Abstract
Resilience is a complex concept that describes different ways to overcome traumatic situations, failures, or radical changes in life, understood to be an individual capacity to fight adversity. In this paper we propose two hypotheses in the case of adolescents with physical motor deficiency (PMD)1: if positive elements can be identified in adolescent behavior with PMD, considered as components of resilience and if, by the psychological intervention, there was a better resilience. Psychological tests with deep resonance within the personality were applied: WM Personality Inventory, Introversion-Extraversion-Neurosis Test, DE-AN Questionnaire. There have been also used projective methods. Following the quantitative-statistical and qualitative analysis of the results obtained in the group of teenagers with PMD, were identified a series of specific traits and also some compensatory features along with compensatory conducts as elements of resilience. Resilience is interpreted through compensation (features and conducts), through individual and social valorisation, through integrating teenagers with PMD in school and social groups. Other related concepts are discussed: compensation and expectance, idolizing normality, labelling etc.
Highlights
In this paper we propose two hypotheses in the case of adolescents with physical motor deficiency (PMD)1: if positive elements can be identified in adolescent behavior with PMD, considered as components of resilience and if, by the psychological intervention, there was a better resilience
Following the quantitative-statistical and qualitative analysis of the results obtained in the group of teenagers with PMD, were identified a series of specific traits and some compensatory features along with compensatory conducts as elements of resilience
Part of the results obtained in the experiment realized with the participation of adolescents with PMD have already been published by the author in papers such as: Physical Motor Deficiency in Adolescence—А Psychological Profile From the Development Perspective or Adolescents With Physical Deficiencies—Between
Summary
Society’s negative bias toward its members who have different disabilities is detrimental to the welfare and productive participation of this already marginalized and disadvantaged group. Unfavorable attitudes are often covert, they are detectable “in the use of media stereotypes, prejudicial beliefs, derogatory labels, or lack of care for the well-being of disabled people” An experiment carried out a few years ago, which was continued in the form of the theoretical studies and research, reveals a number of useful elements in current investigative approaches. Compensatory traits and behaviours are approached to counterbalance the negative aspects already crystallized at the level of their personality. All these compensations are vital elements in the resilience process
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