Resilience In Women Research Articles

Violence and Refugee Women's Resilience: Syrian Refugee Women in Lebanon During COVID-19

Abstract: This research examines domestic and intimate partner violence (D/IPV) during the COVID-19 pandemic, within refugee households in Syrian informal tented settlements located in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. We examine how the socio-economic and political environment as well as anti-refugee practices, impact Syrian economic outcomes, contributing to a significant rise of D/IPV. Data analysis reveals refugee women's resilience and responses after experiencing violence, despite the absence of access to organizations and authorities that ensure their protection. The analysis discloses the gap in protection for women refugees, resulting from economic constraints, distrust of authorities and humanitarian organizations, lack/inadequacy of protection policies, widespread corruption and a political climate against refugees in Lebanon, a country ridden with instability and crisis. Interviews conducted with refugee women confirm that rebuilding trust with official authorities in Lebanon is the key first step to attaining protection. This paper emphasizes the role of international and national policies and practices, alongside access to international humanitarian and development organizations, in enhancing refugee women's resilience against violence. Résumé: Cette étude porte sur la violence domestique et la violence entre partenaires intimes (VD/VPI) pendant la pandémie de COVID-19, au sein des ménages de réfugiés dans les campements informels syriens situés dans la vallée de la Bekaa, au Liban. Nous examinons comment l'environnement socio-économique et politique, ainsi que les pratiques anti-réfugiés, ont un impact sur les résultats économiques des Syriens, contribuant à une augmentation significative de la violence domestique et intime (VD/VPI). L'analyse des données révèle la résilience des femmes réfugiées et les réponses qu'elles apportent après avoir subi des violences, malgré l'absence d'accès aux organisations et aux autorités qui assurent leur protection. L'analyse révèle les lacunes en matière de protection des femmes réfugiées, qui résultent des contraintes économiques, de la méfiance à l'égard des autorités et des organisations humanitaires, de l'absence ou de l'inadéquation des politiques de protection, de la corruption généralisée et d'un climat politique défavorable aux réfugiés au Liban, un pays en proie à l'instabilité et à la crise. Les entretiens menés avec les femmes réfugiées confirment que le rétablissement de la confiance avec les autorités officielles au Liban est la première étape essentielle pour obtenir une protection. Ce document souligne le rôle des politiques et des pratiques nationales et internationales, ainsi que l'accès aux organisations internationales d'aide humanitaire et de développement, dans le renforcement de la résilience des femmes réfugiées face à la violence.

Resilience is more than Nature: An Exploration of the Conditions that Nurture Resilience Among Rural Women who have Experienced IPV.

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a significant public health concern exacerbated by the pandemic. Experiences of violence vary based on geographic location and living in rural communities has been found, in some contexts, to amplify consequences of IPV. Resilience, the ability to survive and thrive despite facing adversity, has long been a dominant narrative within IPV literature, yet little is known about how resilience is cultivated among rural women experiencing violence. The purpose of this study was to explore how rural women experiencing IPV cultivate resilience. Using Interpretive Description, in-depth qualitative interviews were conducted with 14 women who experienced IPV and 12 staff from women's shelters across rural communities in Ontario, Canada to elicit perspectives about women's resilience and environmental conditions that may shape resilience in the context of IPV. Women's resilience was cultivated by personal changes aimed at surviving or thriving, and aspects of their environment that enabled or created barriers for resilience. Women adopted a positive, hopeful mindset and bolstered their inner strength through living from a place of integrity, being resolute in decisions, and using mental resistance when faced with doubt. Women faced barriers to resilience in the form of unhelpful help and COVID-19 public health guidelines. Paradoxically, living in a rural community both cultivated and undermined resilience. Supporting women to cultivate resilience through modifying environmental factors to enable personal strengths to flourish is paramount in supporting women who have experienced IPV, particularly in rural contexts.

