Is a Successful High-K Fitness Strategy Associated with Better Mental Health?

Giosan, Cezar; Wyka, Katarzyna

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“…The psychological evaluations, which were performed by doctoral‐level clinical psychologists, were piggybacked onto annual fitness‐for‐duty evaluations for all utility workers who were deployed to work at the World Trade Center in the aftermath of 9/11. This sample comes from the same population that Giosan and Wyka () used to test associations between HKSS and general psychopathology.…”

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‘Slow’ reproductive strategy: A negative predictor of depressive symptomatology

Giosan

2013

Australian Journal of Psychology

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The present study examined the associations between a high-K (slow) life history strategy and depressive symptomatology. The participants were a sample of 494 male utility workers who underwent psychological evaluations. It was hypothesised that high-K will correlate negatively with, and will be a negative predictor of, depressive symptomatology. The results confirmed the predictions, showing that high-K accounts for 15% of the variance in depressive symptomatology after controlling for risk factors for depression such as demographics, prior traumatic experiences, past depression, and recent negative life events. Implications of the results are discussed.

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“…Elsewhere, it was shown that both measures load on a K‐factor (.66 for HKSS and.59 for the mini‐K) (Gladden, Welch, Figueredo, & Jacobs, ). The HKSS has been used in the present study to test the associations with depression, because prior research has shown that this construct is broadly associated with psychopathology (Giosan & Wyka, ).…”

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‘Slow’ reproductive strategy: A negative predictor of depressive symptomatology

Giosan

2013

Australian Journal of Psychology

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“…In contrast to r , or short‐term mating strategy, K comprises long‐term commitment to partners and to offspring and thus planning, risk avoidance, and self‐care. Psychologically, K entails impulse control, forethought, altruism, conscientiousness, and acceptance of moral norms; conversely, it correlates negatively with mating effort and several measures of psychopathology (Figueredo et al , ; Giosan ). K is closely related to the General Factor of Personality, the deep factor underlying the so‐called Big Five personality factors (Figueredo and Rushton ).…”

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Dreaming About Love and Danger: A Holistic Bioevolutionary Perspective on Personality, Politics, and Culture

Ingham¹

2015

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This article offers a holistic evolutionary perspective on dreaming and early sexual development.Going beyond Freud, and more in line with recent psychoanalysis and academic research, oedipality becomes part of understanding the development of sexual strategy, while dreaming is viewed as an evolved mechanism for moderating and updating affectively charged approach-avoidance conflicts associated with self-preservation and reproduction. The article suggests plausible evolutionary assumptions for interpretations of politics and expressive culture. [dreams, sexuality, human evolution, attachment, narrative, politics] In contrast to evolutionary psychologists who want to explain cultural practices in terms of gender differences in reproductive strategy, or who contend that human beings are essentially promiscuous and patriarchal, I propose here that a more productive and plausible evolutionary approach for anthropology focuses on love-or the lack of it-between men and women, and on how love is affected by danger, real and imaginary. Current thinking about dreaming and oedipality informs the argument. As Freud observed, dreams deal with desire and danger and, as he also observed, infantile oedipality can have consequences for love relations in adulthood, particularly for whether and how well individuals blend sensuality with affection. Drawing on neurobiology as well as evolutionary anthropology and primate behavior studies, I suggest that the major step in early hominid evolution was a conflicted and incomplete shift from dominance competition toward social cooperation and, simultaneously, from promiscuity toward pair bonding. The two orientations are seen to entail different responses to danger.For want of a better term, I use "oedipality" as a rubric for two emotional complexes, one associated with insecure attachment and the other with secure attachment. 1 In earlier articles, I reviewed studies that connect insecure attachment with multiple mating and secure attachment with pair bonding (Ingham 1999;Ingham and Spain 2005). Here, I combine further discussion of these findings with work on dreaming. Specifically, I review research indicating that early experience and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep are complementary in psychosexual development and that in adults, REM-sleep dreaming processes approachavoidance conflicts and updates emotional memories associated with mating, foraging, and threats to the self and loved ones. In conclusion, I consider implications of the argument for the interpretation of politics and ideological narratives.

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“…The Fitness Evaluation Scale (FES) is a 45‐item (58 if the patient has children) scale, adapted and expanded by the authors from the High‐K Strategy Scale (HKSS) , tapping into various dimensions and biosocial goals theorized to make up the indicators of fitness, as detailed in the Background section. The HKSS has been shown to be negatively associated with depressive symptomatology and psychopathology in general . The FES was preliminarily validated on a sample of 146 subjects and presents good internal consistency (Cronbach's Alpha = 0.93).…”

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Cognitive evolutionary therapy for depression: a case study

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Mureşan

Moldovan

2014

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Key Clinical MessageWe present an evolutionary-driven cognitive–behavioral intervention for a moderately depressed patient. Standard cognitive and behavioral therapy techniques focused on the patient's perfectionistic and self-downing beliefs, while novel, evolutionary-informed techniques were used to guide behavioral activation and conceptualize secondary emotional problems related to anger. The treatment reduced depressive symptomatology and increased evolutionary fitness.

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Is a Successful High-K Fitness Strategy Associated with Better Mental Health?

Cited by 20 publications

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‘Slow’ reproductive strategy: A negative predictor of depressive symptomatology

‘Slow’ reproductive strategy: A negative predictor of depressive symptomatology

Dreaming About Love and Danger: A Holistic Bioevolutionary Perspective on Personality, Politics, and Culture

Cognitive evolutionary therapy for depression: a case study

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