Telling stories and adding scores : measuring resilience in young children affected by maternal HIV and AIDS
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Ebersohn, L. (Liesel)
Eloff, Irma
Finestone, Michelle
Grobler, Adri
Moen, Melanie Carmen
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Routledge
Abstract
“Telling stories and adding scores: Measuring resilience in young children affected by maternal HIV and AIDS”,
demonstrates how a concurrent mixed method design assisted cross-cultural comparison and ecological
descriptions of resilience in young South African children, as well as validated alternative ways to measure
resilience in young children. In a longitudinal randomised control trial, which investigated psychological resilience
in mothers and children affected by HIV/AIDS, we combined a qualitative projective story-telling technique (Düss
Fable) with quantitative data (Child Behaviour Checklist). The children mostly displayed adaptive resilience-related
behaviours, although maladaptive behaviours were present. Participating children use internal (resolve/agency,
positive future expectations, emotional intelligence) and external protective resources (material resources, positive
institutions) to mediate adaptation. Children’s maladaptive behaviours were exacerbated by internal (limited
problem-solving skills, negative emotions) and external risk factors (chronic and cumulative adversity).
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Adaptation, Cross-cultural comparison, HIV and AIDS, Indigenisation, Protective resources, Risk factors, Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS)
Sustainable Development Goals
Citation
Liesel Ebers
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hn, Irma Eloff, Michelle Finestone, Adri Grobler & Melanie
Moen (2015) Telling stories and adding scores: Measuring resilience in young children
affected by maternal HIV and AIDS, African Journal of AIDS Research, 14:3, 219-227, DOI:
10.2989/16085906.2015.1052822.