Predictors of Resilience among Inner City Youths

Autor/inn/en	Tiet, Quyen Q.; Huizinga, David; Byrnes, Hilary F.
Titel	Predictors of Resilience among Inner City Youths
Quelle	In: Journal of Child and Family Studies, 19 (2010) 3, S.360-378 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1062-1024
DOI	10.1007/s10826-009-9307-5
Schlagwörter	Feedback (Response); Neighborhoods; Extracurricular Activities; Early Intervention; Delinquency; Structural Equation Models; Adolescents; Adjustment (to Environment); Urban Areas; Urban Youth; At Risk Persons; Personality Traits; Prediction; Longitudinal Studies; Parent Child Relationship; Teacher Student Relationship + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Neighbourhoods; Nachbarschaft; Außerunterrichtliche Aktivität; Kriminalität; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Urban area; Stadtregion; Urban areas; Youth; Stadt; Risikogruppe; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Vorhersage; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung
Abstract	Prior studies have suggested that living in high-risk neighborhoods is associated with youths' maladjustment. Youths who maintained favorable outcomes, despite being exposed to such neighborhood risks, were considered resilient. Using structural equation modeling techniques, longitudinal data of 877 youths from the Denver Youth Survey were examined to identify predictors of resilience, longitudinal interrelations among predictors, and bi-directional relationships between resilience and life context factors. Resilience was longitudinally predicted by bonding to family and teachers, involvement in extracurricular activities, lower levels of parental discord, fewer adverse life events, and being less involved with delinquent peers. A positive feedback loop was found, in which resilience predicted further resilience. Early intervention to strengthen traditional bonding, decrease involvement with delinquent peers, and reduce the effects of adverse life events and parental discord may be essential in enhancing functioning of high-risk youths. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10