TY - JOUR
T1 - The psychometric assessment of human life history strategy
T2 - A meta-analytic construct validation
AU - Figueredo, Aurelio José
AU - Wolf, Pedro Sofio Abril
AU - Olderbak, Sally Gayle
AU - Gladden, Paul Robert
AU - Fernandes, Heitor Barcellos Ferreira
AU - Wenner, Christopher
AU - Hill, Dawn
AU - Andrzejczak, Dok J.
AU - Sisco, Melissa Marie
AU - Jake Jacobs, W.
AU - Hohman, Zachary J.
AU - Sefcek, Jon Adam
AU - Kruger, Daniel
AU - Howrigan, Daniel P.
AU - MacDonald, Kevin
AU - Philippe Rushton, J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 American Psychological Association.
PY - 2014/7/1
Y1 - 2014/7/1
N2 - A growing body of empirical literature supports the validity of psychometric assessments of human life history strategies, but no comprehensive quantitative summaries have yet been published. We present a psychometric validation study of a 20-item Short-Form of the Arizona Life History Battery (ALHB), the Mini-K, using metaanalytic procedures to survey a multiplicity of published and unpublished studies on English-speaking North American college student samples. Correlations between the Mini-K with other measures of related constructs describe the dimensions of the broader conceptual framework encompassed by human life history strategy and empirically establish a nomological network surrounding the Mini-K by quantitatively characterizing its system of relations to related and unrelated constructs. These constructs include the General Factor of Personality, Mutualistic and Antagonistic Social Strategies, Emotional Intelligence, Executive Functions, Covitality, and Evaluative Self-Assessment as well as other indicators of human life history strategy, including all those comprising the ALHB and many others not used in the ALHB, and indicators of one's Romantic Partner's life history strategy. Although a single measure cannot capture something as complex and multifaceted as life history strategy, both the Mini-K and the ALHB of which it is a part, perform as predicted by evolutionary psychological theory within this wider conceptual framework.
AB - A growing body of empirical literature supports the validity of psychometric assessments of human life history strategies, but no comprehensive quantitative summaries have yet been published. We present a psychometric validation study of a 20-item Short-Form of the Arizona Life History Battery (ALHB), the Mini-K, using metaanalytic procedures to survey a multiplicity of published and unpublished studies on English-speaking North American college student samples. Correlations between the Mini-K with other measures of related constructs describe the dimensions of the broader conceptual framework encompassed by human life history strategy and empirically establish a nomological network surrounding the Mini-K by quantitatively characterizing its system of relations to related and unrelated constructs. These constructs include the General Factor of Personality, Mutualistic and Antagonistic Social Strategies, Emotional Intelligence, Executive Functions, Covitality, and Evaluative Self-Assessment as well as other indicators of human life history strategy, including all those comprising the ALHB and many others not used in the ALHB, and indicators of one's Romantic Partner's life history strategy. Although a single measure cannot capture something as complex and multifaceted as life history strategy, both the Mini-K and the ALHB of which it is a part, perform as predicted by evolutionary psychological theory within this wider conceptual framework.
KW - Construct validation
KW - Life history theory
KW - Nomological validation
KW - Psychometric assessments
KW - Psychometric meta-analysis
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U2 - 10.1037/h0099837
DO - 10.1037/h0099837
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84983175103
SN - 2330-2925
VL - 8
SP - 148
EP - 185
JO - Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences
JF - Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences
IS - 3
ER -