Editorial & Opinion
The Identification of Protective Mechanisms.
| العنوان: | The Identification of Protective Mechanisms. |
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| اللغة: | English |
| المؤلفون: | Koops, W. |
| Peer Reviewed: | N |
| Page Count: | 8 |
| تاريخ النشر: | 1987 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Opinion Papers Speeches/Meeting Papers |
| Descriptors: | Foreign Countries, High Risk Persons, Individual Development, Prevention, Research Design, Research Problems, Stress Variables |
| مستخلص: | A brief review of research on protective factors that allow some individuals to make healthy adaptations despite debilitating circumstances precedes a critical discussion of symposium papers. The discussion is organized around three questions. First, does the search for protective factors demonstrate an important programmatic shift in developmental research? Second, from what threats do protective factors protect the child? Third, what research designs can be used to identify protective factors? It is argued that: (1) there is no point in speaking of protective factors without knowing what risks they defend against; (2) most available epidemiological research into risk and protective factors is essentially retrospective and therefore serves heuristic purposes only; (3) researchers should shift their attention from the detection of protective factors to the identification of protective mechanisms; and (4) the best way to compensate for the uncertainties of explorations based on epidemiological research is controlled experimental manipulation of assumed protective variables in the framework of longitudinal experimental research. (RH) |
| Entry Date: | 1988 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | ED289632 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | ERIC |
| الوصف غير متاح. |