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Klasen, Fionna; Oettingen, Gabriele; Daniels, Judith; Post, Manuela; Hoyer, Catrin; Adam, Hubertus – Child Development, 2010
The present research examines posttraumatic resilience in extremely exposed children and adolescents based on interviews with 330 former Ugandan child soldiers (age = 11-17, female = 48.5%). Despite severe trauma exposure, 27.6% showed posttraumatic resilience as indicated by the absence of posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, and clinically…
Descriptors: Emotional Problems, Family Violence, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Psychopathology
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Lerner, Jacqueline V.; And Others – Child Development, 1988
Data were examined to determine (1) the stability of negative emotional characteristics from early life through adolescence; (2) the degree of relation between these emotional characteristics and adjustment in childhood and adolescence; and (3) the degree to which the characteristics differentially predict multiple adjustment dimensions in…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Affective Behavior, Emotional Problems
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Maughan, Angeline; Cicchetti, Dante – Child Development, 2002
Examined the effects of child maltreatment and interadult violence on children's developing strategies of emotion regulation and socioemotional development, and the role of emotion dysregulation in mediating the link between children's pathogenic relational experiences and behavioral outcomes for 3- to 6-year-olds. Found that maltreatment history…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Child Abuse, Coping, Depression (Psychology)