The Role of Personal Resilience and Interpersonal Support in Building Fulfilling and Prosocial Lives: Examining the Good Lives Model among Young Women Four Years after Youth Detention

Despite growing interest in strength-based rehabilitation frameworks, relevant internal/external resources that are likely to facilitate the rehabilitation of detained female adolescents (DFA) have been understudied. This study aims to fill this gap by studying the role of young women’s personal res...

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Authors: Van Damme, Lore (Author) ; Fortune, Clare-Ann (Author) ; Hoeve, Machteld (Author) ; Vanderplasschen, Wouter (Author) ; Colins, Olivier F. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2022
In: International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
Year: 2022, Volume: 66, Issue: 1, Pages: 123-144
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Keywords:
Follow-up studies
Females
Youth detention
Social Support
Resilience
Offending
Quality of life
Good Lives Model
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Summary:Despite growing interest in strength-based rehabilitation frameworks, relevant internal/external resources that are likely to facilitate the rehabilitation of detained female adolescents (DFA) have been understudied. This study aims to fill this gap by studying the role of young women’s personal resilience and interpersonal support in building fulfilling and prosocial lives 4 years after youth detention, thereby examining the strength-based good lives model (GLM). Forty-nine former DFA (Mage = 20.75) completed questionnaires about resilience, support, Quality of Life (QoL), and offending. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses showed that young women with more resilience displayed higher QoL and less offending, while more support was associated with higher QoL only. The relationship between resilience and QoL/offending did not depend upon the level of support. Overall, our results support the applicability of the GLM to former DFA, showing evidence for the importance of both internal and external resources in building fulfilling and prosocial lives.
ISSN:1552-6933
DOI:10.1177/0306624X21994055