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Neighborhood Risk and the Development of Resilience
Author(s) -
VANDERBILTADRIANCE ELLA,
SHAW DANIEL S.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1196/annals.1376.050
Subject(s) - psychological resilience , ethnically diverse , context (archaeology) , low income , psychology , resilience (materials science) , demography , environmental health , developmental psychology , protective factor , medicine , gerontology , geography , social psychology , population , sociology , socioeconomics , physics , archaeology , thermodynamics
Abstract: The purpose of the study was to advance our understanding of resilience by studying multiple protective factors associated with positive adjustment among an ethnically diverse sample of 310 low‐income boys followed prospectively from ages 1.5 to 12 years, using neighborhood quality to define risk status. The results indicated that child and family protective factors measured in early childhood were all significantly associated with positive adjustment at 11 and 12 years of age. However, these results were qualified by risk level, such that parent–child relationship quality was only significantly related to positive outcomes in the context of low levels of risk.