Strategies to Increase Personal Resilience in Disaster Response Efforts
In 2018, Hurricane Michael caused extensive damage in the Florida panhandle as a Category 4 hurricane. Cooperative Extension has a disaster preparedness and information dissemination role in hurricane response (Medford-Davis & Kapur, 2014; Washburn, 2006). Personal resilience focuses on reducin...
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In 2018, Hurricane Michael caused extensive damage in the Florida panhandle as a Category 4 hurricane. Cooperative Extension has a disaster preparedness and information dissemination role in hurricane response (Medford-Davis & Kapur, 2014; Washburn, 2006). Personal resilience focuses on reducing stress and increasing coping abilities in stressful situations. A basic qualitative research design explored UF/IFAS Extension agents’ hurricane experiences. Results suggested participants experienced some inability to balance personal and professional demands and were mentally and emotionally stressed. Participants felt fatigued and results suggested they experienced high levels of mental and emotional stress. There is scope to improve Extension agents’ personal resilience by: (1) strengthening individual levels of hardy attitudes and hardy strategies; and (2) reducing barriers such as mental and physical stress and performance deficits.
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| spelling | doaj-art-dc99d3f266ea4c8eb67723f523944bc92025-02-08T05:47:52ZengThe University of Florida George A. Smathers LibrariesEDIS2576-00092020-09-0120204Strategies to Increase Personal Resilience in Disaster Response EffortsAmanda D. Ali0Angela Lindsey1Amy Harder2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7042-2028Lisa Lundy3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3498-7486T. Grady Roberts4https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7618-7850University of FloridaUniversity of FloridaUniversity of FloridaUniversity of FloridaUniversity of Florida In 2018, Hurricane Michael caused extensive damage in the Florida panhandle as a Category 4 hurricane. Cooperative Extension has a disaster preparedness and information dissemination role in hurricane response (Medford-Davis & Kapur, 2014; Washburn, 2006). Personal resilience focuses on reducing stress and increasing coping abilities in stressful situations. A basic qualitative research design explored UF/IFAS Extension agents’ hurricane experiences. Results suggested participants experienced some inability to balance personal and professional demands and were mentally and emotionally stressed. Participants felt fatigued and results suggested they experienced high levels of mental and emotional stress. There is scope to improve Extension agents’ personal resilience by: (1) strengthening individual levels of hardy attitudes and hardy strategies; and (2) reducing barriers such as mental and physical stress and performance deficits. https://journals.flvc.org/edis/article/view/114482 |
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