%0 Journal Article
%T A Social Ecological Modeled Explanation of the Resilience Processes of a Sample of Black Sesotho
%A Angelique van Rensburg
%A Linda Theron
%A Sebastiaan Rothmann
%J Psychological Reports
%@ 1558-691X
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0033294118784538
%X The primary aim of the study that this article reports was to model and test a social ecological explanation of resilience as explained by Ungar. Its secondary aim was to investigate resilience-promoting supports in school-going Black South African adolescents. School attendance was specified as a culturally appropriate, functional outcome of resilience. The Pathways to Resilience Research Project gathered data through the Pathways to Resilience Youth Measure. Seven hundred and thirty school-going adolescents (age 12¨C19 years, 388 female, 341 male, one unspecified) from Thabo Mofutsanyana District, in South Africa¡¯s Free State province, participated in this cross-sectional study. Latent variable modeling was used to test measurement models of adolescents¡¯ self-reported perceptions of social ecological contributions (resources and risks) to their resilience. A complex model based on a social ecological explanation of resilience fitted the data best. The structural model showed that the resilience process predicted 32% of the variance in school attendance. Social skills, cultural, and spiritual resources were most supportive of adolescents¡¯ resilience. The results confirmed that the complex model explained resilience in Black South African adolescents as a person-context relational process and prompt principals, parents, teachers, and governmental departments to encourage school attendance
%K Latent variable modeling
%K adolescents
%K South Africa
%K school attendance
%K resilience
%K social ecological explanation
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0033294118784538