Multiple shocks and households’ choice of coping strategies in Benin: The relative importance of climate shocks

A group of 232 married women doctors, lawyers and professors were surveyed about their attitudes toward their roles and how they cope with role conflicts. Close to half of the women reported that it was impossible to rank the relative importance of their family and career roles, and a majority of women stated that they often experienced strains between these roles. Coping strategies such as having family members help with chores, having family members help resolve role conflicts, reducing standards within certain roles, considering personal interests important, and scheduling and organizing activities carefully were found to be significantly related to satisfaction. It is suggested that married professional women who develop effective coping strategies will find the challenge of combining a profession and a family a rewarding one.

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What Drives Choice of Coping Strategies Against Ex-Post Weather and Climate Shocks Among Smallholder Fish Farmers in Malawi?

10.7176/jesd/10-4-02 ◽

2019 ◽

Keyword(s):

Coping Strategies ◽

Ex Post ◽

Weather And Climate ◽

Climate Shocks

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Climate exposure, vulnerability and environmental reliance: a cross-section analysis of structural and stochastic poverty

Environment and Development Economics ◽

10.1017/s1355770x18000013 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 23 (3) ◽

pp. 257-278 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Arild Angelsen ◽

Therese Dokken

Keyword(s):

Coping Strategies ◽

Cross Section ◽

Climate Extremes ◽

Dry Forest ◽

Forest Loss ◽

Climate Conditions ◽

Climate Exposure ◽

And Coping ◽

Climate Shocks ◽

Section Analysis

AbstractWe analyze links between exposure to climate extremes and shocks, vulnerability and coping strategies, environmental reliance and poverty among 7,300 households in forest adjacent communities in 24 developing countries. We combine observed income with predicted income to create four categories of households:income & asset poor(structurally poor),income rich & asset poor(stochastically non-poor),income poor & asset rich(stochastically poor) andincome & asset rich(structurally non-poor), and assess exposure and vulnerability across these groups. The income poor are more exposed to extreme climate conditions. They tend to live in dryer (and hotter) villages in the dry forest zones, in wetter villages in the wet zones, and experience larger rainfall fluctuations. Among the income-generating coping strategies, extracting more environmental resources ranks second to seeking wage labor. The poorest in dry regions also experience the highest forest loss, undermining the opportunities to cope with future climate shocks.

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The Relationship between Religious Identity and Preferred Coping Strategies: An Examination of the Relative Importance of Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Coping in Muslim and Christian Faiths

Review of General Psychology ◽

10.1037/a0021624 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 14 (4) ◽

pp. 365-381 ◽

Cited By ~ 29

Author(s):

Peter Fischer ◽

Amy L. Ai ◽

Nilüfer Aydin ◽

Dieter Frey ◽

S. Alexander Haslam

Keyword(s):

Coping Strategies ◽

Religious Identity ◽

Relative Importance ◽

The Relationship

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Family Member Needs Of Autistic Children

American Journal of Health Sciences (AJHS) ◽

10.19030/ajhs.v3i4.7323 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 3 (4) ◽

pp. 291-300

Author(s):

Majeda Al Sayyed Obaid ◽

Khawla Al-Kadoumi

Keyword(s):

Coping Strategies ◽

Family Member ◽

Service Providers ◽

Relative Importance ◽

Autistic Children ◽

Over Time

For the families in this study, the problems of parenting a child with autism, and their means of coping with it, have changed over time. The total number of coping strategies reported by parents declined and there was a general shift away from problem-focused towards emotion-focused means of coping. In particular, the reliance on service providers has declined and the relative importance of religion and other coping strategies such as an appreciation of their child’s good qualities have increased. The reasons for these changes may reflect both the changing problems of the children and the services currently available for their treatment. In fact, most of the children have improved over time as they have become less disrupted and more orderly in their habits.

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Climate shocks and poverty persistence: Investigating consequences and coping strategies in Niger, Tanzania, and Uganda

Sustainable Development ◽

10.1002/sd.2200 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Vidya Diwakar ◽

Antoine Lacroix

Keyword(s):

Coping Strategies ◽

Poverty Persistence ◽

And Coping ◽

Climate Shocks

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Determining Emotional Tone and Verbal Behavior in Patients With Tinnitus and Hyperacusis: An Exploratory Mixed-Methods Study

American Journal of Audiology ◽

10.1044/2019_aja-18-0136 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 28 (3) ◽

pp. 660-672

Author(s):

Suzanne H. Kimball ◽

Toby Hamilton ◽

Erin Benear ◽

Jonathan Baldwin

Keyword(s):

Mixed Methods ◽

Verbal Behavior ◽

Coping Strategies ◽

Mixed Methods Study ◽

Self Report ◽

Anxiety And Depression ◽

Negative Consequences ◽

Emotional Tone ◽

Explanatory Mixed Methods ◽

Quantitative Results

Purpose The purpose of this study was to evaluate the emotional tone and verbal behavior of social media users who self-identified as having tinnitus and/or hyperacusis that caused self-described negative consequences on daily life or health. Research Design and Method An explanatory mixed-methods design was utilized. Two hundred “initial” and 200 “reply” Facebook posts were collected from members of a tinnitus group and a hyperacusis group. Data were analyzed via the LIWC 2015 software program and compared to typical bloggers. As this was an explanatory mixed-methods study, we used qualitative thematic analyses to explain, interpret, and illustrate the quantitative results. Results Overall, quantitative results indicated lower overall emotional tone for all categories (tinnitus and hyperacusis, initial and reply), which was mostly influenced by higher negative emotion. Higher levels of authenticity or truth were found in the hyperacusis sample but not in the tinnitus sample. Lower levels of clout (social standing) were indicated in all groups, and a lower level of analytical thinking style (concepts and complex categories rather than narratives) was found in the hyperacusis sample. Additional analysis of the language indicated higher levels of sadness and anxiety in all groups and lower levels of anger, particularly for initial replies. These data support prior findings indicating higher levels of anxiety and depression in this patient population based on the actual words in blog posts and not from self-report questionnaires. Qualitative results identified 3 major themes from both the tinnitus and hyperacusis texts: suffering, negative emotional tone, and coping strategies. Conclusions Results from this study suggest support for the predominant clinical view that patients with tinnitus and hyperacusis have higher levels of anxiety and depression than the general population. The extent of the suffering described and patterns of coping strategies suggest clinical practice patterns and the need for research in implementing improved practice plans.

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