Hidden Resilience in the Life of Adolescents with Involvement in Drug Trafficking

Pessoa, Alex Sandro Gomes; Coimbra, Renata Maria; Koller, Sílvia Helena; Ungar, Michael

doi:10.1590/0102.3772e34426

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Clinic Psychology and Culture • Psic.: Teor. e Pesq. 34 • 2018 • https://doi.org/10.1590/0102.3772e34426 copy

Hidden Resilience in the Life of Adolescents with Involvement in Drug Trafficking

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Abstract

This paper identifies hidden resilience processes among adolescents and young adults who have had involvement in drug trafficking. The participants were 551 adolescents and young people, aged 12-20 years (M = 16.01; SD = 1.548) from both genders, 55.4% of whom were boys. They were recruited from three social service institutions located in the state of São Paulo, which offer services for adolescents with and without a history of involvement in drug trafficking. To assess rates of resilience, the Child and Youth Resilience Measure was employed. Contrary to expectations, adolescents with greater involvement in drug trafficking had higher rates of resilience. This paper challenges the hegemonic conceptualization of resilience and proposes that more studies of hidden resilience need to be conducted.

Keywords
hidden resilience; adolescents; drug trafficking

Group	n	M	SD
A. Drug sales can help people improve their living conditions*	G1 G2	8 50	4.125 2.740	1.126 1.337
B. Some people who sell drugs help other families who do not have money to buy food or medicine	G1 G2	8 50	3.875 3.020	0.835 1.169
C. Some people who sell drugs gain respect and admiration in the place where they live*	G1 G2	8 50	4.625 2.680	0.518 1.096
D. News on TV, newspapers and magazines show a wrong image about people who sell drugs *	G1 G2	8 50	4.375 3.100	0.916 1.129
E. Selling drugs should be seen as a worthy way of working*	G1 G2	7 50	3.571 2.520	1.134 1.129
F. Some people prefer to sell drugs instead of going to school	G1 G2	8 50	4.250 3.360	1.389 1.241
G. Selling drugs can be more fun than other forms of work*	G1 G2	8 48	4.000 2.271	1.414 1.005
H. Selling drugs can be a way out of poverty *	G1 G2	7 49	4.571 3.367	0.787 1.220

Item	Wilks’ Lambda	F	p-value
A	0.890	6.553	0.013*
B	0.942	3.243	0.077
C	0.672	25.848	0.000*
D	0.823	11.425	0.001*
E	0.909	5.332	0.025*
F	0.867	8.114	0.006*
G	0.771	15.747	0.000*
H	0.892	6.423	0.014*
Sum	0.711	21.539	0.000*

	HVDT	LVDT	CG	Total	Cronbach's alpha
Individual	4.30	4.17	4.08	4.09	0.75
Relationship	4.33	3.90	3,99	3.98	0.81
Community	3.77	3.57	3.67	3.67	0.74
Cultural	4.10	3.82	3.89	3.89	0.68
General	4.16	3.88	3.92	3.92	0.90

	M	SD	M	SD	t-value	p-value	d-value	Effect size
	HVDT		LVDT		HVDT/LVDT
Individual	4.30	0.62	4.14	0.55	0.76	0.45*	-	-
Relationship*	4.33	0.42	3.82	0.59	2.34	0.02	0.90	Grande
Community	3.77	0.93	3.54	0.77	0.77	0.45*	-	-
Cultural	4.10	0.74	3.76	0.61	1.41	0.17*	-	-
General	4.16	0.55	3.83	0.52	1.61	0.11*	-	-
	HVDT		CG		HVDT/CG
Individual	4.30	0.62	4.08	0.54	1.18	0.24	-	-
Relationship	4.33	0.42	3.99	0.60	1.62	0.11	-	-
Community	3.77	0.93	3.67	0.62	0.43	0.66	-	-
Cultural	4.10	0.74	3.89	0.64	0.93	0.35	-	-
General	4.16	0.55	3.92	0.50	1.31	0.19	-	-
	LVDT		CG		LVDT/CG
Individual	4.14	0.55	4.08	0.54	0.75	0.46	-	-
Relationship	3.82	0.59	3.99	0.60	-1.73	0.09	-	-
Community	3.54	0.77	3.67	0.62	-1.35	0.18	-	-
Cultural	3.76	0.61	3.89	0.64	-1.24	0.22	-	-
General	3.83	0.52	3.92	0.50	-1.14	0.25	-	-

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