Vulnerability and Resiliency [microform] : A Longitudinal Study of Asian Americans from Birth to Age 30 / Emmy E. Werner
- Bib ID:
- 5487365
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Werner, Emmy E
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED290544
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- Description:
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1987
- 39 p.
- Summary:
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A 30-year longitudinal study was undertaken in order to document the course, and determine the outcome, of all pregnancies in a community of Asian Americans on Kauai, the western most of the Hawaiian Islands and equidistant from the continental United States and Japan. The project's goal was to document both the good and poor outcomes of the children's development by focusing on the children's vulnerability--susceptibility to negative environmental factors--and the roots of their resiliency--ability to cope with biological and psychosocial risk factors. The study population consisted of all live births among ethnically Hawaiian, Pilipino, and Japanese residents. Public health officials, physicians, teachers, and social workers cooperated to collect the data. Findings indicated that during the period of time which began with pregnancy and ended two decades later, the reproductive and care-taking casualities amounted to about half of those conceived and one-third of those born alive. In addition, three out of four children with four or more risk factors developed problems, while one out of four exhibited resiliency. Resilient children exhibited many stress-reducing characteristics. A follow-up study looked into resilient and high risk groups after 30 years, and determined the most stressful events and most successful coping mechanisms; the latter included: (1) genetically based dispositional attributes; (2) strong affectional ties to the family; and (3) external support systems that rewarded the individual's competencies. (SKC)
- Notes:
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- Sponsoring Agency: Grant (W.T.) Foundation, New York, NY.
- ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (9th, Tokyo, Japan, July 15, 1987). Research also supported by the Sidney S. Stern Foundation, Los Angeles.
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- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
- Subject:
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- Asian Americans
- Child Rearing
- Coping
- Cultural Influences
- Family Influence
- High Risk Persons
- Individual Development
- Longitudinal Studies
- Parent Child Relationship
- Personality Development
- Prenatal Influences
- Racial Factors
- Resilience (Personality)
- Sociocultural Patterns
- Stress Variables
- Hawaii (Kauai)
- Available From:
- ERIC
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1987
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