Abstract

In the first part, the study aims at analyzing different models of psychosocial risk factors in development. Recent studies on developmental psychopathology, clinical and developmental psychology are trying to delineate a cross-sectional area of research where normal and abnormal developments have been studying together. Some of the main core concepts of a new multidimensional and probabilistic model have been described. The second part of the paper focuses on children's peers relations in school contexts as an index of psychosocial maladaptative or adaptive outcomes in development.