Resilience revisited: AIDS and resilience among a Yi ethnic minority in Southwest China

Autor:	Junyi Wang, Kejia Zhang, Louise Sundararajan, Yuanshan Luo, Rachel Sing-Kiat Ting
Rok vydání:	2021
Předmět:	Minority group History and Philosophy of Science Indigenous psychology Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) medicine Ethnic group Conceptual space China Resilience (network) medicine.disease Socioeconomics General Psychology Decolonization
Zdroj:	Theory & Psychology. 32:38-60
ISSN:	1461-7447 0959-3543
Popis:	This study attempts to widen the conceptual space of resilience in (Western) psychology in order to better capture the resilience landscape of an ethnic minority group ravaged by the HIV/AIDS pandemic—the Nuosu-Yi in Southwest China. Without decolonizing the construct of resilience, non-Western versions of coping with adversities cannot be properly understood. Our process of decolonization of resilience involved two steps: First, we conducted semistructured interviews with the target population ( N = 21) to take inventory of their Indigenous notions of resilience. Second, for conceptual comparison, we mapped the themes and categories, derived from thematic analysis, of the interview data onto the conceptual space of the Resilience Scale for Adults (RSA), which we used as proxy for mainstream conceptualizations of resilience. This mapping revealed multiple lacunae in the theoretical framework of RSA, and unique properties in the Indigenous approach to adversities in contrast. Far reaching theoretical and practical implications of this investigation are discussed.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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