Citation

Barbarin OA, Richter L, deWet T. Am. J. Orthopsychiatry 2001; 71(1): 16-25.

Affiliation

School of Social Work, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA. barbarin@unc.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2001, American Orthopsychiatric Association, Publisher Wiley Blackwell)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

11271713

PMCID

PMC1866189

Abstract

The effects of exposure to direct and vicarious political, family, and community violence on the adjustment of 625 six-year-old black South African children was examined. Ambient community violence was most consistently related to children's psychosocial outcomes. Resources in the form of individual child resilience, maternal coping, and positive family relationships were found to mitigate the adverse impact in all the assessed domains of children's functioning.

Language: en