Studying Resilience Across Cultures

Ungar, Michael; Clark, Sharon; Kwong, Wai-Man; Makhnach, Alexander V.; Cameron, Catherine Ann

doi:10.1300/j051v14n03_01

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“…We have reported here but one theme (passing it on) being played out of two tensions (positive identity and power and control- Ungar et al 2005) in the days of the two migrant students in each of Vancouver and Chiang Mai. Our colleagues and we have not yet published reports of the interactions of participants in the other six sites of investigation.…”

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“…Notwithstanding the extensive and powerful research on resilience that has been conducted over the last half century, recent investigators have voiced concerns that the majority of resiliency findings have been derived from studies of minority youth in mono-cultural settings, research that often failed to recognize complexities and dynamics within cultures and focused more on individual characteristics as opposed to socio-cultural factors in strength-based analyses (Boyden and de Berry 2004; Ungar et al 2005). Contemporary researchers seeking to understand the positive development of children and youths considered at risk tend to posit that participants' whole social-ecological environment should be observed and understood from a strength-based perspective (e.g., Grotberg 2003).…”

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Passing It On During a Day In The Life of Resilient Adolescents in Diverse Communities Around the Globe

Cameron

Lau

Tapanya

2009

Child Youth Care Forum

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This social-ecological inquiry explores youth resiliency in diverse communities using innovative qualitative visual methodologies. It engages adolescents in a process of sharing their daily experiences and reflecting on the resources they bring to bear to thrive in the face of geographic and social relocations. The four youth participants were identified by local community advisors as especially resilient teenagers despite experiencing transitions that could provoke risks to normative development. The youths were interviewed and videotaped during a weekend day in [their] lives. They also engaged in deliberations on that day; took part in a photo elicitation that reflected on significant people, places, and objects in their environments; and responded to a resilience questionnaire. These visual data and the youths' deliberations were analyzed for themes of positive identity and personal control observed within and across communities by their passing on the nurturant interchanges they themselves had experienced during that day.

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Passing It On During a Day In The Life of Resilient Adolescents in Diverse Communities Around the Globe

Cameron

Lau

Tapanya

2009

Child Youth Care Forum

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“…Our methodologies emerged from theory‐driven beliefs shared with Nsamenang (, ) that human thriving is identifiable across a breadth of communities. We started with the notion of “growing up well” (Cameron, ; Ungar et al., ) as a locally determined concept: youth advocates selected participants based on their apparent social, academic, and community thriving, despite somewhat radical relocations. Participants themselves and their guardians confirmed that they were indeed “growing up well.” We were encouraged by Rogoff (): “.…”

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Visual Perspectives on Majority‐World Adolescent Thriving

Cameron

Theron

Tapanya

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J of Research on Adolesc

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This paper offers socio‐ecological, situated perspectives on adolescent resilience derived from an application of interpretive visual methodologies to deepen understanding of adaptive youth development in diverse majority‐world cultural contexts (South Africa, Thailand, China, Mexican migration to Canada). The research is not “cross‐cultural”; by contrast, it situates youth engagement contextually, using local perspectives, especially perspectives of adolescents themselves, on “growing up well” under adverse circumstances, to interrogate conceptions of resilience in cultural context. Participants are viewed as members of cultural communities: observations with a small number of individuals are not generalized to national groups. Rather, knowledge gained by these methods is employed to enrich knowledge of the processes of majority‐world youth thriving despite such adversities as poverty and social displacement.

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“…Whereas use of the term resilience was once limited to the development of individuals, it is now also used to explain adaptive coping after collective experiences of trauma at both family (Walsh 2006) and community levels (Melillo and Ojeda 2005). Moreover, there is increasing attention to 'cultural resilience' (Paiva and Araújo 2008) which describes indigenous patterns of coping relevant to specific populations who are marginalized because of their social status as ethnoracial minorities (Kirmayer et al 2012;Ungar et al 2005). In this regard, there is growing acceptance that resilience is not merely a quality dependent on individual characteristics, but rather a quality that depends on the ability of an individual's family, school, and community to provide opportunities for growth and development (Ungar 2011).…”

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