Towards Understanding the Relationship Between Psychosocial Factors and Ego Resilience Among Primary School Children in a Kenyan Setting: A Pilot Feasibility Study

David Ndetei; Victoria Mutiso; Anika Maraj; Kelly Anderson; Christine Musyimi; Abednego Musau; Albert Tele; Isaiah Gitonga; Kwame McKenzie

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Towards Understanding the Relationship Between Psychosocial Factors and Ego Resilience Among Primary School Children in a Kenyan Setting: A Pilot Feasibility Study

David Ndetei^*, Victoria Mutiso, Anika Maraj, Kelly Anderson, Christine Musyimi, Abednego Musau, Albert Tele, Isaiah Gitonga, Kwame McKenzie

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Ego resilience in childhood is linked to positive mental health outcomes but varies across cultures. Kenya presents a unique context in which children are vulnerable to adversity. We therefore hypothesized that Ego resilience traits are found in Kenya. We aimed to: (i) demonstrate Ego resilience in Kenya, (ii) determine associated social-demographic and psychological factors in a non-clinical population of primary school going children, (iii) contribute to the global data base with Kenyan data and (iv) lay the grounds for informed future and more focused studies in Kenya. We used a socio-demographic questionnaire, Ego Resilience scale (ER-89) and the Youth Self Report (YSR). Multivariate analyses showed the only independent predictors of Ego resilience were female gender (p < 0.001) and peri-urban region (p < 0.001). We did not find any association between Ego resilience and YSR syndrome scores in this non-clinical population study. We achieved our aims.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1038-1046
Number of pages	9
Journal	Community Mental Health Journal
Volume	55
Issue number	6
Early online date	8 Jun 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10597-019-00425-5
Publication status	Published - 1 Aug 2019

Funding

This study was funded by a Grant from Grand Challenges Canada (#0083-04) and was supported by the Africa Mental Health Foundation (AMHF). Kelly Anderson was supported by a Postdoctoral Fellowship Award from CIHR (#274885). We acknowledge Professor Jenelle R. Shanley from The Pennsylvania State University for critiquing the manuscript. Our appreciation to Ruth Ruhara, Darius Nyamai and Grace Mutevu of AMHF for their editorial inputs and the parents, teachers and children for their unreserved cooperation.

Funders	Funder number
AMHF
Africa Mental Health Foundation
Pennsylvania State University
Canadian Institutes of Health Research	274885
Grand Challenges Canada	0083-04

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Ego resilience
Psychosocial factors
School aged children

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Ndetei, D., Mutiso, V., Maraj, A., Anderson, K., Musyimi, C., Musau, A., Tele, A., Gitonga, I., & McKenzie, K. (2019). Towards Understanding the Relationship Between Psychosocial Factors and Ego Resilience Among Primary School Children in a Kenyan Setting: A Pilot Feasibility Study. Community Mental Health Journal, 55(6), 1038-1046. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10597-019-00425-5

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Towards Understanding the Relationship Between Psychosocial Factors and Ego Resilience Among Primary School Children in a Kenyan Setting: A Pilot Feasibility Study. / Ndetei, David; Mutiso, Victoria; Maraj, Anika et al.
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