Exploring The Resilience Of Widows Who Lost Their Partners To HIV. A Case Study Of 6 Widows In Suki Neigbhorhood In Addis Ababa
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2014-06
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Addis Ababa University
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This case study attempted to explore the resilience of six widows living in Addis
Ababa, Ethiopia. The study mainly focused on exploring the experience and adaptive
strength of participants during transition to widowhood and nature of environmental
factors that have positive impact to the resilience of the participants of the study. The data
was obtained from in-depth interviews with the six widows, who are identified through
purposive sampling from an organization named Society for international ministries
community support project. The study reveals that individual disposition and external
social support play the major role for positive adjustment of widows. The role of family
is found to be unhelpful in coping process of the study participants. Apart from the
different supports physical presence is found to be supportive for positive adjustment.
The study also pointed out social network at list the role of one influential person is
marked as major factor for early coping of a widow. Finally, this study forwards
implications to social work practice and for further researches
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Social Work