Individual,Community, and National Resilience in Peace Time and in the Face of Terror: A Longitudinal Study |
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| Authors: | Shaul Kimhi Yohanan Eshel Dmitry Leykin Mooli Lahad |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Psychology Department, Tel Hai College, Tel Hai, Israel;2. Recanati School for Community Health Professions, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Department of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Israel;3. Tel Hai College, Community Stress Prevention Center, Kiryat Shemona, Israel |
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| Abstract: | The present paper is based on thrice-repeated measures. The sample constituted 561 Jewish Israeli adults who experienced these terror attacks. The study examined individual, community and national resilience and their associations with resilience-promoting factors (sense of coherence, social support, and self-efficacy); as well as resilience-suppressing factors (distress symptoms, sense of danger, and exposure). Results indicated that resilience scores were quite stable across the three repeated measures, whereas sense of coherence, distress symptoms, sense of danger, and exposure significantly changed across the three repeated measures. Sense of coherence was the best predictor for individual, community, and national resilience. |
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| Keywords: | Community resilience individual resilience longitudinal research national resilience stability and change of resilience terrorism |
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