Exposure to violence, coping resources, and psychological adjustment of South African children.
The effects of exposure to direct and vicarious political, family, and community violence on the adjustment of 625 six-year-old black South African children was examined. Ambient community violence was most consistently related to children's psychosocial outcomes. Resources in the form of individual child resilience, maternal coping, and positive family relationships were found to mitigate the adverse impact in all the assessed domains of children's functioning.
School of Social Work, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA. barbarin@unc.edu
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D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology*; D044383:Black People; D002648:Child; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002960:Civil Disorders; D005195:Family Relations; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D010552:Personality Assessment; D011379:Prognosis; D013019:South Africa; D014754:Violence / Q000523:psychology*