Africa Mental Health Foundation, P.O. Box 48423 - 00100, Nairobi, Kenya.
Department of Psychiatry, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya.
Community Ment Health J. 2019 Aug;55(6):1038-1046. doi: 10.1007/s10597-019-00425-5. Epub 2019 Jun 8.
Ego resilience in childhood is linked to positive mental health outcomes but varies across cultures. Kenya presents a unique context in which children are vulnerable to adversity. We therefore hypothesized that Ego resilience traits are found in Kenya. We aimed to: (i) demonstrate Ego resilience in Kenya, (ii) determine associated social-demographic and psychological factors in a non-clinical population of primary school going children, (iii) contribute to the global data base with Kenyan data and (iv) lay the grounds for informed future and more focused studies in Kenya. We used a socio-demographic questionnaire, Ego Resilience scale (ER-89) and the Youth Self Report (YSR). Multivariate analyses showed the only independent predictors of Ego resilience were female gender (p < 0.001) and peri-urban region (p < 0.001). We did not find any association between Ego resilience and YSR syndrome scores in this non-clinical population study. We achieved our aims.
儿童期的自我韧性与心理健康呈正相关，但在不同文化中存在差异。肯尼亚的儿童容易受到逆境的影响，因此呈现出独特的背景。我们假设肯尼亚存在自我韧性特质。我们旨在：（i）在肯尼亚证明自我韧性的存在，（ii）确定小学学龄儿童这一非临床人群中与之相关的社会人口和心理因素，（iii）为全球数据库提供肯尼亚的数据，（iv）为肯尼亚未来更有针对性的研究奠定基础。我们使用了社会人口学问卷、自我韧性量表（ER-89）和青少年自我报告（YSR）。多变量分析显示，自我韧性的唯一独立预测因素是女性性别（p<0.001）和城市周边地区（p<0.001）。在这项非临床人群研究中，我们没有发现自我韧性与 YSR 综合征评分之间存在任何关联。我们达到了目标。
