Zarina Akbar & Evelin Witruk - Coping Strategies and Disaster Experience Predict Post-traumatic Growth Survivors of Disaster in Yogyakarta Province Indonesia

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Disaster Experience ◽  
Post Traumatic Growth ◽  
Post Traumatic

scholarly journals Coping Strategy in Differentianting Levels of Post-Traumatic Growth on Housewives Living with Breast Cancer

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 2156-2159
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Posttraumatic Growth ◽  
Coping Strategy ◽  
Growth Conditions ◽  
Psychological State ◽  
Stressful Situation ◽  
Post Traumatic Growth ◽  
Coping Pattern ◽  
Post Traumatic

The psychological state of a person will be affected when they are diagnosed with cancer and this condition will actually worsen the physical condition of the patient. However, many breast cancer sufferers are able to face this stressful situation positively, and they experience post-traumatic growth. They did a series of coping strategy when they had cancer and some of these strategies were able to influence their post-traumatic growth. The current study aims to investigate and to understand how different coping strategy can affect the level of post-traumatic growth of housewives with cancer. This study used a descriptive-explorative qualitative approach with eight women with breast cancer completed surveys using the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory (Tedeschi& Calhoun). The coping strategy was obtained using an interview. The results of the present study indicate that sufferers performed different coping strategies and this affects their level of post-traumatic growth. Respondents with high post-traumatic growth exercise a problem-focused coping i.e. positive reappraisal and emotion-focused coping strategy, i.e. seeking social support when they first learned about the condition of their disease. Respondents who had low post-traumatic growth, on the other hand, did emotional-focused coping strategies, which isavoidance and distancing when they first learned about the condition of their illness. This study also found several factors that influence patients’ strategy. There are differences in the Coping pattern Strategy used by housewives with breast cancer in terms of differences in levels of post-traumatic growth it has. The pattern of coping strategy that is carried out for the first time by housewives with breast cancer could lead themto be in a variety of post-traumatic growth conditions.

scholarly journals PTSD Growth and Substance Abuse Among a College Student Community: Coping Strategies after 2009 L’aquila Earthquake

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 140-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
V Bianchini ◽  
R Roncone ◽  
L Giusti ◽  
M Casacchia ◽  
MG Cifone ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
L’Aquila Earthquake ◽  
Student Community ◽  
Positive Coping ◽  
Post Traumatic Growth ◽  
2009 L’Aquila Earthquake ◽  
Post Traumatic

Aim of the study was the assessment of coping strategies, specifically substance use and post-traumatic growth (PTG), in 411 college students two years after 2009 L’Aquila earthquake. Post-Traumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI) was used to assess PTG and one question about substance use (alcohol, tobacco, cannabis) was asked to verify if students had modified their use in the post-earthquake compared with the pre-earthquake period. The 77.1% of college students were exposed to L’Aquila earthquake. The PTGI mean score was 35.23, underlining low positive coping strategies among student community. About substance abuse, the 43.8% of college students reported a marked increase in alcohol use, 7.8% in cannabis and the 15.8% reported an increase in nicotine use in the post-earthquake period. Despite these data, 12.5 % of the students reported a decrease in alcohol use after the earthquake and 17.3% of the sample reported a PTG, showing positive behaviors and attitudes after the traumatic experience of the natural disaster (increase of social relationships, appreciation of new future possibilities, and development of a new deep meaning of life). Inferential analysis shows a strong negative correlation between direct earthquake exposure and PTGI total score. In post-disaster settings, a systematic framework of case identification, triage, and mental health interventions, including the improvement of positive coping strategies, like the PTG, should be integrated into emergency medicine and trauma care responses.

THE HIERARCHY OF PROFESSIONAL WELL-BEING FACTORS IN DIFFERENT PROFESSIONAL GROUPS

2020 ◽  
pp. 157-175
Author(s):  
V. І. Osodlo ◽  
D. S. Zubovskyi
Keyword(s):  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Psychological Factors ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Dispositional Optimism ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Post Traumatic Growth ◽  
Post Traumatic ◽  
Life Philosophy

The article presents the empirical study of individual psychological factors helping post-traumatic growth among military personnel - participants of the anti-terrorist operation (ATO). The sample consisted of 297 ATO participants (278 men and 19 women) of 19 to 54 year old. The following individual psychological factors examined to reveal their influence on ATO participants’ post-traumatic growth: basic personal characteristics; dispositional optimism; coping strategies; locus of control. The obtained data allowed us to determine the dependence of post-traumatic growth on ATO participants' several personal characteristics, dispositional optimism, the internal locus of control and some coping strategies. In particular, the overall post-traumatic growth correlated significantly with such personal characteristics as “benevolence” and “diligence”. We also found that factor 1 (“changes in self-perception / new opportunities”) of post-traumatic growth correlated statistically significantly with the “Open-mindedness”; factor 2 (“interpersonal relationships”) of post-traumatic growth correlated significantly “benevolence”; factor 3 (“life philosophy”) of post-traumatic growth correlated significantly with such personal characteristics as “extraversion”, “kindness”, and “diligence”. In addition, there were positives correlation of optimism in general with post-traumatic growth as a whole and with some its indicators. Only one coping strategy - a positive reassessment - correlated statistically significant with combatants’ post-traumatic growth. The correlations determined in our study are consistent with the results obtained at foreign studies.

