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Community Resilience after Disasters: Exploring Teacher, Caregiver and Student Conceptualisations in Indonesia

Parrott, E, Bernardino, A, Lomeli-Rodriguez, M, Burgess, R, Rahman, A, Direzkia, Y and Joffe, H (2023) Community Resilience after Disasters: Exploring Teacher, Caregiver and Student Conceptualisations in Indonesia. Sustainability, 16 (1). p. 73.

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Abstract

Despite the potentially catastrophic nature of disasters, survivors can be highly resilient. Resilience, the capacity to successfully adapt to adversity, is both individual and collective. Policymakers and academics have recently emphasised the importance of community resilience, but with little consideration of local survivors’ perspectives, particularly young survivors within low- and middle-income countries. Therefore, this exploratory study aims to give voice to disaster-affected caregivers, teachers and female adolescent students by examining their conceptualisations of community coping and priorities for resilient recovery following the 2018 Central Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami. A total of 127 survivors of the devastating disaster, including 47 adolescents, answered open-ended survey questions related to post-disaster resilience. A content analysis identified key constituents of community resilience. The results indicate that survivors highly value community cohesion and participation, drawing on the community’s intra-personal strengths to overcome post-disaster stressors. Student conceptualisations of and recommendations for a resilient recovery often differ from the views of important adults in their lives, for example, regarding the role played by the built environment, “trauma healing” and religiosity in the recovery process. These findings have implications for the design of disaster resilience interventions.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: 12 Built Environment and Design
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Divisions: Psychology (from Sep 2019)
Publisher: MDPI
SWORD Depositor: A Symplectic
Date Deposited: 28 Mar 2025 11:40
Last Modified: 28 Mar 2025 11:45
DOI or ID number: 10.3390/su16010073
URI: https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/26028
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