Parental Social Status and Intrasexual Competitiveness among Adolescents

A study among 1,881 adolescents (52.3% girls) with a mean age of 19.1 years examined the effects of parental social status upon intrasexual competitiveness. Whereas females were consistently more intrasexually competitive the higher the socio-economic status of their parents, males with parents of t...

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Main Authors: Abraham P. Buunk, Gert Stulp, Johan Ormel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2014-04-01
Series:Evolutionary Psychology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/147470491401200511