The Enduring Vertigo of the Elect Lady

Of the legacy of Joseph Smith, historian Bernard DeVoto wrote in 1936, “The vision perishes; it is the vertigo that endures.” Reading the novel The Prophet's Wife by Libbie Grant is to feel that same perishing vision and enduring vertigo experienced by DeVoto and countless Latter-day Saints negotiating their relationship to the inherited past of their own faith today.The grounds of the early Saints and polygamy are well-trod within Mormon literature. Where Grant—Washington Post bestselling author of One for the Blackbird, written under her pen name Olivia Hawker—breaks new ground is in the decision to foreground one of the most controversial figures in Mormon history: Emma Hale Smith.Grant's Emma is strong, disillusioned, and profoundly independent—not merely “a wife” but “the wife of Joseph Smith Junior” (2), as she declares to the governor of Illinois in the opening chapter. She watches, often powerlessly, as her young husband Joseph, equal terms charismatic and narcissistic, weaves a pious fraud that ultimately ensnares and destroys him.Folk magic and polygamy figure prominently in the narrative. Inspired by scholarly work like D. Michael Quinn's Early Mormonism and the Magic Worldview and John L. Brooke's The Refiner's Fire, Grant's foregrounding of early Mormonism's connections to western esotericism is a significant addition to her narrative. Revelatory, too, is Grant's frank treatment of the sexual ramifications (and abuses) that some argue characterized early Latter-day Saint marriages. Grant is not as gentle or nuanced with this material as some past Mormon authors were. The quiet devastation of Virginia Sorensen's A Little Lower than the Angels and the earnestly awkward kingdom building of Maurine Whipple's The Giant Joshua are entirely absent from The Prophet's Wife; what remains is a cutting critique of Mormon patriarchy. The Prophet's Wife goes for the jugular in ways that are bound to be uncomfortable for practicing Latter-day Saints.The narrative is punchy and pithy, and the voice is largely true to the time. It bogs down occasionally, however, in dialogue-heavy sections, where the dialogue doesn't ring true and pulls readers out of the skin of the characters. Grant's depiction of Emma herself is likely to be the most controversial—Emma doesn't believe her husband is a real prophet and even has romantic dalliances with Joseph's brother Don Carlos (which Grant, in an author's note, acknowledges is not historical). While Grant's depiction of Emma never feels entirely wrong, the book itself transcends historicity for a more important debate. Where The Prophet's Wife succeeds most is in its demonstration that the life of Emma Smith has extraordinary relevance to the challenges roiling the Brighamites nearly two centuries later. Today's Mormons find themselves just as haunted by the ghosts of their faith's founding sins as they were in Emma's time. If The Prophet's Wife is characterized as anti-Mormon literature by practicing Saints, it will be because the novel demonstrates precisely how institutional Mormonism's mythical self-regard furthers its contemporary oppression of women. Though Mormon readers may find themselves wishing for the more sympathetic treatments provided by Sorensen and Whipple, the reality remains that gentler treatments from our past have all but failed to yield institutional introspection, much less repentance. Perhaps nuance is not what we deserve?The Prophet's Wife is precisely the kind of narrative that unfurls in the maelstrom when “the vision perishes”—a critique of contemporary Mormonism's failures told through historical fiction. A product of enduring vertigo though it is, Grant's work proves a champion of women's resiliency and autonomy in the face of oppression—and that, perhaps, is the only solid ground upon which we can safely build.

The Effect of Spirituality on Psychological Resilience in Women with Breast Cancer Who Have Received Chemotherapy: A Cross-sectional Study from Turkey.

Spirituality involves all of the internal resources of the individual, including religion, the desire to live, and a commitment to life. This study was conducted to determine the effect of spirituality on psychological resilience in women with breast cancer who have received chemotherapy. The study was conducted in a chemotherapy unit between April and June 2022. The sample size of the current cross-sectional study consisted of 85 women who have received chemotherapy. For the measuring of spirituality and psychological resilience, the Spirituality Scale (SS) and the Brief Resilience Scale (BRS), respectively, were completed. In the current study, it was determined that there was a positive weak correlation between the mean SS total score and the mean BRS total score (r = 0.471, p < 0.05). In addition, among women with breast cancer who have received chemotherapy, spirituality accounted for 22% of the variance in psychological resilience (R2 = 0.22, p < 0.05). It can also be said that the level of spirituality of women may positively affect their psychological resilience.

