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Environmental harshness and unpredictability, life history, and social and academic behavior of adolescents in nine countries.
University of Macau, Department of Psychology, China.
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Department of Applied Social Sciences, China.
Duke University, Center for Child and Family Policy, Durham, NC, USA.
Duke University, Center for Child and Family Policy, Durham, NC, USA.
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2019 (English)In: Developmental Psychology, ISSN 0012-1649, E-ISSN 1939-0599, Vol. 55, no 4, p. 890-903Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Safety is essential for life. To survive, humans and other animals have developed sets of psychological and physiological adaptations known as life history (LH) tradeoff strategies in response to various safety constraints. Evolutionarily selected LH strategies in turn regulate development and behavior to optimize survival under prevailing safety conditions. The present study tested LH hypotheses concerning safety based on a 6-year longitudinal sample of 1,245 adolescents and their parents from 9 countries. The results revealed that, invariant across countries, environmental harshness, and unpredictability (lack of safety) was negatively associated with slow LH behavioral profile, measured 2 years later, and slow LH behavioral profile was negatively and positively associated with externalizing behavior and academic performance, respectively, as measured an additional 2 years later. These results support the evolutionary conception that human development responds to environmental safety cues through LH regulation of social and learning behaviors. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).

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American Psychological Association (APA), 2019. Vol. 55, no 4, p. 890-903
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Safety, adolescents
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Psychology (excluding Applied Psychology) Ecology Evolutionary Biology
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Child and Youth studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE, Psychology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-13734DOI: 10.1037/dev0000655PubMedID: 30507220Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85057560595OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hv-13734DiVA, id: diva2:1297794
Available from: 2019-03-21 Created: 2019-03-21 Last updated: 2019-12-11Bibliographically approved

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