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Risk and resilience : adaptations in changing times /
Ingrid Schoon investigates the phenomenon of 'resilience', the ability to adjust positively to adverse conditions. She focuses on academic attainment among high and low risk individuals, but also considers behavioural adjustment, health and psychological well-being, as well as the stabilit...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2006.
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| Colección: | Cambridge books online.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Risk and resilience : definitions
- Towards a developmental-contextual systems model of adjustment
- Persisting inequalities in times of social change
- Selection, causation and cumulative risk effects
- Protective factors and processes
- Stability of early adjustment over time
- Personal goals and life plans
- Conclusions and outlook
- Implications of findings for interventions and social policy
- Appendix A : two British birth cohorts
- Appendix B : response rates and handling of missing data
- Appendix C : description of variables used in the study.