Exposure to adversity (eg, poverty, bereavement) is a robust predictor of disruptions in
psychological functioning. However, people vary greatly in their responses to adversity; …

This article provides an overview of research on race-related stressors that can affect the
mental health of socially disadvantaged racial and ethnic populations. It begins by reviewing …

Background: The ability to resist adverse outcomes, or demonstrate resilience after
exposure to trauma is a thriving field of study. Yet ongoing debate persists regarding …

" Across diverse disciplines, the term resilience is appearing more and more often. However,
while each discipline has developed theory and models to explain the resilience of the …

New advances in neurobiology are revealing that brain development and the learning it
enables are directly dependent on social-emotional experience. Growing bodies of research …

The path that individuals take from dependency in childhood to independence in adulthood
is now a longer and more complicated one than at any other point in history (Arnett 2014) …

This article synthesizes foundational knowledge from multiple scientific disciplines regarding
how humans develop in context. Major constructs that define human development are …

Reducing health disparities requires an understanding of the mechanisms that generate
disparities. Life course approaches to health disparities leverage theories that explain how …

How does repeated or chronic childhood adversity shape social and cognitive abilities?
According to the prevailing deficit model, children from high-stress backgrounds are at risk …

The strength model of self-regulation holds that self-regulation operates by consuming a
limited energy resource, thereby producing a state called ego depletion in which volition is …