University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.
Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Violence Against Women. 2021 May;27(6-7):900-917. doi: 10.1177/1077801220914406. Epub 2020 May 4.
Responding to the need for more information concerning the mental health and psychological well-being of women living amid political oppression and war, this study aimed to explore specific factors that contribute to women's individual and collective perceptions about war and the associated traumatic life events that occurred during their lives. Moving from a socioecological and culture-informed perspective, we used narrative timelines elicited from 21 Palestinian women in Gaza, both individually and collectively, as a tool for both data collection and intervention. A deductive, top-down, thematic content analysis procedure was used to categorize data. The main events outlined by the women in their historical accounts, both individual and collective, were linked to political events in and surrounding Palestine. The life events' calendars reflect a constant attempt in balancing and compensating traumatic events with sources of well-being related to social support and family. Individual and collective narrative activities contributed to generate a significant reframing in the attribution of meaning and emotional perceptions of the participants. Women articulated how they build resilience through transgenerational and daily practices of resistance that encompass indigenous strategies of coping and skills of survival.
为了满足人们对于生活在政治压迫和战争环境下的女性心理健康和心理福祉的更多信息的需求，本研究旨在探讨具体因素，这些因素影响了女性对于战争以及生活中发生的相关创伤性事件的个体和集体认知。本研究从社会生态学和文化视角出发，使用叙事时间线，让 21 名加沙地区的巴勒斯坦女性分别单独和集体地完成，以此作为数据收集和干预的工具。我们采用了一种演绎、自上而下的主题内容分析程序来对数据进行分类。女性在个人和集体的历史叙述中概述的主要事件与巴勒斯坦境内和周边的政治事件有关。生活事件的日历反映了一种持续的努力，即通过与社会支持和家庭相关的幸福感来源来平衡和补偿创伤性事件。个体和集体叙事活动有助于参与者对意义的归因和情感感知产生重大转变。女性们表达了她们如何通过代际和日常的抵抗实践来建立韧性，这些实践包含了应对的本土策略和生存技能。
