'n Oorsig van weerbare leerders in 'n tegniese hoërskool / Gerda Klopper

• Main Author: Klopper, Gertruida Maria
• Published: North-West University 2009
• Subjects: Resilience; Adolescent; Protective factors; Risk factors; Technical School
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10394/2267

This empirical research study focuses on the qualities of resilient adolescents in a technical school. The study indicates why some adolescents in a technical school are resilient, while other adolescents in this technical school are not resilient. Thirty resilient and thirty non-resilient adolescents in a technical school were chosen to participate in the empirical study. The empirical study consisted of quantitative research (a questionaire that was completed by the sixty adolescents), and qualitative research (three chosen resilient adolescents took part in an interview). This study is therefore a mixed methods study. The conclusions of the study were supported by the literature. The qualities of the resilient adolescent in a technical school are similar to the qualities of resilient adolescents in other contexts. Resilient adolescents in this technical school were characterized by protective factors and processes that had their roots in the individual, the community, culture and relationships. This study is an explorative study. More rigorous research is needed before this study's findings can be generalised. === Thesis (M.Ed.)--North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2008.