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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Resilience risk"”.
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Resilience, Risk and Protective Factors among Nigerian Youth
… find ways to succeed. The investigation studied resilience, self-efficacy, and factors that support or impede these qualities. A quantitative method design was used for the study, which applied ecological theory and the risk and resilience framework to obtain data relating to the impact of …
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Resilience and Risk-Taking Behavior Among Thai Adolescents Living in Bangkok, Thailand
… study were to determine the relationships among resilience, risk-taking behavior and personal characteristics of Thai adolescents living in Bangkok and to examine the differences in risk-taking behavior by school grades or gender. To accomplish these, a cross-sectional correlational research …
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The resilience of children of HIV positive mothers with regard to the mother-child relationship
… this study was to explore and describe themes of resilience in the expressions and behaviours of six-year-old children with regard to the mother-child relationship, where the mothers are infected with HIV&AIDS. Themes of resilience were investigated within the framework of positive psychology. A …
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Cultural Hybridization: Bicultural Self-Efficacy And Resilience In Northern Plains American Indians
… bicultural self-efficacy and its relationship to resilience in Northern Plains American Indians. American Indians in the Northern Plains, like many tribes in the United States, experienced a calamitous history marked by interactions with the federal government that were often fatal to the …
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Exploring risk and resilience among expectant school-going learners in the Tshwane District
… pregnant again while they are out of school. The resilience of learners who are with child in schools has been less explored especially in South Africa. There is much speculation as to what puts these learners at risk of pregnancy. There are no known campaigns and programs to enhance adaptive …
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Let Our Youth Speak: A Phenomenological Analysis of Resilience in Students with Multiple Risk Factors
Resilience is a phenomenon that refers to the ability to overcome risk factors that increase the likelihood of academic or social failure. Considerable research has been conducted to determine what may enhance or hinder the ability of individuals to overcome adversity. Unfortunately, much of the …
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Examining Relationships in Head Start: Relations among Risk, Relationships, Child Characteristics, and Social and Academic Outcomes
… relationships may function to protect young high-risk children from developing poor social and academic outcomes. The current study uses Bronfenbrenner's bioecological theory to conceptualize the relationships between risk, teacher-child and teacher-parent relationship quality, and children's …
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A Framework for Adaptive Capacity in Complex Systems
… to measure the adaptive capacity and improve resilience as well. The presence of these criteria is critical to any complex system, without which resilience is unlikely to be maintained.</p> <p>To develop the assessment instrument, a four-phase research design approach was developed and …
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The Development of Metrics For Community Resilience to Natural Disasters
… often conceptualized in terms of their disaster resilience. While numerous research efforts have sought to explain the causal structure of disaster resilience, the ability to measure the concept is increasingly being seen as a key step towards disaster risk reduction. The development of standards …
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Normative Range Parenting and the Developing Brain: Investigating the Functional and Structural Neural Correlates of Parenting in the Absence of Trauma
… of early adversity on brain development and risk for psychopathology. However, much remains unknown about the impact of normative range variation in parenting on these same processes. The primary aim of this dissertation is to begin to address this gap in the literature. </p><p>I first …
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Assessing the resilience of water supply systems in Oman
… an integrated approach to identify and rank the risks to the water sources, transmission pipelines and distribution networks in Oman and suggests appropriate mitigation measures. The system resilience was evaluated and an emergency response plan for the water supplies developed. <br/><br/>The …
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The Impact of Cyberattacks on Safe and Efficient Operations of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
… the importance of developing security and resilience in a connected vehicle environment. Building a network that can respond to an initial attack and prevent an attack's dissemination through the network is crucial in limiting the negative effects of the attack. If proper resilience …
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Assessing vulnerability and multi-hazard risk in the Nepal Himalaya
… of researchers, policy makers, and disaster risk reduction practitioners in order to combat increases in natural hazard frequency and intensity. Nepal, a landlocked mountainous country spanning the central Himalayan region, has about 28 million inhabitants in 147,181 square kilometers. Nepal …