Designing resilience research: Using multiple methods to investigate risk exposure, promotive and protective processes, and contextually relevant outcomes for children and youth

Child Abuse & Neglect
Michael Ungar

Abstract

Inconsistent, poorly designed research on resilience in the human sciences has contributed to epistemological and ontological ambiguity which has fuelled claims that resilience as a concept is poorly theorized. Building on research with abused and neglected children around the world, the objective of this paper is to show that studies of resilience must account for: (a) risk exposure (of relevance in different contexts); (b) promotive and protective processes (internal and external resources associated with resilience across systems); and (c) desired outcomes (as privileged by stakeholders in different cultures and contexts). By identifying common aspects of resilience research from a purposeful selection of studies (ones with weak and strong methodologies), this paper identifies three dimensions of well-designed studies of childhood resilience. Attention to all three dimensions enhances both the empirical validity (in the quantitative research paradigm) and phenomenological trustworthiness (in qualitative research) of resilience research with children and families. Challenges researching resilience can also be resolved by designing studies that account for all three dimensions. These challenges include the lack of systemic thi...Continue Reading

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Jan 2, 2020·Internal and Emergency Medicine·Marco Vincenzo LentiChristian P Selinger
Jan 30, 2021·Frontiers in Psychology·Michael UngarPhilip Jefferies
Nov 1, 2020·International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health·Linda TheronAngie Hart
Apr 4, 2021·International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health·Sun-Young Jung, Jin-Hwa Park
Apr 30, 2021·The Lancet. Psychiatry·Demelza SmeethMichael Pluess
May 2, 2021·Child Abuse & Neglect·Linda Theron, Adrian van Breda
Aug 3, 2021·Frontiers in Sports and Active Living·Gareth Norris, Heather Norris

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