East Asian low marriage and birth rates: The role of life history strategy, culture, and social status affordance

Yong, Jose C.; Li, Norman P.; Jonason, Peter K.; Tan, Yi Wen

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2019.01.009

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“…Recent research gives a possible explanation for this increased premium. In East Asian cultures, collectivist values that emphasize hierarchy and respect of authority combine with a desire for social harmony which channels intrasexual competition for status away from direct confrontation and toward the acquisition of prestigious occupations (Yong, Li, Jonason, & Tan, ).…”

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Mate preference priorities in the East and West: A cross‐cultural test of the mate preference priority model

Thomas

Jonason

Blackburn

et al. 2019

Journal of Personality

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Objective Mate choice involves trading‐off several preferences. Research on this process tends to examine mate preference prioritization in homogenous samples using a small number of traits and thus provide little insight into whether prioritization patterns reflect a universal human nature. This study examined whether prioritization patterns, and their accompanying sex differences, are consistent across Eastern and Western cultures. Method In the largest test of the mate preference priority model to date, we asked an international sample of participants (N = 2,477) to design an ideal long‐term partner by allocating mate dollars to eight traits using three budgets. Unlike previous versions of the task, we included traits known to vary in importance by culture (e.g., religiosity and chastity). Results Under low budget conditions, Eastern and Western participants differed in their mate dollar allocation for almost every trait (average d = 0.42), indicating that culture influences prioritization. Despite these differences, traits fundamental for the reproductive success of each sex in the ancestral environment were prioritized by both Eastern and Western participants. Conclusion The tendency to prioritize reproductively fundamental traits is present in both Eastern and Western cultures. The psychological mechanisms responsible for this process produce similar prioritization patterns despite cross‐cultural variation.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Mate preference priorities in the East and West: A cross‐cultural test of the mate preference priority model

Thomas

Jonason

Blackburn

et al. 2019

Journal of Personality

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“…A seemingly reasonable response adopted by many countries is to offer economic incentives, such as tax cuts and “baby bonuses,” to encourage procreation (e.g., Dunn, 2003; Langridge, Nassar, Li, Jacoby, & Stanley, 2012). However, this approach neglects the underlying evolved mechanisms that influence people’s desire for children and attitudes toward dating and marriage, which can be mismatched to modern, urban social environments that are too crowded and competitive (Yong et al, 2019).…”

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“…That is, when population density is perceived as high, psychological mechanisms likely induce inhabitants to perceive that there are not enough resources to sustain offspring, despite there being objectively abundant resources available in safe and stable modern societies. Indeed, research has shown that people in crowded and economically competitive urban areas perceive fewer opportunities for resource acquisition, are more preoccupied with materialism and gaining status, and are more cynical toward marriage and children (Li, Patel, Balliet, Tov, & Scollon, 2011; Yong et al, 2019). In turn, a growing number of people in stressful and crowded cities are dating less, marrying later (or not at all), and having fewer children (Iwasawa, 2004; Sng et al, 2017).…”

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“…At the organizational and societal level, we encounter employee job dissatisfaction, burnout, and turnover (Shirom, 2010). People in some countries are producing more children than they can maintain (Pimentel, 2012), but in an increasing number of others, they are not reproducing enough to maintain local populations (Yong, Li, Jonason, & Tan, 2019), thereby leading to a lack of support for aging populations (McDonald, 2007). At the world level, there are problems of pollution, global warming, sustainability, and threats of nuclear war (Griskevicius et al, 2012).…”

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Evolutionary psychology’s next challenge: Solving modern problems using a mismatch perspective.

Li¹,

Yong²,

Vugt³

2020

Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences

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As acceptance of evolutionary perspectives in mainstream psychology grows, it becomes increasingly pertinent to ask what evolutionary psychology can do to solve real-world problems and better our lives. Answers to this important question will more than likely require an understanding and application of the evolutionary mismatch framework. This powerful framework suggests that many of our contemporary problems—ranging from diabetes and depression to low fertility and sustainability—stem from a mismatch between our evolved psychological mechanisms, which are designed to be adaptive in ancestral contexts, and modern environments, which present novel stimuli that these mechanisms are not well suited to handle. By providing a better understanding of the functions of our evolved mechanisms and how they are incompatible with modern environments, the mismatch perspective can help with the generation of more enlightened and effective strategies to tackle modern problems than would otherwise be the case. We describe this perspective and discuss its potential efficacy and promise.

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“…Fertility must be explained by factors within marriage and the factors that may affect both fertility and nuptiality must be explored although in opposite directions or under different timings (Hertrich, 2017). Yong et al (2019) stated that social status can also affect people's marriage attitudes and the number of children desired. Hertrich (2017), Smith (2019) and Yasuda et al (2019) discovered that age at marriage in the first stage increases together with fertility.…”

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Female Unemployment Rate on Fertility Rate in Relation to Reproductive Health Law in the Philippines: A Multivariate Analysis

Cabauatan¹,

Alvarez

Miranda

et al. 2022

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The population of the Philippines continues to grow over the years, which leads to different economic concerns. The aim of this study is to determine the significance of the Reproductive Health Law and female unemployment rate on fertility rate in the country. Most studies imply a negative relationship between female unemployment rate, GNI per capita, registered marriages, and reproductive health programs on fertility rate. The result of these studies adheres to the author’s claim that there is a negative relationship among variables. A quantitative research design was used in this study. The used of multiple regression analysis examined the relationship of each explanatory variable to fertility rate based on the data gathered from 1980 to 2020. Results show that RH Law has a negative relationship on fertility rate, while unemployment rate has a positive relationship on fertility rate. This indicates that fertility rate declines because of the implementation of the RH Law that will result to slowdown the increase in population.

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East Asian low marriage and birth rates: The role of life history strategy, culture, and social status affordance

Cited by 19 publications

References 20 publications

Mate preference priorities in the East and West: A cross‐cultural test of the mate preference priority model

Mate preference priorities in the East and West: A cross‐cultural test of the mate preference priority model

Evolutionary psychology’s next challenge: Solving modern problems using a mismatch perspective.

Female Unemployment Rate on Fertility Rate in Relation to Reproductive Health Law in the Philippines: A Multivariate Analysis

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