Department of Psychology, University of Utah.
Department of Psychology, Texas Christian University.
J Pers Soc Psychol. 2018 Feb;114(2):286-302. doi: 10.1037/pspi0000113. Epub 2017 Oct 26.
Previous research demonstrates reliable associations between low paternal investment and daughters' precocious and risky sexual behavior. However, little is known about the psychological changes that occur in response to paternal disengagement that encourage these patterns. Here, we aim to redress this empirical gap by testing the effects of paternal disengagement on women's perceptions of male mating intent. In 4 experiments, women who described their fathers' absence (vs. a comparison state) perceived greater: mating intent in the described actions of a hypothetical dating partner (Study 1), sexual arousal in male target faces (Studies 2 and 3), and mating interest from a male confederate (Study 4). In a mixed-methods study (Study 5), women with greater developmental exposure to harsh-deviant paternal behavior perceived greater sexual intent in men's actions than women with lesser exposure. Moreover, these perceptual differences predicted unrestricted sociosexuality among women in this sample. An internal meta-analysis (N = 408) across studies provided support for a relationship between paternal disengagement and women's perceptions of male sexual intent. Together, this research suggests that low paternal investment (including primed paternal disengagement and harsh-deviant fathering) causes changes in daughters' perceptions of men that may influence their subsequent mating behavior. (PsycINFO Database Record
先前的研究表明，父亲投资不足与女儿早熟和冒险的性行为之间存在可靠的关联。然而，对于导致这些模式的父亲脱离所引起的心理变化，我们知之甚少。在这里，我们通过测试父亲脱离对女性对男性交配意图的看法的影响，旨在弥补这一经验差距。在 4 项实验中，与描述父亲缺席（与比较状态相比）的女性相比，女性认为描述中的约会伴侣的行为（研究 1）、男性目标面孔的性唤起（研究 2 和 3）以及男性同谋的交配兴趣（研究 4）中存在更大的交配意图。在一项混合方法研究（研究 5）中，与较少接触严厉偏离的父亲行为的女性相比，发展过程中接触更多严厉偏离的父亲行为的女性对男性行为的性意图感知更大。此外，这些感知差异预测了该样本中女性不受限制的社交性行为。跨研究的内部元分析（N=408）支持了父亲脱离与女性对男性性意图的看法之间的关系。总的来说，这项研究表明，父亲投资不足（包括被激发的父亲脱离和严厉偏离的父亲养育）导致女儿对男性的看法发生变化，这可能影响她们随后的交配行为。
