...contributed importantly to the development of MST. In Bronfenbrenner's view, the individual's ecosystem is "a set of nested structures, each inside the next, like a set of Russian dolls" (p. 3). The innermost doll is the developing individual, who is both influenced by and continually...

...Perspective According to Bronfenbrenner's theory of human development, an individual's environment acts like: "a set of nested structures, each inside the next, like a set of Russian dolls" (Bubolz & Sontag, 1993, p. 423). The family constitutes the most elemental group of human interactional...

...also contributed importantly to the development of MST. In this view, the individual's ecosystem is »a set of nested structures, each inside the next, like a set of Russian dolls« (p. 3). The innermost doll is the developing individual, who is influenced by and who in turn influences...

...are also relevant. Namely, Bronfenbrenner defined multiple contexts of human development that were "conceived as a set of nested structures, each inside the next, like a set of Russian dolls" (p. 3). Bronfenbrenner's model describes the ways in which variables at multiple environmental levels...

...environment (Lerner, 1978; LeVine, 1989). Bronfenbrenner (1979) characterizes the ecological environment as "a set of nested structures, each inside the next, like a set of Russian dolls" (p. 3). At the innermost level is the immediate setting in which the individual is involved. Surrounding...

...structures (eg, peer social network, classroom, school, community, national culture) that Bronfcnbrcnner "conceived as a set of nested structures, each inside the next, like a set of Russian dolls" (1979, p. 3). The strongest contextual elicitors of behavior are the proximal, microsocial situations...