Citation

Barbarin OA, Richter L. Am. J. Orthopsychiatry 1999; 69(3): 319-327.

Affiliation

South Africa Initiative Office, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. (barbarin@umich.edu)

Copyright

(Copyright © 1999, American Orthopsychiatric Association, Publisher Wiley Blackwell)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

10439846

PMCID

PMC1866191

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.

Language: en