Resilience and Protective Factors in Adolescence: An Autobiographical Perspective from Disadvantaged Youth

Paul R. Smokowski; Arthur J. Reynolds; Nikolaus Bezruczko

doi:10.1016/S0022-4405(99)00028-X

Resilience and Protective Factors in Adolescence: An Autobiographical Perspective from Disadvantaged Youth

Paul R. Smokowski, Arthur J. Reynolds, Nikolaus Bezruczko

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This article focuses on the development of adolescent resilience and protective factors within a sample of 86 inner-city high school students in Chicago. Resilience was considered present when (a) children living in conditions of risk (b) show better-than-predicted outcomes (c) presumably due to some intervening process. Conditions (a) and (b) were met using quantitative comparisons. Condition (c), the intervening process, was examined using autobiographical essays to begin to understand protective factors youth consider salient in overcoming adversity. Internal attributes such as perseverance, determination, and having the awareness to learn from the risk-attrition process surfaced in the content analyses. Motivational support from family members and teachers was also highly valued for promoting successful adjustment.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	425-448
Number of pages	24
Journal	Journal of School Psychology
Volume	37
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-4405(99)00028-X
State	Published - 1999

Keywords

Ethnography
Inner-city youth
Protective factors
Qualitative methods
Resilience

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Education
Developmental and Educational Psychology

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