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Psychological trauma and resilience : the aftermath of Madeira island’s wildfires and floods
| Resumo: | Studying the experience of a disaster, a potentially traumatic event rather idiosyncratic, gets its relevance from the proven impact of disasters in the survivors’ mental health. The present dissertation aims, then, to explore the concepts of resilience, psychological trauma and posttraumatic growth associated to the experience of one or more disasters. The sample, gathered through the non-probabilistic sampling method “Snowball”, was constituted by adults from both genders (n=15) who resided in Madeira island and were exposed to wildfires and/or February 2010’s floods. Both situations refer to a generalized impact in the community, with considerable material damage and loss of human lives. The variables selected for analysis were resilience, posttraumatic growth, main event (single or multiple), traumatic exposure, preventive and interventive measures, social support and sociodemographic information. The quantitative information, collected through questionnaires regarding resilience, posttraumatic growth and sociodemographic information, was subsequently analysed via IBM SPSS Statistics (22.0 version for Windows). The qualitative data, of exploratory nature, was obtained through semi-structured interviews and analysed via NVivo software (11.0 version for Windows). Results point towards several possible relationships, namely between the severity of traumatic exposure and posttraumatic growth values, and between the attributed source of origin and the disaster measures. Lastly, implications at several levels (including clinical) are described, and future directions are suggested. |
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| Autores principais: | Fatela, Rita Ribeiro de Carvalho Soares |
| Assunto: | Resiliência Trauma psicológico Prevenção Intervenção Teses de mestrado - 2017 |
| Ano: | 2017 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | dissertação de mestrado |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade de Lisboa |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa |
| Resumo: | Studying the experience of a disaster, a potentially traumatic event rather idiosyncratic, gets its relevance from the proven impact of disasters in the survivors’ mental health. The present dissertation aims, then, to explore the concepts of resilience, psychological trauma and posttraumatic growth associated to the experience of one or more disasters. The sample, gathered through the non-probabilistic sampling method “Snowball”, was constituted by adults from both genders (n=15) who resided in Madeira island and were exposed to wildfires and/or February 2010’s floods. Both situations refer to a generalized impact in the community, with considerable material damage and loss of human lives. The variables selected for analysis were resilience, posttraumatic growth, main event (single or multiple), traumatic exposure, preventive and interventive measures, social support and sociodemographic information. The quantitative information, collected through questionnaires regarding resilience, posttraumatic growth and sociodemographic information, was subsequently analysed via IBM SPSS Statistics (22.0 version for Windows). The qualitative data, of exploratory nature, was obtained through semi-structured interviews and analysed via NVivo software (11.0 version for Windows). Results point towards several possible relationships, namely between the severity of traumatic exposure and posttraumatic growth values, and between the attributed source of origin and the disaster measures. Lastly, implications at several levels (including clinical) are described, and future directions are suggested. |
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