RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Does women’s interpersonal anxiety track changes in steroid hormone levels?
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 456319
DO 10.1101/456319
A1 Amanda C Hahn
A1 Lisa M DeBruine
A1 Lola A Pesce
A1 Andrew Diaz
A1 Christopher L Aberson
A1 Benedict C Jones
YR 2019
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2019/06/02/456319.abstract
AB 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 (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.