Banca de DEFESA: CAMILA PORTO BAUCHWITZ

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
DISCENTE : CAMILA PORTO BAUCHWITZ
DATA : 27/03/2019
HORA: 14:00
LOCAL: Sala Sagui
TÍTULO:

 Sex, health, career success or birth order: What factors influence parental favoritism?

PALAVRAS-CHAVES:

Parental favoritism, parental investing, birth order, career success

PÁGINAS: 83
GRANDE ÁREA: Ciências Humanas
ÁREA: Psicologia
RESUMO:

In their life cycle, living beings want to transmit their genes to future generations, so reproduction is a fundamental step for transmission to occur. As part of the reproductive strategy, the parents of many species provide the necessary care to increase the chances of survival and reproductive success of the offspring, but alternatively they could also initiate another reproductive event. Therefore it is expected that those individuals who optimize energy expenditure will be selected by investing in the offspring who appear to have the highest reproductive return and so they can invest more readily in a future offspring. The parents are probably influenced by factors that contribute to increase the reproductive value of their offspring and thus invest in the higher value, saving energy, a concept called parental favoritism. This study tried to understand which factors influence the parents in favoring one child in front of the others. Through the literature, four factors have been selected that can influence the decisions of the parents: the physical and mental health of the children, the sex of the children with the highest reproductive value, the birth order effect and the professional success perspective of each son. We consider that these factors interfere in the reproductive success of the individual and, therefore, the parents would be expected to perceive and invest more in that son with more advantages before the brothers. Two hundred and twenty people participated: eighty-two parents of three children and one hundred and thirty-eight parents of two children. Significant results were observed in the relation of the prospect of career success with the favoritism of the parents in the group of parents of three children. Parents have invested more in their children who have had greater prospects for career success, demonstrating that the prospect of greater career success has an influence on parents when it comes to favoring one of their children. The study proved to be innovative by using a task to measure favoritism and by measuring career success to investigate parental preference. Modifications are necessary for the study to be able to evaluate parents with more children and it would be interesting to test other variables, such as attachment and parent-child personality.

MEMBROS DA BANCA:
Presidente - 2316116 - FELIPE NALON CASTRO
Externa ao Programa - 350638 - MARIA DE FATIMA ARRUDA DE MIRANDA
Externa à Instituição - ANTHONIETA LOOMAN MAFRA - UnP