Adversity and psychosocial competence of South African children. |
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Authors: | O A Barbarin L Richter |
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Institution: | South Africa Initiative Office, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. barbarin@umich.edu |
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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. |
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