Environmental harshness and unpredictability, life history, and social and academic behavior of adolescents in nine countries.

Chang, Lei; Jing Lu, Hui; E. Lansford, Jennifer; T. Skinner, Ann; H. Bornstein, Marc; Steinberg, Laurence; A. Dodge, Kenneth; Chen, Binbin; Tian, Qian; Bacchini, Dario; Deater‐Deckard, Kirby; Pastorelli, Concetta; Peña Alampay, Liane; Sorbring, Emma; M. Al‐Hassan, Suha; Oburu, Paul; S. Malone, Patrick; Di Giunta, Laura; María Uribe Tirado, Liliana; Tapanya, Sombat

doi:10.1037/dev0000655

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Environmental harshness and unpredictability, life history, and social and academic behavior of adolescents in nine countries.

Published in Developmental Psychology • Dec 3, 2018

Authors:

Lei Chang

Hui Jing Lu

Jennifer E. Lansford

Abstract

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 behav...

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Psychology

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Developmental psychology

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