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Richardson, George B. Chen, Ching-Chen Dai, Chia-Liang Hardesty, Patrick H. Swoboda, Christopher M. |
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Life History Strategy and Young Adult Substance Use Evolutionary Psychology 12,5 (December 2014): 932-957. Also: http://evp.sagepub.com/content/12/5/147470491401200506.short Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Sage Publications Keyword(s): Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Modeling, Structural Equation; Parental Influences; Substance Use Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This study tested whether life history strategy (LHS) and its intergenerational transmission could explain young adult use of common psychoactive substances. We tested a sequential structural equation model using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. During young adulthood, fast LHS explained 61% of the variance in overall liability for substance use. Faster parent LHS predicted poorer health and lesser alcohol use, greater neuroticism and cigarette smoking, but did not predict fast LHS or overall liability for substance use among young adults. Young adult neuroticism was independent of substance use controlling for fast LHS. The surprising finding of independence between parent and child LHS casts some uncertainty upon the identity of the parent and child LHS variables. Fast LHS may be the primary driver of young adult use of common psychoactive substances. However, it is possible that the young adult fast LHS variable is better defined as young adult mating competition. We discuss our findings in depth, chart out some intriguing new directions for life history research that may clarify the dimensionality of LHS and its mediation of the intergenerational transmission of substance use, and discuss implications for substance abuse prevention and treatment. |
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Bibliography Citation
Richardson, George B., Ching-Chen Chen, Chia-Liang Dai, Patrick H. Hardesty and Christopher M. Swoboda. "Life History Strategy and Young Adult Substance Use." Evolutionary Psychology 12,5 (December 2014): 932-957.
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Royle, Meghan L. Connolly, Eric J. |
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Alcohol Use and Moffitt's Maturity Gap Thesis for Adolescent Offending: An Evolutionary Perspective and Analysis Evolutionary Psychology published online (24 March 2024). Also https://doi.org/10.1177/14747049241241432 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Sage Publications Keyword(s): Adolescence; Adolescent Behavior; Alcohol Use; Behavior, Antisocial; Crime; Delinquency; Male Studies; Maturity Gap; Moffitts Maturity Gap Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. While a wealth of research has focused on testing several arguments from Moffitt's developmental taxonomy of antisocial behavior—mainly the presence of life-course-persistent vs. adolescence-limited offending and predictors of each trajectory—much less attention has been devoted to examining how evolutionarily adaptive lifestyle factors common during adolescence may condition the relationship between the maturity gap and delinquent offending. One factor that may play a role during this period of development is alcohol use, as many adolescents begin to experiment with consuming alcohol in varying degrees in social settings to model adult-like behaviors. Yet presently much is unknown about the role of alcohol use on the association between the maturity gap and delinquency. The current study aims to address this void in the literature by analyzing data from a U.S. sample of adolescent males (N = 1,276) to assess whether alcohol use moderates the relationship between the maturity gap and delinquent behavior. Findings suggest that the maturity gap is associated with delinquent behavior and that the association becomes weaker at higher levels of alcohol use. The implications of these findings for Moffitt's maturity gap thesis and male offending from an evolutionary perspective are discussed. |
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Bibliography Citation
Royle, Meghan L. and Eric J. Connolly. "Alcohol Use and Moffitt's Maturity Gap Thesis for Adolescent Offending: An Evolutionary Perspective and Analysis." Evolutionary Psychology published online (24 March 2024). Also https://doi.org/10.1177/14747049241241432.
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