| Maternal Age, Investment, and Parent-Child Conflict: A Mediational Test of the Terminal Investment Hypothesis. | |
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PMID: 22468690 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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Drawing on the evolutionary terminal investment hypothesis and Trivers' (1974) parent-offspring conflict theory, we advance and evaluate a mediational model specifying why and how maternal age, via mating effort and parental investment, affects mother-child conflict. Data from a longitudinal study of 757 families indicate that (a) older maternal age predicts lower mating effort during the child's first 5 years of life, and (b) thereby, higher maternal investment in middle childhood when the child is around 10 years old. (c) Higher maternal investment, in turn, forecasts less child-perceived mother-child conflict in adolescence (age 15). These results proved robust against theoretically relevant covariates (family resources, parity, maternal education, and maternal personality characteristics) and in the context of an autoregressive model. Study limitations are noted and results are discussed in terms of the unique contributions of an evolutionary perspective to the determinants-of-parenting literature. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved). |
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Gabriel L Schlomer; Jay Belsky |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2012-4-2 |
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Title: Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) Volume: - ISSN: 1939-1293 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2012 Apr |
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Created Date: 2012-4-3 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 8802265 Medline TA: J Fam Psychol Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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