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Peer reviewedPlomin, Robert; Rutter, Michael – Child Development, 1998
Outlines what developmentalists can do with genes associated with behavioral dimensions and disorders once they are found. Suggests that genes can be used to answer questions about developmental continuities, psychopathological patterns such as heterogeneity and comoribidty, and environmental-risk mechanisms informed by studies of gene/environment…
Descriptors: Behavior, Behavior Disorders, Child Development, Developmental Continuity
Peer reviewedSteinberg, Laurence; Avenevoli, Shelli – Child Development, 2000
Argues that extant research assessing relations between contextual factors and psychological disturbance has confused two different roles of context. Suggests that environmental factors are nonspecific stressors and elicit psychopathology, with specificity of expressed psychopathology governed by individual differences, and that context is…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Children, Context Effect, Emotional Disturbances
