How Low Will Men with High Self-Esteem Go? Self-Esteem as a Moderator of Gender Differences in Minimum Relationship Standards

Zeigler‐Hill, Virgil; Campe, John W.; Myers, Erin M.

doi:10.1007/s11199-009-9641-5

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“…-234- (Zeigler-Hill, Campe, and Myers, 2009). In support of this hypothesis, we found a correlation of .483 between self-esteem and a one-item self-report measure of mate value (see Brase and Guy, 2004;Penke and Denissen, 2008, for similar results).…”

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confidence: 67%

Human Nonindependent Mate Choice: Is Model Female Attractiveness Everything?

Vakirtzis

Roberts

2012

Evol Psychol

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Abstract:Following two decades of research on non-human animals, there has recently been increased interest in human nonindependent mate choice, namely the ways in which choosing women incorporate information about a man's past or present romantic partners ('model females') into their own assessment of the male. Experimental studies using static facial images have generally found that men receive higher desirability ratings from female raters when presented with attractive (compared to unattractive) model females. This phenomenon has a straightforward evolutionary explanation: the fact that female mate value is more dependent on physical attractiveness compared to male mate value. Furthermore, due to assortative mating for attractiveness, men who are paired with attractive women are more likely to be of high mate value themselves. Here, we also examine the possible relevance of model female cues other than attractiveness (personality and behavioral traits) by presenting video recordings of model females to a set of female raters. The results confirm that the model female's attractiveness is the primary cue. Contrary to some earlier findings in the human and nonhuman literature, we found no evidence that female raters prefer partners of slightly older model females. We conclude by suggesting some promising variations on the present experimental design.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 67%

Human Nonindependent Mate Choice: Is Model Female Attractiveness Everything?

Vakirtzis

Roberts

2012

Evol Psychol

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“…For uncommitted sexual relationships, men from these communities may therefore have to look for women outside of their own group. In addition, as noted above, in general, men set much lower standards for uncommitted sexual relationships than for marriage (e.g., Zeigler-Hill, Campe, & Myers, 2009) and especially Muslim men-in our sample, Turkish and Moroccan menmay view Western women as oversexed and promiscuous and to be "an easy catch" (Diab, 2015), in other words, of being from a lower standard. Usually in contrast to the dressing code of Turkish and Moroccan women, many young native Dutch women and girls dress "porno-chic," by, for instance, wearing visible G-strings, belly shirts, or FCUK T-shirts, that may give off unintended sexual signals (Duits & Van Zoonen, 2006) and that may confirm Muslim men's stereotype that native Dutch women are eager to have sex.…”

Section: Ethnicity and Interest In Interethnic Sexual Relationshipsmentioning

confidence: 57%

Sex and Marriage With Members of Other Ethnic Groups

Buunk

Dijkstra

2016

Cross-Cultural Research

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Given the importance of interethnic intimate relationships for the integration of minority groups, the present study examined attitudes toward marriages and sexual relationships with in-group and out-group members among young second-generation immigrants in the Netherlands compared with the Dutch. A sample of 95 ethnically Dutch, 68 Moroccan, and 68 Turkish individuals aged between 15 and 25, living in the Netherlands filled out an online questionnaire. Overall, individuals showed a preference for a marital partner from the same ethnic group as themselves, but a less pronounced preference for a sexual partner from their own ethnic group. Turkish and Moroccan, but not Dutch, men would rather engage in a sexual relationship than in a marriage with a Dutch woman, and rather in a marriage than in a sexual relationship with a woman from their own ethnic group. In contrast, women, especially Moroccan women would rather engage in a marriage than in a sexual relationship, preferably with someone of their own ethnic group. Finally, the more religious they were, the more Turkish and Moroccan women preferred a marital partner from their own ethnic group. Findings are discussed in the light of the integration of different ethnic groups in society.

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“…Differences in the self-esteem levels of the participants may be important to studies of this sort because it is quite likely that participants may differ in their responses to targets that ostensibly possess different levels of self-esteem depending not only on the gender and ostensible self-esteem levels of the targets but also on the feelings of self-worth possessed by the participants. Our focus for the present study was to examine whether the pattern of results that has emerged in previous studies would be moderated by the self-esteem levels of the participants in the same way that feelings of self-worth have been found to moderate gender differences in areas such as minimum relationship standards (Zeigler-Hill, Campe, & Myers, 2009). …”

Section: Self-esteem 147mentioning

confidence: 95%