1996
DOI: 10.3109/01612849609009406
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Parents' Struggles to Rebuild Family Life After Hurricane Andrew

Abstract: The purpose of this phenomenological study was to gain a deeper understanding of the meaning of parents' everyday experiences after a major natural disaster. In-depth interviews were conducted with 13 parents who lived in the hurricane-damaged area. The essence of being a parent emerged as "struggling to rebuild family life." The struggles were superimposed on top of ongoing issues such as divorce and job responsibilities. Parents described feelings of being thankful to be alive, being overwhelmed, being limit… Show more

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“…Field research with hurricane survivors suggests that feeling grateful is one of the main affective themes of people's experiences in the aftermath of the hurricane (Coffman, 1996). Even so, it is appropriate to ask whether individuals in these cases are truly experiencing the emotion of gratitude.…”
Section: Qualifiers On the Moral Barometer Hypothesismentioning
confidence: 98%
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“…Field research with hurricane survivors suggests that feeling grateful is one of the main affective themes of people's experiences in the aftermath of the hurricane (Coffman, 1996). Even so, it is appropriate to ask whether individuals in these cases are truly experiencing the emotion of gratitude.…”
Section: Qualifiers On the Moral Barometer Hypothesismentioning
confidence: 98%
“…Coffman (1996) conducted interviews with 13 parents who lived in south Florida at the time of Hurricane Andrew (1992). One of the key themes of parents' hurricane experiences was an overwhelming sense of gratitude for what they had not lost during the hurricane.…”
Section: Gratitude and Weil-beingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Pondering the circumstances in one's life for which one is grateful appears to be a common way of coping with both acute and chronic stressful life events (e.g., Barusch, 1997;Coffman, 1996), perhaps in a manner akin to the "benefit-finding" described by Affleck and Tennen (1996). Moreover, experimental research suggests that discrete experiences of gratitude and appreciation may cause increases in parasympathetic myocardial control (McCraty, Atkinson, Tiller, Rein, & Watkins, 1995), as well as improvements in more molar aspects of health (Emmons & McCullough, 2000).…”
Section: Health Well-being and Copingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Researchers such as Coffman (1996) discovered that adults reported a sense of thankfulness after experiencing a hurricane event. Harvey et al (1995) studied the written narratives of 45 parents who experienced the 1993 flooding of the Mississippi River in Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri.…”
Section: Cluster 6: Thankfulnessmentioning
confidence: 98%