Telling stories and adding scores: Measuring resilience in young children affected by maternal HIV and AIDS.
"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).
a Centre for the Study of Resilience and Department of Educational Psychology , University of Pretoria , Pretoria , South Africa.
Liesel
L
Ebersöhn
a Centre for the Study of Resilience and Department of Educational Psychology , University of Pretoria , Pretoria , South Africa.
Irma
I
Eloff
a Centre for the Study of Resilience and Department of Educational Psychology , University of Pretoria , Pretoria , South Africa.
Michelle
M
Finestone
a Centre for the Study of Resilience and Department of Educational Psychology , University of Pretoria , Pretoria , South Africa.
Adri
A
Grobler
a Centre for the Study of Resilience and Department of Educational Psychology , University of Pretoria , Pretoria , South Africa.
Melanie
M
Moen
D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000523:psychology* / Q000635:transmission; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D056348:Emotional Intelligence; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000523:psychology* / Q000635:transmission; D006801:Humans; D018445:Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D055500:Resilience, Psychological; D055815:Young Adult
HIV and AIDS; adaptation; cross-cultural comparison; indigenisation; protective resources; risk factors