Objective Research situated within the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease
demonstrates that stressors are correlated with future mortality risk, especially if experienced …

Socioeconomic disadvantages can undermine a person's ability to control their sexual lives
(sexual self-efficacy) during the transition to adulthood. Most scholarship focuses on …

Adolescents in lowincome, marginalized families are vulnerable to behavior problems that
impede healthy functioning and threaten longterm wellbeing. Informal supports may fill an …

Responsive caregiving is the dimension of parenting most consistently related to later child
functioning in both developing and developed countries. There is a growing need for …

Introduction: To examine the extent to which cigarette smoking in adolescence is associated
with maladaptive versus adaptive coping behaviors in adulthood. Method: The data came …

The experience of poverty embodies complex, multidimensional stressors that may
adversely affect physiological and psychological domains of functioning. Compounded by …

Early and prolonged exposure to poverty disrupts biological processes associated with the
body's stress response system, leading to long-term negative health outcomes, including …

Children's relationships inform their internal working models (IWMs) of the world around
them. Attachment and emotional security theory (EST) emphasize the importance of parent …

Context: Humans constantly respond to environmental stressors challenging their somatic
stability. Allostasis, an evolved neuroendocrine/physiological stressor response system, is …

Individual differences in children's cognitive abilities impact life and health outcomes. What
factors influence these individual differences during development? Here, we test whether …