关键词: 择偶偏好 经济压力 女性择偶

Abstract: Abstract As a complex social, cultural and psychological phenomenon, Mating Preference has become a hot topic in sociology and psychology in recent years. The studies of mating preference, which first commenced in western countries, are in order to explore its internal significance and mechanism from the perspective of sociology and psychology. Theoretical frameworks of mating preference have been continuously improved after decades of development; as a new research perspective, evolutionary psychology has been widely welcomed in this field because its better cross-cultural explanatory power. Through the specific and rigorous measurement methods, foreign psychologists integrated different research paradigms to study human’s mating preference behavior sys-tematically. Since the late 1970s, Chinese scholars initiated the relevant studies of mating preference in China. However, their main research methods were content analysis of marriage personals and self-report questionnaires; and due to their underdeveloped theoretical frameworks, their empirical studies were lacking convincing theoretical support. Therefore, on the basis of the in-depth studies of the evolutionary psychology, the present study learns from the western research paradigms and measurement methods in order to conduct in-depth researches and discussions on the issue about Chinese female mating preference. Under the theoretical framework of evolutionary psychology, there are three dimensional factor structure of female mating preference. They are Good-Genes, which refer to the good innate qualities of the male, such as good looking, strong body and clever mind; it represent male’s characteristics and clues of good genes. Good-Provider, which refer to the good socio-economic status of the male; it represent male’s capacity and resources to provide good parental investments to the future generations. Good-Father, which refer to the gentle and loyal personality traits of the male; it represent male’s good character bases and willingness to provide parental investments to the future generations. Few males can have all the three factors, so females need to balance during Good-Genes, Good-Provider and Good-Father. The mating preference of female can be influenced by their ages, ed-ucational statuses, relationship statuses, health statuses, household incomes, fertility willing, and so on. The present research starts from the theory of mating in the evolutionary psychology and conducts the research on the preference of females mating preference under the economic pressure. In order to further clarify the influential mechanism of the economic, the present study was carried out two experiments to ex-plore the influences of the states of economy. The result shows that (1) the females with lower economic status prefer the males with “Good-Provider”. (2) The experiment results also showed there are slight difference between above-threshold and sub-threshold. Females in explicit measurements often showed preference in males with “Good-Father”, but in implicit measurements, females of all groups attach more importance to the socio-economic status of males. The result of research shows that the mate selection of females focus more on the clues of resources in a general way, under the economic pressure, this kind of preference for mate selection is more obvious.

Key words: “Mating preference”, “Economic pressure”, “female mating”