This exploratory study presents findings on resiliency development in five former runaway and homeless youth. Subjected to chronic trauma, this unique population lacked the protective factors other studies have associated with resiliency development. Five young women were compared and contrasted in relation to the following questions: what factors promote resiliency in runaway and homeless yout...

Maltreatment was predicted to negatively affect children's academic and behavioral adjustment through the creation of deficits in academic engagement, social competencies, ego resiliency, and ego control. Teachers' comprehensive evaluations, school records, and camp counselors' ratings were obtained for 229 socioeconomically disadvantaged children (ages 5-12 years), 146 of whom had been maltrea...

Information resiliency refers to the continuous availability of uncorrupted mission-critical information to support business or military operations, even under the threat of a cyber attack. An information resilient enterprise will continue to engage in its critical operations, despite the attacker’s attempts to intrude, corrupt or deny service. The manner and efficiency with which the operation...

The purpose of this cross-sectional pilot study was to determine the prevalence and correlates of depressive symptoms and resiliency among 290 African American women (AAW) in a community-based primary health care center. Descriptive statistics, Pearson product-moment correlation, and logistic regression analyses were conducted. Findings indicate that depressive symptoms are experienced by 49% o...

background: this paper aimed to study the relationship between spirituality, resiliency and coping strategies factors with students' psychological well-being in razi university of kermanshah. methods: the statistical population was razi university students. the sample (n=375) were selected using stratified random sampling method. the information collection tools were demographic questionnaire, ...

BACKGROUND Health care workers are exposed to various work-related traumatic incidents and crises, so building emotional resiliency is important. AIMS To examine exposure to work-related crises and resiliency of health care workers in public hospitals in Singapore. METHODS We sent questionnaires to health care workers in seven public hospitals. Participation was voluntary and anonymous. We ...

In this report we present a thorough study of the concept of resiliency in distributed workflow systems. We focus particularly in applying this concept in fields like numerical optimization, where any software or logical error could mean restarting the entire experiment. A theoretical study is presented along with a set of software tools for implementation directions. At the end a resilient alg...

BACKGROUND Disturbed sleep is detrimental to child behavior; however, the precise means by which this association occurs is unclear. Sleep and resilience can theoretically share an underlying neural mechanism and therefore influence one another. However, the role of resilience in the association between sleep and behavior is not known. The associations between sleep, resilience, and problematic...