Slow Life History Strategies and Increases in Externalizing and Internalizing Problems During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Lei Chang; Yuan Yuan Liu; Hui Jing Lu; Jennifer E. Lansford; Marc H. Bornstein; Laurence Steinberg; Kirby Deater-Deckard; W. Andrew Rothenberg; Ann T. Skinner; Kenneth A. Dodge

doi:10.1111/jora.12661

Slow Life History Strategies and Increases in Externalizing and Internalizing Problems During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Lei Chang
, Yuan Yuan Liu
, Hui Jing Lu
, Jennifer E. Lansford
, Marc H. Bornstein
, Laurence Steinberg
, Kirby Deater-Deckard
, W. Andrew Rothenberg
, Ann T. Skinner
, Kenneth A. Dodge

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	595-607
Number of pages	13
Journal	Journal of Research on Adolescence
Volume	31
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.12661
Publication status	Published - Sept 2021

Keywords

adolescent externalizing and internalizing
childhood environmental adversity
fast and slow life history strategy

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Cultural Studies
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
Behavioral Neuroscience

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