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Published on: December 15, 2023
Forced Displacement, Social Support, and Resilience: Meta-analytic Evidence
Linda Wulkau1,2, Justina Racaite3, Paul Bain4
1Sigmund Freud University Berlin, Berlin, Germany. linda.wulkau@mail.sfu.ac.at.
Abstract:
Various systematic reviews underscore the relevance of social support for resilience among refugees. This meta-analysis aims to determine the quantitative assessment of social support and resilience among refugees and the extent of the associations between social support and resilience among refugees. After a systematic literature search, we included twenty-three studies, and performed random-effects meta-regressions. Studies on resilience and social support among refugees very heterogeneously operationalize both constructs. While increases in social support among refugees accompany higher resilience in numerous studies, these associations are not significant. In contrast to previous reviews' conclusions, the current data cannot confirm a relationship between resilience and social support among refugees. Substantiated conclusions about the relationship between resilience and social support among refugees might be reached by a population-specific clear conceptualization and operationalization of the constructs, the content differentiation of the constructs, representative samples, and longitudinal and intervention studies.
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