The Study of Youth Resilience Across Cultures: Lessons from a Pilot Study of Measurement Development
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2008
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1080/15427600802274019
Abstract
Resilience researchers from diverse disciplines and cultural settings face formidable challenges in conceptualizing and developing standardized metrics of resilience that are representative of adolescent and young adult experiences across cultures. We discuss these issues using the case example of a pilot study involving researchers in 14 sites in 11 countries. The goal of the International Resilience Project was to develop a culturally and contextually relevant measure of youth resilience, the Child and Youth Resilience Measure (CYRM). Cultural sensitivity and an iterative research design introduced to the study a number of problems that future studies of resilience will need to address: ambiguity in the definition of positive outcomes; a lack of predictability of models across cultures; and measurement design challenges.
Was this content written or created while at USF?
Yes
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Research in Human Development, v. 5, issue 3, p. 166-180
Scholar Commons Citation
Ungar, Michael; Boothroyd, Roger; Kwong, Wai Man; Lee, Tak Yan; Leblanc, John; Duque, Luis; and Makhnach, Alexander, "The Study of Youth Resilience Across Cultures: Lessons from a Pilot Study of Measurement Development" (2008). Mental Health Law & Policy Faculty Publications. 334.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/mhlp_facpub/334
