Abstract
The article is aimed at diagnosing the determinants of youth’s positive adaptation to changing demands of life. It is focused on the relationships between creativity and resilience. The analysis comprised youth’s adaptive competences and the resources and risks of social environment. In two measurement periods, quantitative-qualitative studies were conducted among youth in the Polish-Czech borderland. The research design enabled complex diagonal and longitudinal comparisons, which addressed: the identification and analysis of change trends, recognition of their lack, likelihood assessment of these trends in both compared cohorts. The concept of resilience was used to analyse and interpret research results. The identification was conducted of (outer and inner) risk and protective factors determining positive adaptation in the Polish-Czech borderland. The borderland effect was indicated – the impact of borderland on its inhabitants’ socialization, conditioned by spatial-social-cultural-economic properties. Attention was drawn to the forming of youth’s flexibility, ability to handle everyday situations and their resistful behaviour patterns. Borderland is a source and stimulant for acquiring the disposition of resilience. The presented analyses show tendencies and universal mechanisms of human behaviour, not only in borderlands. The article indicates the need for educational activities developing and forming resilience, for elaborating intervention programmes based on better use (in adaptation) of resources and protective factors in the environment.
Highlights
Modern times require a dynamic and flexible adaptation to the constantly changing demands of life
The discussion undertaken here is aimed at a diagnosis of the factors influencing positive adaptation of youth
Apart from personality traits, the process of adaptation is determined by social conditions of education (Szczurek-Boruta, 2007), i.e. the resources, protective factors, risks and threats related to the conditions and place of life, socialization, and education
Summary
Modern times require a dynamic and flexible adaptation to the constantly changing demands of life. Such a situation results in an increasing interest in the conditions of positive adaptation. The whole process of adaptation is culturally determined by the mechanism of social influence, which takes place through socialization, education, and enculturation. This mechanism decides which environmental factors (culture), in which social situations For the analysis and interpretation of research results concerning adaptation and its determinants, the concept of resilience is used
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