Open AccessADVERSITY AND PSYCHOSOCIAL COMPETENCE OF SOUTH AFRICAN CHILDREN
Author(s) -
Barbarin Oscar A.,
Richter Linda
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
american journal of orthopsychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.959
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1939-0025
pISSN - 0002-9432
DOI - 10.1037/h0080406
Subject(s) - socioeconomic status , psychosocial , psychology , longitudinal study , urbanization , developmental psychology , competence (human resources) , psychological resilience , poison control , demography , medicine , environmental health , social psychology , population , sociology , psychiatry , pathology , economics , economic growth
Black children in South Africa commonly experience low socioeconomic status and community violence. Parents (N=625) in a longitudinal study of urbanization responded to structured questionnaires related to resilience, affability, maturity, and school readiness of their six‐year olds. SES was found to have an inverse and linear relation to competence at age six; the relationship to violence was curvilinear, with children from moderately safe communities achieving better outcomes than those from very safe or very unsafe ones.