Helping Others While Helping Yourself: Vicarious Resilience in Victim Service Workers With and Without Experiences of Victimization
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Vicarious resilience refers to the positive effects that a service provider experiences through witnessing the healing, recovery, and resilience of the people they serve. This study used a sample of 804 victim service providers (VSPs) across Canada who completed the Vicarious Resilience Scale (VRS) and answered a closed-ended survey question about why they chose to work or volunteer in the field. Results show that VSPs who entered the field because they have previous experience of victimization had significantly higher VRS scores than their counterparts who entered the field for any other reason (p < .001). It appears that growth in vicarious resilience in VSPs may be spurred by their own experiences of victimization in a process parallel to that modeled on the concepts of “wounded healers” and posttraumatic growth. This furthers our understanding of factors that affect vicarious resilience. Implications for training and supervision of VSPs and recommendations for future studies, are discussed.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".