Resilience among male and female children in a sample of 96 highly-educated middleclass families living in the United States was studied by means of individual interviews (in Taiwanese) and the use of vignettes (on the Civitan Resilience Project Questionnaire) to elicit maternal judgment of child resilience to stress. Half of the children were 4-6 years old; half were 9-11 years old. Half the families were dual career and half had at-home mothers. Hierarchical regression and ANOVAs indicated that maternal support for child resilience and a mixed cultural rearing style that combined Taiwanese with American elements (rather than a strictly Chinese style) seemed most predictive of enhancing the resilience scores of the children. Neither maternal employment by itself nor child age was associated with resilience scores. Boys were rated by mothers as significantly less resilient than girls. © 1997 OPA (Overseas Publishers Association).

Maternal employment Child resilience Taiwan Child-rearing style

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