Positive Coping And Resilience: Questions and Conclusions Drawn From A Longitudinal Study
Journal Title: European Journal of Mental Health - Year 2017, Vol 12, Issue 2
Abstract
In 2002–2004, during a research about families taking care of disabled children or adults, we created the criteria of coping successfully. Interpreting through this filter the resulting data and the responses a coping profile has outlined. Ten years later, we repeated the survey and found that in the interpretation of the data, the coping criteria from the first research was not sustainable. To better understand this phenomenon, we performed in-depth interviews and we added a CHIP (Coping Health Inventory For Parents) questionnaire that provides insight to coping behaviours used by parents. The results we obtained further highlighted our suspicion that the factor of successful coping from the first period of facing disabilities significantly changed through the years. This phenomenon can be interpreted not only in terms of the life of individual families, but also shows the overlaps and differences between the meanings of the terms ‘coping’ and ‘resilience’, and the professional challenge brought by the supported resilience in the ‚overseeing’ of these families. Positive Bewältigung und Widerstandskraft: Fragen und Schlussfolgerungen anhand einer Longitudinalstudie: Während eines von 2002 bis 2004 durchgeführten Forschungsvorhabens mit Familien, die behinderte Kinder oder Erwachsene pflegen, haben wir die Kriterien der erfolgreichen Bewältigung erarbeitet. Anhand der Analyse der Daten und der Antworten mit diesem Filter zeichnete sich ein Bewältigungsprofil ab. Zehn Jahre später haben wir die Erhebung wiederholt und festgestellt, dass die Bewältigungskriterien aus dem ersten Vorhaben bei der Interpretation der Daten nicht beibehalten werden konnten. Um dieses Phänomen besser zu verstehen, haben wir Tiefeninterviews durchgeführt und außerdem einen CHIP-Fragebogen (Coping Health Inventory For Parents) eingesetzt, der Einblicke in die Bewältigungsverhaltensweisen von Eltern gewährt. Die Ergebnisse, die wir erhielten, haben unseren Verdacht bestätigt, dass sich der Faktor der erfolgreichen Bewältigung der ersten Zeit der Konfrontation mit Behinderungen im Laufe der Jahre signifikant verändert hat. Das kann man nicht nur im Hinblick auf das Leben der einzelnen Familien interpretieren, sondern es zeigt auch die Überlappungen und Unterschiede zwischen der Bedeutung der Begriffe „Bewältigung“ (Coping) und „Widerstandskraft“ (Resilienz) sowie die fachliche Herausforderung, die die unterstützte Resilienz bei der Anleitung dieser Familien darstellt.
Authors and Affiliations
Lidia Berszán
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP251022
- DOI 10.5708/EJMH.12.2017.2.4
- Views 153
- Downloads 0
Positive Coping And Resilience: Questions and Conclusions Drawn From A Longitudinal Study
In 2002–2004, during a research about families taking care of disabled children or adults, we created the criteria of coping successfully. Interpreting through this filter the resulting data and the responses a coping pr...
Investigation of Persistence Value as a Study Protection Factor among Health Care Organizer Students
Introduction: To be successful, serious commitment, willingness of being involved in education and learning (on the part of the students), and (on the part of the education institution) demand for high standard are requi...
A Study of Work Satisfaction, Burnout and other Work-Related Variables Among Hungarian Educators
The main goal of the present study was to investigate, based on the Job Demands–Resources Model, a set of work-related variables as possible correlates (either as job demands or resources) of work satisfaction in a sampl...
THE RELATION OF PERCEIVED MEANING OF LIFE, MEANING OF ILLNESS AND ANXIOUS-DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS AMONG CANCER PATIENTS
Our research is based on the literature that shows meaningfulness is a correlate of mental health both in the general population and in the case of patients with a serious illness such as cancer. We had two major goals:...
SUBJECTIVE HAPPINESS IN SLOVAKIA Reliability and Validity of Measuring Happiness through the Subjective Happiness Scale
The objective of the present research was to assess the possibilities of measuring happiness in Slovakia and verify psychometric properties of the Slovak version of the Subjective Happiness Scale (SHS; LYUBOMIRSKY & LEPP...