Effectiveness of Transdiagnostic Intervention and Mindfulness-Based Schema Therapy on Cancer Self-Efficacy and Resilience in Women with Breast Cancer

Introduction: Diagnosis of cancer is very distressing and causes a lack of control and insecurity in the suffering person. Resilience and self-efficacy are two essential support factors that can help these people; therefore, the present study aimed to compare the effectiveness of mindfulness-based schema therapy and transdiagnostic intervention in women with breast cancer on cancer self-efficacy and resilience along with a follow-up period. Method: The research method was quasi-experimental with a pretest-posttest design and a follow-up period of 45 days. The statistical population included female patients with breast cancer in 2019-2022 referred to Omid and Imam Reza hospitals in Mashhad, Iran. The instruments were the Cancer Self-efficacy Questionnaire of Champion et al. (2013) and the Cancer Resilience Questionnaire of Sonaga and Futavatari (2018). In total, 41 subjects were purposefully selected from the population and randomly assigned to the experimental and control groups. For the two experimental groups, the intervention was performed for 10 weekly sessions. Data analysis was performed using the repeated measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) test and Bonferroni post hoc test using the SPSS statistical software (version 25) at the significance level of 0.05. Results: There was a significant difference between the mean scores of the first and second experimental groups and the control group in the post-test and follow-up concerning resilience (P&lt;0.007) and self-efficacy (P&lt;0.01). On the other hand, there was no significant difference between transdiagnostic effectiveness and mindfulness-based schema therapy in the post-test and follow-up (P&gt;0.05). Conclusion: Based on the present findings, it is suggested to reduce the psychological problems of women with breast cancer through mindfulness-based schema therapy and transdiagnostic treatment

The Effectiveness of the Therapeutic Package of Originality in the Three Worlds Based on Rollo May Existential Theory on the Resilience of Women with Marital Conflict

The Effectiveness of the Therapeutic Package of Originality in the Three Worlds Based on Rollo May Existential Theory on the Resilience of Women with Marital Conflict

TELEWORK, WELL-BEING, STRESS, AND PRODUCTIVITY DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC: DOES WOMEN'S RESILIENCE MATTER?

This study aims to analyze the relationship between perceived stress, psychological well-being and perceived productivity through teleworking with resilience as moderation for married female employees in the telecommunications network company in Jakarta. The data analysis method used was Structural Equation Modeling (SEM)–Partial Least Square (PLS) by distributing questionnaires to 148 married women employees. Data were collected from December 2021 to 2022 through an online questionnaire distributed through the human resources department. The results of this study supported the six hypotheses proposed, and 1 of the seven hypotheses did not. Perceived stress and teleworking have a relationship with psychological well-being. Moreover, teleworking can mediate the relationship between perceived stress and psychological well-being. Surprisingly women's resilience does not moderate the relationship between teleworking and psychological well-being. This study also revealed that perceived stress and psychological well-being are related to perceived productivity. This condition requires an active role of corporate leaders to find effective ways to deal with stress and increase well-being and employee productivity during teleworking or Work From Home. Corporate leaders must begin to design and plan better methods to support employees who have flexible working hours.

A Controlled Community Study of Distress and Resilience in Women Diagnosed with Fibromyalgia and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.

This study examines psychological and physical influences on the distress and well-being of patients with chronic rheumatic diseases. The study aims were to (1) evaluate the relative contribution of objective disease activity and psychological factors on the wellbeing of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE); (2) to compare the psychological distress of SLE patients to fibromyalgia (FM) patients and healthy controls, and to (3) characterize subgroups of patients by performing cluster analysis using psychological variables. Participants were ascertained from closed forums and social media channels resulting in 41 women with a diagnosis of SLE, 47 with a diagnosis of FM, and 77 healthy controls (HC). Hierarchical linear regression for well-being of SLE patients found that most of the variance was accounted for by social support. Cluster analysis performed on the entire sample identified two clusters, a distressed group tending to Type D personality, anxiety and depression, low in well-being and social support, and a resilient group; the proportion of resilient individuals was highest in the HC intermediate in the SLE group and lowest in the FM group. The importance of psychological variables vs disease severity in these two rheumatic diseases for wellbeing is demonstrated by these results. The results suggest that psychological interventions that enhance the experience of social support in medical settings, might benefit patients with both diseases, and be of particular importance to the well-being of patients who are more distressed.

Multi-dimensional Profiles of Risk and Their Association with Obesity-Severity in Low-Income Black Women.

