TY - JOUR
T1 - Profiles of Personal Resiliency in Youth Who Have Experienced Physical or Sexual Abuse
AU - Deblinger, Esther
AU - Runyon, Melissa K.
AU - Steer, Robert A.
PY - 2014/9
Y1 - 2014/9
N2 - To determine whether children and adolescents (7-17 years old) who had experienced physical, sexual, or both types of abuse reflected distinct profiles of personal resiliency, we administered the Resiliency Scales for Children and Adolescents (RSCA) to 250 youth. We performed cluster analyses with T scores for the RSCA Self-Mastery, Relatedness, and Emotional Reactivity scales, and four profiles of resiliency representing high (20%), average (28%), and slightly below-average (30%) resiliency, and high vulnerability (22%) were identified. The youth with the high vulnerability profile described themselves as more depressed and were rated by their parents as having more internalizing and externalizing problems than the youth with high resiliency. We propose different treatment approaches that might be used with youth representing each of the four different profiles.
AB - To determine whether children and adolescents (7-17 years old) who had experienced physical, sexual, or both types of abuse reflected distinct profiles of personal resiliency, we administered the Resiliency Scales for Children and Adolescents (RSCA) to 250 youth. We performed cluster analyses with T scores for the RSCA Self-Mastery, Relatedness, and Emotional Reactivity scales, and four profiles of resiliency representing high (20%), average (28%), and slightly below-average (30%) resiliency, and high vulnerability (22%) were identified. The youth with the high vulnerability profile described themselves as more depressed and were rated by their parents as having more internalizing and externalizing problems than the youth with high resiliency. We propose different treatment approaches that might be used with youth representing each of the four different profiles.
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U2 - 10.1177/0734282914527407
DO - 10.1177/0734282914527407
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84905733963
SN - 0734-2829
VL - 32
SP - 558
EP - 566
JO - Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment
JF - Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment
IS - 6
ER -