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Exploring Attitudes Toward "Sugar Relationships" Across 87 Countries: A Global Perspective on Exchanges of Resources for Sex and Companionship.

Norbert Meskó, Marta Kowal, András Láng, Ferenc Kocsor, Szabolcs A Bandi, Adam Putz, Piotr Sorokowski, David A Frederick, Felipe E García, Leonardo A Aguilar and 85 more

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Article in Archives of sexual behavior, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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  5. Short-Term Mating Orientation Predicts Openness to "Sugar Relationships" More Than Life History Strategy.Evolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behavior
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Norbert MeskóInstitute of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Pécs, Pecs, 7624, Hungary. meskonorbert@me.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4355-9563
Marta KowalIDN Human Being Lab, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9050-1471
András LángInstitute of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Pécs, Pecs, 7624, Hungary.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1209-3350
Ferenc KocsorInstitute of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Pécs, Pecs, 7624, Hungary.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4986-7196
Szabolcs A BandiInstitute of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Pécs, Pecs, 7624, Hungary.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4280-0212
Adam PutzInstitute of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Pécs, Pecs, 7624, Hungary.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9367-0729
Piotr SorokowskiInstitute of Psychology, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9225-9965
David A FrederickCrean College of Health and Behavioral Sciences, Chapman University, Orange, CA, USA.
Felipe E GarcíaDepartamento de Psiquiatría y Salud Mental, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile.
Leonardo A AguilarSchool of Psychology, Central University of Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela.
Anna StudzinskaDepartament of Humanities, Icam, Toulouse, France.
Chee-Seng TanDepartment of Psychology and Counselling, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Kampar, Malaysia.
Biljana GjoneskaMacedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Skopje, North Macedonia.
Taciano L MilfontSchool of Psychology, University of Waikato, Tauranga, New Zealand.
Merve Topcu BulutClinical Addiction Research Unit, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden.
Dmitry GrigoryevCenter for Sociocultural Research, HSE University, Moscow, Russian Federation.
Toivo AavikInstitute of Psychology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.
Mahmoud BoussenaDepartement of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Mohamed Lamine Debaghine, University Setif2, Setif, Algeria.
Alan D A MattiassiDepartment of Education, Languages, Interculture, Literatures and Psychology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy.
Reza AfhamiDepartment of Art Studies, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.
Rizwana AminDepartment of Professional Psychology, Bahria University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Roberto BaioccoDepartment of Developmental and Social Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Hamdaoui BrahimIdepartment of Sociologie, University of Ibn Tofail, Kenitra, Morocco.
Ali R CanDepartment of Anthropology, Hatay Mustafa Kemal University, Hatay, Turkey.
Joao CarneiroDepartment of Social Psychology, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
Hakan ÇetinkayaDepartment of Psychology, Yaşar University, İzmir, Turkey.
Dimitri ChubinidzePsychological Set Research and Correction Center, Tbilisi State Medical University, Tbilisi, Georgia.
Eliane DeschrijverDepartment of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Yahya DonSchool of Education, Universiti Utara Malaysia, Kedah, Malaysia.
Dmitrii DubrovHSE University, Moscow, Russian Federation.
Izzet DuyarDepartment of Anthropology, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Marija JovicDepartment of Marketing Management and Public Relations, Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia.
Julia A KamburidisDepartment of General, Experimental and Genetic Psychology, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Farah KhanInstitute of Education & Research, Women University Mardan, Mardan, Pakistan.
Hareesol Khun-InkeereePsychology and Counselling, Prince of Songkla University, Pattani, Thailand.
Maida Koso-DrljevicDepartment of Psychology, University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
David LackoInterdisciplinary Research Team on Internet and Society, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
Karlijn MassarWork and Social Psychology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Mara MorelliDepartment of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology, and Health Studies, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3463-3685
Jean C NatividadeDepartment of Psychology, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3264-9352
Ellen K NyhusDepartment of Management, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway.
Ju Hee ParkDepartment of Child and Family Studies, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.
Farid PazhoohiDepartment of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Ekaterine PirtskhalavaDepartment of Psychology, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia.
Koen PonnetFaculty of Social Sciences, Imec-Mict-Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Pavol ProkopDepartment of Environmental Ecology and Landscape Management, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia.
Dušana ŠakanDepartment of Psychology, Faculty of Legal and Business Studies Dr Lazar Vrkatić, Union University, Novi Sad, Serbia.
Singha TulyakulDepartment of Health and Physical Education, Thaksin University, Songkhla, Thailand.
Austin H WangPolitical Science, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0256-2723
Sibele D AquinoDepartment of Psychology, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1391-0911
Derya D AtamtürkDepartment of Anthropology, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Nana BurduliDepartment of Psychology, University of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia.
Antonio ChirumboloDepartment of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Seda DuralDepartment of Psychology, Izmir University of Economics, İzmir, Turkey.
Edgardo EtchezaharEducation Universidad Internacional de Valencia, Valencia, Spain.
Nasim Ghahraman MoharrampourSchool of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
Balazs AczelInstitute of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
Luca KozmaInstitute of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Pécs, Pecs, 7624, Hungary.
Samuel LinsDepartament of Psychology, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
Efisio ManuntaCLLE, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France.
Tiago MarotDepartment of Administration, Getúlio Vargas Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4491-4993
Moises MebarakDepartment of Psychology, Universidad del Norte, Puerto Colombia, Colombia.
Kirill G MiroshnikDepartment of Psychology, Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation.
Katarina MiseticDepartment of Psychology, University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Marietta Papadatou-PastouDepartment of Primary Education, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Bence BakosELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.
Fatima Zahra SahliInstitute of Sports Professions, Ibn Tofail University, Kenitra, Morocco.
Sangeeta SinghDepartment of Management, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway.
Çağlar SolakDepartment of Psychology, Manisa Celal Bayar University, Manisa, Turkey.
Tatiana VolkodavDepartment of Pedagogy and Psychology, Kuban State University, Krasnodar, Russian Federation.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3129-3638
Anna WlodarczykEscuela de Psicología, Universidad Católica del Norte, Antofagasta, Chile.
Grace AkelloMental Health, Gulu University, Gulu, Uganda.
Marios ArgyridesDepartment of Psychology, Neapolis University Pafos, Paphos, Cyprus.
Ogeday ÇokerDepartment of Psychology, Pamukkale University, Denizli, Turkey.
Katarzyna GalasinskaDepartment of Psychology, Center For Research On Biological Basis of Social Behavior, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland.
Talía Gómez YepesDepartment of Education, International University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain.
Aleksander KobylarekInstitute of Pedagogy, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland.
Miguel Landa-BlancoSchool of Psychological Sciences, National Autonomous University of Honduras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Marlon MayorgaEscuela de Psicología, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador-Ambato, Ambato, Ecuador.
Barış ÖzenerDepartment of Anthropology, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Ma Criselda T PacquingDepartment of Psychology, University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines.
Marc Eric S ReyesDepartment of Psychology, University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines.
Ayşegül ŞahinHSE University, Moscow, Russian Federation.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4593-3640
William Tamayo-AgudeloFaculty of Psychology, Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia, Medellín, Colombia.
Gulmira TopanovaDepartment of Theoretical and Practical Psychology, Kazakh National Women's Pedagogical University, Almaty, Kazakhstan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6167-5982
Ezgi Toplu-DemirtaşDepartment of Psychological Counseling and Guidance, Mef University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Belgüzar N TürkanDepartment of Psychology, Pamukkale University, Denizli, Turkey.
Marcos Zumárraga-EspinosaCarrera de Psicología, Universidad Politécnica Salesiana, Quito, Ecuador.
Simone GrassiniDepartment of Psychosocial Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
Jan AntfolkFaculty of Arts, Psychology and Theology, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland.
Clément CornecENES Bioacoustics Research Lab, CRNL, CNRS, Insern, University of Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France.
Katarzyna PisanskiInstitute of Psychology, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland.
Sabrina StöckliDepartment of Business Administration, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Stephanie Josephine EderDepartment of Neurosciences and Developmental Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Hyemin HanEducational Psychology Program, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7181-2565
University of Pecs · HUIstanbul University · TRNational Research University Higher School of Economics · RUSapienza University of Rome · ITUniversity of Wrocław · PLCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FREötvös Loránd University · HUPamukkale University · TRPontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro · BRUniversidade do Porto · PTUniversité Ibn-Tofail · MAUniversity of Agder · NOUniversity of Santo Tomas · PHUniversity of Sarajevo · BAAbai Kazakh National Pedagogical University · KZÅbo Akademi University · FIBahria University · PKCentral University of Venezuela · VEChapman University · USFundação Getulio Vargas · BR

