A critical review of South African child and youth resilience studies, 2009–2017

AD Van Breda, LC Theron - Children and Youth Services Review, 2018 - Elsevier
In contexts of high levels of structural disadvantage, such as South Africa, resilience among
children and youth becomes increasingly important to buffer children and youth from the …

Resilience in refugee children and youth: A critical literature review.

H Jafari, A Kassan, G Reay… - Canadian Psychology …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Pour mieux comprendre les facteurs qui facilitent et favorisent la résilience chez les jeunes
réfugiés, dans cet article, les auteurs font un examen critique du progrès de la recherche sur …

Toward a culturally and contextually sensitive understanding of resilience: Privileging the voices of black, South African young people

LC Theron - Journal of Adolescent Research, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Extant theories of resilience, or the process of adjusting well to adversity, privilege the voices
of minority-world young people. Consequently, the resilience of marginalized, majority-world …

Toward an African definition of resilience: A rural South African community's view of resilient Basotho youth

LC Theron, AMC Theron… - Journal of Black …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Resilience, or adaptive behavior in the face of adversity, has recently come to be understood
as a phenomenon that should not be uniformly conceptualized across contexts and cultures …

The influence of township schools on the resilience of their learners

R Mampane, C Bouwer - South African Journal of Education, 2011 - ajol.info
Many learners living in townships require protection and resilience to overcome obstacles
and adversities in their context of development. The literature on resilience indicates …

Resilience of sub-Saharan children and adolescents: A scoping review

L Theron - Transcultural Psychiatry, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The population of sub-Saharan children and adolescents is substantial and growing. Even
though most of this population is vulnerable, there is no comprehensive understanding of …

Adding 'flock'to 'fight and flight': A honeycomb of resilience where supply of relationships meets demand for support

L Ebersöhn - Journal of Psychology in Africa, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
In this article I explain how solidarity can support positive adjustment, collective in nature,
where people face chronic, cumulative stress and largely lack resources. I propose that …

The role of social support in the persistence of first-year first-generation African students in a higher education institution in South Africa

S Motsabi, BM Diale, A Van Zyl - South African Journal of Higher …, 2020 - journals.co.za
Although there are several studies on first-year, first-generation students internationally, their
focus have predominantly been on reasons for dropping out, transition issues and the …

Resilience research with South African youth: Caveats and ethical complexities

LC Theron - South African Journal of Psychology, 2012 - journals.co.za
Studies of resilience, or the process of adjusting well to major challenges commonly
associated with negative outcomes, have proliferated in recent years. Despite the popularity …

African emerging adult resilience: Insights from a sample of township youth

LC Theron, D Levine, M Ungar - Emerging Adulthood, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
What enables the resilience of African emerging adults who live in sub-Saharan Africa and
must contend with an everyday reality that is characterized by structural disadvantage and …