This study aimed to compare characteristics-conditions of social vulnerability to post-traumatic growth and subjective severity of households exposed and affected by a climate disaster in Chile. Through a cross-correlational design, 324 households responded to instruments of subjective impact to the event, post-traumatic growth, sociodemographic characterization, and physical-material conditions associated with post-disaster reconstruction. As a result, the exposed-susceptible groups that presented significant subjective severity were the elderly, people with disabilities/chronic disease, female, with low income and without higher education, adding those who are in the condition of harm partial-total in their home and did not receive support for housing reconstruction. On the other hand, the group that presented the highest post-traumatic growth were the elderly, adding those who are in the situation of partial-total damage to the home and those who were satisfied with the post-disaster reconstruction. We conclude with the identification of differential susceptibilities-capacities among the vulnerable groups, which should promote evaluative, preventive and interventional measures appropriate to the psychosocial characteristics of each population, which must be accompanied by an integral institutional strengthening in disaster risk management.
Keywords:
Subjective severity, posttraumatic growth, social vulnerability, vulnerable populations, weather disaster
Sandoval-Díaz, J., & Cuadra-Martínez, D. (2020). Social vulnerability, subjective severity and post-traumatic growth in groups affected by a climate disaster. Revista De Psicología, 29(1). https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-0581.2020.58002
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