Multi-level risk factors underlie disproportionate obesity rates among Black women. Latent class analysis of multi-level risk and protective factors among low-income Black women (n = 917) in 2011 (Pittsburgh, PA). Data were collected via in-person survey, interviewer-assisted online dietary recalls, and from 2011 crime records. Multinomial logistic regression estimated cross-sectional associations between latent classes and obesity severity derived from measured anthropometry. Latent class analysis identified four groups of women according to their motivations and intentions to be healthy, socioeconomic and health burden, and neighborhood risk: Class 1 = Very high burden (n = 283), Class 2 = Health motivated, low burden, low neighborhood risk (n = 231), Class 3 = High burden and high neighborhood risk (n = 106), and Class 4 = Low burden and low neighborhood risk (n = 297). Class 3 = High burden and high neighborhood risk women had the highest severe obesity risk. Multi-level strategies may support low-income Black women women's resilience to obesity who face neighborhood-level and socioeconomic stressors.

Yoghurt making training to build women’s resilience in developing local economy and healthy lifestyle

Lifestyle modifications are becoming increasingly important, especially following the epidemic era. Healthy living is a continual lifestyle that aids the attempt to transform a healthy culture and the production of healthy cells. A healthy lifestyle is one that consider all facets of a person's health. Not only about food but also about exercise and lifestyle practices. Health is vital to all our actions. One of the important things in supporting health can be done with healthy food intake. Making homemade yogurt, changing other foods, and changing one's lifestyle are all part of this activity. Thus, this activity aims to train partners in yogurt making to build women's resilience in developing local economies and healthy lifestyles. Activities are hybrid, with some participants and resource personnel working online and others offline at the activity site. The method of activities is carried out using lectures, discussions and hands-on practice which is carried out in a hybrid between online and offline. Some participants and resource persons carry out activities online and partly offline at the activity location. This activity is women's independence to build a home industry producing yogurt and other nutritious foods has increased, as has the production of processed yogurt. It is anticipated that the independence of these women will encourage the self-assurance necessary to construct a healthy family and environment, making their residence a place of business and a healthy gastronomic destination at home.

Experiences of women raising children with congenital Zika syndrome along a trajectory of prevention, care and support in Brazil

ABSTRACT Social science research investigating the social dynamics of Zika and congenital Zika syndrome (CZS) is essential to inform future services related to Zika and other infectious diseases. We sought to understand lived experiences with Zika during pregnancy, birth, and post-partum by conducting in-depth interviews with a sample of 31 women infected with Zika during the 2015–16 outbreak who had a child with CZS in Pernambuco, Brazil. Transcripts were coded using thematic content analysis. Many women experienced shock when their children were born with CZS given the lack of information they were provided during the antenatal period. Stigma from loved ones and community members was a salient theme as were financial difficulties arising from women having to stop working to care for their child. While women experienced significant challenges caring for a child with CZS, they also exhibited resiliency in their ability to move from shock and sorrow to focusing on the needs of their child. While support services were generally available, they were often located at a significant distance. Results underscore the need for interventions to improve patient-provider communication, address socio-structural stressors, and support individual and collective resilience in women and families affected by Zika in lower resource settings.

Online cognitive behavioural therapy as a psychological vaccine against stress during the COVID-19 pandemic in pregnant women: A randomised controlled trial

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the population's levels of stress and anxiety due to its contagious nature and the uncertainties generated by its novelty. One population that is especially vulnerable to these psychological consequences are pregnant women. This is why the objective of this study was to test the efficacy of an online stress management programme of a cognitive behavioural nature on pregnant women during the COVID-19 pandemic, in Spain. The trial was controlled and randomised, with a total of 207 pregnant women divided into three groups: the Online Cognitive Behavioural Therapy group (o-CBT) (N = 70); the Online Psychological Support group (o-PS) (N = 69); and the Usual Care group (UC) (N = 68). To test the therapy's efficacy, the women's resilience, perceived stress, pregnancy-specific stress and psychopathological symptoms were assessed before and after the intervention. The o-CBT and o-PS consisted of a programme of 8 group sessions (one per week). The results showed that pregnant women who participated in the o-CBT group presented lower rates of pregnancy-specific stress and perceived stress, as well as greater resilience and lower anxiety, depression and obsessions-compulsions symptoms. These data show the efficacy of the treatment programme and thus confirm the importance of implementing these types of interventions during a woman's pregnancy, especially over periods of major stress, such as during a pandemic.

