caa a22 4500 606231021 CHVBK 20210128101218.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10508-014-0371-6 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10508-014-0371-6 Men's Benefit-Provisioning Mate Retention Behavior Mediates the Relationship Between Their Agreeableness and Their Oral Sex Behaviors [Elektronische Daten] [Michael Pham, Todd Shackelford, Christopher Holden, Virgil Zeigler-Hill, Yael Sela, Austin Jeffery] Men perform oral sex on their romantic partner as part of a broader benefit-provisioning mate retention strategy and men higher in Agreeableness are especially likely to provision their partner with benefits. The current research explored whether men's benefit-provisioning mate retention behavior mediated the relationship between their Agreeableness and their oral sex behaviors in their long-term romantic relationship. Men (n=346) in a committed, sexual, heterosexual relationship completed the Mate Retention Inventory—a 104-item instrument that assesses the frequency with which they performed various mate retention behaviors during the past month, a 40-item personality inventory, and reported on a questionnaire their interest in and the time they spent performing oral sex on their romantic partner during their most recent sexual encounter with her. The results indicated that men higher in Agreeableness reported greater interest in and spent more time performing oral sex on their partner, and that their benefit-provisioning mate retention behaviors partially mediated these relationships. The current research is the first to investigate the relationship between personality dimensions and oral sex behaviors and adds to a growing body of research documenting that mate retention strategies influence sexual behavior. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2014 Agreeableness nationallicence Oral sex nationallicence Mate retention nationallicence Relationship satisfaction nationallicence Personality nationallicence Pham Michael Department of Psychology, Oakland University, 130 Pryale Hall, 48309, Rochester, MI, USA aut Shackelford Todd Department of Psychology, Oakland University, 130 Pryale Hall, 48309, Rochester, MI, USA aut Holden Christopher Department of Psychology, Oakland University, 130 Pryale Hall, 48309, Rochester, MI, USA aut Zeigler-Hill Virgil Department of Psychology, Oakland University, 130 Pryale Hall, 48309, Rochester, MI, USA aut Sela Yael Department of Psychology, Oakland University, 130 Pryale Hall, 48309, Rochester, MI, USA aut Jeffery Austin Department of Psychology, Oakland University, 130 Pryale Hall, 48309, Rochester, MI, USA aut Archives of Sexual Behavior Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 44/6(2015-08-01), 1723-1728 0004-0002 44:6<1723 2015 44 10508 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-014-0371-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-014-0371-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Pham Michael Department of Psychology, Oakland University, 130 Pryale Hall, 48309, Rochester, MI, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Shackelford Todd Department of Psychology, Oakland University, 130 Pryale Hall, 48309, Rochester, MI, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Holden Christopher Department of Psychology, Oakland University, 130 Pryale Hall, 48309, Rochester, MI, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Zeigler-Hill Virgil Department of Psychology, Oakland University, 130 Pryale Hall, 48309, Rochester, MI, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Sela Yael Department of Psychology, Oakland University, 130 Pryale Hall, 48309, Rochester, MI, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Jeffery Austin Department of Psychology, Oakland University, 130 Pryale Hall, 48309, Rochester, MI, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Archives of Sexual Behavior Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 44/6(2015-08-01), 1723-1728 0004-0002 44:6<1723 2015 44 10508