Revisiting Hispanic adolescents' resilience to the effects of parental problem drinking and life stress.

There are two prominent approaches to studying adversity that affects adolescents. One approach has been to assess broad classes of stressors that adolescents experience (Compas, 1987). Research conducted with this approach has assessed normative daily stresses such as those that occur in school or within peer groups, acute stress events such as the loss of a parent through death or divorce, and chronic stress that can be present over extended periods of time such as exposure to poverty, neighborhood violence, and racism. Many studies have established that stressful events are predictive of subsequent internalizing and externalizing problems in late childhood ...

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