Caregiving and Developmental Factors Differentiating Young At-Risk Urban Children Showing Resilient versus Stress-Affected Outcomes: A Replication and Extension

• Published in: Child development Vol. 70; no. 3; pp. 645 - 659
• Main Authors: Wyman, Peter A., Cowen, Emory L., Work, William C., Hoyt-Meyers, Lynne, Magnus, Keith B., Fagen, Douglas B.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, USA and Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishers Inc 01.05.1999; Blackwell Publishers; Blackwell; University of Chicago Press for the Society for Research in Child Development, etc; Blackwell Publishing Ltd
• Subjects: Adaptation, Psychological; Adult; At risk; At Risk Persons; At risk youth; Biological and medical sciences; Caregivers; Child; Child care; Child Development; Child Rearing; Childhood; Children; Developmental psychology; Factors; Family Health; Female; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Humans; Infancy; Life Change Events; Male; Parent Background; Parent Child Relationship; Parenting; Parenting Skills; Parents; Parents - psychology; Personality and Social Development; Predictor Variables; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Research Replication; Resilience; Resilience (Personality); Retrospective Studies; School age children; Social Adjustment; Socioeconomic Factors; Statistics as Topic; Stress; Stress Variables; Stress, Psychological - etiology; Stress, Psychological - psychology; Theories; Urban Health; Youths at risk; Human; Social environment; Parental behavior; School age; Urban environment; Risk factor; Child; Stress; Adaptation; Parent child relation

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