Kishimoto Takeshi, Kohsaka Naho
University of the Sacred Heart, Tokyo, Japan.
Heliyon. 2023 Mar 20;9(3):e14672. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e14672. eCollection 2023 Mar.
Females who receive harsh, rejective, and inconsistent nurturing behavior from parents, are predicted to adopt mating strategies, such as short-term and unstable pair bonds with males. The speculation that, the rejective behavior a female receives during the early days, and their short-term mating strategy is mediated by the development of Machiavellianism personality, is not well confirmed. In this study, we investigated the relationship between parenting behavior, experienced by female college students (n = 168) in their early days, Machiavellianism personality, and behavior related to short-term reproductive strategy. The results revealed that, both maternal rejective behavior received by women in their childhood and Machiavellianism, have a relationship with the number of males that the female has ever romantically involved. Moreover, the mediation effect of Machiavellianism between maternal rejection in participants' childhood, and the number of males romantically involved, was marginally significant. This suggests that girls rejected by their mothers developed Machiavellianism. Consequently, this results in unstable female pair-bonding with the males.
预计那些从父母那里得到严厉、排斥和不一致养育行为的女性会采取一些交配策略，比如与男性建立短期且不稳定的伴侣关系。有一种推测认为，女性早年所经历的排斥行为以及她们的短期交配策略是由马基雅维利主义人格的发展所介导的，但这一推测尚未得到充分证实。在本研究中，我们调查了168名女大学生早年所经历的养育行为、马基雅维利主义人格以及与短期生殖策略相关的行为之间的关系。结果显示，女性童年时期所遭受的母亲的排斥行为以及马基雅维利主义，都与女性曾经有过浪漫关系的男性数量有关。此外，马基雅维利主义在参与者童年时期母亲的排斥行为与浪漫交往男性数量之间的中介效应接近显著。这表明被母亲拒绝的女孩形成了马基雅维利主义。因此，这导致女性与男性的伴侣关系不稳定。
