Does women's anxious jealousy track changes in steroid hormone levels?

Autor: Hahn AC; Department of Psychology, Humboldt State University, USA; Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow, UK. Electronic address: amanda.hahn@humboldt.edu., DeBruine LM; Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow, UK., Pesce LA; Department of Psychology, Humboldt State University, USA., Diaz A; Department of Psychology, Humboldt State University, USA., Aberson CL; Department of Psychology, Humboldt State University, USA., Jones BC; Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow, UK.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Psychoneuroendocrinology [Psychoneuroendocrinology] 2020 Mar; Vol. 113, pp. 104553. Date of Electronic Publication: 2019 Dec 20.
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2019.104553
Abstrakt: Findings for progesterone and anxiety in non-human animals led to the hypothesis that women's interpersonal anxiety will track changes in progesterone during the menstrual cycle. There have been few direct tests of this hypothesis, however. Consequently, we used a longitudinal design to investigate whether interpersonal anxiety (assessed using the anxious jealousy subscale of the relationship jealousy questionnaire) tracked changes in salivary steroid hormones during the menstrual cycle in a large sample of young adult women. We found no evidence for within-subject effects of progesterone, estradiol, their interaction or ratio, testosterone, or cortisol on anxious jealousy. There was some evidence that other components of jealousy (e.g., reactive jealousy) tracked changes in women's cortisol, however. Collectively, these results provide no evidence for the hypothesis that interpersonal anxiety tracks changes in progesterone during the menstrual cycle.
Competing Interests: Declaration of Competing Interest The authors have no potential or actual conflicts of interest to declare.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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