The Development of Reproductive Strategy in Females: Early Maternal Harshness → Earlier Menarche → Increased Sexual Risk Taking

被引:172
作者
Belsky, Jay [1 ]
Steinberg, Laurence [2 ]
Houts, Renate M. [4 ]
Halpern-Felsher, Bonnie L. [3 ]
机构
[1] Birkbeck Univ London, Inst Study Children Families & Social Issues, London WC1B 3RA, England
[2] Temple Univ, Dept Psychol, Philadelphia, PA 19122 USA
[3] Univ Calif San Francisco, Dept Pediat, Div Adolescent Med, San Francisco, CA 94143 USA
[4] Duke Univ, Dept Psychol & Neurosci, Durham, NC 27706 USA
关键词
reproductive strategy; puberty; parenting; risk taking; PUBERTAL MATURATION; AGE; ADOLESCENTS; INTERCOURSE; ALCOHOL; FAMILY; EXPERIENCES; SUCCESS; IMPACT;
D O I
10.1037/a0015549
中图分类号
B844 [发展心理学(人类心理学)];
学科分类号
040206 [发展心理学];
摘要
To test a proposition central to J. Belsky, L. Steinberg, and P. Draper's (1991) evolutionary theory of socialization-that pubertal maturation plays a role in linking early rearing experience with adolescent sexual risk taking (i.e., frequency of sexual behavior) and, perhaps, other risk taking (e.g., alcohol, drugs, delinquency)-the authors subjected longitudinal data on 433 White, 62 Black, and 31 Hispanic females to path analysis. Results showed (a) that greater maternal harshness at 54 months predicted earlier age of menarche; (b) that earlier age of menarche predicted greater sexual (but not other) risk taking; and (c) that maternal harshness exerted a significant indirect effect, via earlier menarche, on sexual risk taking (i.e., greater harshness -> earlier menarche -> greater sexual risk taking) but only a direct effect on other risk taking. Results are discussed in terms of evolutionary perspectives on human development and reproductive strategy; and future directions for research are outlined.
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页码:120 / 128
页数:9
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