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...
| Published in: | Journal of psychology and christianity |
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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2018
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Journal of psychology and christianity
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Haiti
/ Earthquake
/ Survivor
/ Resilience (Personality trait)
/ Spirituality
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| RelBib 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 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | Appendix A: Seite 56 |
| ISSN: | 0733-4273 |
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