Fast Life History Strategy & Academic Achievement
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For this project, I helped investigate whether lack of success in school causes decreased investment in education and risky behavior such as substance abuse, or vice versa—whether lack of success reflects a fast life history strategy, which is characterized by impulsivity and risk-taking. Ultimately, it was found that both factors influence each other in different ways, and there is not one concrete pattern. This experience connects to my goals because not only do I hope to run my own lab someday, but also what I learned about delinquency helped draw me into the field of criminal justice. The issue of substance abuse is a multi-faceted global issue, and through this project I learned that addiction does not discriminate. Although there are multiple perspectives on incarceration and substances, I strongly hold true that we should focus more on rehabilitation as opposed to filling out prisons, which is a key belief that I took away from this project and it has fueled the fire for my future career goals, which focus on rehabilitating offenders.
This image reflects what I learned during this project because it encompasses the theory that the research I did was based on. Background research on fast life history strategy was a huge part of this project, because it served as the basis for our theory about how deviancy and substance abuse relate to one another. This diagram depicting the meaning of Fast Life History Strategy helps explain why students exhibit truancy as a function of substance abuse.
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This is one sample of work I did during this project, and it represents the interactions that surfaced as a result of the research. This image demonstrates how all of these variables related to each other, demonstrating the dynamic relationship between each of them. During this project, I learned that one variable does not solely affect substance abuse or truancy, but multiple variables actually affect a student's behavior in terms of delinquency.
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