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Developmental and family milieu correlates of resilience in urban children who have experienced major life stress
Author(s) -
Wyman Peter A.,
Cowen Emory L.,
Work William C.,
Parker Gayle R.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
american journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.113
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1573-2770
pISSN - 0091-0562
DOI - 10.1007/bf00938033
Subject(s) - psychology , temperament , developmental psychology , psychological resilience , context (archaeology) , health psychology , social environment , discriminant function analysis , social support , public health , clinical psychology , personality , medicine , social psychology , computer science , paleontology , nursing , machine learning , political science , law , biology
Reports findings from interviews with parents of demographically-comparable groups of highly-stressed urban children with stress-resilient (SR) and stress-affected (SA) outcomes at ages 10-12. SR and SA children were compared on family milieu and child development variables assessed within a developmental framework. Compared to SAs, parents of SRs scored higher on variables reflecting parent perceptions of a nurturant caregiver-child relationship and self-views as effective caregivers, in the context of positive discipline practices, a child's positive early temperament, and support for primary caregivers. A discriminant function analysis identified seven variables that optimally differentiated the groups and correctly classified 86% of the Ss as SR or SA.