Older Adult’s Responses to Hurricaine Katrina: Daily Hassles and Coping Strategies’
Coping
This article explores how older adults prepared for and coped with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. It identifies two categories, coping with daily hassles after Hurricane Katrina and coping with the aftermath of hurricane Katrina, to explain what and how older adults managed life following the storm and flooding and how they engaged in active and passive strategies.
Active coping
Spirituality reflected active and passive strategies to cope with life post-Katrine. The study found that many respondents coped by leaning on their spirituality. They prayed and demonstrated other acts of faith.
Passive coping
People coped by participating in spiritual activities, in some ways a pasive form of coping. They diverted their attention to spiritual activities that rendered them hope, such as attending church or mass, Bible studies, and prayer services. Spirituality included praying, meditating, singing songs, and reading the Bible.
Comment:
This article contributes to the large corpus of psychological literature providing evidence for religion and spirituality’s impact on religious coping. However, like the majority of this literature, this article is based in the high-income context of the US.
