title: Adversity and psychosocial competence of South African children.
abstract: Black children in South Africa commonly experience low socioeconomic status and community violence. Parents (N = 625) in a longitudinal study of urbanization responded to structured questionnaires related to resilience, affability, maturity, and school readiness of their six-year olds. SES was found to have an inverse and linear relation to competence at age six; the relationship to violence was curvilinear, with children from moderately safe communities achieving better outcomes than those from very safe or very unsafe ones.
authors.affiliation: South Africa Initiative Office, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. barbarin@umich.edu
authors.forename: O A
authors.initials: OA
authors.lastname: Barbarin
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Richter
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology*; D044383:Black People; D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D016743:Mental Competency / Q000523:psychology*; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D012917:Social Adjustment; D012923:Social Class; D013019:South Africa; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires