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Title: Good Kids in Bad Circumstances: A Longitudinal Analysis of Resilient Youth
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Turner, Michael G. |
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Good Kids in Bad Circumstances: A Longitudinal Analysis of Resilient Youth Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2000 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning Keyword(s): Behavioral Problems; Birthweight; CESD (Depression Scale); Cigarette Use (see Smoking); Crime; Delinquency/Gang Activity; Depression (see also CESD); Gender Differences; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Household Composition; Life Course; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Poverty; Racial Differences; Resilience/Developmental Assets; Self-Perception Profile for Children (SPPC); Welfare A central concern of the life-course perspective has been to demarcate the factors-often called "risk factors"--that place an individual at risk for criminal activity at various points of development. This perspective, however, has resulted in only limited investigation of the factors--often called "Protective factors"--that prevent an individual from becoming involved in these problem behaviors. It is noteworthy that researchers have infrequently investigated the effects that protective factors have on high-risk youths (e.g., individuals exposed to multiple criminogenic risks as opposed to an isolated risk). This research, commonly referred to resiliency research, has generally found that protective factors emerging over the life course from many different domains play an integral role in insulating or buffering youths from the effects of multiple risk factors. The existing research on resiliency, however, has been limited by one or more considerations: the use of cross-sectional research designs; approaching research hypotheses in an atheoretical manner; relying on small samples that are not nationally representative; and generally focusing on a narrow period of the life course. The intent of this dissertation is to overcome these limitations and extend the knowledge base on resiliency by using a sample of 711 individuals from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, Child-Mother data set. Using multiple analytic strategies, the findings suggest that protective factors only have trivial independent effects, however, their cumulative effects are significant and robust across multiple measures of resiliency. In addition, these findings appeared to be general across categories of race and sex. The evidence did not suggest that protective factors also functioned to moderate the effects of risk. Finally, contrary to much prior research, those identified as resilient did not experience greater levels of depression. The theoretical and policy implications of this research are discussed. |
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Turner, Michael G. Good Kids in Bad Circumstances: A Longitudinal Analysis of Resilient Youth. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2000. |