童年社会经济地位对生命史策略的影响:长计远虑和控制感的作用

The Effect of Childhood Socioeconomic Status on People’s Life History Strategy: The Role of Foresight for the Future and Sense of Control

目的:探究童年社会经济地位对生命史策略的影响及其内部作用机制。方法:采用童年社会经济地位量表、长计远虑量表、控制感量表和生命史策略量表对454名成人进行调查。结果:①童年社会经济地位、长计远虑、控制感和生命史策略之间两两显著相关,且童年社会经济地位水平越高,个体成年后越倾向于表现出慢生命史策略;②长计远虑在童年社会经济地位与慢生命史策略之间起中介作用;③长计远虑和控制感在童年社会经济地位与慢生命史策略之间起链式中介作用。结论:童年社会经济地位既可以直接影响人们成年之后的生命史策略表现,也可以通过长计远虑的独立中介效应以及长计远虑和控制感的链式中介效应间接影响成人生命史策略。

Objective: To explore the effect of childhood socioeconomic status on people’s life history strategies and its mechanism. Methods: A total of 350 adults were surveyed with the childhood socioeconomic status assessment, the scale of foresight for the future, sense of control questionnaire and life history strategy scale. Results:①There were significant correlations among childhood socioeconomic status, foresight for the future, sense of control and life history strategies, and the higher the childhood socioeconomic status. And the higher the childhood socioeconomic status, the more likely the adults tended to exhibit slow life history strategies;②Foresight for the future played a significant mediating role between childhood socioeconomic status and slow life history strategy;③Childhood socioeconomic status affected life history strategy through the chain mediating roles of foresight for the future and sense of control. Conclusion: The level of childhood socioeconomic status not only directly affect people’s life history strategy performance during adulthood, but also indirectly through the mediating effects of individual foresight for the future and sense of control.