Allen James, Hopper Kim, Wexler Lisa, Kral Michael, Rasmus Stacy, Nystad Kristine
University of Minnesota Medical School and University of Alaska Fairbanks
Columbia University and Nathan Kline Institute.
Transcult Psychiatry. 2014 Oct;51(5):601-31. doi: 10.1177/1363461513497232. Epub 2013 Aug 21.
This introduction to the Special Issue Indigenous Youth Resilience in the Arctic reviews relevant resilience theory and research, with particular attention to Arctic Indigenous youth. Current perspectives on resilience, as well as the role of social determinants, and community resilience processes in understanding resilience in Indigenous circumpolar settings are reviewed. The distinctive role for qualitative inquiry in understanding these frameworks is emphasized, as is the uniquely informative lens youth narratives can offer in understanding Indigenous, cultural, and community resilience processes during times of social transition. We then describe key shared cross-site methodological elements of the Circumpolar Indigenous Pathways to Adulthood study, including sampling, research design, procedures, and analytic strategies. The site-specific papers further elaborate on methods, focusing on those elements unique to each site, and describe in considerable detail locally salient stressors and culturally patterned resilience strategies operating in each community. The concluding paper considers these across sites, exploring continuities and discontinuities, and the influence of cross-national social policies.
本期关于北极地区原住民青年复原力的特刊引言回顾了相关的复原力理论与研究，特别关注北极地区的原住民青年。文中审视了当前对复原力的观点，以及社会决定因素和社区复原力过程在理解北极圈原住民环境中的复原力方面所起的作用。强调了定性研究在理解这些框架中的独特作用，以及青年叙事在理解社会转型时期原住民、文化和社区复原力过程时所能提供的独特信息视角。接着，我们描述了“环北极原住民成年之路”研究的关键跨地点共同方法要素，包括抽样、研究设计、程序和分析策略。各特定地点的论文进一步详细阐述了方法，重点关注每个地点独特的要素，并相当详细地描述了每个社区中当地突出的压力源和具有文化模式的复原力策略。结语部分综合考虑了各个地点的情况，探讨了连续性与非连续性，以及跨国社会政策的影响。
