Resilience Process and Its Personal and Social Bases

This book is to elucidate personal and social bases for personal resilience, thus addressing the issue concerning the predominance of social factors in shaping resilience. Essentially, the book starts with a clarification of resilience as a phenomenon rather than a trait. The clarification also identifies the personal bases in terms of the resilience process, which specifies belief about resilience as a precursor to learning about resilience, action for resilience, and resilience successively. To justify the personal and social bases, the book expounds the analytical-functionalist framework to specify voluntaristic and deterministic mechanisms to perform the four requisite functions of goal attainment, adaptation, integration, and latency. Equipped with the conceptual and theoretical grounds, the book proceeds to scrutinize the effects of personal and social factors on resilience and its process. The personal factors include personal background characteristics, personality, functional disability, and various beliefs, whereas the social factors include experiences of caring, peace, violence, and social exclusion in society, kindness, sociability, and aid from other people, and social capital. The scrutiny engages five databases about 6.948 Chinese people in Hong Kong and neighboring Chinese cities, composed of the public, service users, older adults, students, and people with visual impairment. Overall, the book presents ample theoretical and empirical substances to clarify the genesis of resilience.

Deals with the resilience process, including experience, belief, action, and feeling Provides an integrated understanding of resilience with the analytical-functionalist framework Integrates experiences, beliefs, actions, and feelings about quality of life

Autorentext

Chau-kiu Cheung, Ph.D., at the City University of Hong Kong, China, has recently published research results concerning civility, social inclusion, resilience, character education, moral development, peer influence, and class mobility. His current research addresses issues of protest, thriving, early child development, organizational culture, and drug and vocational rehabilitation. Over the years, he has endeavored to scrutinize and advance knowledge concerning sociomoral development, social capital, and life quality. He actively engages in applied research on various social services for youth, elders, people with disabilities, education, policing, correctional services, and other community concerns. [email: ssjacky@cityu.edu.hk]

Inhalt

Introduction.- Resilience Process.- Personal Background Bases for the Resilience Process.- Societal Impacts on Resilience.- Peer Influences on the Resilience Process.- Practical Bases for Resilience.- Social Capital Bases for Resilience.- Developmental Conditions for Resilience.- Conclusion.