Programming effects of adversity on adolescent adaptive capacity
This thesis aimed to test the effects of stressful life events (adversity) on changes in adolescent adaptive capacity, that is, the ability of an individual to deal with his or her environment. Adaptive capacity was measured both in terms of temperament and in terms of physiological responses to a laboratory stress task. The main findings point out that adolescents who are exposed to stressful events show changes in temperament and stressreactivity that deviate from changes in temperament and stressreactivity shown by adolescents not exposed to stressful events. For example, exposure to stress was related to increases in frustration instead of decreases shown by other adolescents. Moreover, the non-normative changes in temperament were related to an increased risk for the development of mental health problems. Taken together, these findings contradict the traditional assumption that adaptive capacity (in particular temperament) is stable over time and most important, emphasize the importance of studying changes in temperament and stressreactivity in the context of (stressful) life events
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