Resilience
PSYC101-09H
Dr. Stelter/Jourdan
December, 13 2014

(Rosenberg, Rosenberg, Wolford, Vance, Howard, & Ashley, 2014, Trauma Exposure, Psychiatric Disorders, and Resiliency in Juvenile-Justice-Involved Youth, 430–437 )
The topic of this article is about how resilience and other psychiatric disorders plays a part in the lives of juveniles that are involved in the justice system that have exposure to traumatic events. The researcher’s rationale for this research was to prove that resilience might play a role in the negative outcomes of traumatic exposure in the youth that were involved in this study. This study consisted of a total of 350 juvenile who were all in some way involved with the justice system. The methods used in this research were in web-based survey forms that were administered by a third party such as a juvenile probation or parole officer. The participants were identified only by numbers so they could remain anonymous and to ensure confidentiality. In conclusion, the researchers confirms that the more juvenile-justice-Involved youth experience more traumatic events the more chances they have of developing resilience or other psychiatric disorders based on their research.

(Burrow-Sánchez, Corrales, Jensen, & Meyers, 2014, Resilience in a Sample of Mexican American Adolescents With Substance Use Disorders, Psychological Assessment, 1038-1043)
The top of this article is about measuring resilience in Latino American adolescents who have substance abuse disorders. The researcher’s goal of this study was to measure resilience in Mexican American adolescents with substance abuse disorders because these stressful youth faces racism and is labeled as a non-dominant group and some often turn to substance abuse. The group that was used in this study included 106 American Latino adolescents between the ages of 13 and 18 years old. They were all referred from a juvenile justice system and were in a drug abuse treatment facility or program. The methods used in this study were all administered in paper-and-pencil format and included CD-RISC, MEIM, BDI and TLFB. These methods were administered at predetermined time points and by trained bilingual assistants. The researchers concluded that resilience by way of substance abuse disorders helped Latino Americans deal with the effects of psychological distress.

(Ong, Fuller-Rowell, & Bonanno, 2014, Prospective Predictors of Positive Emotions Following Spousal Loss, Psychology and Aging, 653–660)
This article is about the effects of losing a spouse and what that effect have on the surviving adult and what it does to the positive emotions of that adult. This study was conducted to see if trait resilience, marital strain and depression will have an effect on positive emotions in recently widowed adults. In this study 132 adults were used that had experienced recent death of a spouse and who were currently unmarried at the time of the study. Methods for this study were in the form of surveys and questionnaires over the phone as interviews using such measures as trait resilience and spousal strain as well as a measures to rate depressive symptoms to gain data for the study. In the end, this study revealed that trait resilience indeed is an independent variable when it comes to positive emotions and devastating life events such as a loss of a spouse.

(Abu-Ras & Hosein, 2014, Understanding Resiliency Through Vulnerability: Cultural Meaning and Religious Practice Among Muslim Military Personnel, Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, 1-14)
The purpose of this study is to measure the religious resilience in Muslim military personnel past and present after postwar stress. The researchers conducted this study to find out how Muslims resilience pertaining to religion was affected after postwar stress. In this study there were a total of 20 participants whom 15 were men and 5 were women. Their ages ranged from 24 to 84 years old. All of the participants were Muslims and they all were at some point a member of the military. The methods used in this study were qualitative data analysis software which used 3 levels of coding to compare data from all participants and compared that data. Overall, the study showed that the participants gained strength and resiliency through their religion despite the experiences they had when in the military. Their faith in their religion helped them to cope and endure the war then and now.

(Cecchet & Thoburn, 2014, The Psychological Experience of Child and Adolescent Sex Trafficking in the United States: Trauma and Resilience in Survivors, Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 482-493)
The topic of this article was to measure trauma and resilience in survivors of sex trafficking victims in the United States, primarily in child and adolescences victims. The researcher’s rationale for this particular research was to prove that resilience from these victims is due to the extreme trauma that they have endured and that care takers and social workers are inadequate in providing the appropriate care for these victims because of it. For this particular study a total of 6 female who had been victims of child sex trafficking were used. The methods that was used for the study was one-on-one, face-to-face semi-structured format in the form of qualitative and narrative questioning for the participants. In summary, these victims were under treated because of their resilience even though they desired to overcome their past afflictions due to sex trafficking. The study indicated that these victims required new social and emotional supports.