TITLE:
“Fort Aux Fesses”, “Fort Aux Poches”, “Fort Au Cœur”: Buzz or Reality? Initial Validation of Love Scale French Version and Effect of Women’s Mate Profile on Their Love and Happiness
AUTHORS:
Boris Tachom Waffo, Hélène Chantal Ngah Essomba, Olivier Jiognang Tiogoue
KEYWORDS:
Fort Aux Fesses, Love, Mate Value, Romantic Relationship, Evolutionary Psychology
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.10 No.9,
August
30,
2022
ABSTRACT: This
research structured in two studies had as main objective to study the effect of
women’s mate profile on their love and happiness. It was conducted with a
French-speaking Cameroonian sample. In the absence of a French-language
love scale available in literature, one had to be validated. The first study
was therefore intended to validate in a Cameroonian context, the French version
of love scale. The results showed the French version has psychometric qualities which testify to its
adjustment in Cameroonian context with a four-dimensional factor
structure and 19 items. That tool made it possible to undertake the second
study, which aimed to test the priming effect of the feeling of having a
partner with a profile “fort aux fesses”
vs. “fort aux poches” vs. “fort au cœur” on women love and
happiness. According with hypothesis results showed that none of these profiles
makes women more in love and/or happier at the expense of other profiles. The
idea of a standard woman’ mate profile which would provide a certain degree of love and
happiness seems irrelevant as evolutionary psychology argues. The debate which
has inflamed social networks in Cameroon, tending to maintain that a “fort aux fesses” partner makes women
more in love and/or happier at the expense of other partner profiles would be a
“buzz”. This research enriches the literature on the evolutionary psychological
perspective contribution in the study of romantic relationship.