Resilience and emotional distress in young people: risk, promotive and cultural factors

Thesis

Resilience, as a trait, process or outcome, is the negation of an undesirable outcome or of an expected maladjustment in the context of an adversity. Young people represent a developmental stage in which there is a vulnerability to experience deleterious outcomes during adversity. The literature on risk and promotive factors for resilience in youth is compounded by narrative reviews which have not applied a rigorous search methodology and which have failed to operationalise resilience. ...

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Authors: Malik, A

• Publication date: 2015
• Type of award: D.Clin.Psych.
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: socioecological; low and middle income countries; emotional distress; risk factors; clinical psychology; protective factors; resilience; cultural differences; adolescents; youth; promotive factors; systematic review
• Subjects: Psychology