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  • Sociology
  • Environmental Health

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  • Resilience research often focuses narrowly on individual coping, neglecting broader systemic influences.
  • A multisystemic understanding of resilience, incorporating biological, psychological, social, and environmental factors, is gaining traction but lacks operationalization in psychological studies.
  • Existing studies frequently examine only one or two systems, limiting a holistic view of well-being under stress.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To operationalize and demonstrate a multisystemic approach to resilience research.
  • To investigate the interplay of protective and promotive factors and processes (PPFPs) across multiple systems in youth.
  • To inform contextually relevant interventions and policies for promoting youth well-being in diverse communities.

Main Methods:

  • A longitudinal, six-phase transformative sequential mixed methods study involving 14- to 24-year-olds and their elders in Canada and South Africa.
  • Data collection over 5 years included community engagement, participatory qualitative research, youth surveys, stress biomarker analysis (cortisol, dehydroepiandrosterone-DHEA), ecological data, and community resource mapping.
  • Advanced analytical techniques such as latent transition analysis, network analysis, and spatial analysis will be employed to understand PPFP interrelationships.

Main Results:

  • The study successfully collected diverse data across biological, psychological, social, and environmental systems.
  • Preliminary qualitative and descriptive analyses are underway, focusing on thematic, narrative, and ecological data.
  • The research demonstrates the feasibility of conducting complex, multisystemic resilience research across different cultural contexts.

Conclusions:

  • Multisystemic resilience research is feasible and essential for a comprehensive understanding of positive development under stress.
  • Analyzing data across multiple systems, including cultural contexts, expands psychological research paradigms.
  • This approach can guide the development of socially and contextually relevant interventions and policies to support youth resilience.