Survivors of Hurricane Matthew experienced a variety of emotions and stressful situations following the disaster. Depressive symptoms and post-traumatic stress were very prevalent psychopathologies presented within the interviews collected. Participants of the study possessed varying levels of personal resources such as optimism and self-efficacy that either aided or hindered their capacity to facilitate psychological resiliency. Increased resources corresponded with increased resiliency. Similarly, the varying degrees of community and
personal resources are suggested to correspond with the frequency and intensity of depression and post-traumatic stress.
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Appendices Appendix A: Study Codebook
Appendix B: Supplemental Religion and Psychological Resiliency Quotation Appendix C: Supplemental Positivity and Psychological Resilency Quotation
Appendix D: Supplemental Personal Resources, Community Resources, and Mental Health Quotation
Appendix A Study Codebook
Code group Code Code type Application rule
Emotions Dealing with emotions after HM
Descriptive Use this code when a participant talks about how they dealt with the emotions after HM
Emotions Emotions after HM
Descriptive Use this code when a participant talks about the emotions they felt during/after HM
Emotions Thankful for after HM
Descriptive Use this code when a participant talks about the things they are thankful for after HM
Impacts of Hurricane Matthew
Losses from HM
Descriptive Use this code when a participant talks about the losses they experienced from HM
Stress and coping
Experienced stress
Descriptive Use this code when a participant talks about the stress experienced during or related to HM or related to health issues that happened after HM Stress and
coping
Financial Strain from HM
Descriptive Use this code when a participant talks about financial struggles related to HM
Stress and coping
Coping with stress
Descriptive Use this code when a person talks about the ways they cope with the stress experienced due to HM or health issues that happened after HM
Support Systems
Personal Support
Descriptive Use this code when a participant talks about the people and personal relationships that helped them right after the crisis and the types of support they received
Support Systems
Community Support
Descriptive Use this code when a participant talks about the local organizations (such as community groups and churches) that helped them right after the crisis and the types of support they received Support
Systems
Structural Support
Descriptive Use this code when a participant talks about the government and large relief organizations and the types of support they received
Personal Resources
Self-Esteem Descriptive Use this code when a participant talks about the sense of his or her value or worth
Personal Resources
Optimism Descriptive Use this code when a participant talks about the expectation of generally positive outcomes. Personal
Resources
Self-Efficacy Descriptive Use this code when a participant talks about their ability to meet the challenges ahead of them. When the participant talks about the extent to which they can influence their current circumstances.
Mental Health
Depressive Symptoms
Interpretive Use this when the participant says, exhibits or alludes to symptoms for Major Depression as outlined by the DSM-5.
Code group Code Code type Application rule Mental Health Post- Traumatic Stress
Interpretive Use this when the participant says, exhibits or alludes to symptoms for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder outlined by the DSM-5.
Appendix B
Supplemental Religion and Psychological Resiliency Quotation
Interviewer: What are three actions you feel would be most helpful in dealing with the effects of the hurricane?
Participant: Well, speaking from my experience ... Interviewer: Yes ma'am.
Participant: My reaction would ... How would I put this? How would I label this? First of all, my reaction were when you know God it makes a difference. Somebody that don't know him, if you're in a chaotic mess, they're all over the place, but by me knowing who he is and knowing what he can do it comforted me a lot.
Interviewer: Okay.
Participant: I had to have him because I live by myself, I had to have him 99.9, you know, I relent to other people, but I know he was the only one I could really count on, so other people ... I probably took this in a different way, other people, everybody react different, everybody do. Like I say, you got those chatterers, you got those ones that up there don't know nothing, they right down here, and you just got to look up and down and say, "When are you gonna come in the middle?" You know, "When you gonna think that if we all pull together we can ..." you know what? It take a whole village to raise a child, you hear me? A whole village, so if the whole village come together we could do more in positivity in a group than we could do with 10,000 negativities.
Interviewer: Yeah.
Participant: That's my thing is if people would just come together, but peoples all scattered and snatching and pulling for themselves. You find very few, and they're few
and far between, that are for you or me or anybody else, they're all for themselves, and it's so sad.
Appendix C
Supplemental Positivity and Psychological Resilency Quotation
Interviewer: How did you deal with that, with coming over here and seeing ... Having to go through and make sure there was no mold and make sure everything was okay? Seeing those big Army trucks and kind of intimidating and with no electricity. How was that? How did you deal with that?
Participant: I prayed. I thought that this, too, will pass. I never lost hope. I knew that I could come back, and I knew I hadn't lost anything.
Interviewer: So kind of a positive thinking? Participant: Yeah.
Appendix D
Supplemental Personal Resources, Community Resources, and Mental Health Quotation Interviewer : How were you able to deal with your emotions after the hurricane? Participant: I was not too emotional about that. I was not at all too emotional. I get into a little self-pity when I'm by myself, but other than that. Now, seeing other people, that did bother me. Looking at some of the elderly people, that bothered me, and saying "I lost everything," and some of these people are still not in their home today. They come in the office and they talk to me and I can't help them. I want so much, if I had the money to just say "Here, you don't have to worry about that."