Children’s Resilience-Related Beliefs as a Predictor of Positive Child Development in the Face of Adversities: Implications for Interventions to Enhance Children’s Quality of Life

Lee, Tak Yan; Kwong, Wai-Man; Cheung, Chau‐kiu; Ungar, Michael; Cheung, Maria

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-0224-0_7

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“…Lee, Kwong, Cheung, Ungar, and Cheung (2010) suggested that cultural beliefs shape the degree of optimism and coping mechanism of a person in facing hardship. Social workers should be sensitive to the orientation of individual's cultural beliefs about adversity when assessing one's motivation for changes.…”

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confidence: 98%

“…Culture has the distinctive feature of ''symbolic and behavioral inheritance'' (Shweder, Goodnow, Levine, Markus, & Miller, 1998, p. 867) that is historically developed and traditionally accepted. Cultural beliefs influence how people perceive, approach, and tackle adversities in life (Lee, Kwong, Cheung, Ungar, & Cheung, 2010). As Walsh (2006) pointed out, ''the definition and meaning of struggle and adversity is culturally varied'' (p. 67).…”

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confidence: 98%

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Psychometric Properties of the Chinese Cultural Beliefs About Adversity Scale

Leung

Shek

2013

Research on Social Work Practice

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Objective: The purpose of the study was to examine the psychometric properties of the Chinese Cultural Beliefs about Adversity scale (CBA). Methods: The CBA was administered in a sample of 275 Chinese parents experiencing economic disadvantage. Results: The CBA was found to be internally consistent. Consistent with the conceptual framework, factor analyses showed that two stables factors were abstracted from the scale. The scale and subscale scores of the CBA showed correlation with parental attributional beliefs of children's success and failure to effort and luck, respectively, thus supporting the construct validity of the measures. Conclusions: The CBA is a reliable and valid measurement tool to measure Chinese cultural beliefs about adversity from the perspective of parents in the context of poverty.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Psychometric Properties of the Chinese Cultural Beliefs About Adversity Scale

Leung

Shek

2013

Research on Social Work Practice

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“…A growing body of literature supports the notion that resilience can also be enhanced by an ethnic family's cultural values and provision of mutual psychological support [31–33]. Furthermore, some internal assets may require two or more of the above protective factors.…”

Section: Protective Factors For Psychosocial Resilience In Childrementioning

confidence: 99%

Resilience as a Positive Youth Development Construct: A Conceptual Review

Lee

Cheung

Kwong

2012

The Scientific World Journal

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The concept of resilience is reviewed from a range of disciplinary perspectives in this paper. Both broad and narrow definitions of resilience are highlighted and a working definition of resilience is proposed to inform research, policy and practice. Different psychological, social and ecological protective factors, particularly competence, optimism, and bonding to family and cultural beliefs are highlighted. Theoretical relationships between resilience and positive youth development are examined with an attempt to erase misunderstandings. Finally, how schools can promote resilience among students is discussed.

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“…Their responses demonstrated what several researchers (Agani et al, 2010;Lee et al, 2010;Rajkumar et al, 2008;Ring and Carmichael, 2006;Ungar et al, 2008) have suggested, namely that environmental factors, including cultural norms can serve as coping resources for survivors and can facilitate their ability to cope with adversity. Consistent with Walsh (2003), participants chose coping resources based on their ecological niche, in particular female gender norms embedded in Taiwanese culture appeared to guide participants as they organized what they should do in the midst of chaos.…”

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confidence: 55%

“…A growing body of research examining this third perspective indicates that identification with the core values and beliefs of a survivor's culture may be a protective factor which contributes to resilience. As these core values and beliefs appear to provide a way for survivors to make sense of traumatic experiences, adherence to cultural values and beliefs strengthens their ability to maintain resilience in the face of adversity (Lee et al, 2010;Ring and Carmichael, 2006). A growing body of research examining natural disaster survivors indicates that this third perspective is useful in understanding the resilience of survivors and in developing programs to assist survivors (Bava et al, 2010;Green et al, 2006).…”

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Resilience in a cultural context: Taiwanese female earthquake survivors

Liu

Mishna

2012

Qualitative Social Work

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The aim of the current study was to examine how females survive natural disaster in non-western culture and to gain understanding of their unique experiences in rebuilding their lives. In September 1999, a major earthquake, named '921 Earthquake,' measuring 7.3 on the Richter Scale occurred in Taiwan. Many people survived, struggling a great deal in their efforts to reconstruct their lives. Five years after this earthquake, many survivors, including women, were reported to have rebuilt self-sufficient lives. Given the vulnerability of women and their greater difficulties in resuming their lives, an important question was how these women were able to be successful in this endeavor. Utilizing a grounded theory approach, 16 female 921 Earthquake survivors who had been helped by social workers, no longer received government aid and had successfully regained their selfsufficiency, voluntarily participated in this study. The study findings revealed that the coping strategies guided by female gender norms in the family, embedded in Taiwanese culture, including: children's needs are the first priority as a maternal role norm; men working outside and women working inside; and female gender norms of supporting the family when husbands could not, were the major resources participants accessed and utilized to successfully cope with the difficulties after the 921 Earthquake. The participants' narratives demonstrated that cultural norms can serve as coping resources for survivors. Implications for social work practice are addressed.

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Children’s Resilience-Related Beliefs as a Predictor of Positive Child Development in the Face of Adversities: Implications for Interventions to Enhance Children’s Quality of Life

Cited by 6 publications

References 35 publications

Psychometric Properties of the Chinese Cultural Beliefs About Adversity Scale

Psychometric Properties of the Chinese Cultural Beliefs About Adversity Scale

Resilience as a Positive Youth Development Construct: A Conceptual Review

Resilience in a cultural context: Taiwanese female earthquake survivors

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