Community resilience and the impact of stress: Adult response to Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon

Kimhi, Shaul; Skrzypek, Michał

doi:10.1002/jcop.20012

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“…Conversely, according to the approach to the social-economic resilience, attention is focused on social systems and resilience is measured as the capability of communities to recover a good life quality level. These methods are mainly proposed in social sciences community [22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41].…”

Section: Novel Understandings Around Resilience Quantificationmentioning

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Urban Resilience: A Civil Engineering Perspective

2017

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Abstract:The concept of resilience is used in multiple scientific contexts, being understood according to several different perspectives. Essentially, resilience identifies the capability to recover, absorb shocks, and restore equilibrium after a perturbation. Recently, resilience is triggering increasing interest in engineering contexts, referring to communities and urban networked systems, as the capability to recover from natural disasters. The approach to the engineering resilience dates back to the early 1980s, when Timmerman defined resilience as "the ability of human communities to withstand external shocks or perturbations to their infrastructure and to recover from such perturbations". In this paper, a literature review of the existing methodologies to quantify urban resilience is presented according to a civil engineering perspective. Different approaches, for diverse applications, are examined and discussed. A particular focus is done on the studies from Cavallaro et al. and Bozza et al., approaching disaster resilience of urban environments to natural hazards according to the complex networks theory.

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Urban Resilience: A Civil Engineering Perspective

2017

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“…Quality of life today refers to people's perception of their quality of life regarding the main aspects of life, such as family, social life, job and leisure time (Kimhi & Shamai, 2004;Kimhi & Eshel, 2009). We hypothesized that quality of life would be positively correlated with individual, community and national resilience among both Israeli Jews and Arabs.…”

Section: Psychological Resiliencementioning

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Resilience among Students from the Majority and Minority Group: The Israeli Case

Kimhi¹,

Dror²

2017

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The current study examined levels of individual, community and national resilience as well as resilience protective and suppressing factors among Israeli Jewish (majority group) and Israeli Arab (minority group) students. Results indicated that Israeli Jewish students reported higher levels of individual, community and national resilience scale scores compared with Israeli Arab students. However, when resilience was measured as strength to vulnerability ratio, only individual resilience was significant. Results indicated a similar pattern of association between resilience protective and suppressive factors and measures of resilience. In addition, and as expected, Israeli Jewish students reported higher levels of sense of coherence, and reported higher quality of life. Israeli Arab students reported higher levels of distress symptoms and a higher level of exposure to terror. However, Israeli Jews reported a higher sense of danger compared with Israeli Arabs.

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“…The sum of the items (ranged from 5 to 25) served as the exposure grade. Previous research has found that higher exposure to adversity was associated with higher stress [31], as well as a higher sense of danger [42]. Exposure scores revealed asymmetric right distribution: 78% reported low levels of exposure, 20% reported medium low exposure, 2% reported medium high exposure and only 0.04% reported high levels of exposure.…”

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“…Level of exposure to distressing experiences: Exposure to distressing events has been studied intensively as a predictor of negative impacts of PTE such as distress symptoms and PTSD symptoms [20,30,31]. Results have indicated that the higher the level of exposure, the higher the reported stress symptoms.…”

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“…Post-war recovery: Perceived recovery from war effects was assessed by a scale devised by Author and associates [23,31]. This eight-item scale requested that respondents compare their present situation with their pre-war situation in eight domains: physical health, morale, social activity, work, hobbies or sports, personal emotional state, level of optimism, and hope for a better future.…”

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Demographic Characteristics and Sense of Danger Predicting New Measure of Individual Resilience Following a War

Kimhi¹,

Eshel²

2016

J Community Med Health Educ

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Four months after Israel's war with the Gaza Strip (2014) we distributed questionnaires to 510 adults: 251 civilians who live in southern Israel and have recently been threatened by massive missile fire, and 259 adults who live in northern Israel, which has not been under missile fire for the last eight years. The current study focuses on two issues: first, a new index to measure individual resilience based on recovery to distress symptoms ratio; second, examining five demographic characteristics and sense of danger as predictors of individual resilience. Path analysis indicated that individual resilience significantly correlated negatively with sense of danger and exposure (β=-0.34), and positively with level of religiosity (β=0.24) and income (β=0.17). Sense of danger mediated the associations between area of living, community size and level of exposure and individual resilience. Results are discussed in terms of the role of demographic characteristics with respect to individual resilience.

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Community resilience and the impact of stress: Adult response to Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon

Cited by 171 publications

References 24 publications

Urban Resilience: A Civil Engineering Perspective

Urban Resilience: A Civil Engineering Perspective

Resilience among Students from the Majority and Minority Group: The Israeli Case

Demographic Characteristics and Sense of Danger Predicting New Measure of Individual Resilience Following a War

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