Funding

Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA) K125437Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA) K143254University of Pécs 008_223_PTE_RK/12
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The current study investigates attitudes toward one form of sex for resources: the so-called sugar relationships, which often involve exchanges of resources for sex and/or companionship. The present study examined associations among attitudes toward sugar relationships and relevant variables (e.g., sex, sociosexuality, gender inequality, parasitic exposure) in 69,924 participants across 87 countries. Two self-report measures of Acceptance of Sugar Relationships (ASR) developed for younger companion providers (ASR-YWMS) and older resource providers (ASR-OMWS) were translated into 37 languages. We tested cross-sex and cross-linguistic construct equivalence, cross-cultural invariance in sex differences, and the importance of the hypothetical predictors of ASR. Both measures showed adequate psychometric properties in all languages (except the Persian version of ASR-YWMS). Results partially supported our hypotheses and were consistent with previous theoretical considerations and empirical evidence on human mating. For example, at the individual level, sociosexual orientation, traditional gender roles, and pathogen prevalence were significant predictors of both ASR-YWMS and ASR-OMWS. At the country level, gender inequality and parasite stress positively predicted the ASR-YWMS. However, being a woman negatively predicted the ASR-OMWS, but positively predicted the ASR-YWMS. At country-level, ingroup favoritism and parasite stress positively predicted the ASR-OMWS. Furthermore, significant cross-subregional differences were found in the openness to sugar relationships (both ASR-YWMS and ASR-OMWS scores) across subregions. Finally, significant differences were found between ASR-YWMS and ASR-OMWS when compared in each subregion. The ASR-YWMS was significantly higher than the ASR-OMWS in all subregions, except for Northern Africa and Western Asia.

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Sexual BehaviorSugarsAttitudeFemaleHumansInterpersonal RelationsMaleSex CharacteristicsSugarsCross-cultural comparisonHuman matingResources for sexSugar relationships

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