Urban adolescent stress and hopelessness. Academic Article

abstract

• This study sought to explore potential mechanisms through which uncontrollable, chronic stressors may lead to hopelessness in low-income, urban adolescents. In particular, the roles of specific coping strategies as moderators and/or mediators of the association between stressors and hopelessness were examined. Results suggest that chronic, uncontrollable stressors were significantly and positively related to hopelessness in this sample. Active coping, distraction coping, and social-support-seeking coping emerged as moderators for males, such that uncontrollable stressors were more highly associated with hopelessness for those boys who reported using more active, distraction, and social-support-seeking coping strategies. An analogous moderating effect was found for ruminative coping for girls. Ruminative coping also emerged as a mediator of the relation between uncontrollable stressors and hopelessness for girls.

authors

• Gaylord Harden, Noni

published proceedings

• J Adolesc

author list (cited authors)

• Landis, D., Gaylord-Harden, N. K., Malinowski, S. L., Grant, K. E., Carleton, R. A., & Ford, R. E.

citation count

• 75

complete list of authors

• Landis, Dana||Gaylord-Harden, Noni K||Malinowski, Sara L||Grant, Kathryn E||Carleton, Russell A||Ford, Rebecca E

publication date

• December 2007

publisher

• Wiley  Publisher

published in

• Journal of Adolescence  Journal

keywords

• Adaptation, Psychological
• Adolescent
• Child
• Cultural Diversity
• Defense Mechanisms
• Depression
• Female
• Humans
• Internal-External Control
• Male
• Motivation
• Personality Inventory
• Poverty
• Problem Solving
• Risk Factors
• Sex Factors
• Social Environment
• Social Support
• Stress, Psychological
• Urban Population

PubMed Central ID

• 17467052

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/j.adolescence.2007.02.001

start page

• 1051

end page

• 1070

volume

• 30

issue

• 6

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2007.02.001