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Methodological issues in assessing resilience in maltreated children

E M Kinard1

  • 1Family Research Laboratory, University of New Hampshire, Durham 03824, USA.

Child Abuse & Neglect
|August 7, 1998
PubMed
Summary

Defining resilience in maltreated children presents challenges. This research highlights six key methodological issues in operationalizing and measuring resilience for better understanding and support.

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Area of Science:

  • Child Psychology
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Trauma Studies

Background:

  • Assessing resilience in maltreated children is crucial for intervention.
  • Current methods face significant methodological challenges in defining resilience operationally.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To identify and discuss key methodological difficulties in defining and measuring resilience in maltreated children.
  • To highlight areas for future research to improve the assessment of resilience.

Main Methods:

  • Discussion of six critical methodological issues in resilience assessment.
  • Analysis of challenges in operational definitions, measurement sources, scoring criteria, and temporal stability.

Main Results:

  • Distinguishing resilience from its contributing factors is a primary challenge.
  • Lack of consensus exists on operational definitions, measurement sources, scoring, timing, and stability of resilience.

Conclusions:

  • Operationalizing resilience in maltreated children remains complex due to definitional and measurement issues.
  • Further research focusing on methodological rigor is needed to advance the understanding and measurement of resilience in this population.

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