Exploring Adolescent Resilience During COVID-19 in a South African Township Context DOI Creative Commons

S. Wakefield,

Linda Theron

National Youth Advocacy and Resilience Journal, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 6(2), P. 1 - 23

Published: Jan. 1, 2023

COVID-19 has permeated news since December 2019 and impacted all areas of life. Despite widespread coverage COVID-related risks, there is limited understanding adolescent resilience in Global South contexts (e.g., Africa) against the backdrop COVID-19. We, therefore, conducted a qualitative secondary analysis 79 documents (i.e., drawings written explanations) generated by school-attending adolescents grades eight to ten Zamdela, Africa, during 2020 lockdown. Using multisystemic approach, we explored what these revealed as enabling for township context The thematic findings highlight importance personal resources, complemented relational resources very occasionally, young people’s physical ecology. These reinforce that more than set strengths reminds us individual capacity pertinent when contextual temporal dynamics such resource constraints lockdown conditions prevail.

Language: Английский

Resilience in development: Pathways to multisystem integration DOI Open Access
Ann S. Masten, Fanita A. Tyrell, Dante Cicchetti

et al.

Development and Psychopathology, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 35(5), P. 2103 - 2112

Published: Dec. 1, 2023

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Language: Английский

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The pregnant moms’ empowerment program – Mexico enhances mental health for women exposed to intimate partner violence: a pilot randomized controlled trial DOI Creative Commons
Cecilia Martinez‐Torteya, Laura E. Miller‐Graff, Jessica R. Carney

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Archives of Women s Mental Health, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Jan. 21, 2025

Language: Английский

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Contextual factors impacting families in enabling resilience of gender and sexually diverse youth DOI Creative Commons
Mthandeki Zhange,

Kesh Mohangi

South African Journal of Psychology, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Feb. 5, 2025

Family affirmation is an important factor in the psychological adjustment and resilience of LGBTQ+ youth. However, owing to hetero-cisnormative discourses most rural communities, Gender sexually diverse youth thrive through devastating adversities while negotiating for their identity families. To understand systemic factors within beyond family that influence capacity families affirm youth, this article draws on data from a PhD study. This presents qualitative interpretive phenomenological results research involving 12 participants identifying as community Free State province. Participants were selected using nonprobability purposive snowball sampling methods. The explores children with gender sexual diversities, thereby highlighting utility ecological interventions extend working nuclear champion its resilience. also tensions shape marginalisation context. It demonstrates how risk exposure perpetuated by multiple intersecting variables, such religious beliefs cultural ideals encourage heterosexuality cisgender expression. Moreover, it shows family’s openness adaptive role fostering despite prevalent discourses. Despite identified factors, some still navigate diversity. end, gives useful insights practice future research.

Language: Английский

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Multisystemic resilience and its impact on youth mental health: reflections on co-designing a multi-disciplinary, participatory study DOI Creative Commons
Linda Theron,

Matteo Bergamini,

Christine T. Chambers

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Frontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 4

Published: March 18, 2025

Youth depression is a global emergency. Redressing this emergency requires sophisticated understanding of the multisystemic risks and biopsychosocial, economic, environmental resources associated with young people's experiences no/limited versus severe depression. Too often, however, personal focus on individual-level protective dominate accounts trajectories towards Further, studies in high-income countries (i.e., "western") typically inform these accounts. This article corrects oversights. It reports methodology Wellcome-funded R-NEET study: multidisciplinary, multisystemic, mixed method longitudinal study resilience among African youth whose status as "not education, employment or training" (NEET) makes them disproportionately vulnerable to Co-designed by academics, community-based service providers South Africa Nigeria, partnerships United Kingdom, Canada States, identifying physiological, psychological, social, institutional, distinct Using exemplar, advances an argument for contextually culturally rooted capacity that draws multiple, co-occurring systems people depend upon support their wellbeing. Acknowledging harnessing multiple implicated critical researchers mental health who seek thrive, themselves when protecting promoting

Language: Английский

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NEET and resilient: The lived experiences of a sample of South African emerging adults DOI Creative Commons
Linda Theron, Diane Levine, Sadiyya Haffejee

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International Journal of Psychology, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 59(6), P. 911 - 919

Published: July 2, 2024

There is scant understanding of what supports African emerging adults who are not in employment, education or training (i.e., NEET) to show resilience NEET‐related challenges. This article narrows that gap by reporting an iterative phenomenological study with nine (mean age: 23.44; 66% female) were NEET for the 18‐month duration and living a resource‐constrained community South Africa. We interviewed each young person three times (June 2021; December June 2022). A reflexive thematic analysis these interview transcripts showed being multifaceted challenge. Supported mix personal, relational environmental resources, people managed this challenge resisting recuperating from destructive coping mechanisms believing successful future self. These findings point importance their social ecologies (families, peers, service providers policymakers) recognising enacting co‐responsibility compound challenges NEET.

