%0 Journal Article
%T Adversity and psychosocial competence of South African children
%J American journal of orthopsychiatry
%D 1999
%A Richter, Linda
%A Barbarin, Oscar A.
%V 69
%N 3
%P 319-327
%X 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.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
%G en
%I Wiley Blackwell
%@ 0002-9432
%U http://dx.doi.org/