Findings for progesterone and anxiety in non-human animals led to the hypothesis that women's interpersonal anxiety will track changes in progesterone during the menstrual cycle. There have been few direct tests of this hypothesis, however. Consequently, we used a longitudinal design to investigate whether interpersonal anxiety (assessed using the anxious jealousy subscale of the relationship jealousy questionnaire) tracked changes in salivary steroid hormones during the menstrual cycle in a large sample of young adult women. We found no evidence for within-subject effects of progesterone, estradiol, their interaction or ratio, testosterone, or cortisol on anxious jealousy. There was some evidence that other components of jealousy (e.g., reactive jealousy) tracked changes in women's cortisol, however. Collectively, these results provide no evidence for the hypothesis that interpersonal anxiety tracks changes in progesterone during the menstrual cycle.

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女性焦虑的嫉妒会追踪类固醇激素水平的变化吗？

非人类动物中孕酮和焦虑的发现导致假设女性的人际焦虑会跟踪月经周期中孕酮的变化。然而，对这一假设的直接检验很少。因此，我们使用纵向设计来调查人际焦虑（使用关系嫉妒问卷的焦虑嫉妒量表评估）是否跟踪大量年轻成年女性在月经周期中唾液类固醇激素的变化。我们没有发现黄体酮、雌二醇、它们的相互作用或比例、睾酮或皮质醇对焦虑嫉妒的受试者内影响的证据。然而，有一些证据表明嫉妒的其他成分（例如反应性嫉妒）会跟踪女性皮质醇的变化。集体，