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Gama, Nombuso
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Theron, Linda C.
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dc.date.accessioned |
2024-01-18T11:54:22Z |
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dc.date.available |
2024-01-18T11:54:22Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2023-10 |
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dc.description.abstract |
Transitioning to adulthood can be stressful, particularly when young people live in challenging contexts. One such context is Eswatini, a low-income African country challenged by structural violence. Still, how Swazi emerging adults mitigate related challenges is unknown. To redress this knowledge gap, we report a qualitative study with 30 Swazi emerging adults (15 men; 15 women; 18-to-24-years) living in Matsapha, an industrial hub characterised by relentless physical, social, and financial stressors. Using reflexive thematic analysis, we found that a mix of resources (personal drive, enabling connections, a resourced ecology) co-supported resilience to stressors that emerging adults perceived as unavoidable. The detail of this resource-mix implies that emerging adult resilience is a developmentally and contextually responsive process. The findings also signpost that emerging adult resilience is a collaborative effort, one that requires an enabling physical and relational environment, and government commitment to co-facilitating that environment. |
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dc.description.department |
Educational Psychology |
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dc.description.librarian |
hj2024 |
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None |
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dc.description.uri |
https://journals.sagepub.com/home/EAX |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Gama, N., & Theron, L. (2023). The Resilience of Emerging Adults in a Stressed Industrialised Environment in Eswatini. Emerging Adulthood, 11(5), 1131-1146. https://doi.org/10.1177/21676968231165815. |
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dc.identifier.issn |
2167-6968 (print) |
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dc.identifier.issn |
2167-6984 (online) |
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10.1177/21676968231165815 |
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http://hdl.handle.net/2263/94018 |
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en |
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dc.publisher |
Sage |
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dc.rights |
© 2023 Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood and SAGE Publishing |
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dc.subject |
Emerging adulthood |
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dc.subject |
Resilience |
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dc.subject |
Phenomenological study |
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dc.subject |
Stressed industrialised environment |
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dc.subject |
Social ecological theory of resilience |
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dc.title |
The resilience of emerging adults in a stressed industrialised environment in Eswatini |
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dc.type |
Postprint Article |
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