Does women’s anxious jealousy track changes in steroid hormone levels?

Hahn, A. C. , DeBruine, L. M. , Pesce, L. A., Diaz, A., Aberson, C. L. and Jones, B. C. (2020) Does women’s anxious jealousy track changes in steroid hormone levels? Psychoneuroendocrinology, 113, 104553. (doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2019.104553) (PMID:31881502)

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Abstract

Findings for progesterone and anxiety in non-human animals led to the hypothesis that women’s interpersonal anxiety will track changes in progesterone during the menstrual cycle. There have been few direct tests of this hypothesis, however. Consequently, we used a longitudinal design to investigate whether interpersonal anxiety (assessed using the anxious jealousy subscale of the relationship jealousy questionnaire) tracked changes in salivary steroid hormones during the menstrual cycle in a large sample of young adult women. We found no evidence for within-subject effects of progesterone, estradiol, their interaction or ratio, testosterone, or cortisol on anxious jealousy. There was some evidence that other components of jealousy (e.g., reactive jealousy) tracked changes in women’s cortisol, however. Collectively, these results provide no evidence for the hypothesis that interpersonal anxiety tracks changes in progesterone during the menstrual cycle.

Item Type:Articles
Status:Published
Refereed:Yes
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Hahn, Dr Amanda and DeBruine, Professor Lisa and Jones, Professor Benedict
Creator Roles:
Hahn, A. C.Conceptualization, Methodology, Formal analysis, Investigation, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review and editing, Supervision, Project administration
DeBruine, L. M.Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Formal analysis, Data curation, Writing – review and editing, Supervision
Jones, B. C.Conceptualization, Methodology, Formal analysis, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review and editing, Supervision, Project administration, Funding acquisition
Authors: Hahn, A. C., DeBruine, L. M., Pesce, L. A., Diaz, A., Aberson, C. L., and Jones, B. C.
College/School:College of Medical Veterinary and Life Sciences > School of Psychology & Neuroscience
Journal Name:Psychoneuroendocrinology
Publisher:Elsevier
ISSN:0306-4530
ISSN (Online):1873-3360
Published Online:20 December 2019
Copyright Holders:Copyright © 2019 Elsevier Ltd.
First Published:First published in Psychoneuroendocrinology 113: 104553
Publisher Policy:Reproduced in accordance with the publisher copyright policy

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Project CodeAward NoProject NamePrincipal InvestigatorFunder's NameFunder RefLead Dept
166879OCMATEBenedict JonesEuropean Research Council (ERC)OCMATE FP7ERC282655NP - Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging (CCNi)