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Positive adjustment within the family context
Lead researcher - Ingrid Schoon, City University
Co-Investigators: Amanda Sacker, UCL; Peter Martin, Andy Ross and
Steven Hope (all City University)
This project builds on previous ESRC funded research
investigating the influence of early and persistent socio-economic
adversity on individual adjustment. There has been continuous and
increasing interest in the study of resilient children and adolescents,
yet very few studies have looked at resilience among adults, who
have to face a constant struggle in combining work and family life,
and who may be confronted with the combination of linked problems
such as unemployment, low incomes, poor housing, bad health and
family breakdown. Most of our current knowledge of the roots of
resilience and of the factors and mechanisms that protect individuals
against the risks associated with adversity come from short-term
studies in middle childhood and adolescence, and few investigations
have followed individuals from birth to adulthood beyond the second
decade. Still fewer studies have investigated individuals growing
up and coming of age in various socio-historical contexts. Our research
focus will include the analysis of selected sub samples, such as
cohort members living with or without a partner, and cohort members
in small (one child), average (two children), or large families
(three or more children). The proposed study will take into consideration
the multifaceted nature of resilience, and will examine adjustment
patterns, which may vary according to class, sex, ethnicity, and
the different contexts (including the socio-historical, as well
as the family context) in which they operate.
The project will use data collected for the 1958
National Child Development Study, the 1970 British Cohort Study,
and the 2000 Millennium Cohort. In collaboration with Amanda Sacker
(Senior Research Fellow at the University College Medical School)
a two-phase strategy will be pursued. The first objective is to
examine adjustment during adulthood using all three cohort studies,
contrasting experiences of adults in NCDS, BCS70 and MCS. The second
objective is to investigate the relationship between parental adjustment
and adjustment patterns of children born in the Millennium during
their first year of life.
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