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Ecological systems theory.
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The Bioecological Model of Human Development
TL;DR: This chapter presents the ecological model of human development that has been introduced in a prior edition of this Handbook, and defines the defining properties of the model, which involves four principal components, and the dynamic, interactive relationships among them.
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Community Resilience as a Metaphor, Theory, Set of Capacities, and Strategy for Disaster Readiness
Fran H. Norris,Fran H. Norris,Fran H. Norris,Susan P. Stevens,Susan P. Stevens,Susan P. Stevens,Betty Pfefferbaum,Betty Pfefferbaum,Betty Pfefferbaum,Karen Fraser Wyche,Karen Fraser Wyche,Karen Fraser Wyche,Rose L. Pfefferbaum,Rose L. Pfefferbaum,Rose L. Pfefferbaum +14 more
TL;DR: To build collective resilience, communities must reduce risk and resource inequities, engage local people in mitigation, create organizational linkages, boost and protect social supports, and plan for not having a plan, which requires flexibility, decision-making skills, and trusted sources of information that function in the face of unknowns.
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The neighborhoods they live in: the effects of neighborhood residence on child and adolescent outcomes.
TL;DR: This article provides a comprehensive review of research on the effects of neighborhood residence on child and adolescent well-being and suggests the importance of high socioeconomic status for achievement and low SES and residential instability for behavioral/emotional outcomes.
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Nature-nuture reconceptualized in developmental perspective: A bioecological model.
TL;DR: The authors propose an empirically testable theoretical model that goes beyond and qualifies the established behavioral genetics paradigm by allowing for nonadditive synergistic effects, direct measures of the environment, and mechanisms of organism-environment interaction through which genotypes are transformed into phenotypes.
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Processing Fluency and Aesthetic Pleasure: Is Beauty in the Perceiver's Processing Experience?
TL;DR: This work proposes that aesthetic pleasure is a funnction of the perceiver's processing dynamics: the more fluently perceivers can process an object, the more positive their aesthetic response, and reviews variables known to influence aesthetic judgments, and traces their effects to changes in processing fluency.
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The ecology of human development : experiments by nature and design
TL;DR: An apparatus for measuring at least two of the following characteristics of a fluid; pH, partial pressure of dissolved gas or gases therein, inorganic ion concentration, hemoglobin, temperature, and the like, the apparatus comprising a vessel having a flow channel for fluid passing therethrough and means for inducing turbulence in the channel at specified locations.
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Developing Minds: Challenge And Continuity Across The Lifespan
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the development of social relationships and the growth of intelligence and language during adolescence, adulthood, and mid-life transitions and old age, and discuss transition and turning-points: Continuities and discontinuity.
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The growth and development of the prematurely born infant
TL;DR: Motz as mentioned in this paper presents a detailed analysis of the religio-psychiatric movement, but it is almost entirely descriptive, and at no point does the author take a personal stand on the value or validity of any position con¬ sidered.
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Factors Protecting Children Living in Disharmonious Homes: Maternal Reports
Jennifer Jenkins,Marjorie Smith +1 more
TL;DR: The parent-child relationship was associated with children's disturbance in both harmonious and disharmonious homes, and factors which interacted with the quality of parental marriage were children having a relationship with an adult outside the family, an activity for which they received much positive recognition, and good sibling relationships.