Resilience in the Wake of Disasters: A Two-Wave Qualitative Study of Survivors of the 2010 Haiti Earthquake

Disasters can significantly disrupt survivors' core beliefs about God, the world, and themselves (Park, 2016b), yet many (if not most) disaster survivors seem to exhibit extraordinary resilience in the wake of disasters (Bonanno et al., 2007, 2010). The purpose of this two-wave qualitative stud...

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Authors: O'Grady, Kari Ann 1969- (Author) ; Orton, James Douglas (Author) ; Stewart, Carol (Author) ; Flythe, William W. (Author) ; Snyder, Nicole (Author) ; Desius, Jean-Philippe (Author)
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语言:English
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出版: 2018
In: Journal of psychology and christianity
Year: 2018, 卷: 37, 发布: 1, Pages: 43-56
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Haiti / 地震 / 幸存者 / 复原力 / 灵性
IxTheo Classification:AE Psychology of religion
AG Religious life; material religion
KBQ North America
ZD Psychology
Further subjects:B CONTENT analysis (Communication)
B EMOTIONAL trauma
B Natural Disasters
B Post-traumatic stress disorder
B EMERGENCY management
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总结:Disasters can significantly disrupt survivors' core beliefs about God, the world, and themselves (Park, 2016b), yet many (if not most) disaster survivors seem to exhibit extraordinary resilience in the wake of disasters (Bonanno et al., 2007, 2010). The purpose of this two-wave qualitative study was to explore the psychological processes that characterize survivors' resilient responses to disasters. At 6 months (Time 1) and 3 years (Time 2) postdisaster, adult survivors of the 2010 Haiti earthquake (n = 42 and 40, respectively) completed a 30-to-90-minute interview protocol, asking about their psychological, social, and religious/spiritual experiences with the earthquake. A directed content-analysis strategy (Hsieh & Shannon, 2005) was used to analyze the data, using Orton and O'Grady's (2016) framework of cosmology episode resilience processes to guide data analysis. Results revealed themes that characterized resilient sense-losing, improvising, sense-remaking, and renewing, as well as themes that characterized rigid (i.e., nonresilient) forms of these processes. Findings resonate with existing theory and research on meaning making, religious coping, and posttraumatic growth, and they indicate that psychological flexibility, adaptive deliberate rumination, social support (e.g., from family and friends), and religious support (e.g., from God and fellow members of one's faith community) may be core ingredients of postdisaster resilience. Implications for practice (e.g., disaster spiritual and emotional care) and future research are discussed.
Item Description:Appendix A: Seite 56
ISSN:0733-4273
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of psychology and christianity