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Does personality moderate the link between women’s testosterone and relationship status? The role of extraversion and sensation seeking
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Research shows that testosterone (T) is lower among partnered women, but not for women with a more
unrestricted sociosexuality. There are fundamental personality traits, which are indices of mating effort
and might moderate the association between T and relationship status. Two such traits are extraversion
(E) and sensation seeking (SS). The present study tests if E and SS moderate the association of women’s T
with relationship status and parental care. Seventy-three Portuguese women completed a short form of
the NEO-FFI and the Sensation Seeking Scale (SSS-V). Salivary T was assayed using luminescence immunoassays.
Being involved in a committed relationship was related to lower T for the total sample, and for
the subgroups low in E and SS, but not for the subgroups high in E and SS. Parental care was related to
lower T in the subgroup low in E, and marginally in the subgroup low in SS. In multivariate analyses, only
relationship status predicted T in the total sample and in the subgroups low in E and SS. The results were
not confounded by age and oral contraception. These results provide support for lower T being important
for monogamous pair bonding rather than for being partnered per se.
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Parental care Testosterone Relationship status Extraversion Sensation seeking Human mating
Contexto Educativo
Citação
Personality and Individual Differences, 76, 141-146
Editora
Elsevier