Beyond Individualism Perspective of Trauma: Evidence for Adopting Collective Narratives for Empowering Long-Term Rehabilitation for Children of the Ethnic Qiang People Who Have Been Affected by Disaster

Autor: Wang Shuguang, Wang Y.Elaine, Wang M.Joshua
Jazyk: English<br />Chinese
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Contemporary Social Sciences (2017)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2096-0212
DOI: 10.19873/j.cnki.2096-0212.2017.06.010
Popis: Objective: Exploring how an ethnic culture-focused collective narrative strategy can be effectively used to promote resilience among the affected Qiang children for post-disaster psychological trauma at scale. Design: The study was conducted with a cohort of ethnic Qiang children through a pretest (n=1100) and post-three years test (n=957) to evaluate the effect of the intervention program from myth story-based collective narrative cultural practices. Results: Data from the study clearly indicate that children’s resilience behaviour had been greatly improved by the myth story-based collective narrative activities with average scores on 11 items showing a significant increase from 2.08 at baseline to 4.12 at 3 years follow-up posttest (mean=2.04, 95% CI=0.97, 3.11, p
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