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In this study, the self-report Youth Resiliency: Assessing Development Strengths (YR:ADS) questionnaire is used with adolescents from seven junior and senior high schools (N = 2,991) to investigate the function of resiliency profiles as a model for understanding why adolescents engage in bullying and acts of aggression and how having these developmental strengths reduces victimization. In support of a protective-protective model of resiliency, the linear relationship with each behaviour indicator shows that the interactive risk and outcome relationship decreases with each strength or resiliency factor present. These results suggest that adolescents with positive situational and internal factors in their daily lives are inclined to lead prosocial or constructive lifestyles. The ability to negotiate risk or engagement in at-risk behaviours needs to shift the future research from simply identifying protective factors, to an understanding of how the development of resiliency processes allow some individuals to cope more effectively than others.

Dans cette étude, un questionnaire auto-reportage : Youth Resiliency: Assessing Development Strengths (YR:ADS) pour adolescents dans sept lycées (n = 2,219) examine la fonction de profiles de la résilience comme modèle de comprendre pourquoi les adolescents se livrent à la brimade et les actes aggresifs et comment la possession des forces de dévelopment reduit la victimizme. En appuy d’ une modèle protective-protective de la résilience, les correspondences avec chaque indicateur montrent que le rapport entre risque et résultat diminue par chaque puissance ou résilience. Ces résultats indiquent que ceux qui ont des facteurs situationals et internals positifs dans la vie quotidiennne ont plus tendance à mener une vie prosociale et constructive-positive. La capacité de négotier risque ou engagement dans les conduites hazardeuses indique que la recherche en futur doit s’eloigner d’ identifier les facteurs protectifs vers un compréhension comment le développement des modes de résilience permet certains individus de se débrouliller plus effectivement que les autres.

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bullying victimization resiliency adolescence strengths protective factors

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Understanding How Resiliency Development Influences Adolescent Bullying and Victimization

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