Resilience of vocational students with disadvantaged characteristics in China: The role of mindfulness

Yafan Chen, Xiaoxia Xie and Chien-Chung Huang

Children and Youth Services Review, 2021, vol. 122, issue C

Abstract: This study assessed the association between disadvantaged characteristics and resilience and the role of mindfulness among Chinese vocational school students. We hypothesized that disadvantaged characteristics negatively associated with mindfulness, which subsequently inhibited resilience. The data was collected from 875 senior students from a vocational school in China. The results from the Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) were aligned with our hypotheses that disadvantaged characteristics were negatively associated with mindfulness, and the lowered mindfulness reduced individual resilience. Furthermore, disadvantaged characteristics had negative associations with both mindfulness and resilience for males; whereas, the associations were not significant for females. Although the study has certain limitations, the findings shed light on implications for research and practice.

Keywords: Disadvantaged characteristics; Mindfulness; Resilience; Vocational students; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0190740920323392
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:cysrev:v:122:y:2021:i:c:s0190740920323392

DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105917

Access Statistics for this article

Children and Youth Services Review is currently edited by Duncan Lindsey

More articles in Children and Youth Services Review from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().