Midterm One Flashcards
What is Resilience?
Overcoming negative effects or risk exposure, adapting or coping successfully with traumatic experiences and avoiding negative trajectories associated with risk.
How was Resilience originally viewed?
Set of traits that allowed children to be able to be successful coping under stress
What does PPFPs stand for?
Promotive and Protective factors and processes
What are the two kinds of PPFPs? What do they each mean?
Assets - reside with the individual, competence, coping skills and self-efficacy
Resources - included with parental support and adult mentoring
What are the different aspects of the Socio-ecological approach?
Indivdual,
Relationships (Microsystem),
Community (Meso/Exosystem)
Societal (Macrosystem)
What are the three categories of resilience models
Compensatory
Protective
Challenge
What does the compensatory model represent?
It has a direct effect on a promoter factor or outcome not acting on the risk
What does the protective model represent?
Weakens the risk but does not remove it may neutralize it can also enhance the positive effect on another promotive factor
What are the two types of protective models? And what do they each represent?
Protective-Stabilizing, Gets rid of the risk
Protective-Reactive- Decreases the risk
What is the challenge model?
Association between risk factors and negative outcomes at moderate or high levels
Want something in the middle having low risk doesn’t decrease skill sets so can increase negative outcome
What does the inoculation model represnet?
Represents developed resilience
What is an example of the inoculation model?
Exposure to stress in school and as you go through obstacles you build resilience and face adversity.
What is reliance specific too?
Content, Culture and Context (Urban vs rural youth) or parental control
Do people react different to the same adverse events?
Yes
What are some circumstances that can have an important impact on how children are affected by their experiences?
Type of adversity, Duration of adversity, Number of adversities, Interactions between adversities, Timing and developmental status, Child’s temperament and reaction to adversity, Pre existing characteristics, Family environment, Health Status
What are some biological adverse childhood experiences (ACES)
Malnutrition, Infectious diseases, Injury and disability, Premature or traumatic birth, Prenatal substance exposure
What are some Psychosocial ACES.
Witenssing violence, Maltreatment, Extreme poverty, parental discord, stigmatisation
What are childhood physical impacts of ACES?
Somatic sympotms, Headaches, Poor dental health, astham, allergies and increased infections
What are childhood behavioural impacts of ACES?
Learning and/or behavioral problems, Early use of illlict drugs, High school absenteeism, early use of alchool, Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
What is the goal of resilience research?
What protects individuals and systems from breaking down when things go wrong in some circumstances?
In the social-ecological model what is in the individual section?
Genetic predispostion
Age
Gender
Faith
In the social-ecological model what is in the Microsystem section?
Child-family and child school relationships
Religious practices
In the social-ecological model what is in the Meosystem section?
Family-School relationships
Neighbourhood, religious institutions
In the social-ecological model what is in the Macrosystem section?
Political
Economic
Religious
Cultural contexts
What are the six categories of capturing well-being?
- SWB- life satisfaction, positive feelings and low negative feelings
- Economic and material well-being
- Physical health- longevity and lack of illness
- Social and institutional well-being factors such as social support low corruption, honest elections and respect for others
- Quality of the natural environment- clean air, clean water and preserving the enviorment
- Equality- moderate and fair disparities in income and life satisfaction
What does GDP stand for?
gross domestic product per capita
What is the gini coefficient?
0 indicates complete equality within a nation
1.0 means that a single indivual passes all that resource and all other people are at 0
What countries are at the top of well-being indicators?
Northern European countries
What is life satisfaction associated with?
Income and meeting basic needs along with material comfort
What does UNDP stand for?
United nations development program human development index
What does hedonic tradition stand for?
The focus on happiness is generally defined as the presence of positive affect and the absence of negative affect
What is the eudaemonic tradition? And what are the 7 aspects of it?
The focus is on living life in a full and deeply satisfying way.
Self-acceptence
Positive social relationships
Personal growth
Purpose in life
Enivormental Mastery
Autonomy
Personal Expression
What are the 6 core dimensions of psychological well-being?
- Self-acceptance
- Purpose in life
- Environmental mastery
- Positive relationships
- Personal growth
- Autonomy
What is the homeostasis and life events with challenges model in reference to resilience?
Phase A:When an individual experiences a mild change the SWB will vary slightly
Phase B: When SWB is prevented from decreasing below the set point due to a strong homeostatic defence
Phase C: Signifies a situation when the challenge is too strong for homeostasis to manage SWB would now fall sharply
What is the new definition of well-being?
It is now viewed as a see-saw where well-being can be swayed by either resources or challenges.
What is Robert Nozick’s experiment and what were thew results?
You could experience first hand what you desire most but you would have to live that life forever. Most people voted to stay in their current life. This showed well-being is more than happiness.