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The resilience of young adults in a context of drought
Dissertation (MEd)--University of Pretoria, 2018.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/70105 The resilience of young adults in a context of drought Theron, Linda u16246005@tuks.co.za Gwata, Netsai UCTD Drought resilience Young adults Climate change Water scarcity Psychological resilience Social-ecological resilience Coping strategies Community support Education theses SDG-03 Education theses SDG-06 Education theses SDG-13 Dissertation (MEd)--University of Pretoria, 2018. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore the factors that enable the resilience of young adults who experienced drought in Leandra. Against the background of ongoing global warming, it is important to understand what enables the resilience of young adults in a context of drought so that pathways for drought-resilient livelihoods may be created for these young people. In order to achieve this purpose, I took an interpretivist stance as it supports an inductive qualitative inquiry that is suitable for gaining an understanding of the experiences and perceptions of young adults in a context of drought. I adopted a phenomenological research design to ensure that my research questions are answered. Purposive sampling was used to select the participants of the study. Ten young adults (five women and five men) aged between 20 and 24 years from Leandra in the Govan Mbeki district of Mpumalanga were selected. Arts-based activities (drawand- write, body-mapping and “sand-tray” work) were used in groups to generate data. A thematic data analysis was done to identify the themes that emerged from the data. The themes relating to aspects of drought that young adults found difficult to deal with were: unmet basic needs (lack of water and lack of food); economic hardship (expensive products and job loss) and compromised hygiene. I used Ungar’s (2011) Social Ecology of Resilience Theory (SERT) to frame my study and found that the resilience-enabling themes that emerged, aligned with his theory. In the individual system, themes that emerged were: having positive personal characteristics (optimism and altruism); having a religious engagement; keeping busy to stress less; and exercising agency and water-use habits. In the family system the emerging theme was protective parenting, while in the community system it was initiatives to solve drought-related challenges (formal pragmatic initiatives and community connectedness). From these themes, it can be concluded that educational psychologists who counsel drought-challenged young adults in Leandra need to work from an eco-systemic perspective and include people like parents and municipal staff in programmes or initiatives that enable resilience for young adults. es2026 Educational Psychology MEd Unrestricted SDG-03: Good health and well-being SDG-06: Clean water and sanitation SDG-13: Climate action 2019-06-02T11:40:06Z 2019-06-02T11:40:06Z 2019/04/16 2018 Dissertation Gwata, N 2018, The resilience of young adults in a context of drought, MEd Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/70105> A2019 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/70105 en © 2019 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Drought resilience Young adults Climate change Water scarcity Psychological resilience Social-ecological resilience Coping strategies Community support Education theses SDG-03 Education theses SDG-06 Education theses SDG-13 The resilience of young adults in a context of drought |
| title | The resilience of young adults in a context of drought |
| title_full | The resilience of young adults in a context of drought |
| title_fullStr | The resilience of young adults in a context of drought |
| title_full_unstemmed | The resilience of young adults in a context of drought |
| title_short | The resilience of young adults in a context of drought |
| title_sort | resilience of young adults in a context of drought |
| topic | UCTD Drought resilience Young adults Climate change Water scarcity Psychological resilience Social-ecological resilience Coping strategies Community support Education theses SDG-03 Education theses SDG-06 Education theses SDG-13 |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/70105 |