Caregiving and developmental factors differentiating young at-risk urban children showing resilient versus stress-affected outcomes: A replication and extension
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This study tested hypotheses from an organizational-developmental model for childhood resilience. In this model resilience reflects a child's mastery of age-salient objectives, in the face of substantial adversity, by drawing on internal and external resources that enhance processes of adaptation specific to each developmental stage. Interviews were conducted with parents of 122 7- to 9-year-old urban children exposed to multiple risk factors, 69 classified as resilient and 53 as maladjusted. Consistent with predictions generated by the model: (1) characteristics of a child's caregiving system and early development differentiated children with resilient and stress-affected adaptations; and (2) variables reflecting emotionally responsive, competent parenting were direct, proximal predictors of resilient status and mediators of other caregiver resources such as education, mental health, and relational history. Identified predictors of resilient status, including competent parenting and caregiver psychosocial resources, largely replicated findings from a prior study with sociodemographically comparable 9- to 12-year-old children.
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High-quality caregiving moderates the effects of poverty on child development outcomes.
“And numerous studies have shown high-quality caregiving to moderate the effects of poverty on child development outcomes (e.g., Ramey & Campbell, 1991; Wyman et al., 1999).”
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- Authors
- Wyman, P. A., Cowen, E. L., Work, W. C., Hoyt-Meyers, L., Magnus, K. B., & Fagen, D. B.
- Affiliations
- University of Rochester Medicine (US)
- University of Rochester (US)
- Rochester Institute of Technology (US)
- Oswego Hospital , Oswego, NY
- Hamilton Center , Terre Haute, IN
- Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital (US)
- ORCID
- Wyman, Peter A
- Venue
- Child Development
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 1999-05-01
- Volume
- 70
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 645-659
- ISSN
- 0009-3920 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-8624
- OpenAlex
- W2056312847
- Cited by
- 207
- References
- 43
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 4 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 8 · 2015: 12 · 2014: 7 · 2013: 15 · 2012: 8
- FWCI
- 5.90
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- Locations
- Child Development (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Resilience and Mental Health
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
- Keywords
- child resilience, vulnerable children, urban children, parenting, caregiver resources, emotional responsiveness, child maladjustment, developmental factors, adversity
- MeSH terms
- Adaptation, Psychological, Adult, Child, Child Development, Child Rearing, Family Health, Female, Humans, Life Change Events, Male, Parents, Retrospective Studies, Socioeconomic Factors, Statistics as Topic, Stress, Psychological, Urban Health
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