Resilience Development of Swiss Adolescents: A Convergent Mixed-Methods Approach

Education Sciences, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 14(5), P. 456 - 456

Published: April 25, 2024

Introduction: We applied a convergent mixed-methods research design, focusing on data from Swiss students to identify patterns of resilience development in high school. Method: The study consisted an online longitudinal survey conducted two waves, autumn 2019 (n = 377 grade seven) and spring 2021 257 eight). By combining latent transition analysis (LTA), person-oriented quantitative method, qualitative content analysis, we detected four patterns. Results: revealed decrease the “blooming” pattern (students who displayed levels individual social support indicators as well satisfaction with their grades academic success measures) over time and, other hand, increase “challenged” pattern, suggesting larger numbers low success. Additionally, interviews were sample. These provided insights into stressors; coping experiences, skills, processes, resources; outcomes related resilience. Discussion: key factors contributing resilience, including empowering supportive individuals, self-help prioritized resource, positive school environment. Merging has elicited various claims such improving both home environments, along elaborating interplay, is most efficacious approach bolstering

Language: Английский

Resilience to Depression Among Emerging Adults in South Africa: Insights From Digital Diaries

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

Climate Resilience and Global Pandemics: The Southern African Perspective

Sustainable development goals series, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 127 - 136

Published: Jan. 1, 2024

Language: Английский