Toward a Culturally and Contextually Sensitive Understanding of Resilience: Privileging the Voices of Black, South African Young People
Toward a Culturally and Contextually Sensitive Understanding of Resilience: Privileging the Voices of Black, South African Young People
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10.1177/0743558415600072
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2016-11-01
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2
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Theron, Linda C.
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作者：
Theron, Linda C.
现存的复原力理论，或适应逆境的过程，优先考虑少数民族世界年轻人的声音。因此，被边缘化的多数世界青年的复原力没有得到充分理解，多数世界的社会生态努力以尊重多数世界青年的见解及其文化和背景定位的方式促进复原力。因此，这篇文章使可听，因为它是，181农村，黑人，南非青少年的声音，目的是说明哪些服从支持过程的特点，他们积极调整弱势的生活世界，以及如何上下文和文化的现实塑造这样的过程。演绎和归纳分析的叙事和视觉数据集，产生在定性阶段的解释性混合方法的研究，揭示了普遍发生的服从支持机制通知积极的调整。重要的是，这些年轻人优先考虑的机制以及这些机制采取的形式，是由缺席的男人和普遍的痛苦的背景现实，以及强大的妇女，人类和精神关怀以及教育价值的文化现实所塑造的。关注这些青少年的声音，不仅可以促进具体的、与文化和背景相关的复原力杠杆点，而且还可以加强关注青年人首选的复原力途径的重要性，以便以社会公正的方式理解和支持复原力。
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 youth is imperfectly understood, and majority-world social ecologies struggle to facilitate resilience in ways that respect the insights of majority-world youth and their cultural and contextual positioning. Accordingly, this article makes audible, as it were, the voices of 181 rural, Black, South African adolescents with the purpose of explicating which resilience-supporting processes characterize their positive adjustment to disadvantaged life-worlds, and how contextual and cultural realities shape such processes. Deductive and inductive analyses of a narrative and visual data set, generated in the qualitative phase of an explanatory mixed-methods study, revealed that universally occurring resilience-supporting mechanisms inform positive adjustment. Importantly, which mechanisms these youth prioritized, and the form these mechanisms take, are shaped by contextual realities of absent men and commonplace suffering, and a cultural reality of strong women, human and spiritual care, and valorization of education. Attention to these adolescents' voices not only prompts specific, culturally and contextually relevant leverage points for resilience but also reinforces the importance of attending to young people's preferred pathways of resilience in order to understand and champion resilience in socially just ways.