An association between women's physical attractiveness and the length of their reproductive career in a prospectively longitudinal nationally representative sample

Kanazawa, Satoshi ORCID: 0000-0003-3786-8797 (2019) An association between women's physical attractiveness and the length of their reproductive career in a prospectively longitudinal nationally representative sample. American Journal of Human Biology, 31 (4). ISSN 1042-0533

Full text not available from this repository.

• Author

Abstract

Objectives: Why is physical attractiveness more important for women's mate value in long-term mating than in short-term mating? This article replicates Bovet et al.'s (Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 2018; 31:229–238) recent finding that physically attractive women have a later expected age of menopause. Methods: I analyzed the prospectively longitudinal, nationally representative sample of women in the National Child Development Study, applying t-test and multiple regression analyses. Results: Analyses showed that girls rated physically attractive at age 7 underwent menarche 3.12 months earlier than other girls, and they had 32% smaller odds of having undergone menopause before age 51. The results suggest that more physically attractive women have longer reproductive careers, explaining why physical attractiveness may be a more important determinant of women's mate value in long-term mating than in short-term mating. Conclusions: Women's physical attractiveness predicts the timing of menarche and menopause, thereby the length of their reproductive careers.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	© 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Divisions:	Management
Subjects:	Q Science > QH Natural history > QH301 Biology H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
Date Deposited:	22 Jul 2019 09:15
Last Modified:	27 Feb 2024 03:30
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/101211

Actions (login required)

View Item