Nowak Natalia, Danel Dariusz
a Polish Academy of Sciences Institute of Anthropology , Wroclaw , Poland.
J Sex Marital Ther. 2014;40(5):425-33. doi: 10.1080/0092623X.2012.756839. Epub 2013 Jul 30.
A considerable amount of studies highlight positive assortative mating in terms of various aspects of mate value. However, there is a lack of studies that directly show how both partners' mate value and mate value differences are related to the satisfaction in heterosexual relationship. In the present study, the authors focused on women and analyzed how their mate value self-assessment and perception of their partners' mate value are related to female relationship satisfaction. The authors also classified them under 3 categories of couples defined by partners' mate value discrepancy, that is, in which a woman has higher, lower, and equal mate value than does her male partner. Women's relationship satisfaction was positively related to the perception of their partners' mate value but negatively correlated to their mate value self-assessment. Moreover, relationship satisfaction was the lowest in the category where woman has higher self-assessed mate value. The level of women's relationship satisfaction did not differ in 2 other categories of relationships. Our results suggest that women's perception of mate value and mate value asymmetry may significantly affect women's satisfaction from their relationships. The authors provide several possible, evolutionary-based explanatory mechanisms.
大量研究强调了在配偶价值的各个方面存在正向选型交配。然而，缺乏直接表明双方配偶价值以及配偶价值差异如何与异性恋关系满意度相关的研究。在本研究中，作者聚焦于女性，分析了她们的配偶价值自我评估以及对伴侣配偶价值的认知如何与女性关系满意度相关。作者还根据伴侣的配偶价值差异将她们分为三类夫妻，即女性配偶价值高于、低于和等于男性伴侣的情况。女性的关系满意度与对伴侣配偶价值的认知呈正相关，但与她们的配偶价值自我评估呈负相关。此外，在女性自我评估配偶价值较高的类别中，关系满意度最低。在其他两类关系中，女性的关系满意度水平没有差异。我们的结果表明，女性对配偶价值的认知和配偶价值不对称可能会显著影响女性从关系中获得的满意度。作者提供了几种基于进化的可能解释机制。
