Ingrid Schoon

Risk and Resilience

Adaptations in Changing Times

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

What factors enable individuals to overcome adverse childhoods and move on to rewarding lives in adulthood? Drawing on data collected from the 1958 National Child Development Study and the 1970 British Cohort Study, Schoon investigates the phenomenon of resilience by comparing the experiences of over 30,000 individuals born twelve years apart. Schoon focuses on academic attainment among high and low risk individuals, but also considers behavioural adjustment, health and psychological well-being, as well as the stability of adjustment patterns in times of social change. This is a major work.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 512g
• ISBN-13: 9780521833745
• ISBN-10: 0521833744
• Artikelnr.: 22705977

Autorenporträt

Ingrid Schoon is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Centre for Human Development and Well Being at City University, London.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Glen H. Elder, Jr
1. Risk and resilience: definitions
2. A developmental-contextual systems model
3. Persisting inequalities in times of social change
4. Selection, causation and cumulative risk effects
5. Protective factors and processes
6. Stability of early adjustment over time
7. Personal goals and life plans
8. Conclusions and outlook
9. Implications of findings for interventions and social policy.