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Exploring the gender differences in protective factors: implications for understanding resiliency.

Jennifer L Hartman¹, Michael G Turner, Leah E Daigle

¹Department of Criminal Justice, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC 28223-0001, USA. jhartman@uncc.edu

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Area of Science:

Criminology
Developmental Psychology
Sociology

Background:

Understanding desistance from delinquency and drug use is a key social concern.
Protective factors are known to foster resiliency, but their gender-specific effects are under-explored.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate how individual protective factors vary across gender in promoting resiliency to delinquency and drug use.
To examine if the accumulation of protective factors has a differential impact on resiliency based on gender.

Main Methods:

Utilized data from 711 individuals in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, Child-Mother dataset.
Analyzed individual protective factors in relation to two measures of resiliency (lack of serious delinquency and drug use).
Assessed the cumulative effect of protective factors across genders.

Main Results:

Males and females demonstrate distinct patterns in relying on individual protective factors for resiliency.
The cumulative effect of protective factors is equally significant for both males and females in fostering resiliency.
Identified specific protective factors that contribute to resiliency differently between genders.

Conclusions:

While specific protective factors differ by gender, the overall accumulation of these factors is crucial for preventing delinquency and drug use in both males and females.
Findings have implications for developing targeted interventions and policies to support youth resiliency.