Associations between the demographics and the resilience, adjustment and caregiving variables were examined. The following demographics were not examined due to a lack of variation in numbers across the categories for each variable: participant’s foster care status and mental illness diagnosis, parent’s mental illness diagnoses, comorbidity of parent’s mental illness, and whether mother, father, or both parents had a mental illness. The presence or absence of a mental disorder was associated with total difficulties r (44) ¼ 0.50, p 5 0.001, depression r (44) ¼ 0.35, p 5 0.05, and social connectedness r (44) ¼ 70.36, p 5 0.05; that is, the presence of a mental disorder was associated with more behavioural and emotional difficulties, and depression, and lower social connectedness. Gender was related to involuntary engagement coping r (44) ¼ 70.34, p 5 0.05, such that females tended to rely on this coping strategy more than males, and higher age was related to greater mental health knowledge r (44) ¼ 0.32, p 5 0.05.