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Correlates of resilient outcomes among highly stressed African‐American and White urban children
Author(s) -
Magnus Keith B.,
Cowen Emory L.,
Wyman Peter A.,
Fagen Douglas B.,
Work William C.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.585
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1520-6629
pISSN - 0090-4392
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1520-6629(199907)27:4<473::aid-jcop8>3.0.co;2-8
Subject(s) - psychology , african american , developmental psychology , white (mutation) , empathy , clinical psychology , psychological resilience , attribution , demography , social psychology , biochemistry , ethnology , sociology , gene , history , chemistry
Compared test variables that differentiated stress‐affected and stress‐resilient outcomes within separate subsamples of highly stressed 4th–6th grade urban African‐American and White children. Similar variables differentiated resilient and stress affected children in the two racial groups. Key common differentiators associated with resilient outcomes under chronically stressful life conditions included: perceived competence; positive self‐views; empathy; and realistic control attributions. There was also substantial overlap in the sets of six test variables in the discriminant functions that best predicted (85% accuracy) resilient outcomes among these highly stressed African‐American and White children. © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.