Contextual risk and resiliency during late adolescence

摘要: The factors contributing to the mental health of a sample 18-year-olds were analyzed in hierarchical multiple regression analysis. contribution proximal variables such as parenting behavior, intermediate other family factors, and more distal social class minority status all highly significant. Child also found make significant contributions understanding health. When was divided into three subsamples, white advantaged, disadvantaged, African American (almost entirely disadvantaged), higher than that disadvantaged sample. coefficients fit whole underestimated Americans overestimated disadvantaged. less approving critical controlling two samples. To investigate correlates resilience, pairs subjects contrasted who had same but differed whether they exceeded or predicted for them. None study differentiated significantly between groups.