Annual of social work, Vol. 23 No. 2, 2016.
Review article
https://doi.org/10.3935/ljsr.v23i2.139
ECONOMIC HARDSHIP AND OUTCOMES IN ADOLESCENCE: THE ROLE OF INDIVIDUAL FACTORS
Ines Rezo
; Department of Social Work Faculty of Law University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
In social sciences there is a long tradition of studying how economic hardship influences life and personal development of individuals. Poverty and economic hardship of families are related to a series of externalized and internalized problems of young people, as well as to their educational outcomes. Alongside important family processes and other social and contextual processes relevant for that relationship, individual characteristics of children, adolescents and parents also play an important role. The paper focuses on an overview of recent findings on the role of cognitive skills, personality and endurance of children and young people in relation to economic hardship and their educational outcomes. Particular emphasis is placed on the responsibility of social, biomedical and interdisciplinary scientists dealing with economic hardship and how it influences the development of social policies and active measures aimed at individuals struck by economic hardship.
Keywords
family economic hardship; psycho-social outcomes; safety and risk factors; adolescents
Hrčak ID:
172538
URI
Publication date:
22.12.2016.
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