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Browsing Educational Psychology by Author "Ungar, Michael"
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Wu, Qiaobing; Ge, T.; Emond, Alan Martin; Foster, Kim N.; Gatt, Justine M.; Hadfield, Kristin; Mason-Jones, Amanda J.; Reid, Steve John; Theron, Linda C.; Ungar, Michael; Wouldes, Trecia A. (Elsevier, 2018-09)OBJECTIVES : Using data from an international collaborative research project on youth resilience in the context of migration, this study aims to investigate how different acculturation patterns (i.e. integration, assimilation, ...
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Theron, Linda C.; Rothmann, Sebastiaan; Makhnach, Alexander; Ungar, Michael (Springer, 2022-10)Caregiver monitoring and warmth have protective mental health effects for adolescents, including vulnerable adolescents. However, combinations of the aforesaid parenting behaviours and their relationship with adolescent ...
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Theron, Linda C.; Levine, Diane; Ungar, Michael (Sage, 2021-08)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 related hardship? This question directed ...
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Somefun, Oluwasey; Theron, Linda C.; Ungar, Michael (Wiley, 2023-10)BACKGROUND: The association between family adversity and young people's mental health outcomes in communities that experience economic instability has not been well explored in the South African context. Furthermore, the ...
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Challenges of developing and conducting an international study of resilience in migrant adolescents Hadfield, Kristin; Ungar, Michael; Emond, Alan; Foster, Kim; Gatt, Justine M.; Mason-Jones, Amanda; Reid, Steve; Theron, Linda C.; Wouldes, Trecia; Wu, Qiaobing (Sage, 2020-03)The sequelae of migration and the effects of local migration policies on children’s physical and mental health are critical to examine, particularly given the historically high numbers of migrants and displaced people. The ...
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Theron, Linda C.; Rothmann, Sebastiaan; Holtge, Jan; Ungar, Michael (Sage, 2022-04)Please read abstract in the article.
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Ungar, Michael; Connelly, Gerry; Liebenberg, Linda; Theron, Linda C. (Springer, 2019-09)Using a social ecological understanding of resilience, this position paper explores how schools in different contexts and across cultures influence student resilience by providing them with seven resources that are associated ...
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The inhibitors and enablers of emerging adult COVID-19 mitigation compliance in a township context Theron, Linda C.; Levine, Diane T.; Ungar, Michael (Academy of Science of South Africa, 2022-05)Young adults are often scapegoated for not complying with COVID-19 mitigation strategies. While studies have investigated what predicts this population’s compliance and non-compliance, they have largely excluded the insights ...
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Holtge, Jan; Theron, Linda C.; Van Rensburg, Angelique; Cowden, Richard G.; Govender, Kaymarlin; Ungar, Michael (Wiley, 2021-03)Adolescents’ ability to function well under adversity relies on a network of interrelated support systems. This study investigated how consecutive age groups differ in the interactions between their support systems. A ...
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Theron, Linda C.; Ungar, Michael (Elsevier, 2018-04)No abstract available.
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Holtge, Jan; Theron, Linda C.; Ungar, Michael (Elsevier, 2022-01)BACKGROUND : Adolescent depression can severely interfere with age-appropriate and lifetime development and functionality. Physical functioning in daily life (as a means of individual support) as well as social support ...
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Theron, Linda C.; Murphy, Kathleen; Ungar, Michael (Sage, 2022-09)Youth resilience is the product of multiple systems. Still, the biological, psychological, social, and environmental system factors that support youth resilience are incompletely understood. How these factors interact, and ...
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Theron, Linda C.; Ungar, Michael; Holtge, Jan (Elsevier, 2022-04)School engagement is associated with the resilience of adolescents living in stressed environments in sub-Saharan Africa. Even so, there is scant understanding of the antecedents of African students’ school engagement. ...
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Ungar, Michael; Theron, Linda C.; Murphy, Kathleen; Jefferies, Philip (Frontiers Media, 2021-01)In contexts of exposure to atypical stress or adversity, individual and collective resilience refers to the process of sustaining wellbeing by leveraging biological, psychological, social and environmental protective and ...
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Ungar, Michael; Theron, Linda C. (Elsevier, 2020-05)More is known about the factors that predict mental disorder than about the factors and processes that promote positive development among individuals exposed to atypically high levels of stress or adversity. In this brief ...
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Mahdiani, Hamideh; Höltge, Jan; Theron, Linda C.; Ungar, Michael (Springer, 2021-06)How do residents of small towns that depend on oil and gas extraction or processing industries withstand economic boom and bust cycles? To answer this question, this article reports on a narrative analysis of residents’ ...
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Resilience to COVID-19-related stressors : insights from emerging adults in a South African township Theron, Linda C.; Levine, Diane; Ungar, Michael (Public Library of Science, 2021-12-21)There is widespread recognition that stressors related to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) jeopardize the development of emerging adults, more particularly those living in disadvantaged communities. What is less well ...
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Millar, Danielle A.; Kapwata, Thandi; Kunene, Zamantimande; Mogotsi, Mirriam; Wernecke, Bianca; Garland, Rebecca M.; Angela Mathee; Theron, Linda C.; Levine, Diane T.; Ungar, Michael; Batini, Chiara; John, Catherine; Wright, Caradee Yael (BMC, 2022-11-21)BACKGROUND : Air pollution is a global, public health emergency. The effect of living in areas with very poor air quality on adolescents’ physical health is largely unknown. The aim of this study was to investigate the ...
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Ungar, Michael; McRuer, Jennifer; Liu, Xiaohui; Theron, Linda C.; Blais, Daniel; Schnurr, Matthew A. (Resilience Alliance Publications, 2020)More research is needed to properly represent social-ecological system (SES) interactions that support the integrity of biological and cultural, i.e., biocultural, relationships in places experiencing environmental, economic, ...
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Student resilience to COVID-19-related school disruptions : the value of historic school engagement Theron, Linda C.; Ungar, Michael; Holtge, Jan (Sage, 2023-04)Does historic school engagement buffer the threats of disrupted schooling – such as those associated with the widespread COVID-19-related school closures – to school engagement equally for female and male high school ...
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