Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, University of Texas at Austin.
School of Social Work, Boston College.
Psychol Trauma. 2024 Jul;16(5):861-871. doi: 10.1037/tra0001371. Epub 2022 Sep 29.
In September 2017, Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico. Houses were destroyed, millions of people lost power and access to clean water, and many roads were flooded and blocked. In the years following the storm, hundreds of thousands of people have left Puerto Rico and settled on the U.S. mainland. The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of disaster trauma among Puerto Rican adults who moved to the U.S. mainland after Hurricane Maria.
Participants were 319 adult Puerto Rican Hurricane Maria survivors on the U.S. mainland. Women comprised 71.2% of the sample. Data were collected between August 2020 and October 2021. Participants completed Spanish-language measures of hurricane-related trauma, perceived ethnic discrimination and negative context of reception on the U.S. mainland, language stress, depressive symptoms, anxiety, optimism, life satisfaction, and problem drinking.
We estimated a structural equation model where hurricane trauma predicted cultural stress, which in turn predicted internalizing symptoms, optimism, and life satisfaction. Internalizing symptoms, optimism, and life satisfaction were specified as predictors of problem drinking. Results indicated that hurricane trauma predicted cultural stress. Cultural stress predicted internalizing symptoms, optimism, and life satisfaction. Internalizing symptoms predicted problem drinking. Hurricane trauma indirectly predicted internalizing symptoms through cultural stress and indirectly predicted problem drinking through cultural stress and internalizing symptoms.
Traumatic experiences from the storm may predispose Puerto Rican Hurricane Maria survivors to perceive cultural stress on the U.S. mainland. In turn, cultural stressors may be associated with internalizing symptoms and alcohol problems. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).
2017 年 9 月，飓风“玛丽亚”重创波多黎各。房屋被毁，数百万人断电断水，许多道路被洪水淹没和堵塞。风暴过后的几年里，数十万人离开波多黎各，定居在美国大陆。本研究的目的是检验飓风“玛丽亚”后移居美国大陆的波多黎各成年人的灾难创伤的影响。
参与者是 319 名居住在美国大陆的波多黎各飓风“玛丽亚”幸存者，其中女性占 71.2%。数据收集于 2020 年 8 月至 2021 年 10 月之间。参与者完成了西班牙语版的与飓风相关的创伤、在美国大陆感知到的族裔歧视和负面接纳环境、语言压力、抑郁症状、焦虑、乐观、生活满意度和饮酒问题的测量。
我们估计了一个结构方程模型，其中飓风创伤预测了文化压力，而文化压力又预测了内化症状、乐观和生活满意度。内化症状、乐观和生活满意度被指定为饮酒问题的预测因素。结果表明，飓风创伤预测了文化压力。文化压力预测了内化症状、乐观和生活满意度。内化症状预测了饮酒问题。飓风创伤通过文化压力间接预测了内化症状，通过文化压力和内化症状间接预测了饮酒问题。
风暴带来的创伤性经历可能使波多黎各飓风“玛丽亚”幸存者更容易在美国大陆感受到文化压力。反过来，文化压力源可能与内化症状和酒精问题有关。（PsycInfo 数据库记录（c）2024 APA，保留所有权利）。
