Resilience in Xhosa families

[摘要] This study addresses unprivileged dichotomies in an endeavour to make audible thesilence surrounding Xhosa family resilience. This study is essentially descriptive andexploratory in nature and directed towards an understanding of the factorscontributing to the resilience of Xhosa-speaking, rural black South African families.To contextualise the discussion a selection of theories on resilience are viewed withintheir cultural contexts. Western psychology's privileging of a) the scrutiny ofpathology while disregarding resilience; of b) white participants to black participants;and c) individuality to relationship centeredness and familial systems; are uncoveredand a hypothetical understanding of Xhosa family resilience is construed. The line ofthought culminates in the theoretical discussion and empirical exploration of TheResiliency Model of Family Stress, Adjustment and Adaptation (McCubbin,Thompson, & McCubbin, 1996). In the concluding remarks of this project anadaptation of this model, namely the Resiliency Model of Family Stress, Strength,Adjustment and Adaptation, is construed. The derived model is based on anintegration of the findings of this study with resilience theory.

[发布机构] Stellenbosch University