Resilience and Well-Being among Urban Ethiopian Children: What Role Do Social Resources and Competencies Play?

Autor/in	Camfield, Laura
Titel	Resilience and Well-Being among Urban Ethiopian Children: What Role Do Social Resources and Competencies Play?
Quelle	In: Social Indicators Research, 107 (2012) 3, S.393-410 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0303-8300
DOI	10.1007/s11205-011-9860-3
Schlagwörter	Personality Traits; Resilience (Psychology); Foreign Countries; Urban Areas; Disadvantaged; Well Being; Self Esteem; Interpersonal Competence; Social Networks; Case Studies; Adolescents; Surveys; Poverty; Ethiopia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Ausland; Urban area; Stadtregion; Well-being; Wellness; Wohlbefinden; Self-esteem; Selbstaufmerksamkeit; Interpersonale Kompetenz; Social network; Soziales Netzwerk; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Armut; Äthiopien
Abstract	Many researchers working with children in materially poor communities in Ethiopia have observed that they report high levels of well-being, for example, they are happy and satisfied with their lives. This is taken as an example of resilience, or what may be defined as the capacity to bounce back from adverse experiences. While many Euro-American studies attribute resilience to individual competencies such as self-confidence, in the context of Ethiopia and other developing countries "social" competencies may be more important. Social competencies enable children to construct networks that extend beyond peer friendships and school-based networks. Their extensive networks mean they can access resources and convert these into well-being outcomes such as being well-nourished. However, their networks can be simultaneously advantageous and disadvantageous; for example, when children feel obliged to leave school to contribute to the household. The paper presents a mixed-method case-based analysis of four children aged 14-15 living in urban Ethiopia who were characterised by the author as more or less "resilient" on the basis of survey data from Young Lives, a long-term study of childhood poverty. It uses survey and qualitative data to present a detailed account of these children's pathways to well-being and the complex role of social connections within these pathways. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10