Community Attachment and Negative Affective States in the Context of the BP Deepwater Horizon Disaster
by: Matthew R. Lee, Troy C. Blanchard
This study advances research on the mental health impacts of disasters by examining how a mainstay of the sociological literature, community attachment, influences negative affective states such as anxiety and fear stimulated by a technological disaster. Survey data were collected in three coastal Louisiana parishes (counties) geographically proximate to the BP oil spill of 2010 while the oil was still flowing.
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Audience: Academics
Topics: Health, Social Well-Being