Cognitive deficits are now widely recognized to be an important component of anxiety. In
particular, anxiety is thought to restrict the capacity of working memory by competing with …

Discovering the stress-buffering effects of social relationships has been one of the major
findings in psychobiology in the last century. However, an understanding of the underlying …

" 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 …

Background: Through a process of probabilistic epigenesis, child maltreatment
progressively contributes to compromised adaptation on a variety of developmental domains …

This paper presents the Adaptive Calibration Model (ACM), an evolutionary–developmental
theory of individual differences in the functioning of the stress response system. The stress …

Attachment theory has been generating creative and impactful research for almost half a
century. In this article we focus on the documented antecedents and consequences of …

The goal of this chapter is to review conceptual and empirical progress in the study of the
development of coping and to identify important ways in which this work may be useful to …

From a pioneering researcher, this book synthesizes the best current knowledge on
resilience in children and adolescents. Ann S. Masten explores what allows certain …

What are the basic dimensions of temperament? How does temperament influence
children's relationships to their physical and social worlds--and their behavior and …

Resilience has been conceptualized as a dynamic developmental process encompassing
the attainment of positive adaptation within the context of significant threat, severe adversity …