TY - JOUR
T1 - Comparison of life history strategy measures
AU - Olderbak, Sally
AU - Gladden, Paul
AU - Wolf, Pedro Sofio Abril
AU - Figueredo, Aurelio José
PY - 2014/2
Y1 - 2014/2
N2 - Life History Strategy (LHS) describes a cluster of evolved traits whose adaptive function is to facilitate an organism's reproduction. Individuals who allocate more resources towards somatic and parental/nepotistic effort and less towards mating effort are described as slow life history strategists, while those with the opposite resource allocation pattern are described as fast life history strategists. There are many measures purported to measure individual differences in LHS, however these have not yet been systematically compared. In this paper we compare the Arizona Life History Battery (ALHB), Mini-K, High-K Strategy Scale, and two Super-K Factors and test the internal consistency or measurement model structure of each measure, and the convergent validity between the measures. We found all measures show adequate internal consistency and measurement model structure and in general, the ALHB, Mini-K, and one Super-K Factor show the strongest convergence between the measures. Implications are discussed.
AB - Life History Strategy (LHS) describes a cluster of evolved traits whose adaptive function is to facilitate an organism's reproduction. Individuals who allocate more resources towards somatic and parental/nepotistic effort and less towards mating effort are described as slow life history strategists, while those with the opposite resource allocation pattern are described as fast life history strategists. There are many measures purported to measure individual differences in LHS, however these have not yet been systematically compared. In this paper we compare the Arizona Life History Battery (ALHB), Mini-K, High-K Strategy Scale, and two Super-K Factors and test the internal consistency or measurement model structure of each measure, and the convergent validity between the measures. We found all measures show adequate internal consistency and measurement model structure and in general, the ALHB, Mini-K, and one Super-K Factor show the strongest convergence between the measures. Implications are discussed.
KW - Arizona Life History Battery
KW - High-K Strategy Scale
KW - Life History Strategy
KW - Mini-K
KW - Psychometric analysis
KW - Super-K Factor
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U2 - 10.1016/j.paid.2013.10.012
DO - 10.1016/j.paid.2013.10.012
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84888201907
SN - 0191-8869
VL - 58
SP - 82
EP - 88
JO - Personality and Individual Differences
JF - Personality and Individual Differences
ER -