Adolescents’ resilience
Adolescents’ resilience
Summary
All teens experience difficult circumstances and stressful life events. The ability to bounce back from them, and to learn and grow from them, is called resilience. Resilience is a vital skill for navigating life’s ups and downs.
This report looks at some of the factors that can help or hinder adolescents’ resilience. Its findings are intended to help people caring for or working with teens, by revealing which aspects of teens’ lives are related to their resilience.
Key findings
On the other hand, average resilience levels were lower for 16–17 year olds who:
At age 16–17, boys reported higher levels of resilience than girls.
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