Exploring the Trade-Off Between Surviving and Thriving: Heterogeneous Responses to Adversity and Disruptive Events Among Disadvantaged Black Youth

Stefanie DeLuca; Nicholas W. Papageorge; Joseph L. Boselovic

doi:10.7758/RSF.2024.10.1.05

Article Information

vol. 10 no. 1 103-131

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2024.10.1.05

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Print ISSN

2377-8253

Online ISSN

2377-8261

History

Published online January 17, 2024.

© 2024 Russell Sage Foundation. DeLuca, Stefanie, Nicholas W. Papageorge, and Joseph L. Boselovic. 2024. “Exploring the Trade-Off Between Surviving and Thriving: Heterogeneous Responses to Adversity and Disruptive Events Among Disadvantaged Black Youth.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 10(1): 103–31. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2024.10.1.05. We thank Kathryn Edin and Susan Clampet-Lundquist, the co–principal investigators with Stefanie DeLuca on the MTO Q10 Transition to Adulthood Study in Baltimore, which provided the interview data we use in this article. We are grateful for the generous support of the Russell Sage Foundation (#1808-07819, ROR: https://ror.org/02yh9se80) and the William T. Grant Foundation (#9031). We also acknowledge the excellent research support of Paige Ackman, Lidie Ataoğuz, Olivia Cigarroa, Jamie Chan, Courtney Colwell, Kendall Dorland, Thelonious Goerz, Matt Gonzalez, Min-Seo Kim, Hannah Lee, Olivia Morse, Lauren Ricci, Jasmine Sausedo, Jane Scinta, Claire Smith, Margaret Tydings, Oscar Volpe, Yuwen Wang, and Eliza Zimmerman. We also thank the editors of this volume, the external reviewers, and the participants at the June 2022 workshop for this volume for their valuable guidance on improving the manuscript. Direct correspondence to: Stefanie DeLuca, at sdeluca@jhu.edu, 3400 N. Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21218, United States. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Author Information

Stefanie DeLuca^a,
Nicholas W. Papageorge^b and
Joseph L. Boselovic^c

^aJames Coleman Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
^bBroadus Mitchell Associate Professor of Economics at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
^cDoctoral candidate at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States