Beyond Diathesis Stress: Differential Susceptibility to Environmental Influences

Autor/inn/en	Belsky, Jay; Pluess, Michael
Titel	Beyond Diathesis Stress: Differential Susceptibility to Environmental Influences
Quelle	In: Psychological Bulletin, 135 (2009) 6, S.885-908 (24 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0033-2909
DOI	10.1037/a0017376
Schlagwörter	Psychopathology; Parent Child Relationship; Environmental Influences; Stress Variables; Personality Traits; Individual Characteristics; Genetics; At Risk Persons; Child Rearing; Parent Influence; Family Environment; Child Development; Emotional Development; Literature Reviews + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Psychopathologie; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Environmental influence; Umwelteinfluss; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Personality traits; Humangenetik; Risikogruppe; Kindererziehung; Familienmilieu; Kindesentwicklung; Gefühlsbildung
Abstract	Evolutionary-biological reasoning suggests that individuals should be differentially susceptible to environmental influences, with some people being not just more vulnerable than others to the negative effects of adversity, as the prevailing diathesis-stress view of psychopathology (and of many environmental influences) maintains, but also disproportionately susceptible to the beneficial effects of supportive and enriching experiences (or just the absence of adversity). Evidence consistent with the proposition that individuals differ in plasticity is reviewed. The authors document multiple instances in which (a) phenotypic temperamental characteristics, (b) endophenotypic attributes, and (c) 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. Discussion focuses upon limits of the evidence, statistical criteria for distinguishing differential susceptibility from diathesis stress, potential mechanisms of influence, and unknowns in the differential-susceptibility equation. (Contains 3 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10