Adolescent risk: the costs of affluence.
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.
Luthar
Suniya S
SS
Teachers College, Columbia University, USA.
Latendresse
Shawn J
SJ
D000293:Adolescent; D006801:Humans; D008603:Mental Health; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology*; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors