Touch of the Blessing－Resilience of Aboriginal Adolescents in Economically Disadvantaged Single-Parent Families

• Main Authors: Tsai, Yi-Jen, 蔡宜臻
• Other Authors: Lin, Ju-Ping
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/rky8by

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 人類發展與家庭學系 === 104 === The study aims to investigate the life experience and the resilience process of aboriginal adolescents from whom was in economically disadvantaged single-parent families. This study used narrative study direction of qualitative study, and in-depth interview six disadvantaged aboriginal adolescents. Through resilience perspective, investigating the interaction between individual and environment, so as to understand how resilience process could be operated to obtain positive adaptation. The results are as follows: The results indicated that the aboriginal adolescents may encounter four types of adversities: economic problem, emotional distress, parentification, and interpersonal alienation. And two aspects of protective factors in this study: the personal protective factors include positive beliefs, reciprocal altruism and self efficacy. Besides, the family, school and community bring them great protection: the environmental factors include family warmth and support, family cohesiveness, positive teacher influences, supportive peers, the ethnic culture and religion. They perceive and reframe adversities from obtaining family support, cognitive restructuring and religion. Thus, they can active coping with the situation through developing objectives, cooperate with each other and pursuing ego identity. The results show that they have protective factors and develop the ability of resilience to overcome the adversities. Finally, the investigator provides some suggestions concerning family life education, school guidance and research directions.