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January 9, 2023
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Personality and Mating Orientations in Monogamy and Consensual Non-Monogamy in Young Spanish University Students

Publicated to: Archives Of Sexual Behavior. 52 (4): 1785-1798 - 2023-05-01 52(4), DOI: 10.1007/s10508-022-02483-5

Authors:

de Rivas, S; Lecuona, O; Castro, A; Barrada, JR
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Affiliations

Autonomous Univ Madrid, Dept Biol & Hlth Psychol, Madrid, Spain - Author
King Juan Carlos Univ, Fac Hlth Sci, Dept Psychol, Dept 2, Desp 1023,Ave Atenas s-n, Alcorcon 28922, Madrid, Spain - Author
Univ Zaragoza, Fac Social & Human Sci, Dept Psychol & Sociol, Teruel, Spain - Author
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Abstract

Consensual non-monogamy (CNM) is a non-normative relationship that can generally be defined as relationships in which the involved individuals have openly agreed that they can have other sexual and/or affective partners. Despite growing interest in CNM, little research has been conducted regarding characteristics of the involved individuals, as well as comparing CNM individuals and monogamous individuals' characteristics. Expanding this research is important, as CNM constitutes a sizeable minority group, and CNM individuals and relationships are subject to stigma and dehumanization. The present study compared CNM and monogamous individuals in terms of personality (including "dark " personality) and mating orientations (sociosexuality and long-term mating) in young Spanish university students. Main results indicated that CNM individuals did not differ much in personality nor were they prone to higher "dark " personality traits when compared to monogamous individuals. Regarding mating orientations, CNM individuals were prone to higher sociosexuality levels and lower levels of long-term mating. Interestingly, results showed positive correlations between sociosexuality and "dark " personality in monogamous individuals, but not in CNM individuals. In conclusion, young Spanish university CNM individuals seem to be more pro-sex than monogamous people and less committed to the romantic love narrative of long-term mating, but these individuals were not more untrustworthy, self-centered, ruthless, or malevolent. Results were also discussed regarding their implications in the stigma and dehumanization of CNM people.
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Keywords

AdultArticleConsensual non-monogamyControlled studyDark personalityDark triadDehumanizationDesireFacetsFemaleHumanHuman experimentHumansMaleMatingMating orientationsMinority groupModelMonogamyNarrativePersonalityPolyamoryPsychologyRelationship qualitySexSexual behaviorSexual partnersSexualitySociosexualityStigmaStudentStudentsTestsUniversitiesUniversityUniversity studentValidation

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Archives Of Sexual Behavior due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2023, it was in position 25/267, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary. Notably, the journal is positioned above the 90th percentile.

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from World Citations provided by WoS (ESI, Clarivate), it yields a value for the citation normalization relative to the expected citation rate of: 2.01. This indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: ESI Nov 13, 2025)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2025-12-18, the following number of citations:

  • WoS: 6
  • Scopus: 3
  • Europe PMC: 1
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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-12-18:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 27.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 27 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 22.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 30 (Altmetric).
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (Rivas Hermosilla, Sara de) .

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been Rivas Hermosilla, Sara de.

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Awards linked to the item

This work was funded by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, Government of Spain, under grant PGC2018-097086-A-I00; and by the Government of Aragon (research group S31_20D). Department of Innovation, Research and University and FEDER 2014-2020, "Building Europe from Aragon."
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