Social-ecological-resilience enablers among youth residing in the air polluted Highveld Priority Area of South Africa
ABSTRACTYoung people living in low-income settlements face numerous challenges ranging from violence to polluted environments. However, many of them find ways in which to overcome these challenges for their own growth and development. These ‘ways’ are known as resilience-enablers. We studied the res...
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| author | Caradee Y Wright Danielle A Millar Thandi Kapwata Gerhard Rodgers Chiara Batini Linda Theron |
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| description | ABSTRACTYoung people living in low-income settlements face numerous challenges ranging from violence to polluted environments. However, many of them find ways in which to overcome these challenges for their own growth and development. These ‘ways’ are known as resilience-enablers. We studied the resilience enablers of 240 adolescents living in the highly air polluted area in South Africa. Using the draw-and-write technique, this qualitative study entailed asking school-attending adolescents (n = 240; average age: 14.1) to make a drawing that illustrated what supported their resilience, before writing a short narrative to explain their drawing. Using a codebook-informed thematic analysis, we identified two dominant patterns in the data: most young people relied on themselves to cope well with their challenging environment; a minority also drew on social, institutional and environmental supports. Our findings are alarming because they imply that little is being done to co-facilitate the resilience of young people in polluted low-income settlements. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f00249cc276a4830af008141380041862024-02-29T12:01:17ZengTaylor & Francis GroupInternational Journal of Adolescence and Youth0267-38432164-45272024-12-0129110.1080/02673843.2024.2322569Social-ecological-resilience enablers among youth residing in the air polluted Highveld Priority Area of South AfricaCaradee Y Wright0Danielle A Millar1Thandi Kapwata2Gerhard Rodgers3Chiara Batini4Linda Theron5Environment and Health Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Pretoria, South AfricaDepartment of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South AfricaEnvironment and Health Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Johannesburg, South AfricaDepartment of Psychology, School of Health Sciences, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South AfricaDepartment of Population Health Science, University of Leicester, Leicester, UKDepartment of Educational Psychology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South AfricaABSTRACTYoung people living in low-income settlements face numerous challenges ranging from violence to polluted environments. However, many of them find ways in which to overcome these challenges for their own growth and development. These ‘ways’ are known as resilience-enablers. We studied the resilience enablers of 240 adolescents living in the highly air polluted area in South Africa. Using the draw-and-write technique, this qualitative study entailed asking school-attending adolescents (n = 240; average age: 14.1) to make a drawing that illustrated what supported their resilience, before writing a short narrative to explain their drawing. Using a codebook-informed thematic analysis, we identified two dominant patterns in the data: most young people relied on themselves to cope well with their challenging environment; a minority also drew on social, institutional and environmental supports. Our findings are alarming because they imply that little is being done to co-facilitate the resilience of young people in polluted low-income settlements.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/02673843.2024.2322569Environmental healthprotective resourcespublic healthteenagerswell-beingyoung people |
| spellingShingle | Caradee Y Wright Danielle A Millar Thandi Kapwata Gerhard Rodgers Chiara Batini Linda Theron Social-ecological-resilience enablers among youth residing in the air polluted Highveld Priority Area of South Africa International Journal of Adolescence and Youth Environmental health protective resources public health teenagers well-being young people |
| title | Social-ecological-resilience enablers among youth residing in the air polluted Highveld Priority Area of South Africa |
| title_full | Social-ecological-resilience enablers among youth residing in the air polluted Highveld Priority Area of South Africa |
| title_fullStr | Social-ecological-resilience enablers among youth residing in the air polluted Highveld Priority Area of South Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Social-ecological-resilience enablers among youth residing in the air polluted Highveld Priority Area of South Africa |
| title_short | Social-ecological-resilience enablers among youth residing in the air polluted Highveld Priority Area of South Africa |
| title_sort | social ecological resilience enablers among youth residing in the air polluted highveld priority area of south africa |
| topic | Environmental health protective resources public health teenagers well-being young people |
| url | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/02673843.2024.2322569 |
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