Toward a culturally sensitive conceptualization of resilience

Participatory research with war-affected communities in northern Uganda

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2395041
AutoresVindevogel (0000-0002-8923-2478, Ghent University, autor correspondente), Sofie Vindevogel, Alastair Ager (0000-0002-9474-3563, Columbia University), Julie Schiltz (0000-0001-7788-2118, Ghent University), Eric Broekaert (Ghent University), Ilse Derluyn (0000-0001-5450-1239, Ghent University)
Ano2015
Volume52
Fascículo3
Páginas396-416
Data de publicação2015-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoTranscultural Psychiatry (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1363-4615 • E-ISSN: 1461-7471
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1363461514565852
PMID25586738
OpenAlexW2140575583
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas26
Referências citadas45

Resilience research with war-affected populations has long conceptualized resilience as the absence of psychopathology and operationalized it by use of standardized measures. However, literature on resilience increasingly highlights the importance of also including indicators of positively valued functioning as well as contextually sensitive indicators of resilience. This study used a participatory approach to examine the contextual conceptualization of youth resilience in the aftermath of war in northern Uganda, as defined by groups of stakeholders (youths, parents, elders, leaders, teachers) in four communities. The results identify 40 indicators covering a multiplicity of domains of functioning. The rationales behind these indicators were clustered into the broad themes: progress, self-reliance, social connectedness, morality, health, and comfort. The findings suggest that positively and negatively valued aspects of functioning are both key to conceptualizing resilience, and indicate the importance of including contextually distinguished indicators. The findings further point to the role of individual and collective processes in the construction of resilience, and to the need to take into account the contexts wherein resilience is conceptualized and observed. This study generated contextually sensitive indicators of young people's resilience, which can be used, complementary to existing measures of functioning, to provide a more comprehensive and culturally sensitive view of youths' resilience in the wake of war adversity

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