Resiliency in Adolescents Who Live in Disaster Area: Phenomenology Study

DOI

10.2991/amca-18.2018.22How to use a DOI?

Keywords

disaster areas, adolescence, resiliency, flood, landslides, maountain eruption

Abstract

Indonesia is an archipelago country and located in the Pasific Ring Of Fire which is at risk of experiencing various kinds of natural disaster, such as floods, landslides and mountains erupted. Natural disaster certainly bring harm and suffering to the victims, especially in adolescent and not all of the people could survive from it. Resiliency was the term to describe the ability of individu to survive from traumatic event. The purpose of this study was to acquire and describe resiliences in adolescents who live in disaster areas, using qualitative methods and phenomenology study. Six informans were participated in this study. They were 2 adolescents from Kampung Sewu, 2 adolescents from Gunung Kidul, and 2 adolescents who live in Sleman. Kampung Sewu was the area which at risk for floods, Gunung Kidul was the area which at risk for landslides, and Sleman was the area that risk of mountains eruption. We used purposive sampling to determine the informans and content analysis to analyzed the data. The results showed that resilieces in adolescents who was living in disaster areas was indicate by the ability to adapt in various situations, keep doing school task at the times of disaster, and maintain healthy life. There was a different form of resiliences in the three types of disaster, in the floods area of the adolenscents knew what they supposed to do when got a warning of danger. But in areas of landslides and mountains eruptions, the adolenscent prefered to save their lives although they did not know what they supposed to do specificcaly. Factors that affected resiliency was individual characteristic, support of the family, and the environment, the goverment and types of disasters.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Ayu Widiawati
AU  - Wiwien Dinar Pratisti
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DA  - 2018/07
TI  - Resiliency in Adolescents Who Live in Disaster Area: Phenomenology Study
BT  - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Community Development (AMCA 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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EP  - 80
SN  - 2352-5398
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