Abstract
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 | |
| State | Published - 1999 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Preparation of this paper was supported by National Research Service Administration Predoctoral fellowship award (MH12020-01) funded by NIMH, and Chicago Longitudinal Study grants from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R29HD34294), the Office of Educational Research Improvement (R306F60055) and the University of Wisconsin–Madison Graduate School.
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Keywords
- Ethnography
- Inner-city youth
- Protective factors
- Qualitative methods
- Resilience
