Resilience and marginalized youth: Making a case for personal and collective meaning-making as part of resilience research in public health

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 565-570

  Wexler, Lisa Marin ^a   DiFluvio, Gloria ^a   Burke, Tracey K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE   (United States)

Author keywords

American Indian Alaska Native; Discrimination; Indigenous; Marginalized groups; Research framework; Resilience; Sexual minority; Youth

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; MARGINALIZATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESEARCH WORK; YOUNG POPULATION;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; BISEXUALITY; CONFLICT; CULTURAL FACTOR; ECONOMICS; HEALTH DISPARITY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; IDEOLOGY; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; LESBIAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; POLITICAL SYSTEM; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SELF CONCEPT; SEXUAL MINORITY; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SOCIALIZATION; TRANSSEXUALISM;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY; CULTURE; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MINORITY GROUPS; PREJUDICE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 68049105396     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.06.022     Document Type: Article

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