Lu Hui Jing, Lansford Jennifer E, Liu Yuan Yuan, Chen Bin Bin, Bornstein Marc H, Skinner Ann T, Dodge Kenneth A, Steinberg Laurence, Deater-Deckard Kirby, Rothenberg W Andrew, Bacchini Dario, Pastorelli Concetta, Alampay Liane Peña, Sorbring Emma, Gurdal Sevtap, Al-Hassan Suha M, Oburu Paul, Yotanyamaneewong Saengduean, Tapanya Sombat, Di Giunta Laura, Uribe Tirado Liliana Maria, Chang Lei
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China.
Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
Dev Psychopathol. 2024 Sep 23:1-9. doi: 10.1017/S0954579424001500.
One species-general life history (LH) principle posits that challenging childhood environments are coupled with a fast or faster LH strategy and associated behaviors, while secure and stable childhood environments foster behaviors conducive to a slow or slower LH strategy. This coupling between environments and LH strategies is based on the assumption that individuals' internal traits and states are independent of their external surroundings. In reality, individuals respond to external environmental conditions in alignment with their intrinsic vitality, encompassing both physical and mental states. The present study investigated attachment as an internal mental state, examining its role in mediating and moderating the association between external environmental adversity and fast LH strategies. A sample of 1169 adolescents (51% girls) from 9 countries was tracked over 10 years, starting from age 8. The results confirm both mediation and moderation and, for moderation, secure attachment nullified and insecure attachment maintained the environment-LH coupling. These findings suggest that attachment could act as an internal regulator, disrupting the contingent coupling between environmental adversity and a faster pace of life, consequently decelerating human LH.
一种物种通用的生活史（LH）原则认为，具有挑战性的童年环境与快速或更快的LH策略及相关行为相关联，而安全稳定的童年环境则促进有利于缓慢或更缓慢LH策略的行为。环境与LH策略之间的这种关联基于这样一种假设，即个体的内在特质和状态独立于其外部环境。实际上，个体根据其内在活力（包括身体和精神状态）对外部环境条件做出反应。本研究将依恋作为一种内在心理状态进行调查，考察其在外部环境逆境与快速LH策略之间的关联中所起的中介和调节作用。对来自9个国家的1169名青少年（51%为女孩）进行了为期10年的跟踪研究，从8岁开始。结果证实了中介作用和调节作用，对于调节作用而言，安全型依恋消除了环境与LH之间的关联，而非安全型依恋则维持了这种关联。这些发现表明，依恋可能作为一种内在调节器，打破环境逆境与更快生活节奏之间的偶然关联，从而减缓人类的LH。
