Environmental harshness and unpredictability, life history, and social and academic behavior of adolescents in nine countries.

• Main Authors: Chang, Lei, Lu, Hui Jing, Lansford, Jennifer E, Skinner, Ann T, Bornstein, Marc H, Steinberg, Laurence, Dodge, Kenneth A, Chen, Bin-Bin, Tian, Qian, Bacchini, Dario, Deater-Deckard, Kirby, Pastorelli, Concetta, Alampay, Liane Peña, Sorbring, Emma, Al-Hassan, Suha M, Oburu, Paul, Malone, Patrick S, Di Giunta, Laura, Uribe Tirado, Liliana Maria, Tapanya, Sombat
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2019
• Subjects: environmental harshness; unpredictability; externalizing; Developmental Psychology; Psychology
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/psychology-faculty-pubs/123; https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fdev0000655
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Safety is essential for life. To survive, humans and other animals have developed sets of psychological and physiological adaptations known as life history (LH) tradeoff strategies in response to various safety constraints. Evolutionarily selected LH strategies in turn regulate development and behav...