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Perceptions of resilience in school-age children: A Singapore study
Citation
Seng, S.-H. (1999). Perceptions of resilience in school-age children: A Singapore study. Canadian Journal of Research in Early Childhood Education, 7(3), 239-244.
Author
Seng, Alice Seok-Hoon
Abstract
Resilience is a quality that characterizes children who, though exposed to significant stress and adversity in their lives, do not succumb to the school and life failures predicted for them. Recent research (Grotberg, 1995; Hiew & Cormier, 1994) suggests ways that schools and communities can protect children from the threats that confront individuals and families. This paper reports results of an ongoing study on promoting resilience in children in Singapore. Thirty-nine school-age children from a school-age care center were administered a resilience checklist (Child's Perception of Resilience Checklist by the International Resilience Research Project, 1995) and interviewed about their perceptions of resilience. Preliminary fmdings indicate that children draw from three sources of resilience to help them cope with adversities. The three sources are based upon who and what these children HAVE around them, who these children ARE, and what and how they CAN do certain things for themselves. This study also suggests that an ethnographic approach to data collection can provide meaningful information.
Date Issued
1999
Publisher
Canadian Journal of Research in Early Childhood Education
Journal
Canadian Journal of Research in Early Childhood Education