Resilience and social support were linked to less distress after earthquakes
A review found consistent associations for resilience and social support, while evidence for other coping approaches varied or remained preliminary.
Based on the published abstract. The full paper may contain additional methods, results and limitations.
The 30-second takeaway
Survivors with higher resilience tended to have less trauma-related distress, depression and anxiety. Social support was also linked to fewer trauma symptoms. These findings describe associations across survivors, but cannot show whether strengthening a coping strategy would improve symptoms or whether lower distress makes coping easier.
All included studies were cross-sectional, so the order of coping and symptoms is unclear. This abstract-based account also leaves uncertainty around approaches with widely varying results or little replication.
What researchers found
Post-earthquake trauma severity: pooled correlation
This unitless correlation measures how closely scores move together. The negative value indicates a moderate tendency for higher resilience to accompany lower trauma severity, not a percentage reduction or symptom-point change. Assessment timing after the earthquakes was unreported.
What the review measured
Researchers combined studies of coping and psychological outcomes after the same disaster. The pooled results describe how people differed from each other, without testing a program intended to improve coping.
Evidence varied by approach
Religious coping and positive reappraisal had weaker links with trauma symptoms, with results differing substantially across studies. Meaning-centered coping and self-compassion were linked to greater posttraumatic growth in individual studies.
The original publication
Coping strategies and psychological outcomes following the 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquakes: a systematic review with meta-analytic synthesis.
Çınaroğlu M, Yılmazer E
Front Public Health · 2026
- PubMed ID
- 41859264
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