Profiles of resilience from early to middle childhood among children known to Child Protection services
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2023
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Green, M.J.
Piotroswka, P.J.
Tzoumakis, S.
Whitten, T.
Laurens, K.R.
Butler, M.
Katz, I.
Harris, F.
Carr, V.J.
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Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, 2023; 52(4):533-545
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Melissa J. Green, Patrycja J. Piotrowska, Stacy Tzoumakis, Tyson Whitten, Kristin R. Laurens, Merran Butler, Ilan Katz, Felicity Harris, and Vaughan J. Carr
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Objective: The processes facilitating resilience are likely to be influenced by individual, familial and contextual factors that are dynamic across the life-course. These factors have been less studied in relation to resilience profiles evident in the developmental period between early to middle childhood, relative to later periods of adolescence or adulthood. Method: This study examined factors associated with resilience in a cohort of 4,716 children known to child protection services by age 13 years, in the Australian State of New South Wales. Latent profile and transition analyses were used to identify multi-dimensional profiles of resilience as evident in social, emotional and cognitive functioning when assessed in early childhood (time 1 [T1], age 5–6 years) and middle childhood (time 2 [T2], age 10–11 years). Logistic regression models were used to investigate factors associated with two types of resilience identified: a transition profile of stress-resistance (i.e., represented by a typically developing profile at both T1 and T2) delineated in the largest subgroup (54%) of children, and a smaller subgroup (13%) with a profile of emergent resilience (i.e., typically developing at T2 following a vulnerable profile at T1). Results: Factors associated with resilience profiles included being female, and personality characteristics of openness and extraversion; other factors associated with stress-resistance, specifically, included higher socioeconomic status, non-Indigenous background, higher perceived port at home and at school, and not having a parent with a history of criminal offending. Conclusions: Resilience processes appear to involve a complex interplay between individual, family, and community characteristics requiring interagency support.
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Published online: 23 Sep 2021
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