Biocultural Strategies for Measuring Psychosocial Stress Outcomes in Field-based Research
Dados Bibliográficos
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| AFILIAÇÃO(ÕES) | Department of Anthropology, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA, a Communication Studies 3251 , Arizona State University West , 4701 W. Thunderbird Road, Phoenix, AZ, 85069, USA E-mail:, Department of Anthropology and Geography, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, and National Science Foundation, Alexandria, VA, USA, Binghamton University State University of New York, Department of Anthropology, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA, Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, USA, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA, Department of Anthropology, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA, Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA, The Ohio State University |
| ANO | 2021 |
| TIPO | Artigo |
| PERIÓDICO | Field Methods |
| ISSN | 1525-822X |
| E-ISSN | 1552-3969 |
| EDITORA | Annual Reviews (United States) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1525822x211043027 |
| CITAÇÕES | 2 |
| ADICIONADO EM | 2025-08-18 |
Resumo
The goal of assessing psychosocial stress as a process and outcome in naturalistic (i.e., field) settings is applicable across the social, biological, and health sciences. Meaningful measurement of biology-in-context is, however, far from simple or straightforward. In this brief methods review, we introduce theoretical framings, methodological conventions, and ethical concerns around field-collection of markers of psychosocial stress that have emerged from 50 years of research at the intersection of anthropology and human biology. Highlighting measures of psychosocial stress outcomes most often used in biocultural studies, we identify the circumstances under which varied measures are most appropriately applied and provide examples of the types of cutting-edge research questions these measures can address. We explain that field-based psychosocial stress measures embedded in different body systems are neither equivalent nor interchangeable, but this recognition strengthens the study of stress as always simultaneously cultural and biological, situated in local ecologies, social–political structures, and time.