Coping with a Community Stressor: The Threat of a Hazardous Waste Facility

Bachrach, Kenneth M.; Zautra, Alex

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“…Further to this Bandura (1995) argues that the development of self efficacy can be understood through mastery. Thus, self-efficacy is thought to tap into a person's appraisal of their ability to act in a given situation regardless of their own skill repertoire (Bachrach & Zautra, 1985;Rutter, 1985). Moreover, self-efficacy is regarded as being an important moderating and protective motivational construct in disaster situations (Gist & Mitchell, 1992) as it facilitates coping and provides individuals with a sense of control at a time when their control is often at its lowest ebb (Benight & Bandura, 2004).…”

Section: Stress and Growthmentioning

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“…The consensus being that people generally manifest three distinct types of coping, namely, avoidance coping (i.e., they avoid the issue), emotion coping (i.e., they focus on their emotions), or task-focused coping (i.e., they focus on the task in hand to be solved). Even though the bulk of the coping research relates to adults (e.g., Bachrach & Zautra, 1985; Stress and Growth 4 Holaday et al, 1995;Pearlin & Schooler, 1978), the smaller body of coping research relating to adolescents and children (Ronan & Johnston, 1999), seems to suggest that the younger the person is at the time of their experience of a disaster event, then the more likely they are to utilize a negative avoidance coping mechanism (Bolin & Stanford, 1998).The third psychological concept within the field of disaster research, self-efficacy, has tended to receive far less research attention. This has occured despite Bandura's (2002) hypothesis that self-efficacy is of critical importance to the adaptation and change processes and, therefore, is a crucial component of posttraumatic growth.…”

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Posttraumatic stress and posttraumatic growth and their relationship to coping and self-efficacy in Northwest Australian cyclone communities.

Pooley¹,

Cohen²,

O’Connor³

et al. 2013

Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy

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The main focus of disaster research conducted to date has been on providing insights into the negative consequences of experiencing a serious threat or adversity. The present study extends this research endeavour by investigating the positive post-trauma resiliency experiences of 512 survey respondents living in four cyclone prone communities in Northwest Australia. The findings reveal that disaster stress is often accompanied by disaster growth and, thus, provides an alternative resilience-based way of viewing postdisaster interventions. Stress and Growth 2Posttraumatic Stress and Posttraumatic Growth and their relationship to coping and selfefficacy in Northwest Australian Cyclone Communities.Resilience is a stress-resistant personal quality that allows individuals to cope, adapt and thrive despite an experience of serious threat or adversity (Ahern et al., 2008). Thus, to some measure the resiliency process of struggling to 'bounce back' from challenge and adversity could be construed as being the very grist of the individual/community lifeexperience mill. However, in exceptional circumstances (e.g., following a natural/human initiated disaster) the ability of an individual/community to grieve, struggle, cope accept and ultimately adapt to a new high stress reality goes well beyond their pre-trauma resiliency norm. Indeed, it is this ability to fulfil post-trauma responsibilities and embrace new tasks and experiences that is considered by some to be the very essence of posttraumatic growth (PTG) (Bonanno, 2007).Three core psychological concepts have been identified within the disaster field of research, namely, stress, coping and self-efficacy, each of which have received varying levels of research attention. Of the three, stress is arguably the most widely researched concept (Ursano et al., 1994). As such, in academia instances of significant psychosocial change (either within the individual or the affected community) are termed stressor events (Van Ameringen et al., 2008). In addition, much research endeavour has been devoted to understanding the human response to post-disaster stressor events within specific age cohorts (e.g., Adult responses see Norris et al., 2008; adolescent responses see Pina et al., 2008; and child responses see Kar, 2009). Consistently, the findings from these studies have suggested that the elderly, adolescents, and children are the most susceptible age groups for developing a high stress response following an experience of an intense stressor (disaster) event (Norris et al., 2008). Stress and Growth 3Other sections of academia have focused on understanding the human stress response to post-disaster stressor events within specific groups of adult workers who were either directly or non-directly involved with the disaster. Somewhat predictably individual workers (e.g., response volunteers [Armstrong et al., 1995]; emergency workers [Wagner, McFee, & Martin, 2009]; nurses and medical workers [Freedy et al., 1992]; emergency managers [Paton & Flin, 1999]) and the general publ...

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Posttraumatic stress and posttraumatic growth and their relationship to coping and self-efficacy in Northwest Australian cyclone communities.

Pooley¹,

Cohen²,

O’Connor³

et al. 2013

Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy

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“…Bachrach and Zautra (1985) claim that those with strong community feelings are more prepared for disasters. Turner et al (1986) assert that community bondedness increases preparedness and fosters action more than fear of potential disaster.…”

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Place attachment and flood preparedness

Mishra¹,

Mazumdar

Suar

2010

Journal of Environmental Psychology

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“…Upon accepting and identifying with a place of residence, people more often become involved in local activities. At the same time, engagement in local affairs can make residents more attached to their place of living (Bachrach & Zautra 1985). The present study reflects upon these issues, while analyzing the relation between the resident's local engagement and social solidarity in the area.…”

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Diverse and different: On the faces of social solidarity in Warsaw

Korcelli-Olejniczak¹,

Piotrowski²

2017

Geogr. Pol.

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Growing spatial mobility is a challenge to cities in many ways. It brings positive development impulses and social diversity, but at the same time contributes to a decomposition of existing structures and is a challenge to planning. Under the conditions of the obvious signum temporis -an intensifying hyper-diversity and a growing liquidity of values with weakening social bonds and a less evident physical rootedness, the question should be posed whether urban places can still sustain their interactive local identity based on social solidarity, mutual support and trust. The problem is tested on the example of two districts of Warsaw -Praga Północ and Ursynów. In the search for regularities in the relation between the level of social diversity on one side and social solidarity on the other, the analysis focuses on the areas characterised by fundamental differences in their historic development, built environment and social structure. Key wordssocial diversity • social solidarity • post-socialist city • Warsaw • Praga Północ • Ursynów "The cross-links that enable a district to function as a Thing are neither vague nor mysterious. They consist of working relationships among specific people, many of them without much more in common than that they share a fragment of geography" (Jacobs 1961:54)

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Coping with a Community Stressor: The Threat of a Hazardous Waste Facility

Cited by 202 publications

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Posttraumatic stress and posttraumatic growth and their relationship to coping and self-efficacy in Northwest Australian cyclone communities.

Posttraumatic stress and posttraumatic growth and their relationship to coping and self-efficacy in Northwest Australian cyclone communities.

Place attachment and flood preparedness

Diverse and different: On the faces of social solidarity in Warsaw

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