'A pillar of strength’ : empowering women and the resilience of township-dwelling adolescents

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dc.contributor.author Pretorius, Tanya
dc.contributor.author Theron, Linda C.
dc.date.accessioned 2020-06-01T11:48:23Z
dc.date.available 2020-06-01T11:48:23Z
dc.date.issued 2019-09
dc.description.abstract Only a limited number of resilience studies report what challenges and enables adolescents living in townships. Even fewer report the aforementioned from the perspective of adolescents themselves. Given that resilience is a contextually and developmentally sensitive process, it is an oversight to marginalize the risk- and resilience-related insights of township-dwelling adolescents. We correct this oversight in this article. To this end, we report a grounded theory study with 17 South African adolescents (aged 17–19) who generated visual and narrative data. Two core insights emerged. First, parental expectations underpin adolescent disillusionment. Second, empowering women (i.e., mothers, woman relatives and/or woman teachers) are key to how adolescents adjust well to the aforementioned challenge. These insights, which extend what was previously understood about the risk and resilience of township-dwelling adolescents, fit with social ecological understandings of resilience and offer useful leverage points to champion adolescent resilience. en_ZA
dc.description.department Educational Psychology en_ZA
dc.description.librarian hj2020 en_ZA
dc.description.sponsorship The National Research Foundation of South Africa en_ZA
dc.description.uri http://journals.sagepub.com/home/you en_ZA
dc.identifier.citation Pretorius, T., & Theron, L. (2019). ‘A Pillar of Strength’: Empowering Women and the Resilience of Township-Dwelling Adolescents. Young, 27(4), 373–394. https://doi.org/10.1177/1103308818795081. en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn 1103-3088 (print)
dc.identifier.issn 1741-3222 (online)
dc.identifier.other 10.1177/1103308818795081
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/74801
dc.language.iso en en_ZA
dc.publisher Sage en_ZA
dc.rights © 2018 Sage Publications and YOUNG Editorial Group en_ZA
dc.subject Resilience en_ZA
dc.subject Adolescent en_ZA
dc.subject Township en_ZA
dc.subject Grounded theory en_ZA
dc.subject Social ecological en_ZA
dc.subject South Africa (SA) en_ZA
dc.title 'A pillar of strength’ : empowering women and the resilience of township-dwelling adolescents en_ZA
dc.type Postprint Article en_ZA


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