An analysis of the resilience process: The stimulus of mental strength and the role of community and family support amid
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An analysis of the resilience process: The stimulus of mental strength and the role of community and family support amidst the civil violence in Thailand Aphichat Chamratrithirong 1 & Aksarapak Lucktong 2
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Aree Jampaklay 1 & Kathleen Ford 3
# Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract Civil violence has been occurring in the three southernmost provinces of Thailand for an extended period of time. Despite the disturbance, residents of those provinces seemed to maintain mental strength and well-being with happiness scores among the highest in the country. It is interesting to investigate the progression of resilience amidst the prevailing violence, the gaining of mental strength, and retaining happiness in the context of the prevailing family and community support. This study employs data from a probability sample survey conducted in 2016 and includes residents of the three southernmost provinces of Thailand. The structural equation model reveals resilience process that violence in the village appeared to stimulate mental strength directly and that family and community support also had significant and isolated positive impact on mental strength and level of happiness among the respondents. Social policies which are meant to restore well-being of people in the vulnerable community by way of enhancing the individual’s mental strength, the family’s role, and the community cohesion are finally discussed. Keywords Resilience . Mental strength . Happiness . Community support . Family support
Introduction The World Health Organization (WHO 2001) has stated clearly that violence is a global public health problem. Among different types of violence, collective violence, including political violence where power and force is used for political goals, occurring between or within nations in many parts of the world, can have vast effect on health in terms of * Aksarapak Lucktong [email protected] Aphichat Chamratrithirong [email protected] Aree Jampaklay [email protected] Kathleen Ford [email protected] 1
Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol University, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand
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School of Liberal Arts, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok, Thailand
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School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
deaths, illness, disabilities and mental suffering. For example, in the communities in Algeria, Cambodia, Ethiopia and Palestine, the relationship between violence associated with armed conflict and mental health disorder was observed (de Jong et al. 2003). In the occupied Palestinian territory, Giacaman et al. (2009) found poor objective and subjective measures of health and life quality among the residents. Substantial psychological symptomatology was reported as a result of military actions among the Palestinian population (Al-Krenawi et al. 2009). The effect on health can be long term. Political violence with years of political strife and armed conflict in many Latin American countries was associated with ps
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