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ERIC Number: EJ1019703
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2013-Nov
Pages: 12
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0165-0254
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Adversity and Internalizing Problems among Rural Chinese Adolescents: The Roles of Parents and Teachers
Davidson, Shannon; Adams, Jennifer
International Journal of Behavioral Development, v37 n6 p530-541 Nov 2013
Throughout the developing world, adolescents living in rural poverty face multiple and inter-related adaptive challenges. Using longitudinal data from the Gansu Survey of Children and Families, we adopt an approach grounded in resilience theory to investigate the relationship between cumulative adversity and internalizing problems among 1,659 adolescents between the ages of 13 and 16 years in an interior Chinese province. We also investigate the compensatory roles of parental warmth and teacher support. Results of multivariate regression models suggest that internalizing problems increased in later adolescence in this sample. The rate of increase did not differ by gender, counter to most extant literature on sex differences in the developmental trajectory of internalizing problems. Along with parental warmth, teacher support emerged as an especially important compensatory factor, highlighting the significance of teachers as an often overlooked resource for poor rural adolescents.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: China
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Child Behavior Checklist
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