Sanchez Mari, Lamont Michèle, Zilberstein Shira
Harvard University Department of Sociology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
Harvard University Department of Sociology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
Soc Sci Med. 2022 May;301:114890. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.114890. Epub 2022 Mar 12.
The COVID-19 pandemic and crisis around racial injustice have generated compounded macro-level stressors for American society that negatively impact mental health and wellbeing. We contribute to understanding the impact of these crises by examining the process of developing social resilience, which we conceptualize as a temporally-embedded process of sense-making through which actors activate a sense of dignity, agency, and hope in the face of challenges to sustain wellbeing based on available resources. We interviewed 80 college students (aged 18-23) living in the American Northeast and Midwest before (September 2019-February 2020) and during (June-July 2020) the pandemic to analyze how they make sense of crises, respond to challenges, and project themselves into the future. We compare "privileged" upper-middle class youth who have families with more resources to buffer themselves against growing uncertainty, with "less privileged" youth from lower-middle and working class families. Efforts to achieve a sense of dignity, agency, and hope amidst widespread uncertainty illuminate opportunities and constraints in the process of building social resilience, which take different temporal forms across the two class groups given their experiences and resources.
新冠疫情以及围绕种族不公的危机给美国社会带来了多重宏观层面的压力源，对心理健康和幸福产生了负面影响。我们通过研究社会复原力的发展过程来帮助理解这些危机的影响，我们将社会复原力概念化为一个随时间推移的意义建构过程，在此过程中，行动者面对挑战时激活尊严感、能动性和希望感，以便基于现有资源维持幸福。我们采访了80名年龄在18至23岁之间、居住在美国东北部和中西部的大学生，分别是在疫情之前（2019年9月至2020年2月）和疫情期间（2020年6月至7月），以分析他们如何理解危机、应对挑战以及展望未来。我们将拥有更多资源来缓冲日益增加的不确定性的“特权”中上层阶级家庭的年轻人，与来自中下层和工人阶级家庭的“较无特权”的年轻人进行比较。在普遍存在的不确定性中努力实现尊严感、能动性和希望感，揭示了建立社会复原力过程中的机遇和限制，鉴于两个阶层群体的经历和资源，这些机遇和限制呈现出不同的时间形式。
