Chang Lei, Liu Yuan Yuan, Lu Hui Jing, Lansford Jennifer E, Bornstein Marc H, Steinberg Laurence, Deater-Deckard Kirby, Rothenberg W Andrew, Skinner Ann T, Dodge Kenneth A
University of Macau.
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
J Res Adolesc. 2021 Sep;31(3):595-607. doi: 10.1111/jora.12661.
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.
新冠疫情只是人类历史上反复出现的众多环境逆境之一。生物行为资源分配策略，即所谓的快速（以繁殖为重点）与慢速（以发育为重点）生活史（LH）权衡策略，是为应对传染病等环境挑战而进化出来的。基于在新冠疫情之前（9岁和13岁）及期间（20岁）观察的141名年轻人及其母亲，我们研究了与慢速LH策略相关的纵向关系。结果支持了慢速LH策略在减少与新冠相关的外化问题增加方面的适应性作用。此外，早期逆境对与新冠相关的外化增加的影响通过慢速LH策略得到了中介作用，而对与新冠相关的内化增加的影响则通过慢速LH策略得到了调节作用。
