Parental Self-Perception, Parental Investment, and Early Childhood Developmental Outcomes: Evidence From Rural China [PDF]
Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 Using a three-wave longitudinal survey conducted in 815 households in rural Western China, this study aims to examine the association between parental self-perception and early childhood development and the mediation effect of parental investment on the ...
Lei Wang +6 more
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Does Parental Investment Shape Adult Children’s Fertility Intentions? Findings From a German Family Panel [PDF]
Frontiers in Sociology, 2021 Parents can play an important role in the childbearing plans of adult children. However, studies testing whether changes in parental investment are associated with subsequent changes in fertility intentions over time are lacking.
Antti O. Tanskanen +3 more
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Parental investment and immune dynamics in sex-role reversed pipefishes. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2020 Parental care elevates reproductive success by allocating resources into the upbringing of the offspring. However, it also imposes strong costs for the care-giving parent and can foster sexual dimorphism.
Isabel S Keller, Olivia Roth
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Relationship between learners’ L2 Motivational Self System and parental investment behavior in learners’ English learning [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyStudents’ motivation and learning behavior are significantly impacted by parents’ participation and investment. It has been demonstrated that parental investment behavior could exert a direct effect on students’ L2 Motivational Self System (L2MSS ...
Yu Zhang, Xiaobing Lu, Honggang Liu
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Data from the Mixed Methods Project PICE (Parental Investment in Children’s Education) [PDF]
Journal of Open Psychology Data, 2023 The Parental Investment in Children’s Education (PICE) study focuses on Switzerland and investigates parental strategies, resources, and aspirations and how they shape their children’s educational pathways.
Marieke Heers +3 more
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Child Wantedness and Low Weight at Birth: Differential Parental Investment among Roma [PDF]
Behavioral Sciences, 2020 Studies investigating child wantedness, birthweight and parental care are limited. This study assessed relationships of child wantedness, low birthweight and differential parental investment in a poor population of Serbian Roma.
Jelena Čvorović
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Adolescent Cranial Volume as a Sensitive Marker of Parental Investment: The Role of Non-material Resources? [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Growth of different body parts in humans is sensitive to different resource constraints that are mediated by parental investment. Parental investment can involve the expenditure of material, cognitive, and emotional resources on offspring. Cranial volume,
Velda Lauringson +2 more
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Nest defence behavioural reaction norms: testing life-history and parental investment theory predictions [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2019 Predation is the primary source of reproductive failure in many avian taxa and nest defence behaviour against predators is hence an important aspect of parental investment. Nest defence is a complex trait that might consistently differ among individuals (
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Pre-breeding food restriction promotes the optimization of parental investment in house mice, Mus musculus. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Litter size is one of the most reliable state-dependent life-history traits that indicate parental investment in polytocous (litter-bearing) mammals.
Adam Dušek +2 more
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Parental Social Environment Has no Effect on Offspring Development in the Dung Beetle: A Test of Adult Sex Ratio Effects [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionThe adult sex ratio (ASR) is a key demographic parameter that shapes sexual selection and social interactions. While ASR variation drives profound behavioral plasticity within a generation, it remains unclear whether parental experience of skewed ASRs ...
Lisheng Zhang +3 more
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