Author(s)

Marinela Rusu

Romanian Academy, Branch of Iaşi, ICES “Gh. Zane”, Iaşi, Romania.

Resilience is a complex concept that describes different ways to overcome traumatic situations, failures, or radical changes in life, understood to be an individual capacity to fight adversity. In this paper we propose two hypotheses in the case of adolescents with physical motor deficiency (PMD)¹: if positive elements can be identified in adolescent behavior with PMD, considered as components of resilience and if, by the psychological intervention, there was a better resilience. Psychological tests with deep resonance within the personality were applied: WM Personality Inventory, Introversion-Extraversion-Neurosis Test, DE-AN Questionnaire. There have been also used projective methods. Following the quantitative-statistical and qualitative analysis of the results obtained in the group of teenagers with PMD, were identified a series of specific traits and also some compensatory features along with compensatory conducts as elements of resilience. Resilience is interpreted through compensation (features and conducts), through individual and social valorisation, through integrating teenagers with PMD in school and social groups. Other related concepts are discussed: compensation and expectance, idolizing normality, labelling etc.

Adolescents with Physical Motor Deficiency, Resilience, Compensatory Traits and Conducts, Labelling, Idolizing Normality, Positive Psychology

Rusu, M. (2019) Resilience for Young People with Physical Motor Deficiency. Psychology, 10, 844-863. doi: 10.4236/psych.2019.106055.