Mental Health and Social Support Are Key Predictors of Resilience in German Women with Endometriosis during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Background: Endometriosis is a multifaceted chronic pain disorder that can have an impact on both physical and mental health. Women suffering from chronic pain may be more susceptible to various health disorders, especially during adversity, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Previous research has identified resilience as a mediator between internal or external stressors and well-being. Methods: An online survey was conducted during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany through patient support groups of women with endometriosis. The Brief Resilience Score (BRS) was employed to evaluate resilience, while the PHQ-4 questionnaire was used to assess self-reported mental health. Univariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses were applied to determine resilience’s independent risk and protective parameters. Results: High educational level was found to be an independent supportive moderator of high resilience in women with a resilience score greater than the study population’s median (BRS > 2.66; OR 2.715; 95% CI 1.472–5.007; p = 0.001) but not in women in the highest resilience score quartile (BRS > 3.33). A decrease in perceived social support was detected to be the most powerful independent risk factor for low resilience: OR 0.541, 95% CI 0.307–0.952, p = 0.033 for predicting BRS > 2.66, and OR 0.397, 95% CI 0.189–0.832, p = 0.014 for predicting scores > 3.33 on the BRS scale. A high burden of mental health symptoms, as measured by the PHQ-4 scale, was negatively associated with resilience. Conclusions: Satisfying social support and good mental health were shown to be key resources for resilience. The results of this study may assist in the identification of women at risk for low resilience and the development of resilience-building strategies in patients with endometriosis.

Women and Resilience on Pandemic Covid-19 Disaster: Feminist Participatory Action (FPA)

&lt;p class="06IsiAbstrak"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Women are the group that receives double impacts than men in disaster situations, including the Covid-19 pandemic. On the other hand, women have bigger potentials to participate in the implementation of the Covid-19 pandemic disaster management. This article explores women's resilience initiatives in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic disaster situation. This study used a descriptive narrative method to explain the initiative of the women community assisted by LRC-KJHAM in Central Java, Indonesia. The results showed that the women's community through the feminist participatory action (FPA) took the initiative and adaptive activities during the Covid-19 pandemic, including through education consist online discussions, counseling and campaigns and promote economic empowerment such as online markets, MSMEs, health protocol equipment, women's planting movements). In this article, Feminists Participatory Action means the collection of some actions which is based on the data collected by vulnerable women and following by distributing some actions as part of their social assistance, such as through the provision of temporary shelters for women victims of domestic violence during the pandemic.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

Excluding the margins: Indonesian media’s framing of women and people with disability in the COVID-19 pandemic reporting

There are only a few pieces of research that show how online news covers the COVID-19 pandemic and its effect on different sections of society, including marginalized groups such as women and people with disabilities (PwD). During the COVID-19 pandemic, when marginalized people struggle for their livelihoods, inclusive journalism plays an important role. This research investigates the practice of inclusive journalism through the framing of women and PwD in some Indonesian online news media from March to June 2020. This research employed the content analysis method to analyse and study several news portals covering COVID-19 issues in local Yogyakarta and the national context. Framing data of the two marginalized groups showed the Indonesian news portals have portrayed women and PwD during the early phase of the pandemic. The dominant frames applied include government policies and solidarity for both women and PwD in national news, and solidarity and resilience for women and PwD in local news. It was found that all of the news on marginalized groups had a positive tone. However, because of limited access to marginalized groups and their supporters, government sources became dominant actors in determining news frames. Therefore, inclusive journalism has not been fully achieved.

New Life Through Disaster: A Thematic Analysis of Women's Experiences of Pregnancy and the 2016 Fort McMurray Wildfire.

BackgroundOn May 3, 2016, residents of Fort McMurray Wood Buffalo, Alberta were evacuated due to an uncontrolled wildfire. The short-notice evacuation had destabilizing consequences for residents, including changes in routines, loss of control, and increased uncertainty. These consequences were especially detrimental to women who were pregnant or pre-conception during the evacuation. Pregnant and pre-conception women are particularly susceptible to a vast range of negative consequences during and post natural disasters, including elevated stress and higher incidence of pregnancy complications including gestational diabetes mellitus, pregnancy induced hypertension and C-section. The aim of this study was to understand the experiences, perceived stress and resilience of women who were pregnant during the wildfire. As well as to explore potential interventions to promote the health and enhance resilience of pregnant women and to assist in recovery after exposure to a natural disaster or other traumatic events.MethodsA qualitative thematic analysis of 16 narratives penned by pregnant women and recounted in Ashley Tobin's compilations 93/88,000 and 159 More/ 88,000: Stories of Evacuation, Re-Entry and the In-Between was conducted.ResultsAnalysis revealed five key themes: (1) experience of stress responses due to personal and external factors, (2) social connectedness and support as a facilitator of resilience, (3) performance of resilience-enhancing activities, (4) the roles of pregnancy and motherhood in the experiences of loss and resilience, and (5) the importance of home.ConclusionPregnant women have unique barriers that may negatively impact them during a natural disaster or other form of stressful event. They may benefit from assistance with navigating role transition during pregnancy, training in stress management strategies, and writing interventions to build resiliency and begin the process of recovery from trauma.

