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29th APS Annual Convention · 2017

Resilience Predicts School Adjustment Among Children of Parents Living with HIV: The Mediating Roles of Posttraumatic Growth and Diurnal Cortisol Slope

Boston, MA · May 2017

Poster Session

  • Peilian Chi
    University of Macau
  • Xiaoming Li
    University of South Carolina
  • Richard Slatcher
    Wayne State University
  • Samuele Zilioli
    Wayne State University
  • Samuele Zilioli
    Wayne State University
  • Junfeng Zhao
    Henan University
  • Guoxiang Zhao
    Henan University

Abstract

Using a sample of 645 children of parents living with HIV, this study found that resilience was positively and significantly associated with school adjustment, and that this relationship was accounted by posttraumatic growth (psychological pathway) and HPA axis functioning (physiological pathway).

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