As a construct, resilience has been studied by researchers for a number of years. Researchers observed that children and youth could cope and adapt despite being exposed to risk and adversity. Adolescence is especially considered to be a period of vulnerability for most young people as they often participate in high risk behaviors (DeChesnay, 2005; Erikson, 1968). Further, these individuals who are in their early college years are often faced with the developmental challenges of this transitional period in their lives. Such a major life event can pose a variety of stresses to adolescent college students (Chang, 2001; Kanner, Feldman, Weinberger, & Ford, 1987; Williams &Lisi, 2000).
Garmezy defined resilience as, “not necessarily impervious to stress. Rather, resilience is designed to reflect the capacity for recovery and maintained adaptive behavior that may follow initial retreat or incapacity upon initiating a stressful event” (Garmezy, 1991a). …show more content…
For example, in a study of schoolchildren experiencing community violence, parent support emerged as a strong predictor of resilience in the domains of self-reliance, substance abuse, school misconduct and depression (O’Donnell, 2002). Adolescents’ responses to stresses have been found to be better when they have supportive and stable families (de Haan, 2002), while children aged nine to ten have been found to cope better with everyday stress and deploy a wider range of coping strategies when they have supportive mothers. In neighborhoods with high rates of youth crime and substance misuse, children tend to be protected from involvement when parents are affectionate, involved and supportive of education (Hawkins et al., 1999; France and Crow,
Garmezy defined resilience as, “not necessarily impervious to stress. Rather, resilience is designed to reflect the capacity for recovery and maintained adaptive behavior that may follow initial retreat or incapacity upon initiating a stressful event” (Garmezy, 1991a). …show more content…
For example, in a study of schoolchildren experiencing community violence, parent support emerged as a strong predictor of resilience in the domains of self-reliance, substance abuse, school misconduct and depression (O’Donnell, 2002). Adolescents’ responses to stresses have been found to be better when they have supportive and stable families (de Haan, 2002), while children aged nine to ten have been found to cope better with everyday stress and deploy a wider range of coping strategies when they have supportive mothers. In neighborhoods with high rates of youth crime and substance misuse, children tend to be protected from involvement when parents are affectionate, involved and supportive of education (Hawkins et al., 1999; France and Crow,