Parents' Struggles to Rebuild Family Life After Hurricane Andrew

Coffman, Sherrilyn

doi:10.3109/01612849609009406

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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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Is gratitude a moral affect?

McCullough

Kilpatrick

Emmons

et al. 2001

Psychological Bulletin

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Gratitude is conceptualized as a moral affect that is analogous to other moral emotions such as empathy and guilt. Gratitude has 3 functions that can be conceptualized as morally relevant: (a) a moral barometer function (i.e., it is a response to the perception that one has been the beneficiary of another person's moral actions); (b) a moral motive function (i.e., it motivates the grateful person to behave prosocially toward the benefactor and other people); and (c) a moral reinforcer function (i.e., when expressed, it encourages benefactors to behave morally in the future). The personality and social factors that are associated with gratitude are also consistent with a conceptualization of gratitude as an affect that is relevant to people's cognitions and behaviors in the moral domain.

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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%

Is gratitude a moral affect?

McCullough

Kilpatrick

Emmons

et al. 2001

Psychological Bulletin

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1,121

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“…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

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The grateful disposition: A conceptual and empirical topography.

McCullough¹,

Emmons²,

Tsang³

2002

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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In four studies, the authors examined the correlates of the disposition toward gratitude. Study 1 revealed that self-ratings and observer ratings of the grateful disposition are associated with positive affect and well-being, prosocial behaviors and traits, and religiousness/spirituality. Study 2 replicated these findings in a large nonstudent sample. Study 3 yielded similar results to Studies 1 and 2 and provided evidence that gratitude is negatively associated with envy and materialistic attitudes. Study 4 yielded evidence that these associations persist after controlling for Extraversion/positive affectivity, Neuroticism/negative affectivity, and Agreeableness. The development of the Gratitude Questionnaire, a unidimensional measure with good psychometric properties, is also described.Gratitude, as it were, is the moral memory of mankind.

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“…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

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The Impact of Hurricane Floyd on Eastern North Carolina's School-Aged Children

Childs

Hodgson

Lamson

et al. 2005

Journal of Trauma Practice

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The purpose of this study was to understand and describe the experiences of children following Hurricane Floyd and its ensuing flood. Narratives from 97 children ages 7-12 were gathered using an open-ended question included in the PTSD Child Interview (Fletcher, 1996). Qualitative analysis, guided by a phenomenological design, was conducted on the data. Six themes representing the children's perspectives of the hurricane experience emerged from the analysis: (a) escaping the flood, (b) destruction and damage to property, (c) inconvenience and restoration, (d) concern for self and other's safety, (e) recollection of place, time, and event, and (f) thankfulness. This study helps researchers and clinicians understand the merits of Nicole M. Childs, MS, is affiliated with the University of Georgia.

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Parents' Struggles to Rebuild Family Life After Hurricane Andrew

Cited by 26 publications

References 9 publications

Is gratitude a moral affect?

Is gratitude a moral affect?

The grateful disposition: A conceptual and empirical topography.

The Impact of Hurricane Floyd on Eastern North Carolina's School-Aged Children

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