title: Adolescent risk: the costs of affluence.
abstract: Within the context of a developmental psychopathology model emphasizing person-context transactions across the life span, adjustment disturbances among youth in upper-class suburbia are discussed. Potential reasons for these problems, involving achievement pressure and disconnection from parents, are explored.
authors.affiliation: Teachers College, Columbia University, USA.
authors.forename: Suniya S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Luthar
authors.forename: Shawn J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Latendresse
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D006801:Humans; D008603:Mental Health; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology*; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors