Accession Number:

AD0623464

Title:

PSYCHO-SOCIAL PROBLEMS OF SHELTER OCCUPANCY

Descriptive Note:

Final rept.

Corporate Author:

HRB-SINGER INC STATE COLLEGE PA

Personal Author(s):

• Wright, Grace H.
• Hambacher, William O.

Report Date:

1965-07-30

Pagination or Media Count:

194.0

Abstract:

The project developed a psychological model of protective shelters and a methodology for identifying and describing the psychological stresses and supports existing during enshelterment. The admission wards of selected psychiatric hospitals were used as an analogue to the shelter confinement with subjects rigorously selected to insure valid extrapolation of results to the projected shelter occupancy population. Emphasis was placed upon studying the psychological rather than the physical environment. The approach utilized a literature collation covering the clinical as well as the traditional stress research in order to define and describe the psychological processes occurring within the shelter. Selected projective techniques, a ward behavior rating form, and an in-house developed self-rating form provided data for ordering the psychological processes under investigation in terms of probability of occurrence and importance of resulting behavior. These data also provided a base for validating comparisons with data from existing occupancy studies. A set of diagnostic tools was developed for use by the shelter manager. A two-man game was constructed and pretested as a screening device for shelter manager use. A set of probable behaviors related to the results obtained from the above were provided as well as a set of remedial actions to be taken by the shelter manager.

Descriptors:

• *SHELTERS
• *SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
• CIVIL DEFENSE
• STRESS(PSYCHOLOGY)
• BEHAVIOR
• ADJUSTMENT(PSYCHOLOGY)
• PROJECTIVE TECHNIQUES

Subject Categories:

• Civil Defense
• Psychology

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE