Role of political factors in wellbeing and quality of life during long-term constraints and conflict: an initial study

Annual Research Review: The experience of youth with political conflict – challenging notions of resilience and encouraging research refinement

“…(); Giacaman et al., ; Mataria et al., ; Miller & Rasmussen, ; Panter‐Brick, ; Panter‐Brick et al., ; Stark et al., ). Particularly valuable is the growing acknowledgement and exploration of political conditions as elements of well‐being and quality of life (Barber, McNeely & Spellings, ; Giacaman et al., ). There are two significant payoffs of this extension.…”

“…Charting the longer term course of young people's lives would also afford the ability to test the impact of conflict exposure relative to other key elements of the ecology that may or may not be related to the conflict per se. As noted, recent work has begun to demonstrate the determining influence of economic and political conditions in the quality of lives of individuals in conflict zones (Barber et al., ; Eggerman & Panter‐Brick, ; Giacaman et al., ; Mataria et al., ; Miller & Rasmussen, ).…”

Research on Youth and Political Conflict: Where Is the Politics? Where Are the Youth?

“…The corollary implication of these findings is that conceptions of mental health or suffering must themselves be contextualized with the political (see the evolving work identifying a political domain of quality of life; Barber, McNeely, & Spellings, ; Giacaman et al., ). Specifically, it was the continuing evidence or resurgence of demeaning, abusive control by the successive authorities in Egypt—precisely what the revolution was generated to redress—that was the source of the psychological/emotional injury the youth felt.…”

Handbook of Resilience in Children of War

“…Thus, in addition to assessing psychological functioning, a more culturally appropriate assessment of well-being would be to focus on social relationships and social isolation (Boyden, 2003 ;Layne et al, 2009b ;Wessells & Kostelny, 2009 ) ; socioeconomic conditions, such as employment and education (e.g., Boothby, Crawford, & Agostinho, 2009 ) ; civic involvement; developing a collective identity (e.g., Ashmore, Deaux, & Mclaughlin-Volpe, 2004 ) ; the on-time achievement of culturally sanctioned statuses such as marriage and having children (Hogan, 1978 ) ; self-esteem/ef fi cacy (e.g., Earls & Carlson, 2001 ) ; and future orientations, particularly regarding con fl ict and peace (e.g., Cairns, Hewstone, Niens, & Tams, 2005 ;Dawes & Finchilescu, 2002 ;Lavi & Solomon, 2005 ;McLernon & Cairns, 2006 ) . Finally, and most relevant to context of political con fl ict itself, recent work is beginning to acknowledge the uniquely political domains of well-being and 243 17 How Can a Majority Be Resilient?… functioning characteristic of populations who live under chronic political constraints (Barber, McNeely, & Spellings, 2012 ;Giacaman et al, 2007Giacaman et al, , 2011Giacaman, Rabaia, & Nguyen-Gillham, 2010 ;Mataria et al, 2009 ) .…”