Coping Strategies as a Predictors of Psychological Distress and Post Traumatic Growth among Flood Affected Individuals

Abstract

The aim of the present study was to see the predictive role of coping strategies in psychological distress and Post Traumatic Growth among 1862 individuals exposed to floods 2010 in Pakistan. The age range of the participants was 15 to 66 years (M = 28.25, SD = 9.59), with participation of both men and women. Data was collected during mid-

Role Of Gender In Hsb And Ptg After Natural Disaster: Review

“…However, by critically reviewing the studies, it is indicated that Help seeking behaviour related with the development of PTG and they do occur in different genders after any natural disasters Studies results are inconsistent for gender difference in PTG as most studies found no significant gender difference (Aslam & Kamal, 2015;Bianchini et al, 2017;García et al, 2014;Mordeno et al, 2016;Siqveland et al, 2015). Studies which were done on flood or tsunami did not find any gender difference even if the time of assessment was one month or after two to three years of the disaster (Aslam & Kamal, 2015;Mordeno et al, 2016;Siqveland et al, 2015). However, studies done on earth quake https: //doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2019.05.02.1 Corresponding Author: Sadaf Alamdar Selection and peer-review under showed inconsistent results for gender differences.…”

“…Only four studies correlated the demographic variable with the PTG. Two studies reported that being younger and with higher education are the two significant demographic variables for the PTG (Aslam & Kamal, 2015;Fergusson et al, 2015). However, Garcia et al (2014) & Siqveland et al (2015) reported no effect of age on PTG.…”

“…Coping strategies employed by a person after the disaster considered as a potential contributing factor related to PTG. PTG was more specifically related to acceptance coping, positive reframing, instrumental support, planning, active coping (Aslam & Kamal, 2015), positive religious coping (Aslam & Kamal, 2015;García et al, 2014) and negatively associated with substance abuse (Aslam & Kamal, 2015;Bianchini et al, 2017).…”

“…Only one study was qualitative in nature (Fergusson et al, https://doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2019.05.02.1 Corresponding Author: Sadaf Alamdar Selection and peer-review under responsibility of the Organizing Committee of the conference eISSN: 2357-1330 4 2015). PTGI was used to investigate the prevalence of growth for all studies except two, one study used the short version of PTGI-SF (Aslam & Kamal, 2015) and another study used the interview method (Fergusson et al, 2015). Whereas, five studies used the translated version of PTGI (Aslam & Kamal, 2015;García, Páez-Rovira, Zurtia, Martel, & Reyes, 2014;Jin, Xu, & Liu, 2014;Wu, Zhang, Liu, Zhou, & Wei, 2015;Xu & Liao, 2011).…”

“…Results of PTG and gender differences were inconsistent. Out of nine studies three studies showed the significant gender difference where female reported more PTG (Fergusson et al, 2015;Jin et al, 2014;Xu & Liao, 2011), five studies demonstrate no gender difference (Aslam & Kamal, 2015;Bianchini et al, 2017;García, Páez-Rovira, Zurtia, Martel, & Reyes, 2014;Mordeno, Nalipay, Alfonso, & Cue, 2016;Siqveland et al, 2015) Only one study demonstrate the more prevalence of PTG in male (Wu et al, 2015).…”