Yong, Jose C., Li, Norman P., and UNSPECIFIED (2021) Social-personality perspectives on parenting. In: Shackelford, Todd, and Weekes-Shackelford, Viviana, (eds.) The Oxford handbook of evolutionary psychology and parenting. Oxford handbooks series . Oxford University Press, New York, NY, USA, pp. 66-96.

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Abstract

This chapter evaluates the dominant social-personality theories of parenting. It highlights the limitations inherent in the literature, particularly the lack of integration between the domains of parenting and attachment as well as the inability to make claims about the specific causes and effects of parent–child dynamics. The chapter then explains how an evolutionary life history perspective allows for a better understanding of parenting and attachment patterns and overcomes these limitations by grounding parent–child dynamics in a functional context. An evolutionary perspective stresses that different parenting styles and attachment types represent facultative responses to environmental demands, thereby facilitating adaptive responses to anticipated interpersonal interactions in the interest of individual fitness. Ultimately, parenting and attachment behaviors reflect life strategies on a fast–slow continuum that aim to maximize ancestral reproductive success in response to environmental harshness and unpredictability.

Item ID:	83517
Item Type:	Book Chapter (Research - B1)
ISBN:	9780190674717
Copyright Information:	© Oxford University Press 2021
Date Deposited:	03 Sep 2024 01:47
FoR Codes:	52 PSYCHOLOGY > 5202 Biological psychology > 520204 Evolutionary psychological studies @ 30% 52 PSYCHOLOGY > 5201 Applied and developmental psychology > 520101 Child and adolescent development @ 40% 52 PSYCHOLOGY > 5205 Social and personality psychology > 520503 Personality and individual differences @ 30%
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