A Cultural Psychological Framework for Coping with Disasters

Zaumseil, Manfred; Vacano, Mechthild von; Schwarz, Silke; Sullivan, Gavin Brent; Prawitasari-Hadiyono, Johana E.

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“…Regarding the participants' reflections on how they had coped with post-disaster stressors, all three groups referred to collective coping strategies in the main. This is consistent with research that found that a range of East Asian countries orientated to cultures of collectivism, including Korea [99] and Indonesia [100], tend to ascribe agency to groups more than to individuals. This finding further reinforces our claim, in the introduction, that individualistic resilience paradigms may not be relevant in non-individualistic cultures.…”

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confidence: 89%

“…Similar findings regarding "gotong royong" are in evidence elsewhere in Indonesian post-disaster contexts. For example, after the 2002 earthquake in Java, survivors worked collectively to participate in the rescue and rebuilding efforts, including retrieving people from the rubble, cleaning debris and distributing necessities [100]. Our findings suggest that the concept is pervasive in Central Sulawesi, and therefore has extended beyond its Javanese roots to elsewhere in Indonesia.…”

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confidence: 83%

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Community Resilience after Disasters: Exploring Teacher, Caregiver and Student Conceptualisations in Indonesia

Parrott,

Bernardino,

Lomeli-Rodriguez

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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Despite the potentially catastrophic nature of disasters, survivors can be highly resilient. Resilience, the capacity to successfully adapt to adversity, is both individual and collective. Policymakers and academics have recently emphasised the importance of community resilience, but with little consideration of local survivors’ perspectives, particularly young survivors within low- and middle-income countries. Therefore, this exploratory study aims to give voice to disaster-affected caregivers, teachers and female adolescent students by examining their conceptualisations of community coping and priorities for resilient recovery following the 2018 Central Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami. A total of 127 survivors of the devastating disaster, including 47 adolescents, answered open-ended survey questions related to post-disaster resilience. A content analysis identified key constituents of community resilience. The results indicate that survivors highly value community cohesion and participation, drawing on the community’s intra-personal strengths to overcome post-disaster stressors. Student conceptualisations of and recommendations for a resilient recovery often differ from the views of important adults in their lives, for example, regarding the role played by the built environment, “trauma healing” and religiosity in the recovery process. These findings have implications for the design of disaster resilience interventions.

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confidence: 89%

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confidence: 83%

Community Resilience after Disasters: Exploring Teacher, Caregiver and Student Conceptualisations in Indonesia

Parrott,

Bernardino,

Lomeli-Rodriguez

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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“…The coping strategies employed by the farmers were the vehicles used to meet these demands . By meeting the demands of the situation the farmers changed their own situation, which in turn decreased their negative emotional experiences (Zaumseil, Von Vacano, Schwarz, Sullivan, & Prawitasari-Hadiyono, 2014) . Inevitably, when the farmers changed their circumstances they were faced with new circumstances and situational demands, which signalled the beginning of a new time period .…”

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Disaster recovery experiences of a South African rural farming community

Becker

Roos

Coetzee

2015

Journal of Psychology in Africa

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“…An important strategy is to increase the perception of security, facilitating the ability of individuals to control their environment, themselves, relationships, and ongoing events. Increasing the sense of control in the face of events that have taken over facilitates the early restoration of confidence in one's ability to protect oneself (Zaumseil et al, 2013).…”

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Development and Preliminary Italian Validation of the Emergency Response and Psychological Adjustment Scale

2021

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Evaluating the personal adaptation response to the emergency situations is very important for the prevention of mental distress, for the activation of network and community synergies and for the planning and implementation of appropriate psycho-social interventions. So far there are no short tools for the overall assessment of cognitive, emotional and behavioral responses of psychological adaptation to the emergency in the psychometric panorama. The Emergency Response and Psychological Adjustment Scale (ERPAS) was administered to a sample of 1,088 participants, while the concurrent validity was tested through a second administration to 600 participants along with the GSE (Generalized Self-Efficacy Scale) and the BDI-II (Beck Depression Inventory-II). Confirmatory factor analysis bore out a five-factor solution (including 18 items) with good fit indices of adaptation to data, χ2/df = 1.440, RMSEA = 0.028, RMSEA 90% CI = 0.018–0.038, GFI = 0.996, AGFI = 0.959, CFI = 0.982, and NFI = 0.944. Evidence of convergent validity was provided by the significant correlations with variables such as cognitive and somatic depression, and perceived general self-efficacy. The analyses also showed a strong invariance across gender. The ERPAS tool prefigures application during the assessment in multiple emergency contexts (e.g. earthquakes, floods, pandemics, terrorist attacks, war events, major accidents, major fires). This validation study of the ERPAS has shown that this version is a reliable and valid measurement for assessing people's modes of personal response (cognitive, emotional, behavioral) in emergency contexts.

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A Cultural Psychological Framework for Coping with Disasters

Cited by 4 publications

References 26 publications

Community Resilience after Disasters: Exploring Teacher, Caregiver and Student Conceptualisations in Indonesia

Community Resilience after Disasters: Exploring Teacher, Caregiver and Student Conceptualisations in Indonesia

Disaster recovery experiences of a South African rural farming community

Development and Preliminary Italian Validation of the Emergency Response and Psychological Adjustment Scale

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