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

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“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)

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Liesel Ebers ö 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.