Language: Английский

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South African emerging adults’ capacity for resilience in the face of COVID-19 stressors DOI Creative Commons
Kate Cockcroft, Mike Greyling, Ansie Fouché

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Journal of Health Psychology, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 29(6), P. 522 - 533

Published: Nov. 16, 2023

Little is known about resilience responses to COVID-19 stressors from emerging adults in minority world contexts. In this cross-sectional study, we explored the association between self-reported and capacity for 351 (Mean age = 24.45, SD 2.57; 68% female) who self-identified as Black African. We were interested whether age, gender neighbourhood quality influenced association. The main findings that higher pandemic stress was associated with a greater resilience. Older participants showed levels of resilience, while there no difference regard. Those perceived their neighbourhoods being good also despite all residing disadvantaged communities. theoretical practical implications these results are considered.

Language: Английский

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Social-ecological-resilience enablers among youth residing in the air polluted Highveld Priority Area of South Africa DOI Creative Commons
Caradee Y. Wright, Danielle A. Millar, Thandi Kapwata

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International Journal of Adolescence and Youth, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 29(1)

Published: Feb. 29, 2024

Young people living in low-income settlements face numerous challenges ranging from violence to polluted environments. However, many of them find ways which overcome these for their own growth and development. These 'ways' are known as resilience-enablers. We studied the resilience enablers 240 adolescents highly air area South Africa. Using draw-and-write technique, this qualitative study entailed asking school-attending (n = 240; average age: 14.1) make a drawing that illustrated what supported resilience, before writing short narrative explain drawing. codebook-informed thematic analysis, we identified two dominant patterns data: most young relied on themselves cope well with challenging environment; minority also drew social, institutional environmental supports. Our findings alarming because they imply little is being done co-facilitate settlements.

Language: Английский

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Multisystemic factors predicting street migration of children in Kenya: A multilevel longitudinal study of families and villages DOI
Michael L. Goodman, Linda Theron,

Heidi McPherson

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Child Abuse & Neglect, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 154, P. 106897 - 106897

Published: June 13, 2024

Language: Английский

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Resilience to structural violence: an exploration of the multisystemic resources that enable youth hope DOI

Bongiwe Ncube,

Linda Theron, Sadiyya Haffejee

et al.

South African Journal of Psychology, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 54(3), P. 331 - 347

Published: July 26, 2024

Youth in structurally violent environments emphasise hope when explaining their resilience. Even so, the multisystemic resources that enable (also over time) are relatively underreported for African young people. In response to this gap, we report a qualitative study identified hope-enabling contributed resilience of two samples youth aged 15–24 and living township eMbalenhle, South Africa. Using Draw-Write-Talk methodology, 2017 sample ( n = 30; M age 18.6; 56% male youth) 2018 7; 18.4; 85% female generated visual narrative data experiences enablers. A thematic analysis showed mix contextually relevant typically explained capacity face structural violence. Four informed mix: personal strengths, faith-based beliefs, positive relationships, tangible sources inspiration. This mix, its putative durability time, has implications how psychologists policymakers support contexts be hopefully resilient.

Language: Английский

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Resilience to Depression Among Emerging Adults in South Africa: Insights From Digital Diaries DOI Creative Commons
Diane Levine, Linda Theron, Sadiyya Haffejee

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Emerging Adulthood, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 12(5), P. 694 - 709

Published: Aug. 7, 2024

Emerging adults facing chronic socioeconomic stress, especially depression, lack comprehensive research on resilience factors. This study analyzed digital diary entries ( n = 338) from 57 individuals aged 18–24 in a South African township July 2021 to April 2022. Participants highlighted relational, community, and cultural supports regardless of risk levels. Both high low-risk groups faced challenges like financial instability, limited education, health threats, lawlessness. However, institutional resource scarcity disproportionately affected higher-risk individuals, worsening issues infrastructure deficits violence exposure. Family peer support emerged as crucial, for participants. Individuals living higher emphasized collective action stranger during failures. These findings suggest that greater exposure may reinforce reliance traditional, community-focused coping mechanisms, indicating the importance studying differential factors among young adults.

Language: Английский

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