Influência do Ensino Superior na seleção sexual
Throughout life, some periods prove to be more meaningful than others, promoting personal changes. Therefore, life experiences shape the way we see ourselves and the world. In this way, we can point College years as an important period in someone’s life. College represents an intellectually rich...
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| Resumo: | Throughout life, some periods prove to be more meaningful than others, promoting personal
changes. Therefore, life experiences shape the way we see ourselves and the world. In this
way, we can point College years as an important period in someone’s life. College represents
an intellectually rich environment that stimulates personal growth, in this scenario the student
is exposed to a great diversity of people and knowledge. Thus, Higher Education acts as a
catalyzer for personal changes, through which undergraduates get the chance to widen and
reevaluate their perceptions. New physical and social environments promote changes in the
way people see themselves, influencing, for example, their self-esteem (known as a
sociometer) and self-efficacy (belief on your own capacity). Considering the importance of
self-evaluation on sexual selection (e.g. mate value) and the potential of transformation
promoted by college experience, it’s interesting to observe the relation between these selfperceptions
(self-esteem and self-efficacy) and the influence on undergraduates’ selfperceived
mate value. The present work was conducted using an undergraduate Brazilian
population, students participating in the study were freshmen and seniors. Our aim was to
compare how undergraduates’ self-perception on self-esteem, self-efficacy (general and
specific to higher education) and self-evaluation as romantic partner (SRP) was presented,
considering the different time exposure to college experiences and demands. On the first
study, our goal was to verify the relation between self-esteem and self-efficacy in
undergraduate students, one group initiating their college studies and other finishing their
studies. For the second study, considering our knowledge from the literature on how selfesteem
acts influencing people’s SRP and having established the relation between self-esteem
and self-efficacy in our first study, our aim was to observe the influence of undergraduates’
self-efficacy on their SRP, analyzing this influence for both freshmen and seniors. Results
indicated positive correlation between self-esteem and self-efficacy for undergraduate
students from both college periods and both sexes, no significant difference was found
between periods. Further, we also found an association between general self-efficacy and SPR
but there was no significance for college period. For the analysis involving SPR and higher
education self-efficacy it was found significant association, for sex as well as college period.
Thereby, the present research brought a new approach to sexual selection studies, using selfefficacy
in the context of romantic partner selection and offering evidence that one’s own
perception of mate value seem to be affected by personal beliefs relating to competence. |
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