caa a22 4500 606231692 CHVBK 20210128101221.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10508-013-0254-2 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10508-013-0254-2 Family Planning: Fertility and Parenting Ideals in Urban Adolescents [Elektronische Daten] [Abigail Chipman, Edward Morrison] Previous research on contemporary childbearing has identified a strong relationship between environmental conditions, such as economic deprivation, and early fertility. Less is known, however, about the social-psychological mechanisms that mediate these environmental predictors of early fertility at the individual level and the extent to which they are consistent with life history theory. The aim of this research was to determine how kin networks, mating and reproductive risk taking, discount preference, and perceptions of environmental risk predict individual differences in fertility preferences in a socioeconomically diverse sample of adolescents. Questionnaires were administered to 333 adolescents (245 female) between the ages of 13 and 19years, attending schools in urban neighborhoods in Hampshire, United Kingdom. Individuals' subjective life expectancy and perception of their environment better predicted fertility intentions than did structural measures of environmental quality. This suggests that by the time individuals reach adolescence they are monitoring the morbidity and mortality risk of their environment and are adjusting their reproductive ideals accordingly. Levels of grandparental investment also predicted parenting preferences, suggesting cooperative breeding may play a role in reproductive decision making. There was also evidence that patterns of risk taking behaviors could be adaptive to environmental conditions and some evidence that pro-natal attitudes, as opposed to knowledge of safe sexual practice, predict adolescents' reproductive strategies. These findings suggest that studying individuals' psychology from a life history perspective adds to my understanding of the persistently high rates of early reproduction within developed countries, such as the United Kingdom. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2014 Age of first birth nationallicence Life history theory nationallicence Perceived environmental risk nationallicence Grandparental investment nationallicence Adolescence nationallicence Chipman Abigail Centre for Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Portsmouth, PO1 2DY, Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK aut Morrison Edward Centre for Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Portsmouth, PO1 2DY, Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK aut Archives of Sexual Behavior Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 44/3(2015-04-01), 695-703 0004-0002 44:3<695 2015 44 10508 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-013-0254-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-013-0254-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Chipman Abigail Centre for Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Portsmouth, PO1 2DY, Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Morrison Edward Centre for Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Portsmouth, PO1 2DY, Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Archives of Sexual Behavior Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 44/3(2015-04-01), 695-703 0004-0002 44:3<695 2015 44 10508