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Jay Belsky
Researcher at University of California, Davis
Publications - 457
Citations - 59794
Jay Belsky is an academic researcher from University of California, Davis. The author has contributed to research in topics: Child development & Child rearing. The author has an hindex of 124, co-authored 441 publications receiving 55582 citations. Previous affiliations of Jay Belsky include National Institutes of Health & University of Delaware.
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The determinants of parenting: A process model.
TL;DR: In this paper, three domains of determinants are identified (personal psychological resources of parents, characteristics of the child, and contextual sources of stress and support), and a process model of competent parental functioning is offered on the basis of the analysis.
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Beyond Diathesis Stress: Differential Susceptibility to Environmental Influences.
Jay Belsky,Michael Pluess +1 more
TL;DR: Evidence consistent with the proposition that individuals differ in plasticity is reviewed, and multiple instances in which specific genes function less like "vulnerability factors" and more like "plasticity factors," thereby rendering some individuals more malleable or susceptible than others to both negative and positive environmental influences.
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Childhood Experience, Interpersonal Development, and Reproductive Strategy: An Evolutionary Theory of Socialization.
TL;DR: The concept of "reproductive strategy" drawn from the field of behavioral ecology is applied to the study of childhood experience and interpersonal development in order to develop an evolutionary theory of socialization in terms of 2 divergent development pathways.
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Etiology of child maltreatment: a developmental-ecological analysis.
TL;DR: A developmental-ecological perspective is applied to the question of the etiology of physical child abuse and neglect by organizing the paper around a variety of "contexts of maltreatment."