ReviewEvolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behavior2017
On the Psychometric Study of Human Life History Strategies.
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- Childhood environmental harshness and unpredictability negatively predict eHealth literacy through fast life-history strategy.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Too Many Males or Too Many Females? Classroom Sex Ratio, Life History Strategies and Risk-Taking Behaviors.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2022Article
- A Double-Track Pathway to Fast Strategy in Humans and Its Personality Correlates.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Advancing the Psychometric Study of Human Life History Indicators : K Does Not Measure Life History Speed, but Theory and Evidence Suggest It Deserves Further Attention.Human nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.) · 2021Article
- Live fast, die young and sleep later: Life history strategy and human sleep behavior.Evolution, medicine, and public health · 2021Article
- Borderline Personality Disorder in a "Life History Theory" Perspective: Evidence for a Fast "Pace-of-Life-Syndrome".Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- The Structure of the Mini-K and K-SF-42 : A Psychological Network Approach.Human nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.) · 2020Article
- Do Criminals Live Faster Than Soldiers and Firefighters? : A Comparison of Biodemographic and Psychosocial Dimensions of Life History Theory.Human nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.) · 2020Article
- On the Incongruence between Psychometric and Psychosocial-Biodemographic Measures of Life History.Human nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.) · 2020Article
- Life-history theory in psychology and evolutionary biology: one research programme or two?Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020Review
- Measuring the Unmeasurable : The Psychometrics of Life History Strategy.Human nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.) · 2018Article
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- From Environment to Mating Competition and Super-K in a Predominantly Urban Sample of Young Adults.Evolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behavior · 2017Article
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- Life History, Attachment and Romantic Relationship Outcomes in an Eastern European Adult Sample.Evolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behaviorArticle
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This article attends to recent discussions of validity in psychometric research on human life history strategy (LHS), provides a constructive critique of the extant literature, and describes strategies for improving construct validity. To place the psychometric study of human LHS on more solid ground, our review indicates that researchers should (a) use approaches to psychometric modeling that are consistent with their philosophies of measurement, (b) confirm the dimensionality of life history indicators, and (c) establish measurement invariance for at least a subset of indicators. Because we see confirming the dimensionality of life history indicators as the next step toward placing the psychometrics of human LHS on more solid ground, we use nationally representative data and structural equation modeling to test the structure of middle adult life history indicators. We found statistically independent mating competition and Super-K dimensions and the effects of parental harshness and childhood unpredictability on Super-K were consistent with past research. However, childhood socioeconomic status had a moderate positive effect on mating competition and no effect on Super-K, while unpredictability did not predict mating competition. We conclude that human LHS is more complex than previously suggested-there does not seem to be a single dimension of human LHS among Western adults and the effects of environmental components seem to vary between mating competition and Super-K.
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