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Page, Timothy; Buchanan, Teresa K.; Verbovaya, Olga – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2016
The central focus of this study was the perceptions of emotional security among 64 elementary school-aged children exposed to the hurricanes that affected the US Gulf Coast in 2005. Specifically, we examined the representational qualities of attachment, exploration, and caregiving as assessed with a narrative story-stem task in relation to…
Descriptors: Natural Disasters, Emotional Response, Security (Psychology), Elementary School Students
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Deblinger, Esther; Runyon, Melissa K.; Steer, Robert A. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2014
To determine whether children and adolescents (7-17 years old) who had experienced physical, sexual, or both types of abuse reflected distinct profiles of personal resiliency, we administered the "Resiliency Scales for Children and Adolescents" (RSCA) to 250 youth. We performed cluster analyses with T scores for the RSCA Self-Mastery,…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Sexual Abuse, Child Abuse, Violence
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Foukal, Martha D.; Lawrence, Edith C.; Williams, Joanna L. – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2016
Being a youth mentor is popular among college students, yet little is known about how their initial characteristics are related to mentoring satisfaction. Survey data from college women enrolled in a youth mentoring program (n = 158) and a comparison group (n = 136) were analyzed to determine how initial characteristics of youth mentors (a) differ…
Descriptors: Mentors, Females, College Students, Satisfaction
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Adams, Nichole L.; Tsytsarev, Sergei V.; Meller, Paul J. – Journal of the American Academy of Special Education Professionals, 2009
The extent to which both traumatic life experiences and resiliency factors contributed to gang-involved delinquent behavior in adolescent males was investigated. Results indicated that the juvenile delinquent residential treatment setting participants had significantly higher levels of both Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptomatology and…
Descriptors: Trauma, Experience, Resilience (Psychology), Juvenile Gangs