At its core, DST proposes that individuals differ in the degree to which they are affected by environmental experiences (Ellis et al., 2011). Contrary to earlier models of risk, DST argues that individuals who are more sensitive to their environment are at greater risk for negative outcomes in adverse conditions but also gain disproportionally greater benefit in supportive contexts. Conversely, those who are less sensitive are less affected by exposure to adversity but also benefit less from supportive environments. Embedded within DST is the concept of vantage sensitivity, which focuses on individual factors that make one more susceptible specifically to positive aspects of the environment (Pluess & Belsky, 2013). Such positive aspects may be related to affluence, positive peer affiliations, family environment, and positive interparental relationships. Although these perspectives overlap conceptually, they are distinct in the sense that differential susceptibility specifically predicts sensitivity to both positivity and negativity, whereas vantage sensitivity is more narrowly focused in that it predicts sensitivity only to environmental positivity. Relevant to the current study is that both DST and vantage sensitivity suggest that exposure to
