PSYC 3P37 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Ovulation, The Globe And Mail, Mate Choice
13 Jan 2016
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Mothers who met their spouses while on birth control are happier in their unions but less satisfied with their sex lives, a new study says . Roberts et al. article the blog was based on relationship satisfaction and outcome in women who met their partner while using oral contraception . Faithfulness/ loyalty (1-to-9 scale: not statistically significant difference. These effects are all statistically significant in this participant sample (n = 760 for users, n = 990 for non-users) But they are still fairly small effects women"s mate choice is very weakly related to their contraceptive use. Durante et al. (2013): cited previous findings suggesting that women become more interested in sex and in short term mating during their ovulatory phase. Suggested that this could influence women"s political and religious attitudes. But in opposite ways for women who are single and women who are married (or in a committed relationship)
