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Adolescent Resiliency to Family Adversity
Author(s) -
Fergusson David M.,
Lynskey Michael T.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1996.tb01405.x
Subject(s) - psychology , juvenile delinquency , psychological resilience , developmental psychology , novelty , cohort , family disruption , clinical psychology , medicine , social psychology
The factors associated with adolescent resiliency to childhood adversity were examined in a birth cohort of 940 New Zealand adolescents studied to the age of 16 years. Resilient teenagers were defined by: (a) high exposure to family adversity during childhood and (b)an absence of a wide range of externalising problems during adolescence including substance abuse, juvenile offending and school problems. Resilient teenagers were characterised by significantly higher IQ ( p >.001), lower novelty seeking ( p >.01) and lower affiliations with delinquent peers ( p > .005) with these factors acting accumulatively to influence the probability of resilience to externalising problems.