Resilience Among Urban African American Male Adolescents: A Study of the Protective Effects of Sociopolitical Control on Their Mental Health
- 1 December 1999
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in American Journal of Community Psychology
- Vol. 27 (6), 733-751
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1022205008237
Abstract
Resilience refers to the notion that some people succeed in the face of adversity. In a risk‐protective model of resilience, a protective factor interacts with a risk factor to mitigate the occurrenc...Keywords
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