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Transactional models of development, which can be conceptualized as the continuous bidirectional or reciprocal influences between the child and the child’s context, have been applied to understand infant, child, and adolescent development. This essay will present a historical overview of the transactional model, provide information in terms of the research designs usually employed for the investigation of the transactional model, and highlight transactional studies that have been applied to understand adolescent development. It is also argued that the incorporation of transactional models in the study of adolescent development is essential because adolescence comes with a number of social changes, in the family, school, and peer context, but also changes in the individual, such as increases in behavioral and emotional problems. Thus, transactional models of development during the adolescence period that take into account social and individual reorganizations and the...
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Fanti, K.A. (2011). Transactional Models. In: Levesque, R.J.R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Adolescence. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1695-2_7
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