Youth resilience to drought : learning from a group of South African adolescents

dc.contributor.authorTheron, Linda C.
dc.contributor.authorMampane, Motlalepule Ruth
dc.contributor.authorEbersohn, L. (Liesel)
dc.contributor.authorHart, Angie
dc.contributor.emaillinda.theron@up.ac.zaen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-14T06:51:41Z
dc.date.available2021-05-14T06:51:41Z
dc.date.issued2020-10
dc.description.abstractExposure to drought is on the increase, also in sub-Saharan Africa. Even so, little attention has been paid to what supports youth resilience to the stressors associated with drought. In response, this article reports a secondary analysis of qualitative data generated in a phenomenological study with 25 South African adolescents (average age 15.6; majority Sepedi-speaking) from a drought-impacted and structurally disadvantaged community. The thematic findings show the importance of personal, relational, and structural resources that fit with youths’ sociocultural context. Essentially, proactive collaboration between adolescents and their social ecologies is necessary to co-advance socially just responses to the challenges associated with drought.en_ZA
dc.description.departmentEducational Psychologyen_ZA
dc.description.librarianpm2021en_ZA
dc.description.sponsorshipUK Natural Environment Research Councilen_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerphen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationTheron, L.; Ruth Mampane, M.; Ebersöhn, L.; Hart, A. Youth Resilience to Drought: Learning from a Group of South African Adolescents. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17, 7896. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17217896en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn1660-4601 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.3390/ijerph17217896
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/79902
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherMDPIen_ZA
dc.rights© 2020 by the authors. Licensee: MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license.en_ZA
dc.subjectAfrican adolescentsen_ZA
dc.subjectClimate changeen_ZA
dc.subjectCo-productive approachen_ZA
dc.subjectProtective communityen_ZA
dc.subjectSocial ecological theory of resilienceen_ZA
dc.subjectSub-Saharan Africa (SSA)en_ZA
dc.titleYouth resilience to drought : learning from a group of South African adolescentsen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA

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