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Vulnerable but invincible: high‐risk children from birth to adulthood
Author(s) -
Werner EE
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
acta paediatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1997.tb18356.x
Subject(s) - medicine , psychopathology , longitudinal study , poverty , cohort study , cohort , developmental psychopathology , pediatrics , demography , young adult , developmental psychology , gerontology , psychiatry , psychology , pathology , sociology , economics , economic growth
This report summarizes the major findings of a 40‐year longitudinal study of a multi‐racial cohort of children who had been exposed to poverty, perinatal stress, parental psychopathology and family discord. Individuals are members of the Kauai Longitudinal Study, which followed all children born in 1955 on a Hawaiian island from the prenatal period to middle age. Several clusters of protective factors were identified that enabled most of the high‐risk individuals to develop into competent, confident and caring adults. Implications of the findings for developmental theory were discussed and issues for future research identified.