Family System Adjustment and Adaptive Reconstruction of Social Reality among the 1995 Earthquake Survivors

Tatsuki, Shigeo; Hayashi, H.

doi:10.1111/j.1475-6781.2000.tb00079.x

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“…This scale was adapted from Tatsuki and Hayashi () and is used to gauge the level of life recovery of the flood victims. As noted above, it has three subscales: life readjustment (recovery of daily activities); (ii) life satisfaction (quality of life); and (iii) future life prospects (optimism).…”

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Social capital's role in recovery: evidence from communities affected by the 2010 Pakistan floods

Akbar

Aldrich

2017

Disasters

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Pakistan suffered large-scale flooding in summer 2010 that caused damage amounting to approximately USD 43 billion, claimed the lives of at least 1,700 people, and negatively affected some 20 million others. Observers have debated the degree to which social capital plays a role in recovery after a catastrophe of this magnitude. Using new survey data on 450 residents impacted by the disaster, this study found that, controlling for various confounding factors, the social capital levels of victims serve as robust correlates of life recovery. Other important variables connected with recovery include education and income, family size, occupation, material damage suffered, stability of home, and trauma experience. The findings point to a number of relevant policy recommendations, most notably that during and following major shocks, disaster managers should work to keep the social networks of victims intact so that they can benefit from interaction with family, friends, and neighbours.

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“…Life recovery involves a self‐assessment of the recovery of everyday life, health, livelihoods, and quality of life. It is related to the ability of an individual to recover and to grow (Tatsuki and Hayashi, ). The concept has three dimensions:…”

Section: Life Recoverymentioning

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Social capital's role in recovery: evidence from communities affected by the 2010 Pakistan floods

Akbar

Aldrich

2017

Disasters

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“…It was measured using a scale comprising 14 items that were used to create 2 subfactors, social and physical disorder, and is a modified version of the neighborhood effects measure used by Tatsuki and Hayashi. 10 Help was categorized into…”

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Measuring Individual Disaster Recovery: A Socioecological Framework

Abramson

Stehling-Ariza²,

Park³

et al. 2010

Disaster med. public health prep.

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ABSTRACTBackground: Disaster recovery is a complex phenomenon. Too often, recovery is measured in singular fashion, such as quantifying rebuilt infrastructure or lifelines, without taking in to account the affected population's individual and community recovery. A comprehensive framework is needed that encompasses a much broader and far-reaching construct with multiple underlying dimensions and numerous causal pathways; without the consideration of a comprehensive framework that investigates relationships between these factors, an accurate measurement of recovery may not be valid. This study proposes a model that encapsulates these ideas into a single framework, the Socio-Ecological Model of Recovery.Methods: Using confirmatory factor analysis, an operational measure of recovery was developed and validated using the five measures of housing stability, economic stability, physical health, mental health, and social role adaptation. The data were drawn from a sample of displaced households following Hurricane Katrina. Measures of psychological strength, risk, disaster exposure, neighborhood contextual effects, and formal and informal help were modeled to examine their direct and indirect effects on recovery using a structural equation model.Findings: All five elements of the recovery measure were positively correlated with a latent measure of recovery, although mental health and social role adaptation displayed the strongest associations. An individual's psychological strength had the greatest association with positive recovery, followed by having a household income greater than $20 000 and having informal social support. Those factors most strongly associated with an absence of recovery included the time displaced since the hurricane, being disabled, and living in a community with substantial social disorder.Discussion: The socio-ecological framework provides a robust means for measuring recovery, and for testing those factors associated with the presence or absence of recovery.(Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2010;4:S46-S54)

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“…Family systems also facilitated life recovery. The Circumplex model of marital and family systems defines family cohesion and adaptability as the two major factors deciding family relationship functioning (Olson, Russell, and Sprenkle, 1979 [17]; Tatsuki, 1999 [18]); Tatsuki and Hayashi, 2000 [2]). Those whose family cohesion was characterized by moderate levels of family cohesion (F 3, 910 =8.195, p<.01) and family adaptability (F 3, 910 =4.199, p<.01) reported higher life recovery.…”

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Long-term Life Recovery Processes Among Survivors of the 1995 Kobe Earthquake: 1999, 2001, 2003, and 2005 Life Recovery Social Survey Results

Tatsuki¹

2007

J. Disaster Res.

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This paper summarizes findings from life recovery surveys conducted in 1999, 2001, 2003, and 2005 among 1995 Kobe earthquake survivors. The 1999 survey (N=915) developed some of the key scales for the project, including life recovery, physical and psychological stress, family relations, and civic-mindedness. The 2001 study (N=1203) integrated 1999 study findings and those from 1999 grassroots assessment of life recovery, from which a seven critical element model of life recovery was constructed. The effects of these seven critical elements on life recovery were empirically tested and validated by general linear model (GLM) analysis. The 2003 (N=1203) and 2005 (N=1028) studies focused both on life recovery outcomes and on intervening life recovery processes. Structural equation modeling (SEM) identified causal links among recovery-promotion factors, recovery processes such as event impact stabilization, and event evaluation through community empowerment, and recovery outcomes. Event impact was a process through which impact caused by earthquake damage, loss, and/or stress was alleviated by housing, household finances, and stress management. Through event evaluation, social ties and community rebuilding efforts directly or indirectly facilitated the reframing of earthquake experiences into positive narratives. Research and policy implications of these findings are discussed in the end.

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Family System Adjustment and Adaptive Reconstruction of Social Reality among the 1995 Earthquake Survivors

Cited by 17 publications

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Social capital's role in recovery: evidence from communities affected by the 2010 Pakistan floods

Social capital's role in recovery: evidence from communities affected by the 2010 Pakistan floods

Measuring Individual Disaster Recovery: A Socioecological Framework

Long-term Life Recovery Processes Among Survivors of the 1995 Kobe Earthquake: 1999, 2001, 2003, and 2005 Life Recovery Social Survey Results

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