Are affluent youth truly "at risk"? Vulnerability and resilience across three diverse samples

Development and Psychopathology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 429-449

  Luthar, Suniya S ^a   Barkin, Samuel H ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROL; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMICS; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTING; POVERTY; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 84859903749     PISSN: 09545794     EISSN: 14692198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0954579412000089     Document Type: Conference Paper

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