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Can Stability in School Processes Offset the Negative Effects of Sociopolitical Upheaval on Adolescents' Adaptation?

LUBA B. BOTCHEVA

The Children's Health Council

S. SHIRLEY FELDMAN

Stanford University

P. HERBERT LEIDERMAN

Stanford University

This article investigates the effect of sociopolitical upheaval in Bulgaria on youths' adaptation and perceptions of supportive environments, focusing on the stability and change of schools as a protective factor in this process. High school students were surveyed twice 2 years apart about their perceptions of support and warmth in school, in their family, and with peers, as well as about their social maturity, optimism, depression, and problem behavior. Multivariate and regression analyses revealed the following: (a) Youths perceived supportive environments as either stable (in the case of friends) or improved (in the case of family and schools); (b) they reported declines in their optimism, relative stability of depression and problem behavior, and improvement in social maturity; (c) declines in perceptions of supportive environments were associated with deterioration in youths' adaptation; and (d) stability and especially the improvement of school cohesion moderated the effect of deteriorating family and peer environments on youths' adaptation.

Youth & Society, Vol. 34, No. 1, 55-88 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/0044118X02034001003
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