“I defeat those fears and start a new life”: Iraqi refugee students’ PTSD, wisdom, and resilience.

Bang, Hyeyoung; Collet, Bruce A.

doi:10.1037/pac0000520

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“…In this study, we draw on the concept of relational resilience, understood as a process of "adaptive accommodation and transformation to loss, dislocation, and radically changed circumstances" (Turner et al, 2012;p. 7) via the mobilization of social competences and behaviours (Bang & Collet, 2020).…”

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Child Psychological Adjustment to War and Displacement: A Discriminant Analysis of Resilience and Trauma in Syrian Refugee Children

2021

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The ongoing war in Syria has led to the displacement of 12 million people since 2011, with minors representing 40% of all refugees. Syrian children living in refugee camps are at risk of developing a wide range of mental health problems, given their previous and ongoing exposure to episodes of violence, disruption of family ties, and discontinuous access to education. In this study, we drew on the salutogenic paradigm to investigate whether, and to what extent, high/low levels of resilience were associated with other indicators of mental health and post-traumatic response in Syrian children living in refugee camps. The sample was composed of 311 Syrian children living in Jordanian refugee camps as a consequence of the war in Syria. We administered quantitative self-report measures to assess participants’ exposure to trauma, individual levels of resilience, and mental health, performing discriminant analysis to examine the association between resilience and trauma/mental health. Syrian children living in Jordanian refugee camps reported intense exposure to traumatic events. The linear discriminant equation supported adoption of the function [Wilk’s Lambda (Λ = 0.827)]: lower levels of resilience were associated with trauma symptoms (re-experiencing, avoidance, and hyperarousal) and emotional problems, while higher levels of resilience were associated with pro-social behaviours. The findings of the present study suggest that resilience acts as a protective factor buffering children from the consequences of trauma and challenging life conditions. We discuss the implications for interventions designed to promote the wellbeing and mental health of children living in refugee camps.

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Child Psychological Adjustment to War and Displacement: A Discriminant Analysis of Resilience and Trauma in Syrian Refugee Children

2021

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“…Die psychologische Weisheitsforschung hat sich aus der Lebensspannenforschung entwickelt 2 3 . Weisheit geht einher mit Lebenszufriedenheit 4 , subjektivem Wohlbefinden 5 , Lebensqualität 6 und psychischer Gesundheit 7 und wird daher als ein Resilienzfaktor angesehen 8 9 . Weststrate und Glück 10 beobachteten, dass weise Menschen auf eine bestimmte Art und Weise reflektierten, die es ihnen wahrscheinlicher machte, aus schwierigen Erfahrungen zu lernen, als weniger weise Menschen.…”

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Ähnliche Weisheitsstrategien für unterschiedliche Lebensprobleme

Meier-Credner,

Eberl-Kollmeier,

Muschalla

2023

Psychother Psychosom Med Psychol

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Zusammenfassung Ziel Weisheit kann verstanden werden als Fähigkeit, unlösbare Probleme zu lösen. Weisen Menschen gelingt es besser, verschiedene schwierige Lebenssituationen zu bewältigen. Dabei helfen ihnen Weisheitsstrategien. Fraglich ist, ob in verschiedenen schwierigen Lebenssituationen die gleichen oder verschiedene Weisheitsstrategien benötigt werden. Diese Studie geht deshalb der Frage nach, ob Menschen die gleichen oder unterschiedliche Weisheitsstrategien für sinnvoll halten, wenn sie mit zwei verschiedenen Lebensproblemen konfrontiert werden. Methodik Insgesamt 416 Personen (40,4 Jahre alt) lasen jeweils zwei Vignetten, eine zu einer beruflichen Problemsituation und eine zu einer privaten Problemsituation. Für jede Situation schätzten sie ein, wie stark sie den angebotenen Weisheitsstrategien, bezogen auf die jeweilige Situation, zustimmten. Die Weisheitsstrategien wurden mittels Selbstbeurteilungsfragebogen erfasst. Ergebnisse Die Befragten stimmten den Weisheitsstrategien für beide Situationen ähnlich stark zu. Für beide Situationen stimmten sie am stärksten der Bedeutung von Fakten- und Problemlösewissen, Emotionswahrnehmung und -akzeptanz, Wertrelativismus sowie Problem- und Anspruchsrelativierung zu. Die Reihenfolge der übrigen acht Weisheitsstrategien ist für beide Situationen dieselbe. Diskussion und Schlussfolgerung Menschen tendieren dazu, allgemeinen Weisheitsstrategien zuzustimmen, ungeachtet der situationsspezifischen Hinweisreize. Weisheitsstrategien werden über verschiedene Lebenssituationen hinweg für sinnvoll erachtet. Das ist bedeutsam für die Gestaltung von Präventions- und Interventionsmaßnahmen zur Förderung psychischer Resilienz.

