Correlates of resilient outcomes among highly stressed African-American and White urban children

Compared test variables that differentiated stress-affected and stress-resilient outcomes within separate subsamples of highly stressed 4th–6th grade urban African-American and White children. Similar variables differentiated resilient and stress affected children in the two racial groups. Key common differentiators associated with resilient outcomes under chronically stressful life conditions included: perceived competence; positive self-views; empathy; and realistic control attributions. There was also substantial overlap in the sets of six test variables in the discriminant functions that best predicted (85% accuracy) resilient outcomes among these highly stressed African-American and White children.