Sociosexuality in Brazil: Validation of the SOI-R and its correlates with personality, self-perceived mate value, and ideal partner preferences

Nascimento, Bruna da Silva; Hanel, Paul H. P.; Monteiro, Renan Pereira; Gouveia, Valdiney Velôso; Little, Anthony C.

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2017.12.007

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“…The present study provides evidence that sociosexuality dimensions have different correlates, expanding the study by Nascimento et al [15] with a sample almost four times larger from a different country, and developing three predictive models of sociosexuality. We shall discuss our findings beginning with sociodemographic variables.…”

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confidence: 69%

“…The role of personality in sexual behavior has been extensively studied over the years, mostly from a unidimensional perspective of sociosexuality [17,18,19] and using the “Big Five” traits approach (neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness). Whereas the relationship between unrestricted sociosexuality and low scores on agreeableness and conscientiousness is consistent in previous research, findings about neuroticism, extraversion, and openness to experience are mixed [15,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24]. Additionally, it seems that sex and cultural differences should be taken into account, at least in some personality traits such as agreeableness and neuroticism [24].…”

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confidence: 81%

“…The tridimensional structure of SOI-R has been validated in a variety of studies in different contexts [12,13,14] but research on differences among these three facets of sociosexuality in terms of its predictors, such as demographics (i.e., sex, age, sexual orientation, religiosity), having a partner or not (i.e., relationship status), or individual traits such as personality is scarce [15,16]. This paper aims to fill this gap.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…As we noted, inconsistencies in previous research about the direction of the associations between personality traits and sociosexuality could be due to the consideration of sociosexuality as unidimensional. The tridimensional structure of sociosexuality (i.e., behavior, attitudes, and desire) has only been considered by Nascimento et al [15], but although it is undoubtedly a meritorious study, more research from different cultural contexts and with greater samples is mandatory.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Sociosexuality and Bright and Dark Personality: The Prediction of Behavior, Attitude, and Desire to Engage in Casual Sex

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Ramos-Villagrasa

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Research about sociosexuality, understood as differences in people’s willingness to have sex without commitment in terms of its predictors, such as demographics, relationship status, or individual traits, such as personality, is still scarce. Although sociosexuality was initially considered unidimensional, a tridimensional structure—with behavior, attitudes, and desire as its components—is gaining momentum in the literature nowadays. The present study proposes to develop different predictive models for each dimension, examining the role of personality (i.e., the “Big Five” and the “Dark Tetrad”) and sociodemographic variables. Participants were 991 university students from a Spanish university (75.5% women, 72.0% heterosexual, Mage = 20.66). Our results provide evidence that predictors of sociosexuality vary depending on the dimension under analysis. Being female, older, not having a heterosexual orientation, and not being involved in a current relationship predicted higher scores in sociosexual behavior and attitudes. Regarding personality, psychopathy and extraversion were the only traits involved in all three components of sociosexuality. Neuroticism, agreeableness, and conscientiousness also play a role in the prediction of some of the sociosexuality dimensions. These results help to disentangle the relationship between personality and sociosexuality and to design more effective programs and policies to promote sexual health.

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“…The SOI (Simpson and Gangestad, 1991) and the revised SOI-R (Penke and Asendorpf, 2008) can be used as a metric for one's behavior, attitude, and desire related to uncommitted sexual experiences, with Likert scale responses to items such as "Sex without love is OK, " and "How often do you have fantasies about having sex with someone you are not in a committed romantic relationship with?" Males have shown to be less restricted across a variety of cultures (Schmitt, 2005;Lippa, 2009) and have higher SOI-R values compared to females (e.g., Penke and Asendorpf, 2008;Kennair et al, 2016;Nascimento et al, 2018). Some work has shown that by controlling for SOI-R, sex differences considering short-term mating scenarios are mitigated (Hallam et al, 2018).…”

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Sex Differences in Attitudes Toward Casual Sex: Using STI Contraction Likelihoods to Assess Evolved Mating Strategies

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Previous work shows that males are more likely to pursue casual sex if given the opportunity, compared to females, on average. One component of this strategy is risk-taking, and males have been shown to take more risks than females in a variety of contexts. Here, we investigate the extent to which sex differences exist considering casual sexual encounters involving sexually transmitted infections (STIs) using a hypothetical sexual scenario which attempts to circumvent several factors that may contribute to a female’s hesitancy to engage in casual sex encounters. Two hundred and forty-six college students rated their willingness to engage in a satisfying casual sexual encounter with someone judged to be personable as a function of sex, varying STI contraction likelihoods, several STI types, and two levels of hypothetical partner attractiveness. We also assess how individual levels of sociosexuality (as measured by the SOI-R) impact findings. Our findings show that males report higher likelihoods of sexual engagement compared to females in general. This trend continued for lower likelihoods of STI contraction in all four STI types (Cold, Chlamydia, Herpes, HIV), with larger effects shown in the high attractiveness partner condition. For higher STI contraction likelihoods and more severe STI types, along with lower partner attractiveness levels, sex differences shrank. Factoring in participant SOI-R scores attenuated the effects somewhat, although it failed to alter findings substantially with predicted sex differences continuing to exist. These results offer further insight into evolved sex differences in human mating systems and provide an additional framework to test sexual risk-taking among males and females.

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Sociosexuality: SOI, MSOI and SOI-R scales

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2024

Encyclopedia of Sexual Psychology and Behavior

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Sociosexuality in Brazil: Validation of the SOI-R and its correlates with personality, self-perceived mate value, and ideal partner preferences

Cited by 21 publications

References 42 publications

Sociosexuality and Bright and Dark Personality: The Prediction of Behavior, Attitude, and Desire to Engage in Casual Sex

Sociosexuality and Bright and Dark Personality: The Prediction of Behavior, Attitude, and Desire to Engage in Casual Sex

Sex Differences in Attitudes Toward Casual Sex: Using STI Contraction Likelihoods to Assess Evolved Mating Strategies

Sociosexuality: SOI, MSOI and SOI-R scales

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