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The Influence of Stressors on the Development of Psychopathology

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This chapter provides a brief history of the ways in which researchers have defined, conceptualized, and measured stress and provides recommended definitions and conceptualizations of stress for use in research and practice with children and adolescents. The chapter also reviews evidence that (a) stressors contribute to psychopathology; (b) moderators influence the relation between stressors and psychopathology; (c) mediators explain the relation between stressors and psychopathology; (d) there is specificity in the relations among stressors, moderators, mediators, and psychopathology; and (e) relations among stressors, moderators, mediators, and psychopathology are reciprocal and dynamic. Finally, this chapter highlights methodological problems, particularly with stressor measurement, that have impeded progress in the field and lays out a research agenda for improving the measurement of stress.

Preparation of this chapter was supported by a grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism through the National Institutes of Health Basic Behavioral and Social Science Opportunity Network (OppNet) (5R21AA021073-02).

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    Kathryn E. Grant Ph.D., Susan Dvorak McMahon Ph.D., Jocelyn Smith Carter Ph.D. & Russell A. Carleton Ph.D.

  2. Department of Psychology, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA

    Emma K. Adam Ph.D. & Edith Chen Ph.D.

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Grant, K.E., McMahon, S.D., Carter, J.S., Carleton, R.A., Adam, E.K., Chen, E. (2014). The Influence of Stressors on the Development of Psychopathology. In: Lewis, M., Rudolph, K. (eds) Handbook of Developmental Psychopathology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9608-3_11

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