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Beyond allostatic load: Rethinking the role of stress in regulating human development

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Ellis, Bruce J., Del Giudice, Marco·2014·Development and Psychopathology
DOI 10.1017/s0954579413000849
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How do exposures to stress affect biobehavioral development and, through it, psychiatric and biomedical disorder? In the health sciences, the allostatic load model provides a widely accepted answer to this question: stress responses, while essential for survival, have negative long-term effects that promote illness. Thus, the benefits of mounting repeated biological responses to threat are traded off against costs to mental and physical health. The adaptive calibration model, an evolutionary–developmental theory of stress–health relations, extends this logic by conceptualizing these trade-offs as decision nodes in allocation of resources. Each decision node influences the next in a chain of resource allocations that become instantiated in the regulatory parameters of stress response systems. Over development, these parameters filter and embed information about key dimensions of environmental stress and support, mediating the organism's openness to environmental inputs, and function to regulate life history strategies to match those dimensions. Drawing on the adaptive calibration model, we propose that consideration of biological fitness trade-offs, as delineated by life history theory, is needed to more fully explain the complex relations between developmental exposures to stress, stress responsivity, behavioral strategies, and health. We conclude that the adaptive calibration model and allostatic load model are only partially complementary and, in some cases, support different approaches to intervention. In the long run, the field may be better served by a model informed by life history theory that addresses the adaptive role of stress response systems in regulating alternative developmental pathways.

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Authors
Ellis, B. J., & Del Giudice, M.
Affiliations
University of Arizona (US)
Corresponding author
Ellis, Bruce J.
ORCID
Ellis, Bruce J.
Venue
Development and Psychopathology
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Published
2013-11-26
Volume
26
Issue
1
Pages
1-20
ISSN
  • 0954-5794 (ISSN-L)
  • 1469-2198
DOI
10.1017/s0954579413000849
OpenAlex
W2138738783
Cited by
290
References
214
Citations by year
2026: 12 · 2025: 14 · 2024: 17 · 2023: 28 · 2022: 14 · 2021: 28 · 2020: 27 · 2019: 18 · 2018: 32 · 2017: 35 · 2016: 23 · 2015: 29 · 2014: 13
FWCI
1.74
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
Locations
  • Development and Psychopathology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Institutional Research Information System University of Turin (University of Turin) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • ArTS Archivio della ricerca di Trieste (University of Trieste https://www.units.it/) (submittedVersion)
Funders
National Institute of Mental Health (K01MH077687)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Behavioral Neuroscience › Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
Keywords
allostatic load, stress system, life history theory, stress responsivity, resource allocation trade-offs, stress and health
MeSH terms
Adaptation, Physiological, Child, Child Development, Humans, Models, Theoretical, Stress, Physiological, Stress, Psychological, Allostasis

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