Adaptive capacity: A qualitative study of midlife Australian women's resilience during COVID-19
This article explores adaptive capacity as a framework for understanding how South Australian women in midlife (aged 45–64) demonstrated resilience during the early phases of COVID-19. In-depth interviews were undertaken with 40 women mid-2020 as a follow-up study to interviews with the same women u...
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| author | Eliza Huppatz Belinda Lunnay Kristen Foley Emma R. Miller Megan Warin Carlene Wilson Ian N. Olver Paul R. Ward |
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| description | This article explores adaptive capacity as a framework for understanding how South Australian women in midlife (aged 45–64) demonstrated resilience during the early phases of COVID-19. In-depth interviews were undertaken with 40 women mid-2020 as a follow-up study to interviews with the same women undertaken 2018–19 (before COVID-19 emerged). Transcripts were analysed following a critical realist approach using Grothmann and Patt's construct of adaptive capacity as a framework for analysis. This enabled authors to unpack the mechanisms of resilience that shaped women's experiences of appraising, and then showing an intention to adapt to COVID-19 adversity. Findings support the explanatory utility of adaptive capacity to understand resilience processes in the context of person-environment changes – the environment being the COVID-19 context – and women's capability to adapt to social distancing and lockdown conditions. With COVID-19 evoking health, social and economic challenges at incomparable scales, potentially fracturing mental stability, this article provides insight useful to policy makers and health professionals to support resilience as the pandemic continues. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-771677ad3c6f44aa87c9a10ee3b97a152022-12-28T04:19:44ZengElsevierSSM - Mental Health2666-56032022-12-012100080Adaptive capacity: A qualitative study of midlife Australian women's resilience during COVID-19Eliza Huppatz0Belinda Lunnay1Kristen Foley2Emma R. Miller3Megan Warin4Carlene Wilson5Ian N. Olver6Paul R. Ward7College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia; Corresponding author. School of Allied Health Science and Practice, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, AustraliaCollege of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, AustraliaCollege of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, AustraliaSchool of Social Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, AustraliaCollege of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, AustraliaFay Gale Centre for Research on Gender, University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia; School of Psychology, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, AustraliaTorrens University, Adelaide, South Australia, AustraliaThis article explores adaptive capacity as a framework for understanding how South Australian women in midlife (aged 45–64) demonstrated resilience during the early phases of COVID-19. In-depth interviews were undertaken with 40 women mid-2020 as a follow-up study to interviews with the same women undertaken 2018–19 (before COVID-19 emerged). Transcripts were analysed following a critical realist approach using Grothmann and Patt's construct of adaptive capacity as a framework for analysis. This enabled authors to unpack the mechanisms of resilience that shaped women's experiences of appraising, and then showing an intention to adapt to COVID-19 adversity. Findings support the explanatory utility of adaptive capacity to understand resilience processes in the context of person-environment changes – the environment being the COVID-19 context – and women's capability to adapt to social distancing and lockdown conditions. With COVID-19 evoking health, social and economic challenges at incomparable scales, potentially fracturing mental stability, this article provides insight useful to policy makers and health professionals to support resilience as the pandemic continues.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666560322000202ResilienceCOVID-19PandemicAdaptive capacityWomenAlcohol |
| spellingShingle | Eliza Huppatz Belinda Lunnay Kristen Foley Emma R. Miller Megan Warin Carlene Wilson Ian N. Olver Paul R. Ward Adaptive capacity: A qualitative study of midlife Australian women's resilience during COVID-19 SSM - Mental Health Resilience COVID-19 Pandemic Adaptive capacity Women Alcohol |
| title | Adaptive capacity: A qualitative study of midlife Australian women's resilience during COVID-19 |
| title_full | Adaptive capacity: A qualitative study of midlife Australian women's resilience during COVID-19 |
| title_fullStr | Adaptive capacity: A qualitative study of midlife Australian women's resilience during COVID-19 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Adaptive capacity: A qualitative study of midlife Australian women's resilience during COVID-19 |
| title_short | Adaptive capacity: A qualitative study of midlife Australian women's resilience during COVID-19 |
| title_sort | adaptive capacity a qualitative study of midlife australian women s resilience during covid 19 |
| topic | Resilience COVID-19 Pandemic Adaptive capacity Women Alcohol |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666560322000202 |
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