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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Schoon, Ingrid
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Series:Cambridge books online.
Subjects:
Resilience (Personality trait)
Child development > Great Britain > Longitudinal studies.
Children with social disabilities > Great Britain > Longitudinal studies.
Children with social disabilities > Education > Great Britain > Longitudinal studies.
Résilience (Trait de personnalité)
Enfants > Développement > Grande-Bretagne > Études longitudinales.
Enfants socialement défavorisés > Grande-Bretagne > Études longitudinales.
Enfants socialement défavorisés > Éducation > Grande-Bretagne > Études longitudinales.
PSYCHOLOGY > Personality.
Child development
Children with social disabilities
Children with social disabilities > Education
Kind
Unterprivilegierung
Psychosoziale Entwicklung
Deprivatie.
Persoonlijkheidskenmerken.
Longitudinaal onderzoek.
Great Britain
Longitudinal studies
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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