scholarly journals Does women’s interpersonal anxiety track changes in steroid hormone levels?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda C Hahn ◽  
Lisa M DeBruine ◽  
Lola A Pesce ◽  
Andrew Diaz ◽  
Christopher L Aberson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Menstrual Cycle ◽  
Steroid Hormones ◽  
Longitudinal Design ◽  
Steroid Hormone ◽  
Adult Women ◽  
Young Adult Women ◽  
Large Sample ◽  
Hormone Levels ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractFindings 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 (N=383). 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.

scholarly journals No compelling evidence that more physically attractive young adult women have higher estradiol or progesterone

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benedict C Jones ◽  
Amanda C Hahn ◽  
Claire I Fisher ◽  
Hongyi Wang ◽  
Michal Kandrik ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Mate Choice ◽  
Sex Hormones ◽  
Physical Attractiveness ◽  
Adult Women ◽  
Compelling Evidence ◽  
Young Adult Women ◽  
Waist To Hip Ratio ◽  
Physically Attractive ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractPutative associations between sex hormones and attractive physical characteristics in women are central to many theories of human physical attractiveness and mate choice. Although such theories have become very influential, evidence that physically attractive and unattractive women have different hormonal profiles is equivocal. Consequently, we investigated hypothesized relationships between salivary estradiol and progesterone and two aspects of women’s physical attractiveness that are commonly assumed to be correlated with levels of these hormones: facial attractiveness (N=249) and waist-to-hip ratio (N=247). Our analyses revealed no compelling evidence that women with more attractive faces or lower (i.e., more attractive) waist-to-hip ratios had higher levels of estradiol or progesterone. One analysis did suggest that women with more attractive waist-to-hip ratios had significantly higher progesterone, but the relationship was weak and the relationship not significant in other analyses. These results do not support the influential hypothesis that between-women differences in physical attractiveness are related to estradiol and/or progesterone.

scholarly journals The Relationship of Costume Design in Film With the Interest of Young Adult Women as Fashion Product Consumers in Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (9) ◽  
pp. 850-857
Author(s):  
Adina Fairuz
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Costume Design ◽  
Adult Women ◽  
Young Adult Women ◽  
Sex And The City ◽  
Fashion Products ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
The Devil

This study discusses the relationship between costume design in films and the interest of the audience, especially young adult women, triggers of their interest in similar fashion products as consumers by using outfit styles from three films, The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Sex and The City: The Movie (2008) and Crazy Rich Asians (2018), which were selected through a questionnaire answered by 20 experts in the fashion field. The analysis was conducted on 258 young adult women (18-24 years old) domiciled in Indonesia through a questionnaire to find out their perceptions and preferences on outfit styles from the costume designs in those three films. Based on this analysis, it can be seen that if the audience is interested and feels that the outfit worn by the character fits them, then they will have the desire to wear fashion products that are similar to the appearance of the costume design in the film.

Steps Measured by Pedometry and the Relationship to Adiposity in College Women

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 1225-1232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Wayne Bailey ◽  
Pamela Borup ◽  
Larry Tucker ◽  
James LeCheminant ◽  
Matthew Allen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Body Composition ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
College Women ◽  
Body Fat ◽  
Percent Body Fat ◽  
Adult Women ◽  
Young Adult Women ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Steps Per Day ◽  
The Relationship

Background:The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between steps per day and adiposity among college women.Methods:This study was cross-sectional and included women ages 18–25. Participants wore a pedometer for 7 consecutive days. Body composition was assessed using air-displacement plethysmography. Height, weight, and waist and hip circumferences were assessed.Results:The women took 10,119 ± 2836 steps per day. When divided into quartiles by steps, the top 2 quartiles of women in the study had significantly lower BMI, percent body fat, and waist and hip circumferences than the bottom quartile of women (P ≤ .05). Percent body fat was different between the bottom 2 quartiles and the top 2 quartiles (P ≤ .05). The odds of having a body fat of greater than 32% were reduced by 21.9% for every increase of 1,000 steps taken per day (P ≤ .05).Conclusions:Steps per day are related to body composition in young adult women, but this relationship weakens with progressively higher step counts. A reasonable recommendation for steps in young adult women that is associated with the lowest BMIs and body fat seems to be between 10,000–12,000 steps per day.

Objectively Measured Sleep Patterns in Young Adult Women and the Relationship to Adiposity

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce W. Bailey ◽  
Matthew D. Allen ◽  
James D. LeCheminant ◽  
Larry A. Tucker ◽  
William K. Errico ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Adult Women ◽  
Sleep Patterns ◽  
Young Adult Women ◽  
Objectively Measured ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals No evidence that inbreeding avoidance is up-regulated during the ovulatory phase of the menstrual cycle

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iris J. Holzleitner ◽  
Julie C. Driebe ◽  
Ruben C. Arslan ◽  
Amanda C. Hahn ◽  
Anthony J. Lee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Menstrual Cycle ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Longitudinal Design ◽  
Steroid Hormone ◽  
Mate Preferences ◽  
Inbreeding Avoidance ◽  
Behavioral Changes ◽  
High Fertility ◽  
Scale Test ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractMate preferences and mating-related behaviors are hypothesized to change over the menstrual cycle in ways that function to increase reproductive fitness. Results of recent large-scale studies suggest that many of these hormone-linked behavioral changes are less robust than was previously thought. One specific hypothesis that has not yet been subject to a large-scale test is the proposal that women’s preference for associating with male kin is down-regulated during the ovulatory (high-fertility) phase of the menstrual cycle. Consequently, we used a longitudinal design to investigate the relationship between changes in women’s steroid hormone levels and their perceptions of faces experimentally manipulated to possess kinship cues (Study 1). Analyses suggested that women viewed men’s faces displaying kinship cues more positively (i.e., more attractive and trustworthy) when estradiol-to-progesterone ratio was high. Since estradiol-to-progesterone ratio is positively associated with conception risk during the menstrual cycle, these results directly contradict the hypothesis that women’s preference for associating with male kin is down-regulated during the ovulatory (high-fertility) phase of the menstrual cycle. Study 2 employed a daily diary approach and found no evidence that women reported spending less time in the company of male kin or thought about male kin less often during the fertile phase of the menstrual cycle. Thus, neither study found evidence that inbreeding avoidance is up-regulated during the ovulatory phase of the menstrual cycle.

The moderating role of resilience on the relationship between perceived stress and binge eating symptoms among young adult women

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 114-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Idia B. Thurston ◽  
Robin Hardin ◽  
Rebecca C. Kamody ◽  
Sylvia Herbozo ◽  
Caroline Kaufman
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Binge Eating ◽  
Perceived Stress ◽  
Adult Women ◽  
Young Adult Women ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Moderating Role
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