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Schofield, Thomas J; Martin, Monica J.; Conger, Katherine J.; Neppl, Tricia M.; Donnellan, M. Brent; Conger, Rand D. – Child Development, 2011
The interactionist model (IM) of human development (R. D. Conger & M. B. Donellan, 2007) proposes that the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and human development involves a dynamic interplay that includes both social causation (SES influences human development) and social selection (individual characteristics affect SES). Using a…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Individual Development, Models, Individual Characteristics
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Sroufe, L. Alan – Child Development, 1985
Temperament and attachment, as defined by Bowlby and his followers, are fundamentally different constructs, and research guided by the attachment perspective cannot meaningfully be assimilated to the temperament construct. Qualitative aspects of relationships simply cannot be reduced to individual behavioral dimensions. (RH)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Comparative Analysis, Individual Characteristics, Infants
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Belsky, Jay – Child Development, 1984
Suggests that the determinants of individual differences in parental functioning are illuminated by research on the etiology of child maltreatment. Three domains of determinants include parents' personal psychological resources, child characteristics, and contextual sources of stress and support. A process model of competent parental functioning…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Context Effect, Individual Characteristics, Models