Girls and young women in Zambia, who have lost their parents to AIDS: attachment and/or resilience?
| dc.contributor.author | Fenske, Penelope | |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Artz, Sibylle | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2009-05-05T17:36:23Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2009-05-05T17:36:23Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2009 | en |
| dc.date.issued | 2009-05-05T17:36:23Z | |
| dc.degree.department | School of Child and Youth Care | en |
| dc.degree.level | Master of Arts M.A. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | This study considered if Zambian girls and young women who had lost parents to AIDS described themselves in resiliency terms, where did their resilience comes from, and how did I think it related to attachments they reported in the context of their life histories. I conducted semi-structured life history interviews with 18 participants (13 – 22 years old), who lost parents to AIDS, before 15 years of age. The analysis included a description of the life histories of four representative participants, a content analysis, which revealed 12 concepts that emerged from the data, and my interpretation, connecting the themes to attachment and resilience theory. I found that all but one of the participants reported having the capacity to keep going and credited this strength to a supreme spiritual being (God), and it seemed that they viewed God, as a surrogate attachment figure, who provided them with their necessities. | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1828/1404 | |
| dc.language | English | eng |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.rights | Available to the World Wide Web | en |
| dc.subject | Females, Zambia, AIDS, Attachment, Resilience, | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | UVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::Social Sciences | en |
| dc.title | Girls and young women in Zambia, who have lost their parents to AIDS: attachment and/or resilience? | en |
| dc.type | Thesis | en |