Measures of domain-specific resource allocations in life history strategy: Indicators of a latent common factor or ordered developmental sequence?

 

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Autoren: García, Rafael Antonio, Black, Candance Jasmine, Smith Castro, Vanessa, Cabeza de Baca, Tomás, Sotomayor Peterson, Marcela, Figueredo, Aurelio José
Format: artículo original
Publikationsdatum:2016
Beschreibung:The psychometric trait approach to human life history, based on common factor modeling, has recently come under some criticism for neglecting to inquire into the developmental progression that orients and executes human life history trajectories (Copping, Campbell, & Muncer, 2014). It was asserted that the psychometric approach wholly focuses on creating a higher-order latent factor of life history by subsuming individual differences with developmental and social experiences, ignoring ontogenetic progression. Implicit in the critique is the assumption that developmental perspectives and latent approaches are mutually exclusive and incompatible with each other. The response to this critique by Figueredo and colleagues (2015) proposed instead that developmental perspectives and latent trait approaches are both compatible and necessary to further research on human life history strategies. The current paper uses three independent cross-sectional samples to examine whether models of human life history are best informed by a developmental perspective, psychometric trait approach, or both.
Land:Kérwá
Institution:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Kérwá
Sprache:Inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:kerwa.ucr.ac.cr:10669/82951
Online Zugang:https://journals.uair.arizona.edu/index.php/jmmss/article/view/18798
https://hdl.handle.net/10669/82951
Stichwort:Bronfenbrenner bioecological model
Life history theory
Psychometric methods
Developmental pathways
Latent traits