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Adolescent Stress and Coping in the Context of Poverty

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A dramatic increase in stress during adolescence is generally (and fortunately) accompanied by a concomitant increase in the sophistication and flexibility of a teen’s capacity to cope with stress. For teens living in the context of family poverty, both the experience of stress and the development of adaptive coping capacities are more complicated. First, poor teens often experience higher levels of stress created by life in poverty, such as noise pollution, crowding, and hunger. Second, this context of stress created by poverty amplifies the impact of normative adolescent stress. Third, high levels of stress compromise poor teens’ development and use of efficacious coping, and instead encourage disengagement coping, which has detrimental long-term effects on adolescent health and development. Finally, prevention programs targeting the development of efficacious coping during late childhood and early adolescence have the potential to better equip teens affected by poverty to...

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    Catherine DeCarlo Santiago & Laura M. L. Distel

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Santiago, C.D., Distel, L.M.L., Wolff, B.C., Wadsworth, M.E. (2016). Adolescent Stress and Coping in the Context of Poverty. In: Levesque, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Adolescence. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32132-5_297-2

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