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“…The second group of empirical reports provide a picture of the risk assessment undertaken by psychologists and the various risks confronted by youth, including biases in the media that depreciate their particular group (Ehsan et al, 2021; Haji et al, 2021; Reiter et al, 2021). The third group of empirical studies indicate youth resilience and paths to a brighter future (Bang & Collet, 2021; Blom et al, 2021). The five Brief Research Reports included in this issue continue the theme of youth and peace development (Button, 2021; Chukhovich, 2021; Ekici et al, 2021; Hirschmann & Van Doesum, 2021; Wong et al, 2021).…”

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What has Shakespeare got to do with it?

Moghaddam

2021

Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology

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The effort to establish psychology as a bona fide science has been associated with a simplistic and incorrect picture of psychology as evolving from methodologies and practices in physics and "other sciences," and being far removed and completely separate from the humanities and arts. Introductory psychology texts routinely present this view of psychology (Dunstan & Moghaddam, 2016). However, the claim that the roots of experimental psychology are to be found in 19th-century physics and related sciences is misleading (Winston & Blais, 1996) and has negative implications for all of psychology, including peace psychology.The roots of experimental psychology actually go back to the scientific revolution underway from the 15th and 16th centuries, and are to be found in early modern literature and specifically thought experiments, which provide imagined demonstrations or tests of particular hypotheses about human behavior, such as in Shakespeare's plays (Moghaddam, 2021). In an analysis of Shakespeare's thought experiments, we find both tightly controlled thought experiments that might have been carried out in a 21st-century psychology laboratory, and less tightly controlled field experiments on the power of context (Moghaddam, 2021). Thought experiments were integral to the ideas of both Shakespeare and other thinkers in his era, such as Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). The most famous of Galileo's thought experiments revealed the invalid nature of the Aristotelian view that heavier objects fall faster than light ones. Thought experiments play a central role in the research of Charles Darwin (1809-1882) and other great scientists. Albert Einstein (1879Einstein ( -1955, probably the leading scientist of the modern era, relied almost entirely on thought experiments for the development of his ideas. Thus, thought experiments represent a bridge between science and other disciplines, including literature.Through thought experiments, the roots of experimental psychology can be found in early modern English, as demonstrated in Shakespeare's plays (Moghaddam, 2021).The attempt to position experimental psychology as strictly associated with "physics and other sciences," and completely separate from the arts and humanities, is not only historically incorrect (Moghaddam, 2021), but also harmful to the efforts of research and practicing psychologists. For example, peace psychologists active in the field have to go beyond the limitations of traditional laboratory experiments, and employ thought experiments and intuitive understandings and propositions, in order to progress toward practical solutions (such as in conflict resolution). Rather than position psychology as being modeled on 19th-century physics and completely removed from "nonsciences," it would be far more fruitful to adopt a more integrated, interconnected view of human knowledge, where at the frontiers the "different disciplines" have a great deal in common, particularly through thought experiments (Moghaddam, 2021). This is an important and relevant point for the traini...

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“I defeat those fears and start a new life”: Iraqi refugee students’ PTSD, wisdom, and resilience.

Cited by 5 publications

References 36 publications

Child Psychological Adjustment to War and Displacement: A Discriminant Analysis of Resilience and Trauma in Syrian Refugee Children

Child Psychological Adjustment to War and Displacement: A Discriminant Analysis of Resilience and Trauma in Syrian Refugee Children

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