Many measure aspects of resilience, such as
the multiple protective factors listed in the table in the «Theoretical background» section.
The following scenarios illustrate how
multiple protective factors support and strengthen families who are experiencing stress.
Not exact matches
The research confirms that a father's emotional engagement — not the amount of time fathers spend with children, rather how they interact with them — leads to
multiple positive outcomes, and serves as a significant
protective factor against high risk behaviors in both girls and boys.
It is likely that the simultaneous interaction of
multiple breast milk
factors is
protective.
Breast milk contains
multiple factors that modulate and promote the development of the infant immune system, including its potential
protective role against allergic disease.
«This nested design uses a bioecological framework to measure risk and
protective factors at
multiple levels of analysis — «from neighborhoods to neurons and beyond,»» Jacobson said.
Program evaluation has supported this multifaceted approach in
multiple countries and settings.83 Analyses by Nobel Prize — winning economist James Heckman reveal that early prevention activities targeted toward disadvantaged children have high rates of economic returns, much higher than remediation efforts later in childhood or adult life.84 For example, the Perry Preschool Program showed an average rate of return of $ 8.74 for every dollar invested in early childhood education.85 Targeted interventions foster
protective factors, including responsive, nurturing, cognitively stimulating, consistent, and stable parenting by either birth parents or other consistent adults.
Although the research on resilience in foster children specifically is sorely lacking, studies of maltreated children suggest that maltreated children who exhibit resilience have high cognitive competence, self - esteem, and ego control (including flexibility, planfulness, persistence, and reflection).30 Thus, foster children, who have an increased likelihood of experiencing
multiple risk
factors such as poverty, maltreatment, and separation from family of origin, may have more positive outcomes if they are fortunate enough to also experience
protective factors.
The program's components are guided by developmental theory concerning the role of
multiple interacting risk and
protective factors (child, family, and school) in the development of conduct problems.
This might include a mix of policies and multifaceted early childhood interventions targeting key risk and
protective factors across
multiple domains.
Participants included 81 immigrant and refugee youth aged 12 — 20 years (M age = 15.68; 54.3 % female) who completed self - report questionnaires assessing gang involvement and
multiple risk and
protective factors.
If the balance tilts toward risk
factors, either because they increase or because
protective factors decrease, the child may lose his or her resilience... Thus, rather than believing that children who have experienced
multiple moves with seemingly minimal adverse emotional consequences are resilient and somehow immune, it should be evident that disrupted caregiving may place children at risk for further trauma and consequently decrease the child's capacity for resilience.»
Program Components Early Risers is a multicomponent, high - intensity, competency - enhancement program based on the premise that early, comprehensive, and sustained intervention is necessary to target
multiple risk and
protective factors.
The LST program is guided by a comprehensive theoretical framework that addresses
multiple risk and
protective factors, provides developmentally appropriate information relevant to the target age group and the important life transitions they face, includes comprehensive personal and social skills training to build resilience and help students navigate developmental tasks, and uses interactive teaching methods (e.g., facilitated discussion, structured small group activities, role - playing scenarios) to stimulate participation and promote the acquisition of skills.
the
multiple risk
factors and different
protective factors central to targeting and supporting children and young people; and
Rather, resilience consists of
multiple skills, attributes and other
protective factors in varying degrees that assist the individual to cope when faced with adversity (Alvord & Grados, 2005).
This secondary instrument looked at
multiple child welfare
factors, including: history of child maltreatment, child welfare system involvement, and out - of - home placement, as well as potential
protective factors, as reported by the youth who were interviewed.
This upstream model strengthens
multiple sources of support (
protective factors) around young individuals so that when times get hard they have strengths to rely on.
Hierarchical
multiple regressions, controlling for age and gender, were used to predict prosocial behaviors and emotional symptoms, and test the moderating role of individual
protective factors.
Thus, adolescent - to - parent violence is the result of
multiple, interactive risk (e.g., family violence, abuse, hostile parenting, negative peers, violence in media, gender - based socialization for violence) and
protective factors (e.g., positive parenting, prosocial peers, positive role models)(Hong et al. 2012).
(3) The results of studies of large community samples, which include individuals characterized by
multiple risk and
protective factors of varying intensity, would be expected to differ from results of studies of high - risk samples exposed to more adverse and fewer
protective factors.