Abstract
Family resilience is the capacity of a family to mitigate adversity using its resources, structure, and internal connections. In rural China, where sustainable livelihoods are changing rapidly because of urbanization and migration, it is not clear how family resilience interacts with sustainability of livelihoods. This study of rural Chinese families classifies individual’s perceived family resilience and discusses how sustainable livelihoods influence this classification. A multilevel survey of rural families reveals three categories of perceived resilience in families: perceived optimistic families, perceived cooperative families, and perceived pessimistic families. Sustainable livelihoods, including natural, social, financial, and human capitals, have significant impacts on this classification of perceived family resilience. We conclude that rural families in China vary in their levels of family resilience, and the more physical and financial capital they have, the more internal cooperation there is within families. The more natural and traditional social capital families have, the less internal cooperation there is within families. The more human resources families have, the more resilience they have.
Highlights
Resilience is the capacity of a family to survive under adversity as a function of family resources, family structure, and within-family connections (Walsh 2003)
This study explores the status of family resilience in rural China from the perspective of sustainable livelihoods
Compared to existing studies that define the resilient status for all family samples, this study introduces latent profile analysis (LPA) to find categories of resilient families
Summary
Resilience is the capacity of a family to survive under adversity as a function of family resources, family structure, and within-family connections (Walsh 2003). The income from rural livelihoods is lower, so that rural families have less money, less social capital, and fewer opportunities for education and social class improvement (Yang and Mukhopadhaya, 2017). This disadvantage is increasing with today’s urbanization and rural–urban migration in China. Studies of China must consider the current rural context, in which rural families experience urbanization and migration, and may have different types of resilience due to significant changes in sustainable livelihoods (Li et al 2012). We use latent analysis to reveal how categorical differences in family resilience are related to sustainable livelihoods
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