Foreword / Herbert Pardes -- Overview / Norman Garmezy -- Keynote address / Richard Lerner -- Individual development: its significance for stress responsivity and stress adaptation -- Personality development / Salvatore Maddi -- Socioemotional development / Richard M. Lerner -- Biological development in adolescence / Anne Petersen -- Cognitive development / Daniel Keating -- General discussion / Howard Moss -- Major factors acting on the early adolescent -- The family / Michael Goldstein -- Social relations: peers and families / John Hill -- The schools / James Kelly -- Environmental stresses and their outcomes / Thomas Langner -- General discussion / Morris Rosenberg -- Roundtable discussion: current research and conceptualizations on stress responsivity / Albert Bandura, John Ogbu, Salvatore Maddi, Beatrix Hamburg and Elizabeth Susman -- Growing up vulnerable and growing up resistant: two longitudinal studies -- Preschool personality, preadolescent personality and intervening family stresses / Jeanne Block -- The Kauai longitudinal study / Emmy Werner