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Markstrom, Carol A.; Marshall, Sheila K.; Tryon, Robin J. – Journal of Adolescence, 2000
Examines social support and coping in relation to resiliency among a sample of rural, low-income Appalachian African-American and White adolescents. Regression analyses reveal that social support from family and problem-focused, avoidance, and wishful-thinking forms of coping significantly predicted resiliency. Race and gender distinctions were…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Coping, High Schools, Low Income Groups