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- Title
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.
- Authors
Lee, Tak-yan; Kwong, Wai-man; Cheung, Chau-kiu; Ungar, Michael; Cheung, Maria
- Abstract
This paper reports the findings of a longitudinal childhood resilience study which investigated the relationship between resilience-related beliefs and positive child development. Three waves of data collection (T1, T2, and T3) were completed in January 2005, July 2005, and January 2006 with a sample of 843 grade 4 pupils, drawn from six primary schools in Hong Kong, and their parents or guardians. At T1, parents/guardians responded to a 24-item inventory of life adversities affecting their children since birth; at T1 and T3, they completed a 25-item Parental Assessment of Child’s Habit, which provided parental evaluation of children’s performance at home and in school. At T1, T2, and T3, children responded to a 58-item Child and Youth Resilience Measure, a 9-item scale on Chinese cultural beliefs about adversity, and an 11-item Chinese Resilience Measure for Children and Adolescents in Hong Kong. Regression analyses, based on linear mixed models, controlling for gender, T1 and T2 scores, personal variables, and random effects of schools, were conducted to test and validate the hypothesis that children’s resilience beliefs are predictive of positive child development, and that this predictive relationship is stronger with increasing adversity in children’s lives. Implications of these findings for the development of resilience-based interventions to enhance the quality of life of children facing adversities are examined.
- Subjects
HONG Kong (China); CHINA; PSYCHOLOGICAL resilience in children; CONFLICT (Psychology) in children; PREDICTION models; CHILD development research; SOCIOCULTURAL factors; CULTURAL values; QUALITY of life
- Publication
Social Indicators Research, 2010, Vol 95, Issue 3, p437
- ISSN
0303-8300
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11205-009-9530-x