The multisystemic roots of South African child and youth resilience: A scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction and objective

A multisystemic approach to researching resilience investigates resources across multiple systems, including biological, psychological, social, institutional, structural, environmental, and cultural systems, with special interest in how these resources co-act to enable better-than-expected outcomes among risk-exposed children and youth. This approach is an important step toward redressing neoliberal misinterpretations of resilience as a personal capacity. However, it is unclear how well a multisystemic approach is reflected in recent studies of child and youth resilience conducted in South Africa, a country where ongoing structural violence demands resilience from most children and youth. In response, this article reports a scoping review of South African

SUBMITTER: Theron LC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12617933 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature