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Typhoon survivors' subjective wellbeing-A different view of responses to natural disaster.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Subjective well-being was evaluated three weeks after Super Typhoon Haiyan struck the Philippines. Based on the Conservation of Resources theory, which focuses on the role of resources in understanding adjustment following trauma, data was collected on lost resources. In line with the Conservation of Resources theory, four categories of resources were defined: objects-residential property; condition-gender health state and witness to injury; personal-coping strategies; energy-relationships.

Design and settings

Eight hundred thirty-four people from the Philippines filled out self-report measures using an online interview system regarding: socio demographics data, subjective well-being, using the Delighted Terrible Faces Scale (DTS), disaster related experiences, coping strategies, personal relationships, obtained through support sources (close family, relatives and friends, community) and assessing problems with those relationships after Haiyan.

Results

Subjective well-being was predicted by the following classes of resources: objects (home damage) condition (self-rated health and witness to injury), personal (positive reframing and self-blame coping strategies) and energy resources (relations and problems in relations).

Conclusions

The results imply the important role individual's resources (i.e. objects, personal characteristics, conditions, and energies) might play in promoting subjective well-being, following natural disaster.

SUBMITTER: Hamama-Raz Y

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5587279 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Typhoon survivors' subjective wellbeing-A different view of responses to natural disaster.

Hamama-Raz Yaira Y Palgi Yuval Y Leshem Elazar E Ben-Ezra Menachem M Lavenda Osnat O

PloS one 20170906 9

<h4>Objective</h4>Subjective well-being was evaluated three weeks after Super Typhoon Haiyan struck the Philippines. Based on the Conservation of Resources theory, which focuses on the role of resources in understanding adjustment following trauma, data was collected on lost resources. In line with the Conservation of Resources theory, four categories of resources were defined: objects-residential property; condition-gender health state and witness to injury; personal-coping strategies; energy-r ...[more]

PMID: 28877264

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Typhoon survivors' subjective wellbeing-A different view of responses to natural disaster.

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Typhoon survivors' subjective wellbeing-A different view of responses to natural disaster.

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