Tales of the unexpected? Hidden resilience in poor households in Britain

Canvin, Krysia; Marttila, Anneli; Burström, Bo; Whitehead, Margaret

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.05.009

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“…There has been growing interest in resilience from a range of disciplines including psychology (Harvey & Delfabbro, 2004), social policy (Ungar, 2004), and public health (M. Bartley, 2006;M Bartley, Schoon, Mitchell, & Blane, 2006;Canvin, Marttila, Burstrom, & Whitehead, 2009;Lawn, Hersh, Ward, Tsourtos, Muller, Winefield et al, 2011;Mitchell & Backett-Milburn, 2006;Muller, Ward, Winefield, Tsourtos, & Lawn, 2009;Tsourtos, Ward, Muller, Lawn, Winefield, Hersh et al, 4 2011). Most research on resilience has focused on particular groups who have experienced particular trauma, for example during childhood (Castro, Garfinkle, Naranjo, Rollins, Brook, & Brook, 2007;Ireland, Weisbart, Dubowitz, Rowe, & Stein, 2010;Tercyak, Donze, Prahlad, Mosher, & Shad, 2006) and adolescence (Ali, Dwyer, Vanner, & Lopez, 2010;Brown, 2001;Velleman, Templeton, & Copello, 2005).…”

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Additive and subtractive resilience strategies as enablers of biographical reinvention: A qualitative study of ex-smokers and never-smokers

Ward

Muller

Tsourtos

et al. 2011

Social Science & Medicine

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Additive and subtractive resilience strategies as enablers of biographical reinvention: a qualitative study of ex-smokers and never-smokers AbstractThe notion of developing resilience is becoming increasingly important as a way of responding to the social determinants of poor health, particularly in disadvantaged groups. It is hypothesized that resilient individuals and communities are able to "bounce back" from the adversities they face. This paper explores the processes involved in building resilience as an outcome in relation to both quitting smoking and never smoking. The study involved 93 qualitative, oral-history interviews with participants from population groups with high and enduring smoking rates in Adelaide, Australia, and was essentially interested in how some people in these groups managed to quit or never start smoking in the face of adversities, in comparison to a group of smokers. Our key findings relate to what we call additive and subtractive resilience strategies, which focus on the practices, roles and activities that individuals either "took on" or "left behind" in order to quit smoking or remain abstinent. The theoretical lenses we use to understand these resilience strategies relate to biographical reinforcement and biographical reinvention, which situate the resilience strategies in a broader "project of the self", often in relation to attempting to develop "healthy bodies" and "healthy biographies".

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Section: The Concept Of Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

Additive and subtractive resilience strategies as enablers of biographical reinvention: A qualitative study of ex-smokers and never-smokers

Ward

Muller

Tsourtos

et al. 2011

Social Science & Medicine

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“…Research has also looked at resilience as a process, though this work has tended to focus on individuals more than places (Canvin et al 2009;Massey et al 1998;Schoon 2006). Such studies are in contrast to those which simply look for places that have achieved a particular 'outcome' , like a relatively good mortality rate, despite facing adversity.…”

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Place, space, and health inequalities

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Mitchell²,

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2015

Health Inequalities

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“…In this way, deprivation acts as a source of adversity to overcome. Research has identified characteristics that make individuals more likely to be healthy, despite living in deprived areas, including cognitive skills (Garmezy, 1991), family and community support, self-esteem (Canvin, Marttila, Burstromb, & Whitehead, 2009), and optimism (Connor & Davidson, 2003). In addition, researchers are beginning to explore the neighbourhood characteristics that influence arealevel resilience.…”

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Deprived yet healthy: Neighbourhood-level resilience in New Zealand

Pearson

Pearce

Kingham

2013

Social Science & Medicine

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a b s t r a c tGeographical inequalities in health are omnipresent with health and related behaviours typically worse in socioeconomically deprived places. However, this is not always true. Deprived places with unexpectedly good health outcomes, or what might be considered 'resilient' places, have been noted. Few studies have quantitatively examined resilience in neighbourhoods or investigated potential explanations for this resilience. This paper examines the paradox of low mortality despite high social deprivation in New Zealand neighbourhoods and considers possible neighbourhood characteristics that contribute to unanticipated positive health outcomes. Using area-level mortality (2005e2007) and socioeconomic data, we developed the Resilience Index New Zealand to quantify neighbourhood levels of resilience across the country. We then examined relationships between this measure and a suite of built, physical and social characteristics. We found that resilient places tended to be densely populated, urban areas. We observed gradients and increases/decreases in the most resilient groups in access to or levels of physical environment factors (environmental deprivation, safe drinking water, air quality) and unhealthy living infrastructure (alcohol and gambling outlets). Since these factors are amenable to change, these findings are the strongest evidence that such improvements may lower mortality in similarly deprived places. The social environment of resilient areas was characterised by high levels of incoming residents. We also found some surprising associations and observed U-shaped relationships for a number of the neighbourhood factors. Such findings suggest the need to develop a better proxy of community cohesion and a better understanding of the interactions between people and their neighbourhoods, rather than simply the presence of certain factors. We argue that this study has identified amenable neighbourhood characteristics and highlighted the importance of 'place-specific' resilience factors that may be effective in reducing mortality in some neighbourhoods, but be less effective in others.

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Tales of the unexpected? Hidden resilience in poor households in Britain

Cited by 78 publications

References 36 publications

Additive and subtractive resilience strategies as enablers of biographical reinvention: A qualitative study of ex-smokers and never-smokers

Additive and subtractive resilience strategies as enablers of biographical reinvention: A qualitative study of ex-smokers and never-smokers

Place, space, and health inequalities

Deprived yet healthy: Neighbourhood-level resilience in New Zealand

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