TY - JOUR
T1 - Slow Life History Strategies and Increases in Externalizing and Internalizing Problems During the COVID-19 Pandemic
AU - Chang, Lei
AU - Liu, Yuan Yuan
AU - Lu, Hui Jing
AU - Lansford, Jennifer E.
AU - Bornstein, Marc H.
AU - Steinberg, Laurence
AU - Deater-Deckard, Kirby
AU - Rothenberg, W. Andrew
AU - Skinner, Ann T.
AU - Dodge, Kenneth A.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research has been funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development grant RO1‐HD054805. This research also was supported by the Intramural Research Program of the NIH/NICHD and by a General Research Fund (Project Number: 15608415) from the Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong SAR. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH, NICHD, or RGC. Eunice Kennedy Shriver
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Society for Research on Adolescence
PY - 2021/9
Y1 - 2021/9
N2 - The COVID-19 pandemic is but one of many instances of environmental adversities that have recurred in human history. Biobehavioral resource allocation strategies, known as fast (reproduction-focused) versus slow (development-focused) life history (LH) tradeoff strategies, evolved to deal with environmental challenges such as infectious diseases. Based on 141 young people and their mothers observed prior to (ages 9 and 13) and during (age 20) COVID-19, we investigated longitudinal relations involving slow LH strategies. The results support the adaptive role of slow LH strategies in reducing COVID-related increases in externalizing problems. In addition, the effect of early adversity on COVID-related increases in externalizing was mediated, and the effect on COVID-related increases in internalizing was moderated, by slow LH strategies.
AB - The COVID-19 pandemic is but one of many instances of environmental adversities that have recurred in human history. Biobehavioral resource allocation strategies, known as fast (reproduction-focused) versus slow (development-focused) life history (LH) tradeoff strategies, evolved to deal with environmental challenges such as infectious diseases. Based on 141 young people and their mothers observed prior to (ages 9 and 13) and during (age 20) COVID-19, we investigated longitudinal relations involving slow LH strategies. The results support the adaptive role of slow LH strategies in reducing COVID-related increases in externalizing problems. In addition, the effect of early adversity on COVID-related increases in externalizing was mediated, and the effect on COVID-related increases in internalizing was moderated, by slow LH strategies.
KW - adolescent externalizing and internalizing
KW - childhood environmental adversity
KW - fast and slow life history strategy
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U2 - 10.1111/jora.12661
DO - 10.1111/jora.12661
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 34448293
AN - SCOPUS:85113439860
SN - 1050-8392
VL - 31
SP - 595
EP - 607
JO - Journal of Research on Adolescence
JF - Journal of Research on Adolescence
IS - 3
ER -
