Why and how the early-life environment affects development of coping behaviours.

ABSTRACT: Understanding the ways in which individuals cope with threats, respond to challenges, make use of opportunities and mediate the harmful effects of their surroundings is important for predicting their ability to function in a rapidly changing world. Perhaps one of the most essential drivers of coping behaviour of adults is the environment experienced during their early-life development. Although the study of coping, defined as behaviours displayed in response to environmental challenges, has a long and rich research history in biology, recent literature has repeatedly pointed out that the processes through which coping behaviours develop in individuals are still largely unknown. In this review, we make a move towards integrating ultimate and proximate lines of coping behaviour research. Aft

SUBMITTER: Langenhof MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5805793 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature