THE RESILIENCE OF DELINQUENT TEENAGERS IN FOCUS: WHAT CAN BE DONE WITHIN THE REHABILITATION CENTERS?

摘要

This study is focused on the resiliency of 148 boys, delinquent adolescents; aged 14-18.None of these adolescents was found as having psychopathological development. The teenagers have an educational measure ordered by the court. Consequently they are currently living within 3 rehabilitation centers, placed in different regions in Romania, for a period of time which varies between 6 months and four years. All of these adolescents convicted as perpetrators are victims of their childhood's environment. The adolescents' resilience is explored using a self-report questionnaire with 39 assertions regarding personal qualities and difficulties. The questionnaire has a good internal reliability (0,858). The resilience is a contextual straightness of a person. The questionnaire investigates the current state of resiliency through approximately half of assertions focused on positive feelings and the other half showing negative aspects in the life and behavior of our respondents. The questionnaire creates to the respondent a good reflective moment which can increase the metallization process. The reflection and metallization abilities are personal protective factors when confronting with stressful circumstances. The same processes are involved in the therapeutically approaches fallowing the intensive stressful, even traumatic situations. The 148 adolescents show a high degree of positive feelings about them self and the social environment. The analyses here compare the positive behavioral aspects with the negative behavioral aspects as they are recognized by the adolescents in their answers to the assertions of the questionnaire used. Considerations regarding the possibilities to increase the resiliency of these teenagers fostered in these special centers will end our presentation.