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Resilience in Children Exposed to Violence: A Meta-analysis of Protective Factors Across Ecological Contexts
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Children who experience violence in their families and communities are at increased risk for a wide range of psychological and behavioral difficulties, but some exhibit resilience, or adaptive functioning following adversity. Understanding what promotes resilience is critical for developing more effective prevention and intervention strategies. Over 100 studies have examined potential protective factors for children exposed to violence in the past 30 years, but there has been no quantitative review of this literature. In order to identify which protective factors have received the strongest empirical support, we conducted a meta-analysis of 118 studies involving 101,592 participants. We separately evaluated cross-sectional (n = 71) and longitudinal (n = 47) studies testing bivariate, additive, and buffering effects for eleven proposed protective factors. Effect sizes generally were stronger in cross-sectional than longitudinal studies, but four protective factors-self-regulation, family support, school support, and peer support-demonstrated significant additive and/or buffering effects in longitudinal studies. Results were consistent across type of violence experienced (i.e., maltreatment, intimate partner violence, community violence). The review highlights the most robust predictors of resilience, identifies limitations of this work, and offers directions for improving our understanding of the processes and programs that foster resilience in children exposed to violence.
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“A different meta-analysis of 118 studies exploring protective factors for children exposed to violence (including but not limited to DV) found four key protective factors (self-regulation, family support, school support, and peer support) had significant additive and/or buffering effects in relation to children's psychological and behavioral difficulties (Yule et al., 2019).”
From Risk and protective factors for children's psychopathology in the context of domestic violence – A study using nationally representative longitudinal survey data (2023) · cites this paper as Yule et al., 2019
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“While the relevant literature has focused on how DV experiences affect internalising and externalising behaviours, less work has been done to explore how DV affects indicators of adaptive functioning (Grych et al., 2015;Howell et al., 2016;Yule et al., 2019).”
From Risk and protective factors for children's psychopathology in the context of domestic violence – A study using nationally representative longitudinal survey data (2023) · cites this paper as Yule et al., 2019
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“Most of the existing research in this field has focused on internalising and externalising problems, while positive behaviours have mostly been overlooked or conceptualised and operationalised as the absence of maladaptive behaviours (Grych et al., 2015;Howell et al., 2016;Yule et al., 2019).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Yule, K., Houston, J., & Grych, J.
- Affiliations
- Marquette University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Yule, Kristen
- ORCID
- Yule, Kristen
- Venue
- Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review
- Published
- 2019-03-18
- Volume
- 22
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 406-431
- ISSN
- 1096-4037 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-2827
- OpenAlex
- W2924860102
- Cited by
- 331
- References
- 237
- Citations by year
- 2026: 37 · 2025: 51 · 2024: 52 · 2023: 62 · 2022: 70 · 2021: 45 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 4
- FWCI
- 5.11
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- e-Publications@Marquette (Marquette University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Resilience and Mental Health
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Child Welfare and Adoption
- Keywords
- resilience, children exposed to violence, protective factors, self-regulation, family support, school support, peer support, child abuse, intimate partner violence, community violence, buffering effect, additive effects, ecological context
- MeSH terms
- Psychological Trauma, Self-Control, Adolescent, Child, Family Relations, Humans, Peer Group, Schools, Social Support, Violence, Resilience, Psychological, Protective Factors
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