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Resilience among youth emancipating from foster care
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Resilience among youth emancipating from foster care
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cumulative risk and protection and their relationship with positive adaptation
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Shpiegel
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Svetlana
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Svetlana Shpiegel
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Kathleen J
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Kathleen J Pottick
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chair
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Simmel
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Cassandra
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Cassandra Simmel
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internal member
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Peterson
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N. Andrew
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N. Andrew Peterson
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Phillips
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Julie
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Julie Phillips
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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theses
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2012
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2012-10
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eng
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Research on youth emancipating from foster care typically emphasizes risk and maladaptation among this vulnerable population. Few studies examine competent, or resilient, functioning among these youth, and the factors that enable them to succeed. The primary goal of the present study was to explore how accumulation of risk and protective factors contributed to resilient functioning among youth leaving foster care in one state. Specifically, this research aimed to examine whether cumulative risk and protection independently affected resilience, or whether the impact of protection was contingent upon the level of risk. This study utilized data from the Mental Health Service Use of Youth Leaving Foster Care (VOYAGES) study, a longitudinal cohort study of older youth in the custody of the Missouri Children’s Division. Binary logistic regression was used to examine the study hypotheses. Results indicated that resilience was a common occurrence among youth in this sample. Specifically, 81% exhibited resilience in the domain of mental health; 70% exhibited resilience in the domain of substance use; 78% exhibited resilience in the domain of criminal involvement; and 67% reported being employed or at school. Furthermore, over two-thirds of the youth exhibited resilience in at least three of the above mentioned domains. Females, and youth who were still in foster care at age 19, were more likely to exhibit resilient functioning. Further analyses revealed that higher cumulative risk was associated with decreased likelihood of resilience in the domains of mental health and substance use, but not in the domain of criminal involvement. In contrast, higher cumulative protection was associated with increased likelihood of resilience in the domain of substance use, but not in the domains of criminal involvement and mental health. When youth overall resilience was examined, both cumulative risk and cumulative protection presented a significant contribution in the predicted direction. However, there was no evidence that the impact of protection on resilience was contingent upon the level of risk. These results emphasize the differential impact of risk and protection on different aspects of youth functioning, and support the need for specificity in resilience research.
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Social Work
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ix, 176 p. : ill.
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Ph.D.
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Includes bibliographical references
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by Svetlana Shpiegel
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Ex-foster children--Mental health
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Resilience (Personality trait)
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Children--Institutional care
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Ex-foster children--Social conditions
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ETD doctoral
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The author owns the copyright to this work.
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Shpiegel
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Svetlana
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2012-07-30 16:53:27
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Svetlana Shpiegel
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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2012-10-31
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2013-05-02
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Access to this PDF has been restricted at the author's request. It will be publicly available after May 2nd, 2013.
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