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Volume 20
International Journal of Emergency Mental
Health and Human Resilience
ISSN: 1522-4821
Mental Health 2018
April 26-27, 2018
April 26-27, 2018 | Rome, Italy
4
th
International Conference on
Mental Health and Human Resilience
Exploring resilience among adolescents: analysis of three case vignettes
Vaidehi Chilwarwar
and
Rajani Konantambigi
Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India
T
his paper explores the life journey of adolescents to comprehend the construct of resilience. The phenomenon of resilience
was explored from three adolescents residing at a socially and economically deprived neighborhood of Janta Nagar, in
Mumbai, India. A phenomenological approach was adopted to understand resilience as a subjective experience shaped by
a shared identity of deprived adolescents. Purposive and snowball sampling was used to select participants. Focused group
discussions were held to investigate the risk conditions among adolescents of the community. In-depth interviews were
conducted to collect data that elicited information on the subjective positive outcomes. The narratives of one female and two
males aged 12, 13 and 14 years were analyzed thematically. Mother’s illness, physical injury and life-threat (kidnap) were the
crucial risk conditions in the lives of these adolescents, respectively. Being responsible, courageous and having aspirations
were found as predominant resilient processes among the three adolescents, respectively. Individual traits of optimism,
assertiveness, self-confidence, empathy and gratitude, community elements like family, bystander, and neighbors were found
as crucial elements for promoting resilience factors. As a phenomenon, resilience was argued to be culturally and contextually
embedded.
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school. Roeper Review 27(2):110-120.
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and youth resilience measure. Journal of Mixed Methods 5(2):126-149.
Biography
Vaidehi Chilwarwar is a Research Scholar; pursuing PhD at School of Social Sciences-Tata Institute of Social Sciences. She is currently involved with studies
related to resilience among adolescents. She is a Clinical Psychologist and completed Master of Philosophy from TISS in the year 2017.
vaidehi.chilwarwar@gmail.comVaidehi Chilwarwar et al., Int J Emerg Ment Health 2018, Volume 20
DOI: 10.4172/1522-4821-C1-011