Publisher's Synopsis
A developmental conceptualization that emphasizes coping asregulation under stress opens the way to explore synergies betweencoping and regulatory processes, including self-regulation;behavioral, emotion, attention, and action regulation; ego control'self-control' compliance; and volition. This volume, with chapterswritten by experts on the development of regulation and copingduring childhood and adolescence,is the first to explore thesesynergies.
The volume is geared toward researchers working in the broadareas of regulation, coping , stress, adversity, and resilience.For regulation researchers, it offers opportunities to focus onage-graded changes in how these processes function under stress andto consider multiple targets of regulation simultaneously--emotion,attention, behavior--that typically are examined in isolation. Forresearchers interested in coping, this volume offers invigoratingtheoretical and operational ideas. For researchers studying stress,adversity, and resilience, this volume highlights coping as onepathway through which exposure to adversity shapes children'slong-term development.
The authors also address cross-cutting developmental themes,such as the role of stress, coping, and social relationships in thesuccessive integration of regulatory subsystems, the emergence ofautonomous regulation, and the progressive construction of thekinds of regulatory resources and routines that allow flexibleconstructive coping under successively higher levels of stress andadversity. All chapters emphasize the importance of integrativemultilevel perspectives in bringing together work on theneurobiology of stress, temperament, attachment, regulation,personal resources, relationships, stress exposure, and socialcontexts in studying processes of coping, adversity, andresilience.
This is the 124th volume of the Jossey-Bass quarterly reportseries New Directions for Child and AdolescentDevelopment. The mission of New Directions for Childand Adolescent Development is to provide scientific andscholarly presentations on cutting edge issues and concepts in thefield of child and adolescent development. Each volume focuses on aspecific "new direction" or research topic, and is edited by anexpert or experts on that topic.
