Biosocial Foundations of Family Processes

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Booth, Alan (Editor), McHale, Susan M. (Editor), Landale, Nancy S. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Series: National Symposium on Family Issues,
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Public health.; Families.; Families > Social aspects.; Psychotherapy.; Counseling.; Social Sciences.; Family.; Psychotherapy and Counseling.; Public Health.

Genes and environment. Biology and behavior. Nature and nurture. The terminology may be clear-cut, but the processes themselves are far from simple: unlike the direct cause-and-effect dichotomies of past frameworks, researchers now recognize these family-based connections as multifaceted, transactio...

Table of Contents:

• I. Parenting and Early Childhood Behavior and Development
• How Mothers Are Born: A Psychobiological Analysis Of Mothering
• How Fathers Evolve: A Functional Analysis Of Fathering Behavior
• Caregiving As Co-Regulation: Psychobiological Processes And Child Functioning
• The Determinants of Parenting in GXE Perspective: A Case of Differential Susceptibility
• II. Development and Adjustment in Adolescence
• Gene-Environment Interplay Helps To Explain Influences Of Family Relationships On Adolescent Adjustment And Development
• The Importance of the Phenotype in Explorations of Gene-Environment Interplay
• The Importance of Puberty in Adolescent Development
• Genes, Hormones, and Family Behavior: What Makes Adolescence Unique
• III. Mate Selection, Family Formation, and Fertility
• Human Adaptations for Mating: Frameworks for Understanding Patterns of Family Formation and Fertility
• The Need for Family Research Using Multiple Approaches and Methods
• Psychological Adaptation and Human Fertility Patterns: Some Evidence of Human Mating Strategies as Evoked Sexual Culture
• Comments on Consilience Efforts
• IV. Family Adaptations to Resource Disparities
• Family Influences on Children’s Well-Being: Potential Roles of Molecular Genetics and Epigenetics
• Social Inequalities, Family Relationships, and Child Health
• Family Resources, Genes, and Human Development
• In Search of GE: Why We Haven’t Documented a Gene-Social Environment Interaction Yet
• A Promising Approach to Future Biosocial Research on the Family: Considering The Role of Temporal Context.