The moderating effect of resilience between childhood adverse events and adolescent health problems

Abstract

The paper is based on data collected in a research conducted by the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences (Ovidius University of Constanta), the County Center for Educational Resources and Assistance and the Constanta County School Inspectorate, "Early traumatic experiences, resilience, time perspective, personal and health problems in the Romanian adolescent population”. The research included a considerable sample of 332 participants and current / up-to-date tools in the scientific world were used. The aim of the study is to investigate various psychological aspects during adolescence with an impact on the physical and psychological health of adolescents in order to better understand the problems they face and ways to prevent and intervene psychologically. Participants in this study had to provide some general information about themselves and answer some psychological assessment tools: questionnaire on the history of adolescent family health; general health questionnaire; a personality questionnaire; scale of psychological representation of time; scale of psychological resilience.