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ERIC Number: EJ603916
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2000
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0009-3920
The Role of Context in the Development of Psychopathology: A Conceptual Framework and Some Speculative Propositions.
Steinberg, Laurence; Avenevoli, Shelli
Child Development, v71 n1 p66-74 Jan-Feb 2000
Argues that extant research assessing relations between contextual factors and psychological disturbance has confused two different roles of context. Suggests that environmental factors are nonspecific stressors and elicit psychopathology, with specificity of expressed psychopathology governed by individual differences, and that context is specific in affecting the course of psychopathology. (Author/KB)
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Children, Context Effect, Emotional Disturbances, Environmental Influences, Family Environment, Family Influence, Individual Differences, Models, Psychopathology, Social Influences, Theories
Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Externalization; Internalization; Specificity
Note: Special Theme Issue: "New Directions for Child Development in the Twenty-First Century."