Correlates of resilient outcomes among highly stressed African-American and White urban children

✍ Scribed by Keith B. Magnus; Emory L. Cowen; Peter A. Wyman; Douglas B. Fagen; William C. Work

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 103 KB
• Volume: 27
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0090-4392
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1520-6629(199907)27:4<473::aid-jcop8>3.0.co;2-8

✦ Synopsis

Compared test variables that differentiated stress-affected and stress-resilient outcomes within separate subsamples of highly stressed 4th-6th grade urban African-American and White children. Similar variables differentiated resilient and stress affected children in the two racial groups. Key common differentiators associated with resilient outcomes under chronically stressful life conditions included: perceived competence; positive self-views; empathy; and realistic control attributions.

There was also substantial overlap in the sets of six test variables in the discriminant functions that best predicted (85% accuracy) resilient outcomes among these highly stressed African-American and White children.