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Key Factors That Affect Emotional Resilience in Children

How individuals cope with the challenges they face is influenced by their level of resilience.  Resilience is affected by individual, family and environmental factors.  The goal of this article is to empower you with the knowledge of the key factors that affect the emotional resilience in children.  Creating protective factors in your child’s life and reducing risk factors, greatly increases the development of emotional resilience.

Barankin & Khanlou  have identified the following factors which strongly influence emotional resilience:

Individual Factors:

• Temperament
• Learning strengths
• Feelings and emotions
• Self-concept
• Ways of thinking
• Adaptive skills
• Social skills
• Physical health

Family Factors:

• Attachment
• Communication
• Family structure
• Parent relations
• Parenting style
• Sibling relations
• Parents’ health
• Support outside the family

Environmental Factors:

• Inclusion – having a sense of belonging (gender, culture)
• Social conditions (socio-economic status, media influences)
• Systems promoting resilience (education, health)
• Involvement (participation in the world around them)

To conclude… “The best antidote to U.S. teenagers’ major health problems – bad habits such as drinking, smoking, promiscuity-turns out to be a close connection with caring parents.”        

The Journal of the American Medical Association

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Warmly,