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How social and cultural contexts shape the development of coping: Youth in the inner city as an example
Author(s) -
Tolan Patrick,
Grant Kathryn
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
new directions for child and adolescent development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.628
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1534-8687
pISSN - 1520-3247
DOI - 10.1002/cd.243
Subject(s) - coping (psychology) , psychology , psychological intervention , developmental psychology , social psychology , social ecology , clinical psychology , political science , law , psychiatry
Because the patterns of coping shown by children and youth depend on the particular types and levels of stress they face, it is difficult to understand or study coping, or to promote it in interventions, unless coping is conceptualized as embedded within the overall ecology of stressful conditions, including the demands and resources that influence the use, utility, and impact of coping.