Global Journal of Medical Research, K: Interdisciplinary, Volume 22 Issue 1

Both men and women were evidenced to equally value mutual attraction, love, kindness and intelligence. III. M ethod Participants were chosen based on four previously stated criteria: cisgender, heterosexual and nulliparous women of any age, who were in a long-term relationship with a male partner. These women could desire or not desire to have children, now or in the future, with their current partners. Two large populations were therefore compared: 1) Cisgender, heterosexual and nulliparous women in a relationship who desired to have children with their current partners and 2) Cisgender, heterosexual and nulliparous women in a relationship who did not desire to have children with their current partners. Data collection instrument consisted of an online questionnaire presented with Google Forms and formulated based on BUSS (1989). The first part of the questionnaire consisted of preliminary data after criteria for inclusion of participants was previously met and the second part inquired about partner selection criteria per se, as it follows: Part 1: Preliminary Data: age of female participant and age of partner, frequency of contraception usage, types of contraception used, desire to have children or preference to be childless. Part 2: Attribution of Likert Scale regarding presence or absence of each one of 23 traits in current male partner, where1 (Strongly Disagree), 2 (Disagree), 3 (Undecided), 4 (Agree) and 5 (Strongly Agree). Through Fisher Exact Tests, the answer to each trait was separately analyzed in order to reveal if there were significative differences between the percentage frequency of answers of both compared groups. Each Test led to a value of p. P being lower than 0.1 indicates significative difference between compared percentage frequencies, whereas P being greater or equal to 0.1 does not. Statistical significance was of 10%. IV. A nalysis of R esults a) Traits without Significative Differences The following 13 traits (2, 5, 7, 9, 13, 15, 17, 18, 19, 23, 25, 26 and 27) did not evidence significative differences between percentage frequency of answers of women who desired and who did not desire children with their current male partners (p≥0.1): Chart 1: Traits without significative differences between percentage frequency of answers in both groups Trait Number Trait Value of p 2 Frequency of contraceptionusage p = 0.362 5 Goodcook and housekeeper p = 0.943 7 Sociable p = 0.118 9 Organized and refined p = 0.68 13 Emotional stability and maturity p = 0.396 15 Good social class p = 0.178 17 Same religious beliefs p = 0.278 18 Hardworking p = 0.475 19 Same political beliefs p = 0.722 23 Kind and understanding p = 0.355 25 Inspiring personality p = 0.358 26 Creative and artistic p = 0.673 27 Good conversationalist p = 0.627 3 Year 2022 Global Journal of Medical Research Volume XXII Issue I Version I ( D ) K © 2022 Global Journals The Desire to Remain Childless and its Role in Female Partner Selection Criteria: An Evolutionary Psychology based Perspective