Survivors persist through demanding situations via strategies like persistence, self-care, sense of control, and engagement in recreational or physical activities.

Evidence

Going Forward Like a Grandmother in the Snow: Personal Survival Strategies, Motherhood, and Nature as Resources for Mothers Who Have Experienced Intimate Partner Violence (PMC/NIH)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Survivors of abuse often develop survival tactics to cope. — Dave Pelzer, A Child Called ‘It’, 95; Trauma forces children to develop coping mechanisms that function as survival strategies, which can later become maladaptive in adulthood. — Childhood Trauma Adaptations: Superpower and Kryptonite; Victims of childhood abuse learn coping strategies early in life as a means of survival, though these traits can become maladaptive in adult relationships. — Therapy for Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual, Emotional and Physical Abuse (+3 more)

Related

• Survivors of abuse often develop survival tactics to cope. (similarity 0.84)
• Trauma forces children to develop coping mechanisms that function as survival strategies, which can later become maladaptive in adulthood. (similarity 0.82)
• Victims of childhood abuse learn coping strategies early in life as a means of survival, though these traits can become maladaptive in adult relationships. (similarity 0.80)
• Women with an abuse history reported poorer adult adjustment, with different coping strategies predictive of adjustment for abused vs. nonabused women. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Pragmatic acceptance gives way to active engagement when danger touches one’s own life. #expands (0.75) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 355