Wojtaszczyk Katarzyna, Syper-Jędrzejak Marzena
Human Resources Management Department, Faculty of Management, University of Lodz, Ul. Matejki 22/26, 90-237, Lodz, Poland.
Arch Sex Behav. 2025 May;54(5):1875-1893. doi: 10.1007/s10508-025-03134-1. Epub 2025 Jun 5.
Attractiveness is one of the basic sources of information about another person. For this reason, attractiveness is important in private and professional life. In employment, attractiveness is one of the criteria to assess job candidates or employees. This issue was drawn from the concept of erotic capital, according to which the erotic capital of a candidate or an employee is a five-dimensional construct consisting of beauty, social attractiveness, sexual attractiveness, liveliness, and presentation. Our research focused on the role of erotic capital in professional life, and considerations about private life were treated as a background for employment-related results. Erotic capital had been defined as a five-dimensional construct composed of 23 facets. A construct met the reliability and validity requirements, which had been confirmed by a previous confirmatory factor analysis. Our study aimed to determine the significance of the particular facets of erotic capital, the dimensions of erotic capital, and erotic capital as a construct in the assessment of the other person in employment and in private life. A total of 471 respondents participated in our study, comprising 344 women and 127 men. We used an online survey (computer-assisted web interview technique). We established that the most significant dimensions of erotic capital, pertinent to both professional and private life, were social attractiveness and liveliness. However, we did not determine the impact of erotic capital, understood as a five-dimensional construct, on human resource management decisions. Our findings suggested that the role of erotic capital in management needs to be further explored.
吸引力是了解他人的基本信息来源之一。因此，吸引力在私人生活和职业生活中都很重要。在就业方面，吸引力是评估求职者或员工的标准之一。这个问题源自于情色资本的概念，根据该概念，求职者或员工的情色资本是一个由美貌、社交吸引力、性吸引力、活力和仪态组成的五维结构。我们的研究聚焦于情色资本在职业生活中的作用，而对私人生活的考量则被视为与就业相关结果的背景。情色资本被定义为由23个方面组成的五维结构。该结构满足可靠性和有效性要求，先前的验证性因素分析已证实了这一点。我们的研究旨在确定情色资本的各个方面、情色资本的维度以及作为一个整体的情色资本在就业和私人生活中对他人评估的重要性。共有471名受访者参与了我们的研究，其中包括344名女性和127名男性。我们采用了在线调查（计算机辅助网络访谈技术）。我们确定，与职业生活和私人生活都相关的情色资本最重要的维度是社交吸引力和活力。然而，我们并未确定作为五维结构的情色资本对人力资源管理决策的影响。我们的研究结果表明，情色资本在管理中的作用有待进一步探索。
