While family resilience has been examined as a protective factor for specific mental health outcomes, few studies have investigated its role as a distinct mediator in adolescent MEDBH.

The gap

Consensus across the literature

Supporting evidence — 8 representative gaps

• Breaking the Cycle: Investigating Family Resilience as a Pathway to Better Adolescent Mental, Emotional, Developmental, and Behavioral Health Outcomes (2025) · doi

  While family resilience has been examined as a protective factor for specific mental health outcomes, few studies have investigated its role as a distinct mediator in adolescent MEDBH.

  Keywords: family resilience examined protective factor specific mental health outcomes investigated role distinct mediator adolescent medbh
• Unyielding hearts: parental adaptation and resilience among families of children with autism in China (2026) · doi

  Future research should examine whether the cycle–divergence adaptation model While the study traces parental adaptation across different stages through retrospective interviews and observation, it is a cross-sectional study and cannot capture long-term longitudinal changes in resilience and adaptation. Future research should explore how parental resilience influences child outcomes and how child outcomes, in turn, shape parental resilience—an important direction for family-centered positive psychology interventions.

  Keywords: adaptation parental resilience future child outcomes examine whether cycle divergence model traces across different stages
• Adolescents’ academic achievement, mental health, and adverse behaviors: Understanding the role of resilience and adverse childhood experiences (2022) · doi

  Future studies are needed to develop strategies and interventions to increase adolescent resilience, and test whether improvements in resilience reduce the adverse impact of ACEs on adolescent mental/behavioural health.

  Keywords: adolescent resilience future needed develop strategies interventions increase test whether improvements reduce adverse impact aces
• I. INTRODUCTION AND CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK (2013) · doi

  Taken together, these studies further our understanding of resilience processes in children of incarcerated parents and their families and set the groundwork for further research on child development and family resilience within the context of parental involvement in the criminal justice system.

  Keywords: further resilience taken together understanding processes children incarcerated parents families groundwork child development family within
• Buffering roles of financial resilience in navigating family stress and adolescent distress: A conditional process analysis (2026) · doi

  Financial resilience is perceived as an important socioeconomic indicator for coping with adversity, although its moderating effects in the pathways from economic adversity to parent psychological distress, family conflict, and then adolescent psychological distress remain understudied.

  Keywords: adversity psychological distress financial resilience perceived important socioeconomic indicator coping moderating effects pathways economic parent
• Building resilience in survivors of sexual exploitation: the role of children in activities implemented by NGOs in Uganda (2022) · doi

  Past literature discusses various child participatory methods but has not explored the voices and role of children as agents of change among their peers to yield adaptation and resilience.

  Keywords: past literature discusses various child participatory explored voices role children agents change among peers yield
• Resilience of families with complex needs whose children manifest behavioural and emotional problems (2023) · doi

  Although there is extensive literature on the risks faced by families dealing with cumulative challenges, including the emotional and behavioural problems of the child, limited research exists on the potential resilience of these families.

  Keywords: families there extensive literature risks faced dealing cumulative challenges including emotional behavioural problems child limited
• The Relationship Between Family Life Satisfaction and Personality Management Skills Among University Students (2026) · doi

  Conducting further research on family psychological resilience, its relationship to anxiety and depression, and other variables related to family upbringing among university students.

  Keywords: family conducting further psychological resilience relationship anxiety depression variables related upbringing among university students