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Resilience in school children: Cross-cultural perspective

Researchers from three European countries – Portugal, Sweden and Croatia, have decided to: 1) Investigate the resilience of school children (10 to 12 year-olds) in their own countries 2) Compare the resilience of the school children in their cultural settings (countries) The study consists of 250 pupils from each country, from the 4th and 5th school grades in Croatia and Sweden, and from the 5th and 6th grades in Portugal. The instrument used in the study is the Child and Youth Resilience Measure-28 (CYRM-28), which is a 28-item measure that accounts for the individual, peer, family, and community resources involved in resilience processes. A one-way between-groups analysis of variance has been conducted to compare the resilience levels of the children from the three countries in the study. Overall, the item scores were high. Both differences and similarities between the three countries were found. Sweden, the richest of the countries, was found not to differ from Portugal and Croatia as much as the researchers had expected. An explanation for this may lie in recent changes in all European countries.

resilience ; school children, cross-cultural perspective

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