Adaptive capacity: A qualitative study of midlife Australian women's resilience during COVID-19

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dc.contributor.authorHuppatz, E.
dc.contributor.authorLunnay, B.
dc.contributor.authorFoley, K.
dc.contributor.authorMiller, E.
dc.contributor.authorWarin, M.
dc.contributor.authorWilson, C.
dc.contributor.authorOlver, I.
dc.contributor.authorWard, P.
dc.date.issued2022
dc.descriptionAvailable online 23 February 2022
dc.description.abstractThis article explores adaptive capacity as a framework for understanding how South Australian women in midlife (aged 45–64) demonstrated resilience during the early phases of COVID-19. In-depth interviews were undertaken with 40 women mid-2020 as a follow-up study to interviews with the same women undertaken 2018–19 (before COVID-19 emerged). Transcripts were analysed following a critical realist approach using Grothmann and Patt's construct of adaptive capacity as a framework for analysis. This enabled authors to unpack the mechanisms of resilience that shaped women's experiences of appraising, and then showing an intention to adapt to COVID-19 adversity. Findings support the explanatory utility of adaptive capacity to understand resilience processes in the context of person-environment changes – the environment being the COVID-19 context – and women's capability to adapt to social distancing and lockdown conditions. With COVID-19 evoking health, social and economic challenges at incomparable scales, potentially fracturing mental stability, this article provides insight useful to policy makers and health professionals to support resilience as the pandemic continues.
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityEliza Huppatz, Belinda Lunnay, Kristen Foley, Emma R. Miller, Megan Warin, Carlene Wilson, Ian N. Olver, Paul R. Ward
dc.identifier.citationSSM - Mental Health, 2022; 2:1-8
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.ssmmh.2022.100080
dc.identifier.issn2666-5603
dc.identifier.issn2666-5603
dc.identifier.orcidHuppatz, E. [0000-0002-0034-700X]
dc.identifier.orcidFoley, K. [0000-0002-8169-8652]
dc.identifier.orcidMiller, E. [0000-0002-6373-5720]
dc.identifier.orcidWarin, M. [0000-0001-8766-1087]
dc.identifier.orcidWilson, C. [0000-0002-1883-4690]
dc.identifier.orcidOlver, I. [0000-0001-5478-1576]
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2440/135140
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.relation.granthttp://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP190103434
dc.rights© 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/bync- nd/4.0/).
dc.source.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmmh.2022.100080
dc.subjectResilience; COVID-19; Pandemic; Adaptive capacity; Women; Alcohol
dc.titleAdaptive capacity: A qualitative study of midlife Australian women's resilience during COVID-19
dc.typeJournal article
pubs.publication-statusPublished

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