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Browsing Research Articles (Educational Psychology) by UP Author "Theron, Linda C."
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Wu, Qiaobing; Ge, T.; Emond, Alan Martin; Foster, Kim N.; Gatt, Justine M.; Hadfield, Kristin; Mason-Jones, Amanda J.; Reid, Steve John; Theron, Linda C.; Ungar, Michael; Wouldes, Trecia A. (Elsevier, 2018-09)OBJECTIVES : Using data from an international collaborative research project on youth resilience in the context of migration, this study aims to investigate how different acculturation patterns (i.e. integration, assimilation, ...
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Theron, Linda C.; Rothmann, Sebastiaan; Makhnach, Alexander; Ungar, Michael (Springer, 2022-10)Caregiver monitoring and warmth have protective mental health effects for adolescents, including vulnerable adolescents. However, combinations of the aforesaid parenting behaviours and their relationship with adolescent ...
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Van Rensburg, Angelique; Theron, Linda C.; Rothmann, Sebastiaan (Sage, 2018-03)Resilience, or being well-adjusted despite facing adversity that predicts negative life outcomes, is a process that is scaffolded by resilience-enabling supports. How well resilience-enabling resources support positive ...
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Theron, Linda C. (Sage, 2020-01)This aim of this article is to account for the resilience of adolescents who are challenged by structural disadvantage and to highlight that how adolescent resilience is accounted for depends on whether adolescent or adult ...
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Theron, Linda C.; Levine, Diane; Ungar, Michael (Sage, 2021-08)What enables the resilience of African emerging adults who live in sub-Saharan Africa and must contend with an everyday reality that is characterized by structural disadvantage and related hardship? This question directed ...
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Somefun, Oluwasey; Theron, Linda C.; Ungar, Michael (Wiley, 2023-10)BACKGROUND: The association between family adversity and young people's mental health outcomes in communities that experience economic instability has not been well explored in the South African context. Furthermore, the ...
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Challenges of developing and conducting an international study of resilience in migrant adolescents Hadfield, Kristin; Ungar, Michael; Emond, Alan; Foster, Kim; Gatt, Justine M.; Mason-Jones, Amanda; Reid, Steve; Theron, Linda C.; Wouldes, Trecia; Wu, Qiaobing (Sage, 2020-03)The sequelae of migration and the effects of local migration policies on children’s physical and mental health are critical to examine, particularly given the historically high numbers of migrants and displaced people. The ...
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Theron, Linda C. (Sage, 2019-09)In this article, I argue that an ecological systems approach to resilience – specifically, one that is sensitive to how contextual determinants shape successful adaptation differentially – offers a meaningful way to enable ...
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Fouche, Ansie; Fouche, Daniel F.; Theron, Linda C. (Elsevier, 2020-12)BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE : In response to the COVID-19 (C-19) pandemic, the South African government instituted strict lockdown and related legislation. Although this response was well intended, many believed it advanced ...
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Freeland, Louise; Haffejee, Sadiyya; Getanda, Elijah; Theron, Linda C.; Vostanis, Panos (Taylor and Francis, 2023)There is little knowledge on how children perceive psychosocial supports and seek help in resource-constrained settings. The aim of this study was to establish these perspectives among 22 children aged 7–10 years living ...
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Theron, Linda C.; Rothmann, Sebastiaan; Holtge, Jan; Ungar, Michael (Sage, 2022-04)Please read abstract in the article.
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Levine, Diane; Theron, Linda C. (Emerald, 2022-11)PURPOSE : In this paper the authors share, and reflect critically on, the experience of using digital storytelling (DS) methods in a South African township. We interrogate the innovations prompted as we operationalized DS ...
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McCalman, Janya; Munford, Robyn; Theron, Linda C.; Sanders, Jackie; Bainbridge, Roxanne (Frontiers Media, 2020-07-28)There are currently more than 1.8 billion 10 to 24-year-olds globally; 42% of the world’s population is aged under 25. Across different nations, young people have identified consistent priorities: jobs; the chance to ...
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Theron, Linda C.; Abreu-Villaça, Yael; Augusto-Oliveira, Marcus; Brennan, Caroline H.; Crespo-Lopez, Maria Elena; De Paula Arrifano, Gabriela; Glazer, Lilah; Lin, Liyuan; Mareschal, Isabelle; Sartori, Luke; Stieger, Liesl; Trotta, Andres; Hadfield, Kristin (Springer, 2021-03)BACKGROUND : Whilst there is little uncertainty about the deleterious impact of pollution on human and planetary health, pollution’s impact on adolescent mental health is less well understood. This is particularly true for ...
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Theron, Linda C.; Cockcroft, K.; Annalakshmi, N.; Rodgers, J.G.; Akinduyo, T.E.; Fouche, A. (Springer, 2023-09-12)Human resilience to COVID-19 related stressors remains a pressing concern following the aftereffects of the pandemic and in the face of probable future pandemics. In response, we systematically scoped the available ...
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Jefferis, Tamlynn C.; Theron, Linda C. (Elsevier, 2018-07)Our aim in this article is to explore what is known about resilience in women and girls; to theorise how gender-roles are reflected in women's and girls' resilience processes; and to explore how apposite researchers' ...
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Goodman, Michael L.; Theron, Linda C.; Seidel, Sarah; Elliott, Aleisha; Raimer-Goodman, Lauren; Keiser, Philip; Gitari, Stanley; Gatwiri, Christine (Wiley, 2023-05)Communities often face numerous challenges and opportunities—situations that may be reduced to specific domains by researchers, policy makers and interventionists. This study informs and animates a new “flourishing community” ...
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Ungar, Michael; Connelly, Gerry; Liebenberg, Linda; Theron, Linda C. (Springer, 2019-09)Using a social ecological understanding of resilience, this position paper explores how schools in different contexts and across cultures influence student resilience by providing them with seven resources that are associated ...
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Rother, Hanna-Andrea; Etzel, Ruth A.; Shelton, Mary; Paulson, Jerome A.; Hayward, R. Anna; Theron, Linda C. (MDPI, 2020-05)Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has been identified by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as being the most vulnerable region to climate change impacts. A major concern is the increase in extreme weather events ...
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The inhibitors and enablers of emerging adult COVID-19 mitigation compliance in a township context Theron, Linda C.; Levine, Diane T.; Ungar, Michael (Academy of Science of South Africa, 2022-05)Young adults are often scapegoated for not complying with COVID-19 mitigation strategies. While studies have investigated what predicts this population’s compliance and non-compliance, they have largely excluded the insights ...
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