The development of reproductive strategy in females: early maternal harshness –> earlier menarche –> increased sexual risk taking
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To test a proposition central to J. Belsky, L. Steinberg, and P. Draper's (1991) evolutionary theory of socialization-that pubertal maturation plays a role in linking early rearing experience with adolescent sexual risk taking (i.e., frequency of sexual behavior) and, perhaps, other risk taking (e.g., alcohol, drugs, delinquency)-the authors subjected longitudinal data on 433 White, 62 Black, and 31 Hispanic females to path analysis. Results showed (a) that greater maternal harshness at 54 months predicted earlier age of menarche; (b) that earlier age of menarche predicted greater sexual (but not other) risk taking; and (c) that maternal harshness exerted a significant indirect effect, via earlier menarche, on sexual risk taking (i.e., greater harshness --> earlier menarche --> greater sexual risk taking) but only a direct effect on other risk taking. Results are discussed in terms of evolutionary perspectives on human development and reproductive strategy, and future directions for research are outlined.
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- Authors
- Belsky, J., NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, Steinberg, L., Houts, R. M., & Halpern-Felsher, B. L.
- Affiliations
- Birkbeck, University of London (GB)
- Venue
- Developmental Psychology
- Published
- 2010
- Volume
- 46
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 120-128
- ISSN
- 0012-1649 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-0599
- OpenAlex
- W2154716439
- Cited by
- 252
- References
- 42
- Citations by year
- 2025: 9 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 20 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 18 · 2020: 23 · 2019: 11 · 2018: 19 · 2017: 18 · 2016: 18 · 2015: 17 · 2014: 19 · 2013: 16 · 2012: 24
- FWCI
- 25.54
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Developmental Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- BIROn (Birkbeck, University of London) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (Cooperative agreement U10)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Keywords
- early menarche, pubertal development, reproductive strategies, adolescent risk-taking, early rearing experience
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adolescent Behavior, Female, Humans, Longitudinal Studies, Menarche, Models, Psychological, Puberty, Precocious, Reproduction, Retrospective Studies, Risk-Taking, Sexual Behavior, Sexual Maturation
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