CROSS-CULTURAL CONSULTATION LEADING TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF A VALID MEASURE OF YOUTH RESILIENCE: THE INTERNATIONAL RESILIENCE PROJECT

• Authors: Ungar Michael , Liebenberg Linda
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In this paper, an innovative fourteen site, eleven countries, collaborative investigation of resilience is described. As a part of a larger mixed methods study to understand resilience as a social and ecological construct, a 58-item measure of resilience was developed. Piloting of the measure with 1451 youth ages 13-23 confirmed that the measure demonstrates good construct validity. In this paper the authors describe the study and the measure, and discuss implications for understanding resilience across cultures and contexts.

Keywords

EN

CROSS-CULTURAL COLLABORATION; RESILIENCE; YOUTH

Discipline

• PSYCHOLOGY: PSYCHOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Experimental Psychology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Studia Psychologica
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 51
• Issue: 2-3
• Pages: 259-268
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Ungar Michael

author

Liebenberg Linda

• Michael Ungar, Dalhousie University, School of Social Work, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; www.psychologia.sav.sk/sp/

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09SKAAAA065821