Exploring Resilience, Coping and Wellbeing in Women of Refugee Background Resettled in Regional Australia
This study aimed to address a significant gap in the literature by investigating how Women of Refugee Background (WoRB) conceptualise resilience and identify factors that WoRB endorse as contributing to their wellbeing and coping during resettlement. Qualitative interviews were conducted with a grou...
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| description | This study aimed to address a significant gap in the literature by investigating how Women of Refugee Background (WoRB) conceptualise resilience and identify factors that WoRB endorse as contributing to their wellbeing and coping during resettlement. Qualitative interviews were conducted with a group of 21 individuals (nine WoRB and 12 service providers). Thematic analysis identified that WoRB struggled to define resilience, with endorsed factors not fitting with current hegemonic Western understandings and theoretical understandings of resilience. The findings also highlighted how religious practice, finding a community and having a sense of meaning and contribution in their daily life were significant coping and wellbeing factors during resettlement, however, were difficult to access in regional resettlement locations. Results of the current study are discussed regarding theoretical and practical implications, taking into consideration the unique vulnerabilities experienced by WoRB resettled in regional locations of Australia. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c15b86bbf07a4220837b74e419b694d32022-12-21T20:13:54ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782021-08-011210.3389/fpsyg.2021.704570704570Exploring Resilience, Coping and Wellbeing in Women of Refugee Background Resettled in Regional AustraliaClare Hawkes0Kimberley Norris1Janine Joyce2Douglas Paton3College of Health and Human Sciences, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, NT, AustraliaSchool of Medicine (Psychology), University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, AustraliaCollege of Health and Human Sciences, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, NT, AustraliaCollege of Health and Human Sciences, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, NT, AustraliaThis study aimed to address a significant gap in the literature by investigating how Women of Refugee Background (WoRB) conceptualise resilience and identify factors that WoRB endorse as contributing to their wellbeing and coping during resettlement. Qualitative interviews were conducted with a group of 21 individuals (nine WoRB and 12 service providers). Thematic analysis identified that WoRB struggled to define resilience, with endorsed factors not fitting with current hegemonic Western understandings and theoretical understandings of resilience. The findings also highlighted how religious practice, finding a community and having a sense of meaning and contribution in their daily life were significant coping and wellbeing factors during resettlement, however, were difficult to access in regional resettlement locations. Results of the current study are discussed regarding theoretical and practical implications, taking into consideration the unique vulnerabilities experienced by WoRB resettled in regional locations of Australia.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.704570/fullresiliencecopingwomenwellbeingrefugee |
| spellingShingle | Clare Hawkes Kimberley Norris Janine Joyce Douglas Paton Exploring Resilience, Coping and Wellbeing in Women of Refugee Background Resettled in Regional Australia Frontiers in Psychology resilience coping women wellbeing refugee |
| title | Exploring Resilience, Coping and Wellbeing in Women of Refugee Background Resettled in Regional Australia |
| title_full | Exploring Resilience, Coping and Wellbeing in Women of Refugee Background Resettled in Regional Australia |
| title_fullStr | Exploring Resilience, Coping and Wellbeing in Women of Refugee Background Resettled in Regional Australia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Exploring Resilience, Coping and Wellbeing in Women of Refugee Background Resettled in Regional Australia |
| title_short | Exploring Resilience, Coping and Wellbeing in Women of Refugee Background Resettled in Regional Australia |
| title_sort | exploring resilience coping and wellbeing in women of refugee background resettled in regional australia |
| topic | resilience coping women wellbeing refugee |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.704570/full |
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