A Bio-Social-Cognitive Approach to Understanding and Promoting The Outcomes of Children with Medical and Physical Disorders

Bugental, Daphne Blunt; Beaulieu, David A.

doi:10.1016/s0065-2407(03)31008-0

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“…At the most general level, individuals with low perceived power are highly threat sensitive; they are reactive to cues to power within relationships that have hierarchical implications. Thus, the combined pattern of anxiety and hostility shown to immigrants bears similarities to the response pattern shown by (a) parents with low perceived power toward children who may be seen as posing a threat (Bugental & Beaulieu, 2003; Bugental & Happaney, 2004) and (b) men with low perceived power in response to romantic partners who may be seen as posing a threat (Holtzworth et al, 1997; Sagrestano et al, 1999). In all cases, the threat-sensitive individual responds with either increasing or decreasing power assertion on the basis of the potential challenge offered within the immediate context.…”

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Anxiety and hostility to an "outsider," as moderated by low perceived power.

Azzam

Beaulieu

Bugental

2007

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The hostile and anxious responses of young adults to an immigrant (vs. native-born) stranger were examined as a function of participants' self-perceived power. In Studies 1 and 2, individuals with low perceived social power (males, in particular) showed high anxiety toward an "outsider" but more so if that individual was an immigrant (and thus posed an ambiguous threat to their position in the hierarchy). In Study 3, young adult males competed on a reaction time test with an immigrant or native-born rival. With immigrant rivals, males with low perceived social power showed relatively high aggression toward an immigrant rival and derogation of the rival's formidability; however, they showed a more deferential pattern with native-born rivals.

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Anxiety and hostility to an "outsider," as moderated by low perceived power.

Azzam

Beaulieu

Bugental

2007

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“…As one example, Bugental and Beaulieu (2003) and Beaulieu and Bugental (2008) found that parents took greater risks in investing more (not less) in higher-risk (low phenotypic quality) children when parents had high resources—a finding counter to parental investment in most non-humans (see Davis et al, 1999 for computer simulations with birds). As with this work which revealed a layer of nuance to parental investment predictions, it may be the case that strategies tied to earlier sexual debut unfold in a different way than predicted in LH theory when considering the relative costs and risks in higher-resourced environments.…”

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Earlier sexual debut predicts higher (not lower) levels of father care measured across 12 weeks: an experience sampling study

2023

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Across the lifespan, males negotiate the tradeoff between current and future reproduction. From a life history theory (LHT) perspective, resources invested into earlier reproduction pose a cost to later reproduction. The age of sexual debut is a commonplace measure of sexual maturation. However, in males, thorarche (age of first ejaculation) and years from thorarche to age of first reproduction both represent milestones related to reproductive timing. A fundamental prediction from LHT is that earlier sexual maturation—a “quantity” strategy—predicts decreased levels of care per offspring. In the current study, we test this straightforward relationship looking specifically at a father’s investment of time. In a sample of first-time fathers, we measured the amount of time spent with their 9-to-12-month infants longitudinally using an experience sampling method (ESM)—an ecologically valid method of collecting self-report data on fathers’ use of time Fathers contributed data on their time allocation across a 12-week period. They reported on ages of sexual debut, thorarche, and the years between thorarche and first reproduction (i.e., current age) was calculated. Only age of sexual debut had a relationship with time allocated toward infants. Importantly however, this effect was in a direction opposite of our LHT derived hypothesis. Males with earlier sexual debut spent more time with their infants. Discussion focuses on the potential contributions to this finding and limitations related to small effect size, methods and measurement, and sample demographics.

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“…Parental investment theory argues that family SES is associated with children's academic development primarily through parental investment in materials, experiences, and services that are aimed to build the human capital of their children (Yeung, Linver & Brooks‐Gunn, ). Such parental investment is contingent upon not only the amount of resources available, but also children's reproductive fitness – compared to children with low reproductive fitness, children with high reproductive fitness are expected to receive more investment from parents with low resources and less investment from parents with high resources (Bugental & Beaulieu, ). It is possible that the well‐developed cognitive, behavioral, and social abilities observed in children with high effortful control and low negative affect and surgency may serve as potential indicators of future success and well‐being.…”

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Development in reading and math in children from different SES backgrounds: the moderating role of child temperament

Wang

Soden

Deater‐Deckard

et al. 2015

Developmental Science

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Socioeconomic risks (SES risks) are robust risk factors influencing children’s academic development. However, it is unclear whether the effects of SES on academic development operate universally in all children equally or whether they vary differentially in children with particular characteristics. The current study aimed to explore children’s temperament as protective or risk factors that potentially moderate the associations between SES risks and academic development. Specifically, latent growth modeling (LGM) was used in two longitudinal datasets with a total of 2236 children to examine how family SES risks and children’s temperament interactively predicted the development of reading and math from middle childhood to early adolescence. Results showed that low negative affect, high effortful control, and low surgency mitigated the negative associations between SES risks and both reading and math development in this developmental period. These findings underline the heterogeneous nature of the negative associations between SES risks and academic development and highlighted the importance of the interplay between biological and social factors on individual differences in development.

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A Bio-Social-Cognitive Approach to Understanding and Promoting The Outcomes of Children with Medical and Physical Disorders

Cited by 8 publications

References 96 publications

Anxiety and hostility to an "outsider," as moderated by low perceived power.

Anxiety and hostility to an "outsider," as moderated by low perceived power.

Earlier sexual debut predicts higher (not lower) levels of father care measured across 12 weeks: an experience sampling study

Development in reading and math in children from different SES backgrounds: the moderating role of child temperament

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