Biological embedding - Early life adversity accelerates child and adolescent development
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What is the impact of growing up in high risk environment
- Under some conditions, certain responses to adversities are functional in terms of promoting reproductive fitness, even it not health and wellbeing (but there are costs associated with these reproductive benefits)
- Accelerated development conceptualized as fitting developing individual to his/her current and likely future environment
How does puberty and adversity-induced accelarations correlate
- Early life deprivation but not threat exposure forecasts delayed pubertal development
- Father absence forecasts earlier pubertal development
What can we say about pubertal timing
- Earlier pubertal development if exposure to earthquake within first 7 years of a girl’s life
- Male pubertal development accelerated after earthquake exposure
- Lower socioeconomic status linked with earlier pubertal development in males and females
- Early institutionalized children didn’t show accelerated pubertal development
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Exposure to violence is associated with .....
What are the factors that can accelerate certain aspects of development?
- exposure to poverty
- growing up in a conflicted family or violent neighborhood
- institutionalized caregiving
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