Demographic Variables as Antecedents of Israeli Community and National Resilience

Goroshit, Shaul Kimhi Marina; Eshel, Yohanan

doi:10.1002/jcop.21561

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“…The present study corroborates a number of studies which indicate significant prediction of individual resilience by demographic characteristics: age, gender and economic condition [17,[56][57][58]; community type, age, and levels of religiosity and preparedness, predicting community and national resilience [29,52]; level of exposure and individual resilience [17]. Our result has indicated that these four demographic variables and exposure examined in our study explained 27% of individual resilience SVR.…”

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“…Sense of danger significantly mediates the association between community size and individual SVR. Earlier studies examining the association between type of community and resilience indicated that higher communality (higher structured cooperation among members and more structured communal life) of the community was associated with higher community resilience [29,58]. One should keep in mind that more communal communities are smaller.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…An earlier study in Israel [29] revealed that higher community communality was associated with higher community resilience. Similarly, BraunLewensohn et al [27] examined stress reactions among people who lived in cities and different types of small rural villages during summer 2011 while missiles were being fired from Gaza to the southern part of Israel.…”

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confidence: 92%

“…Previous research has indicated accordingly that demographic factors predict individual resilience to various potentially traumatic events [17,[27][28][29]. Based on these earlier studies, in the current study we have examined five demographic characteristics and sense of danger as predictors of individual SVR.…”

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Demographic Characteristics and Sense of Danger Predicting New Measure of Individual Resilience Following a War

Kimhi¹,

Eshel²

2016

J Community Med Health Educ

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Four months after Israel's war with the Gaza Strip (2014) we distributed questionnaires to 510 adults: 251 civilians who live in southern Israel and have recently been threatened by massive missile fire, and 259 adults who live in northern Israel, which has not been under missile fire for the last eight years. The current study focuses on two issues: first, a new index to measure individual resilience based on recovery to distress symptoms ratio; second, examining five demographic characteristics and sense of danger as predictors of individual resilience. Path analysis indicated that individual resilience significantly correlated negatively with sense of danger and exposure (β=-0.34), and positively with level of religiosity (β=0.24) and income (β=0.17). Sense of danger mediated the associations between area of living, community size and level of exposure and individual resilience. Results are discussed in terms of the role of demographic characteristics with respect to individual resilience.

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Demographic Characteristics and Sense of Danger Predicting New Measure of Individual Resilience Following a War

Kimhi¹,

Eshel²

2016

J Community Med Health Educ

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“…LITERATURE REVIEW [4] conducted a study on resilience of older and younger Israelis, and found that older Israelis are more resilient than younger ones, their long experience of wars and terror attacks has not decreased their resilience, and perhaps strengthened their effort. A study carried out in Australian by [5] found socio-demographic characteristics of residents living in a threatening area, revealed an importance impact on the place of residence.…”

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Residents Resilience towards Insecurity: An Analysis of Socioeconomic and Demographic Profile of Respondents in Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria

Butu¹,

Hashim²,

Ahmad³

2017

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Abstract:-The study describes the socioeconomic and demographic profile of Maiduguri residents on resilience towards insecurity, using convenient sampling technique, with a sample size of 383. The descriptive statistics was to describe the socioeconomic and demographic profile of the respondents. The results revealed that, the majority of residents are within the age bracket of 18-35, married, Muslims, and those who has tertiary education account for 603% of the majority. The result also indicates that most residents of the area are civil servant and business owners with few engaging in farming.Most of the residents lived in rented houses as compare to an owner occupier. The majority of the residents reside in the area for 1-10 years, while a large proportion falls within low-income bracket ofN10, 000 -N30, 000.The socioeconomic and demographic profile of the residents will provide relevant information on the actual condition of the residents and what the affected residents need most in terms of assistance that would improve their condition and relief them of the hardship been posed on them by the insurgency predicament.

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Predictors of individual, community and national resiliencies of Israeli Jews and Arabs

2019

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The contribution of individual characteristics to predicting individual, community and national resilience of Israeli Jews and Arabs was investigated. Psychological resilience refers to people's assessment of their ability to withstand negative psychological consequences of major afflictions, and to keep functioning despite these adversities. The following hypotheses were examined: 1. The Jewish sample would score higher than the Arab sample on indices of individual, community and national resilience. 2. Men of both groups would score higher compared with women on these resilience indices. 3. Exposure to terror and fear of upcoming war would negatively predict the resilience of both groups. 4. Higher level of religiosity, right wing political attitudes, higher income, higher education, older age and higher sense of coherence will positively predict the investigated resiliencies. The random sample included 1100 Jews and 350 Arabs who participated in an internet survey. Resilience was defined in this study as the balance of individual, community and national strength (protective factors) to vulnerability (risk factors). The results supported the first three hypotheses whereas the fourth hypothesis was supported only for the Jewish sample. The present study indicated that some predictors had universal effect on resilience, whereas others seemed to be culture specific predictors.

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Demographic Variables as Antecedents of Israeli Community and National Resilience

Cited by 41 publications

References 46 publications

Demographic Characteristics and Sense of Danger Predicting New Measure of Individual Resilience Following a War

Demographic Characteristics and Sense of Danger Predicting New Measure of Individual Resilience Following a War

Residents Resilience towards Insecurity: An Analysis of Socioeconomic and Demographic Profile of Respondents in Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria

Predictors of individual, community and national resiliencies of Israeli Jews and Arabs

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