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The field of developmental psychopathology has grown rapidly over the past several decades and research conducted within this framework has made substantial contributions to our understanding of human adaptation and maladaptation (Cicchetti Cicchetti Cicchetti Sameroff Cicchetti Cicchetti Cicchetti Coie Jensen Richters Susman, 1993). Moreover, we now know that social contexts exert effects not only on psychological processes but also on biological structures and processes (Boyce, Frank, Jensen, Kessler, Nelson, Steinberg, et al., 1998; Cicchetti Eisenberg, 1995; Nelson & Bloom, 1997).
Cicchetti et al. (Mon,) studied this question.