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Prediction of individual, community and societal resilience in the Czech Republic compared to Slovakia during the war in Ukraine.

Authors
  • Koubová, Alice1
  • Kimhi, Shaul2
  • 1 Institute of Philosophy , Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic. [email protected]. , (Czechia)
  • 2 Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Israel School of Public Health, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel. , (Israel)
Type
Published Article
Journal
BMC Public Health
Publisher
Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.)
Publication Date
Feb 23, 2024
Volume
24
Issue
1
Pages
583–583
Identifiers
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-024-18075-y
PMID: 38395773
Source
Medline
Keywords
Language
English
License
Unknown

Abstract

The present study examines, as research questions, which and to what extent psychological and demographic variables significantly predict individual, community, and societal resilience among a sample of Czech Republic adults (N = 1,100) six months after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The research tools included the following scales: Societal, community, and individual resilience; hope, well-being; morale; distress symptoms; a sense of danger; and perceived threats. The results indicated the following: (a) Correlation analysis shows that resilience is significantly and positively correlated with supporting coping factors and significantly and negatively correlated with suppressing coping factors. (b) A comparison of supporting coping indicators (hope, well-being, and morale) and suppressing coping indicators (distress symptoms, sense of danger, and perceived threats) in the Czech Republic with those variables in Slovakia and Israel indicated that Israel reported higher resilience, higher supporting coping indicators, and lower suppressing coping factors. Three-path analysis among the Czech sample indicated that the best predictor of SR was the level of hope, the best predictor of CR was morale, and the best predictor of IR was the sense of danger. In an attempt to explain these findings in the discussion section, we refer to the background of Czech society and a possible connection to the findings. © 2024. The Author(s).

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