Jacobson Nicholas C
Pennsylvania State University.
J Abnorm Psychol. 2016 Aug;125(6):824-39. doi: 10.1037/abn0000185. Epub 2016 Jun 30.
This study sought to evaluate the current evolutionary adaptiveness of psychopathology by examining whether these disorders impact the quantity of offspring or the quality of the parent-child relationship across the life span. Using the National Comorbidity Survey, this study examined whether DSM-III-R anxiety, posttraumatic stress, depressive, bipolar, substance use, antisocial, and psychosis disorders predicted later fertility and the quality of parent-child relationships across the life span in a national sample (N = 8,098). Using latent variable and varying coefficient models, the results suggested that anxiety in males and bipolar pathology in males and females were associated with increased fertility at younger ages. The results suggested almost all other psychopathology was associated with decreased fertility in middle to late adulthood. The results further suggested that all types of psychopathology had negative impacts on the parent-child relationship quality (except for antisocial pathology in males). Nevertheless, for all disorders, the impact of psychopathology on both fertility and the parent-child relationship quality was affected by the age of the participant. The results also showed that anxiety pathology is associated with a high-quantity, low-quality parenting strategy followed by a low-quantity, low-quality parenting strategy. Further, the results suggest that bipolar pathology is associated with an early high-quantity and a continued low-quality parenting strategy. Posttraumatic stress, depression, substance use, antisocial personality, and psychosis pathology are each associated with a low-quantity, low-quality parenting strategy, particularly in mid to late adulthood. These findings suggest that the evolutionary impact of psychopathology depends on the developmental context. (PsycINFO Database Record
本研究旨在通过考察这些精神障碍是否会影响后代数量或整个生命周期中亲子关系的质量，来评估精神病理学当前的进化适应性。本研究利用全国共病调查，在一个全国性样本（N = 8,098）中，考察了《精神疾病诊断与统计手册》第三版修订版（DSM-III-R）中的焦虑症、创伤后应激障碍、抑郁症、双相情感障碍、物质使用障碍、反社会型障碍和精神病性障碍是否能预测随后的生育能力以及整个生命周期中亲子关系的质量。使用潜在变量和变系数模型，结果表明男性焦虑症以及男性和女性的双相情感障碍病理与年轻时生育能力增加有关。结果表明，几乎所有其他精神病理学都与成年中后期生育能力下降有关。结果还进一步表明，所有类型的精神病理学都对亲子关系质量有负面影响（男性反社会型病理除外）。然而，对于所有障碍而言，精神病理学对生育能力和亲子关系质量的影响都受到参与者年龄的影响。结果还表明，焦虑症病理与高数量、低质量的养育策略相关，随后是低数量、低质量的养育策略。此外，结果表明双相情感障碍病理与早期高数量和持续低质量的养育策略相关。创伤后应激障碍、抑郁症、物质使用障碍、反社会人格障碍和精神病性障碍病理均与低数量、低质量的养育策略相关，尤其是在成年中后期。这些发现表明，精神病理学的进化影响取决于发展背景。（《心理学文摘数据库记录》
