Psychological Distress and Water Contamination in an Environmental Justice Community- [electronic resource]
Psychological Distress and Water Contamination in an Environmental Justice Community- [electronic resource]
- 자료유형
- 학위논문파일 국외
- 최종처리일시
- 20240214101453
- ISBN
- 9798379749002
- DDC
- 301.1
- 서명/저자
- Psychological Distress and Water Contamination in an Environmental Justice Community - [electronic resource]
- 발행사항
- [S.l.]: : The University of Arizona., 2023
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2023
- 형태사항
- 1 online resource(122 p.)
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-12, Section: B.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Sullivan, Daniel.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Arizona, 2023.
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- This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.
- 초록/해제
- 요약The experience of chronic environmental contamination is an increasingly prevalent environmental hazard faced by communities around the world with deleterious physical and mental health outcomes. However, these events represent an often-overlooked environmental justice issue in the psychology literature. This dissertation focused on the community stress experience related to historic contamination on the Tucson International Airport Area Superfund site in Tucson's southside, a predominantly low-income and Latinx community. A survey (n = 363) using door-to-door and social media recruitment methods compared those who were potentially exposed to historical contamination to non-exposed southside residents and non-exposed residents of central Tucson. Measures included mental distress and wellbeing (stress, life satisfaction, depression), trauma (historical trauma, post-traumatic stress, disruption in core beliefs), environmental risk perceptions, efficacy, denial, environmental justice concerns, and social capital (social support, neighborhood social cohesion, civic engagement, and trust in institutions). The results of this study suggest that residents potentially exposed to historic contamination over forty years ago experience somewhat elevated levels of depression, post-traumatic stress, historical trauma, disruption in core beliefs, and environmental risk perceptions, but also higher life satisfaction. Some forms of social capital such as social support and neighborhood social cohesion also moderated various negative mental health impacts of exposure to historic contamination. This study has the potential to make theoretical contributions to the psychological literature on environmental justice issues, but also practical contributions to public health and advocacy in Tucson's southside community.
- 일반주제명
- Social psychology.
- 일반주제명
- Public health.
- 일반주제명
- Mental health.
- 키워드
- Social capital
- 키워드
- Trauma
- 기타저자
- The University of Arizona Psychology
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 84-12B.
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertation Abstract International
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