Conflict Management & Resolution Program, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 8410501, Israel.
Department of Social Work, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 8410501, Israel.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2018 Dec 20;16(1):4. doi: 10.3390/ijerph16010004.
Elderly Bedouin men in southern Israel are a unique traditional population living in remote unrecognized villages and experiencing rapid social transition, in addition to deep poverty and political tension. In this study, we aimed to explore stressful events, as self-defined by the participants, and the ways in which these men have coped with those stressful events. This study involved 12 men, aged 69⁻74, who participated in in-depth narrative interviews during which they were asked about transformative stressful events in their lives and how they had managed, understood, and utilized human capital, meaning-making, and other methods of coping. Analysis of the interviews revealed several themes: (a) the definition of stressful events within the cultural context, (b) the use of human capital to overcome those events, (c) the transformation of experience from hindsight into a didactic narrative that can be used to assign meaning to past events, which can then be passed on to the next generation, and (d) cultural transition as a catalyst for the creation of new understandings of events. This paper sheds new light on how elderly indigenous Bedouin men self-define stressful situations within a complex and unstable cultural context. This specific context, can help us to gain insight into how indigenous impoverished older men in similar contexts may self-define their stress and coping, based on the types of generalization accepted in qualitative research. The methodological contribution of this work lies in its use of narrative to culturally contextualize phenomenological meaning structures. Its theoretical contribution lies in its examination of the concept of stress within a specific cultural context.
以色列南部的老年贝都因男子是一个独特的传统群体，他们生活在偏远的未被承认的村庄中，经历着快速的社会转型，同时还深陷贫困和政治紧张局势之中。在这项研究中，我们旨在探索参与者自行定义的压力事件，以及这些男性应对这些压力事件的方式。本研究涉及 12 名年龄在 69⁻74 岁的男性，他们参加了深入的叙事访谈，在访谈中，我们询问了他们生活中的变革性压力事件，以及他们如何管理、理解和利用人力资本、意义构建以及其他应对方式。对访谈的分析揭示了几个主题：(a) 文化背景下压力事件的定义，(b) 利用人力资本克服这些事件，(c) 将经验从后见之明转化为具有教育意义的叙述，从而赋予过去事件意义，并将其传递给下一代，以及 (d) 文化转型作为新的事件理解的催化剂。本文深入探讨了老年贝都因男子如何在复杂而不稳定的文化背景下自我定义压力情况。这一特定背景可以帮助我们深入了解在类似背景下，类似的贫穷的老年土著男性如何根据定性研究中接受的概括类型来自我定义压力和应对方式。这项工作的方法论贡献在于它使用叙述来使现象学意义结构适应文化背景。其理论贡献在于它考察了特定文化背景下的压力概念。