scholarly journals Post-Traumatic Growth and Coping-Strategies of Parents of Children with Disabilities

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 8-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.I. Sergienko ◽  
A.B. Kholmogorova
Keyword(s):  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Children With Disabilities ◽  
Psychological Help ◽  
Ways Of Coping Questionnaire ◽  
Post Traumatic Growth ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Post Traumatic ◽  
Psychological Assistance ◽  
And Coping

We present the results of an empirical study of the effect of coping strategies on post-traumatic growth (PTG) of parents who raise children with disabilities. We emphasize the need for psychological help for parents that emerges as a predictor of the most successful development of the child and improves the quality of life of the parent. In the course of the study, 113 parents of children with disabilities completed the Post Traumatic Growth Inventory and the Ways of Coping Questionnaire. The results showed that coping strategies can either enhance or interfere with PTG. Positive reassessment, acceptance of responsibility, confrontational coping and search for social support have a positive effect on PTG, and planning has a negative effect. We drew up recommendations for the psychological assistance to parents of children with disabilities, based on the data and the concept of post-traumatic growth.

scholarly journals The Role of Coping Strategies in Post-Traumatic Growth among Syrian Refugees: A Structural Equation Model

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (16) ◽  
pp. 8829
Author(s):  
Busra Acar ◽  
İbrahim H. Acar ◽  
Omar A. Alhiraki ◽  
Ola Fahham ◽  
Yesim Erim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Traumatic Experiences ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Syrian Refugees ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Mass Migration ◽  
Post Traumatic Growth ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Post Traumatic

The Syrian conflict has led to a mass migration of Syrians to other countries and exposed them to many possible traumatic events and stressors in their country of origin and in the resettlement process. The possibility of positive psychological effects of adverse life events is less documented among Syrian refugees. Thus, the current study aimed to develop preliminary evidence for the identifying factors: traumatic experiences, post-migration stressors and coping strategies that are associated with post-traumatic growth (PTG) of Syrian refugees residing in Turkey. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used in the current study to assess the associations among these factors. Data were obtained from Syrian refugees residing in the governorates of Hatay and Mardin. A total of 528 Syrians, aged between 18–77 years (M = 35.60, SD = 11.65) participated in this cross-sectional study. Results from the SEM indicated that past traumatic experiences and post-migration stressors were indirectly related to PTG. The results from the current study provide support for that the association between refugees’ traumatic experiences, post-migration stressors and PTG appear to be explained through the presence of coping strategies which could be addressed in the psychotherapies and psychosocial interventions for refugees to promote positive psychological change. Future studies should address the effects of post-migration stressors on PTG in detail.

scholarly journals Life after bushfire: Post-traumatic stress, coping, post-traumatic growth

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jackie Hooper ◽  
Lynne Magor-Blatch ◽  
Navjot Bhullar
Keyword(s):  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Stress Reduction ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
Positive Adaptation ◽  
Unique Variance ◽  
Post Traumatic Growth ◽  
Australian Community ◽  
Post Traumatic

IntroductionResearch suggests that post-traumatic stress (PTS) symptoms are common after the experience of bushfire. However, the ways in which individuals cope with, positively grow from, and find benefit in the adverse circumstances of bushfire in Australia has not been adequately explored. The main objective of this study is to assess the relationship between PTS, coping strategies and post-traumatic growth, in a sample of Australian community members affected by a bushfire event.MethodsSixty-five participants (mean age 40.66 years, SD=13.57), who had previously experienced a bushfire event in Australia, responded to an anonymous online survey.ResultsResults indicated that greater PTS was associated with the use of all coping strategies, as well as higher levels of post-traumatic growth. The use of coping strategies was associated with higher levels of post-traumatic growth. Hierarchical regression analyses found that post-traumatic growth and avoidant coping explained significant amounts of unique variance in PTS, whereas PTS and emotion-focussed coping explained significant amounts of unique variance in post-traumatic growth.ConclusionIn communities that are seasonally threatened by bushfires, our findings suggest that not only are post-disaster stress reduction interventions required, but so too are preparedness programs that include strategies for promoting growth and positive adaptation. It is suggested further research should address implications for strength-based preparedness and recovery programs in bushfire prone areas.

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