Division of Education, Human Development, and Social Sciences, Pennsylvania State University-Altoona.
Department of Psychology, University of Utah.
Dev Psychol. 2019 Jul;55(7):1523-1536. doi: 10.1037/dev0000741. Epub 2019 Apr 18.
Guided by paternal investment theory (PIT), the current research examines the effects of fathers on daughters' expectations for men in adulthood, and the role of these expectations in mediating women's short-term (casual or uncommitted) sexual behavior. Using a genetically informed differential sibling-exposure design (N = 223 sister pairs from divorced/separated families), we found that developmental exposure to low-quality paternal behavior (but not paternal absence per se) predicted adult women's expectations for men as partners. For older sisters, who spent much of their childhoods living with their fathers, lower-quality paternal behavior predicted lower expectations for male investment in their relationships as adults. Moreover, lower expectations for men as partners predicted higher numbers of sexual partners (past and anticipated) among these women. By contrast, for younger sisters, who spent relatively little time coresiding with their fathers, no such effects of quality of paternal behavior were observed. The current work provides evidence that exposure to low-quality paternal behavior during development may help calibrate daughters' expectations for the behavior of male relationship partners, and these expectations may shape their sexual behavior in adulthood. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
在亲代投资理论（PIT）的指导下，本研究考察了父亲对女儿成年后对男性期望的影响，以及这些期望在介导女性短期（随意或非承诺）性行为方面的作用。利用基于遗传的同胞差异暴露设计（来自离异/分居家庭的 223 对姐妹），我们发现，儿童期暴露于低质量的父爱行为（而不是父爱缺失本身）预测了成年女性对男性伴侣的期望。对于那些在童年大部分时间都与父亲生活在一起的姐姐们来说，低质量的父爱行为预示着她们对成年后男性在关系中的投资期望较低。此外，对男性伴侣的较低期望预示着这些女性过去和预期的性伴侣数量较高。相比之下，对于那些与父亲共同居住时间相对较少的妹妹们，父爱质量对其没有影响。本研究工作提供了证据表明，在发展过程中暴露于低质量的父爱行为可能有助于调整女儿对男性伴侣行为的期望，而这些期望可能会影响她们成年后的性行为。（APA，2019，所有权利保留）。