An Investigation of Psychological Resilience and Core Belief Levels of Women During the Covid-19 Pandemic and Affecting Factors: A Cross Sectional Study

Aim: The aim of the study is to determine the psychological resilience and core belief levels of women during the Covid-19 pandemic period and examine the affecting factors. Method: The study is in a cross-sectional design. The data were collected from 792 women using the Descriptive Information Form, the Psychological Resilience Scale, and the Core Beliefs Inventory. Descriptive statistics and the Ordinary Least Square Regression analysis were used to analyze the data. Results: The mean score of the “psychological resilience scale” was 66,50±13,40 and “core beliefs inventory” was 27,87±10,76. The Covid-19 fear score of women was found to be 6.31±1.98 out of 10. The psychological resilience levels were higher in working women, older women, and those with higher education levels (p<0.05). A negative significant relationship was found between the fear of Covid-19 and psychological resilience (p<0.05), and a positive correlation was found between women's age, working status, psychological resilience, and core belief levels (p<0.05). Conclusion: The mean score of psychological resilience and core beliefs of women in the COVID-19 pandemic was found to be moderately good. Some socio-demographic characteristics and factors can affect women's resilience and core beliefs.

Psychological impact of abnormally invasive placenta: an underestimated and hidden morbidity.

To evaluate anxiety and psychological impact of abnormally invasive placenta (AIP) diagnosis during pregnancy. A cross-sectional survey study was performed to assess the psychological response of pregnant women with an antenatally AIP diagnosis. The psychological impact was measured through a visual analogue scale (VAS) for anxiety, which ranged from 0 (not at all anxious) to 100 (extremely anxious) and was referred to three questions: (1) How anxious were you the first time they counselled you about AIP?; (2) How anxious were you the day of the planned cesarean delivery in terms of morbidity/mortality?; (3) How anxious were you in terms of future sexual activities? 48 singleton pregnancies that underwent planned cesarean hysterectomy for AIP, met the inclusion criteria and were surveyed for the study. Mean VAS was 41.6±25.6, with 47.9% of women with VAS >50 for question 1 (p=0.015). Mean VAS was 52.9±19.1, with 75.0% of women with VAS >50 for question 2 (p=0.02). Mean VAS was 49.6±20.4, with 83.3% of women with VAS >50 for question 3 (p=0.006). More than half of pregnant women with an antenatally AIP diagnosis reported a high VAS score regarding anxiety, in particular when morbidity/mortality and long-term consequences on sexual activities were analyzed. Our findings could be used to formulate timely psychological interventions to improve mental health and psychological resilience in women with AIP.

Hubungan Kecerdasan Emosional Dengan Resiliensi Pada Wanita Pasca Bencana Banjir

A disaster can have a wide range of effects, both physically and mentally. When tragedy strikes, women are particularly vulnerable and their resilience decreases. Someone who is in good psychological health normally has good interpersonal interactions, which influences emotional intelligence. The aim of this study is to discover a connection between emotional intelligence and resilience in women experiencing a flood disaster. This study was a correlational research with cross sectional design. This study was conducted out in Sirau Kemranjen, Banyumas Regency. This study’s sampling method was simple random sampling, which yielded 87 respondents. This study utilized an emotional intelligence and resilience instrument adapted from previous studies. Somers’d test was used to interpret the data in this analysis.

Negotiating Access and Privilege: Politics of Female Participation and Representation in Nigeria

The underrepresentation of women in politics and factors that constrain their participation are core concerns for many scholars. This qualitative research goes beyond that to examine how women politicians negotiate those constraints in Nigeria. It provides a platform for women to articulate their experiences in a society where politics is masculinized and women’s subordination to male authority is considered a virtue. The study outlines how women have strategized pathways through patriarchal structures by deploying their femininity. It makes valuable contributions to the literature by accentuating the resilience of women in contexts where electoral dynamics undermine their participation and make access to the political space a privilege.