Child attachment in adjusting the species-general contingency between environmental adversities and fast life history strategies.
Dev Psychopathol
; 34(2): 719-730, 2022 05.
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ABSTRACT
Extrinsic mortality risks calibrating fast life history (LH) represent a species-general principle that applies to almost all animals including humans. However, empirical research also finds exceptions to the LH principle. The present study proposes a maternal socialization hypothesis, whereby we argue that the more human-relevant attachment system adds to the LH principle by up- and down-regulating environmental harshness and unpredictability and their calibration of LH strategies. Based on a longitudinal sample of 259 rural Chinese adolescents and their primary caregivers, the results support the statistical moderating effect of caregiver-child attachment on the relation between childhood environmental adversities (harshness and unpredictability) and LH strategies. Our theorizing and findings point to an additional mechanism likely involved in the organization and possibly the slowdown of human LH.
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Características de História de Vida
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
Limite:
Adolescent
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Animals
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Child
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Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Dev Psychopathol
Assunto da revista:
PSICOLOGIA
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PSIQUIATRIA
Ano de publicação:
2022
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
China