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Though bioecological theory is a theory of human development, and not specifically a family stress theory, it can be used to understand how stress potentially influences stress that people experience or how they respond to said stress. Within this theory is the PPCT (proximal processes, person characteristics, context, time) model, which specifies the variety of human development (Bronfenbrenner & Morris, 2006). Proximal processes refers to the daily interactions people have that shape their development. Person characteristics refers to the idiosyncratic qualities people bring to human interactions that regulate their developmental and lived experiences. For instance, being a woman walking alone at night has different potential relative to a man repeating that action under similar conditions. In this case, the person characteristic gender presents different potentials under the same action. Context, in the model, refers to the multiple layers of context people are embedded (e.g., micro, meso, exo, macro). Finally, context can refer to the opportunities and constraints presented to individuals in a given historical time or in a given developmental period.