Religious Commitment's Moderating Effect on Refugee Trauma and Growth

Acquaye, Hannah E.; Sivo, Stephen A.; Jones, Karyn

doi:10.1002/cvj.12073

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“…Additionally, hope and social support play buffering role and can affect individual's capacity to move towards growth even in the presence of stress these results are consistent with previous literature. 17,[20][21][22] Conclusions: In the present study results confirmed that social support and hope play protective role in aftermath of war trauma.…”

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Post traumatic growth among police officials who participated in Global war on Terror in FATA (Federally Ministered Areas) Pakistan

Azeem¹,

Rauf²

2022

Pak J Med Sci

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Background and Objectives: Exposure to traumatic event like war evokes certain distress full reactions like post traumatic stress disorder. However, stress is not the only out come as sometimes traumatic event leads towards growth as well. Our objective was to study the relationship between post-traumatic stress, hope, perceived social support and post traumatic growth in police officials who actively participated in war on terror and secondly to highlight the role these factors and demographic variables like marital status and family system play in the promotion of post traumatic growth. Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted on the officials of police who participated in war on terror and were currently deployed in peaceful areas. Study was planned at Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad. Sample of the study comprised of 200 police officials. Sample was collected by using non probability purposive sampling technique. This technique was selected as focus of the study was on particular group of police officials who participated in war on terror and had direct exposure of life-threatening trauma during the war. Scales were used in Urdu language. Perceived social support scale and post traumatic growth inventory were available in Urdu language. Scales that were available in English like PDS-5 (PTSD diagnostic scale) and Adult Hope scale were translated in Urdu language and were culturally adapted. Post traumatic growth inventory was used for measuring post traumatic growth. PTSD diagnostic scale (PDS-5) was used for measuring post-traumatic stress. Perceived social support was measured by using Multidimensional scale of social support and hope was measured by using Adult hope scale. Results: Age range of the participants was between 21 to 54 years (Mean 33.6, SD= 6.3). Higher exposure to traumatic events was positively related with growth. Study variables like hope and social support showed positive relationship with post traumatic growth. Married and unmarried individuals showed difference on perceived social support (t = 9.31, p = 0.001), post traumatic growth (t = 8.75, p = 0.001) and post-traumatic stress (t = 2.04, p = 0.030). Respondents with extended and nuclear family system showed significant difference on perceived social support (t =2.488, p = 0.000) and hope (t =2.585, p = 0.000). Conclusion: Results of study indicated that PTSD is not the inevitable outcome of combat trauma sometimes trauma leads to post traumatic growth. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.38.3.5324 How to cite this:Azeem A, Kiran N. Post traumatic growth among police officials who participated in Global war on Terror in FATA (Federally Ministered Areas) Pakistan. Pak J Med Sci. 2022;38(3):---------. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.38.3.5324 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 82%

Post traumatic growth among police officials who participated in Global war on Terror in FATA (Federally Ministered Areas) Pakistan

Azeem¹,

Rauf²

2022

Pak J Med Sci

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“…Strong ideological commitment and religious beliefs have been identified as particularly adaptive coping resources that were connected to the psychosocial well-being of refugee youth in several other studies (e.g., Acquaye et al, 2018;McMichael et al, 2011;Weine et al, 2014). Religion and spirituality, commonly reported in resilience and posttraumatic growth case reports, may afford protection through building hope and providing a sense that life has meaning (Masten, 2014).…”

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Resilience in refugee children and youth: A critical literature review.

Jafari¹,

Kassan²,

Reay³

et al. 2022

Canadian Psychology / Psychologie canadienne

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To better understand factors that promote and foster resilience among young refugees, in this manuscript, we aimed to critically review the progress in research on refugee children and youth's resilience from the vantagepoint of young refugee participants and prominent researchers. In doing so, the present critical review synthesizes exemplary findings from illustrative lines of work, discussing controversies and lessons learned from these studies, and offering implications for practice and future science. Overall, reviewed studies of mass trauma related to war from many different Western postmigration contexts point to a fundamental set of adaptive systems across multiple levels of the ecology in which refugee children and youth live that account for much of their capacity for doing well, recovering, or even thriving following resettlement. Hence, this critical review further provides important clues to key protective factors in the lives of young refugees, which can inform both practice and policy to mitigate risk and promote resilience in multiple socioecological systems. Public Significance StatementThis review article advances our knowledge of a host of biological, psychological, social, and cultural determinants of resilience, which interact with one another across multiple levels of social and ecological contexts to determine young refugees' adaptive responds to stressful experiences in the context of war, migration, and resettlement. Accordingly, it promotes a perspective with emphasis on the potential of host societies to facilitate the mobilization of human agency and physical resources.

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“…Based on the assumption that medical and psychosocial care focuses mainly on the so-called ‘primary needs’ while neglecting the other needs, we focused on spiritual needs to meet refugees’ more comprehensive requirements. These so-called ‘secondary needs’ could be an important resource to cope with the new life situation in a foreign country and culture, as they utilize more complex resources to cope with the difficult situation [ 21 , 31 , 32 ]. Such a resource-oriented perspective seems to be even more relevant in the case of negative and/or dysfunctional appraisals of the new post-migration life situation.…”

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confidence: 99%

Spiritual Needs, Religious Coping and Mental Wellbeing: A Cross-Sectional Study among Migrants and Refugees in Germany

Maier

Konaszewski

Skalski

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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It has been widely proven that resettlement is associated with negative psychological effects (e.g., increased depression and symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder) among refugees. Therefore, there is an urgent need to improve the psychosocial functioning of migrants. This study assessed associations between negative dysfunctional appraisal (perceiving experiences as stressful), spiritual needs, religious coping and wellbeing. Data from paper-and-pencil questionnaires were collected from 744 refugees (69.8% male) aged 18–67 years (M = 27.99) with diverse backgrounds (including from Mashreq countries) who were resettled in Germany. Bootstrapping mediation analysis revealed that the relationship of dysfunctional appraisal and wellbeing among refugees is mediated by spiritual needs (i.e., existential and religious needs). Additionally, negative religious coping mediates the relationship between spiritual needs and wellbeing. The data obtained suggest the need for practitioners to focus on psychological interventions that strengthen spiritual needs in order to improve mental health among refugees.

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Religious Commitment's Moderating Effect on Refugee Trauma and Growth

Cited by 17 publications

References 60 publications

Post traumatic growth among police officials who participated in Global war on Terror in FATA (Federally Ministered Areas) Pakistan

Post traumatic growth among police officials who participated in Global war on Terror in FATA (Federally Ministered Areas) Pakistan

Resilience in refugee children and youth: A critical literature review.

Spiritual Needs, Religious Coping and Mental Wellbeing: A Cross-Sectional Study among Migrants and Refugees in Germany

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