At each assessment, standard questionnaires were used to obtain ratings from both parents and teachers about the quality of children's relationships with parents and teachers, children's self-concept and self-control, mental health (Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire), and family adversities (including stressful life events and socioeconomic disadvantage).
When using parent-reported mental health difficulties, this classification yielded 39 Resilient (high adversity, low mental health difficulties), 79 Maladaptive (high adversity, high mental health difficulties), 72 Competent (low adversity, low mental health difficulties), and 47 Highly Vulnerable (low adversity, high mental health difficulties) children.
Conversely, continued symptoms of PTSD and depression seemed to contribute to secondary stresses and adversities, such as disturbances in school and social functioning, which in turn imposed more difficulties for them to cope with the symptoms.
He underwent manifold afflictions, trials and adversities.
Adversity rates were only above 10% for financial difficulties and unpredictable/atypical paternal parenting style.
As a direct result of the cut-off method, the Resilient and Competent children did not differ on their levels of mental health difficulties, and the Resilient and Maladaptive children did not differ on their levels of adversity.
Regardless of the direction of causality, if we know that children who are exposed to more trauma also report more emotional difficulties and perform lower on tests of cognitive ability, interventions to provide emotional support for children living in adversity will help at least one or more of these difficulties.
on different difficulties and instruments.
It's still a huge challenge, but it's a long way from the leap into the unknown undertaken by adventurers like McClean, who played an important role in showing us that there are human qualities gained through adversity, difficulty, and risk virtues perhaps under threat in a cosseted technological age.
It's still a huge challenge, but it's a long way from the leap into the unknown undertaken by adventurers like McClean, who played an important role in showing us that there are human qualities gained through adversity, difficulty and risk; virtues perhaps under threat in a cosseted technological age.
