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Does personality moderate the link between women’s testosterone and relationship status? The role of extraversion and sensation seeking
| dc.contributor.author | Costa, Rui Miguel | |
| dc.contributor.author | Correia, Mónica | |
| dc.contributor.author | Oliveira, Rui Filipe | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-02-14T12:26:13Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2015-02-14T12:26:13Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
| dc.description.abstract | 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. | por |
| dc.identifier.citation | Personality and Individual Differences, 76, 141-146 | por |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.paid.2014.12.003 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0191-8869 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.12/3396 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | por |
| dc.peerreviewed | yes | por |
| dc.publisher | Elsevier | por |
| dc.subject | Parental care | por |
| dc.subject | Testosterone | por |
| dc.subject | Relationship status | por |
| dc.subject | Extraversion | por |
| dc.subject | Sensation seeking | por |
| dc.subject | Human mating | por |
| dc.title | Does personality moderate the link between women’s testosterone and relationship status? The role of extraversion and sensation seeking | por |
| dc.type | journal article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| oaire.citation.endPage | 146 | por |
| oaire.citation.startPage | 141 | por |
| oaire.citation.title | Personality and Individual Differences | por |
| oaire.citation.volume | 76 | por |
| rcaap.rights | restrictedAccess | por |
| rcaap.type | article | por |