The Mating Preferences of Long-term and Short-term Relationship: Face Versus Body; Appearance Versus Income

• Main Authors: Shu-Chen Ni, 倪淑貞
• Other Authors: Jung-Fu Chang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/16476470866423144375

碩士 === 國立臺北教育大學 === 社會與區域發展學系碩士班 === 103 === After careful consideration of costs and benefits, both genders make a choice on their mates. In previous studies mainly explores the mating preferences of both genders from the perspective of the evolution. Based on the theories of the evolution, men prefer short-term mating patterns while women prefer long-term ones, which are long-term evolution of mate choice under psychological reactions. Recent studies on sexual mating issue will conduct further researches on the conditions of consideration by both men and women in mate selection and their purposes of communication. Exchanges of different length of periods can affect different sexual strategies. Because of the differences between long-term and short-term social purposes, both sexes may consider different factors, showing different considerations in face and body, appearance and income. This study will still follow the research direction of Jaime c. Confer et al. in two sexes’ long-term and short-term mating preferences, but changes research method, which is divided into two parts to investigate the differences of mating preferences in long- and short-term exchanges for face and body, appearance and income. The study extends the research scope into body color, legs body ratio, large calf ratio, height and other four projects. For two kinds of questionnaires of short-term and long-term design, the participants choose the subjects in their mind through forced choice method of choosing one between face or body, and appearance or income. This study found that the proportion of men’s preference for women of pretty face and poor body in long-term mating is increasing compared with short-term mating, which only increases in long-term mating. .However, the proportion of women’s preference for men of pretty face and poor body in short-term mating is increasing compared with long-term mating, which only increases in short-term mating. Moreover, the study of both sexes in the long-term and short-term appearance and income difference of mating preferences found that the proportion of men’s preference for women of poor face and high income in long-term mate selection was increasing compared with short-term mating. Women also show the same results, but the proportion of women’s preference for men of poor face and high income in long-term mate selection was much larger than men.