Do the slow and fast life strategies in students exist and can be measured by the chromasociation test?
Creators: name: Flegr, Jaroslav
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Life Sciences
subject: chromasociation test
subject: fast life strategy
subject: health
subject: human
subject: life strategy
subject: Rh factor
subject: slow life strategy

description: Immediately before and also after a written test from the advanced course from evolutionary biology students will be asked to attribute the most suitable color to 18 terms and 5 B/W photos of flowers. Among the terms, 4 will have the association to the fast life strategy (immediately, in no time, now, quickly – in Czech: ihned, okamžitě, přítomnost, rychle) and 4 with slow life strategy (future, lay aside, postpone, slowly – in Czech: budoucnost, spořit, odložit, pomalu). After the second run of the attribution, they will sort the colors from the most to the least nice (in Czech: od té nejsympatičtější/nejkrásnější (nahoře) po tu nejméně sympatickou). In another part of the questionnaire, the students will respond to the questions about their physical and mental health (their responses will be used for computing indices of health as means of corresponding Z-scores from individual questions). We will ask the students also about their and their parents’ Rh factors and we will use their Rh phenotype and genotype (Rh negativity and heterozygosity with Rh-positive allele originating from the father) as predispositions to worse health. They will also respond to four questions on the tendency to delay gratification and two questions on the tendency to risk. They will also respond to the questions related to their sexual life which will be used for computing indices of sexual appetence and sexual activities. We will also ask them how much and when they want their children. We will test the following hypotheses: 1] Students reporting worse health will express signs of the faster life strategy – they will report higher sexual appetence and higher will to have their own children soon. 2] Students with genetic predispositions for worse health (Rh negativity and heterozygosity with Rh-positive allele originating from the father) will express signs of the faster life strategy – they will report higher sexual appetence and higher will to have their own children soon. 3] Students expressing signs of the faster life strategy will score lower tendency to delay gratification. 4] Male students expressing signs of the faster life strategy will score higher in the tendency to risk. (Men will try to be among approximately 10% of most successful individuals.) 5] Female students expressing signs of the faster life strategy will score higher in the tendency to risk. (Women will try to avoid fell between approximately 10% of least successful individuals.) 6] Subjects expressing signs of fast life strategy will attribute nicer colors to the term related to the slower life strategy and less nice to the terms related to the slower life strategy. 7] Subjects with worse health will attribute nicer colors to the term related to the faster life strategy and less nice to the terms related to the slower life strategy. 8] Subjects with genetic predispositions to worse health will attribute nicer colors to the term related to the faster life strategy and less nice to the terms related to the slower life strategy. The principal method for testing the hypothesis will be partial Kendall correlation tests with sex and age controlled, a one-sided test will be used for testing one-sided hypotheses and the correction for multiple tests will be done with Benjamini-Hochberg procedure with a false discovery rate preset to 0.2. The expected number of participants will be 130-160.