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Quantitative Research Tools
The quantitative measures being developed by the Resilience Research Centre are based on an iterative process begun in early 2003 with our partners in more than a dozen countries on six continents. Rather than exporting tools developed in western contexts for use with youth in different cultures, we have been developing measures that include participation of researchers and community members from many different cultures. Our hope has been to introduce novel concepts relevant to resilience that may not be as common among populations with Anglo-European / western backgrounds. The result has been that our measures are sensitive to factors like the social ecologies in which children live, the rites of passage they experience, and their ethnoracial heritage, as well as more common individual qualities like persistence, likeability, and problem-solving.
Qualitative Research Tools
The Resilience Research Centre has developed some innovative qualitative tools to help document the complexity of young people’s lives when growing up in adverse circumstances. These tools are particularly well suited to capturing “hidden” aspects of resilience across cultures and contexts.
Resilience Research Centre
School of Social Work
Dalhousie University
6420 Coburg Road
PO Box 15000
Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2, CA
Tel: (902) 494-3050
Building on our studies across many different countries of the social and physical ecologies (environments) that make resilience more likely, we define resilience as:
Resilience is the capacity of people to navigate to the resources they need to overcome challenges, and their capacity to negotiate for these resources so that they are provided in ways that are meaningful.
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