Married women with children experience greater intrasexual competition than their male counterparts.

ABSTRACT: Human males are considered to be more competitive than females. However, females must also compete for resources necessary for their own and their offsprings' survival. Since females use more indirect forms of competition than males, comparing observable forms of competition may be misleading. One critical driver of competition is resource asymmetry. Since competition occurs primarily within sex, reactions to resource asymmetry with same-sex peers should provide an important measure of competitiveness. We asked 596 married participants, 25-45 years of age with at least one child from three different countries to evaluate how same-sex individuals they know would react to a target individual who had a valuable resource that the same-sex individuals did not have. Half the participants evaluat

SUBMITTER: Benenson JF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10024730 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature