Resilience of Tsunami Widow after 10 Years Tsunami in Banda Aceh

Karjuniwati, Maula Husna

2019

Abstract

The tsunami is an extraordinary event that has a negative impact on a family that causes the loss of family members, one of which is a widow. The tsunami widow suddenly lost her husband and children and had to live her future life as a single parent with challenges. Resilience is needed by tsunami widows to be able to survive and be able to recover from a not good situation. Resilience is the ability of individuals to survive, remain stable and psychologically healthy after going through a traumatic event. The purpose of this study to determine how the resilience of widows who lost her husband caused by tsunami after ten years in Banda Aceh. This study used a qualitative method with phenomenological approach. Respondents in this study were three widows who are in middle adult age range (40-65 years) in Banda Aceh who have responsibility to their family. In this study, the technique of taking respondents with purposive sampling. The data collection used a interview and observation methods. The result showed that two resilient widows had hardiness, self- enhancement, and able to overcome the problem through emotion-coping. Another result showed that one of a widow has no resilience, because the respondent did not feel the better life after 10 years tsunami than before tsunami. In addition, due to the declining of health condition caused respondent did not feel the lesson learned after tsunami.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Karjuniwati. and Husna M. (2019). Resilience of Tsunami Widow after 10 Years Tsunami in Banda Aceh.In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Psychology - Volume 1: ICPsy, ISBN 978-989-758-448-0, pages 119-125. DOI: 10.5220/0009438501190125

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icpsy19,
author={Karjuniwati and Maula Husna},
title={Resilience of Tsunami Widow after 10 Years Tsunami in Banda Aceh},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Psychology - Volume 1: ICPsy,},
year={2019},
pages={119-125},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009438501190125},
isbn={978-989-758-448-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Psychology - Volume 1: ICPsy,
TI - Resilience of Tsunami Widow after 10 Years Tsunami in Banda Aceh
SN - 978-989-758-448-0
AU - Karjuniwati.
AU - Husna M.
PY - 2019
SP - 119
EP - 125
DO - 10.5220/0009438501190125