypothesis that high consonance in the cultural model of Guadalupan devotion will moderate the adverse health effects of immigration stress. Results indicate that as exposure to immigration stressors increased, well-being decreased among those with low consonance, while the effect was eliminated in those with high consonance. Findings demonstrate the advantage of expanding research on coping to incorporate complex models that consider religious and secular elements and also illustrate how a master symbol, characterized as a cultural model of coping with limited local distribution, yields health effects dissimilar to the mediation normally associated with consonance.
本研究探讨了密西西比州农村地区墨西哥移民对瓜达卢佩圣母的共同信仰如何缓冲移民压力的影响。缺乏社会服务的农村地区会迅速加剧本就充满压力的移民经历。对瓜达卢佩圣母的信仰提供了一种应对移民日常生活压力源的方式。我们检验了这样一个假设，即瓜达卢佩信仰文化模式中的高度一致性将减轻移民压力对健康的不利影响。结果表明，随着接触移民压力源的增加，一致性低的人群幸福感下降，而一致性高的人群则没有这种影响。研究结果表明，扩大应对研究以纳入考虑宗教和世俗因素的复杂模型具有优势，同时也说明了一个主符号（被视为应对有限当地分布的文化模式）如何产生与通常与一致性相关的调解不同的健康影响。
