Resilience in Children from Different Socioeconomic Backgrounds: An Exploratory Study

Title

Resilience in Children from Different Socioeconomic Backgrounds: An Exploratory Study

Creator

Dean C.; Afsar M.; Pandey V.P.

Description

Poverty, violence, substance abuse, family dissonance and illness represent a few potential vulnerabilities in the lives of children who are at risk of failing in their future prospects. It is thus essential to explore resilience in children, owing to the excess or deficit of exposure and access in a childs life. This study aims at exploring the resilience of children of the age group 710years, from different socioeconomic backgrounds. The socioeconomic status was determined using the Kuppuswamy socioeconomic scale and these children had parents with authoritarian and permissive parenting styles which were screened through the Parenting Styles and Dimensions Questionnaire which act as risk factors for the children. Data was collected through individual semi-structured interviews with the participants and was analysed using thematic analysis. For the lower socioeconomic status group, the main themes identified were social interaction and competence, overcoming distress and future focus, and for the upper socioeconomic status group, the main themes identified were social interaction and competence and emotional management. The study paves the way for further exploration of the impact of economic status on childrens wellbeing and might inform changes at a clinical, research and policy level. 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Source

Human Arenas

Date

2023-01-01

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media B.V.

Subject

Children; Parenting; Resilience; Socioeconomic background

Coverage

Dean C., Department of Psychology, CHRIST Deemed to be University, NCR, Delhi, 201003, India; Afsar M., Department of Psychology, CHRIST Deemed to be University, NCR, Delhi, 201003, India; Pandey V.P., Department of Psychology, Lakshmi Bai College, Delhi University, New Delhi, India

Rights

Restricted Access

Relation

ISSN: 25225804

Format

Online

Language

English

Type

Article

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1007/s42087-023-00336-8

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