Conclusión:

Las personas que presentan el rasgo de personalidad dominante se han definido como influyentes, ascendentes, predominantes, autoritarias o con alto control, abiertas al cambio y deben discriminarse de aquellas con rasgos agresivos (hostil, enojado, violento, etc.) y hostiles (déspota, jefe, dictatorial, etc.) (9). En el presente estudio mujeres con altos puntajes de conducta dominante presentaron menos sequedad vaginal, menos dispareunía, menos perdida del interés sexual, menores niveles de estrés, ansiedad y depresión; y es que la sumisión, que sería lo opuesto a la dominancia, ha sido ligada fuertemente a sentimientos de derrota y de inferioridad que a su vez son considerados como indicadores de estrés, ansiedad y depresión (36).

Además, nosotros encontramos que la conducta dominante se relacionó con los tres polimorfismos evaluados en el presente estudio, específicamente con genotipos Pp., XX del gen RE-α y SS del transportador de serotonina (5-HTT). No existe bibliografía respecto a la relación dominancia y polimorfismos PvuII y XbaI; sin embargo, en un estudio sobre la relación la reactividad cardiaca ante la aplicación de retos psicológicos (pruebas de interferencia-cognitivas y tareas aritméticas) y el polimorfismo 5HTT, encontró que diferencialmente las mujeres con el genotipo SS, presentaron mayor reactividad cardiaca que los hombres con el mismo genotipo o mujeres con genotipos SL y LL (65). En nuestro estudio encontramos que se debe tomar en cuenta la diversidad genética, al evaluar los síntomas en la menopausia.

Tomando en cuenta lo anterior, se puede pensar que dichos rasgos quedan más bien relacionados a conductas altamente dominantes, lo cual pude corroborar nuestros hallazgos, ya que en el presente estudio, la dominancia se asoció de manera inversa con los niveles depresión. Debido a la gran variabilidad en los hallazgos respecto a la relación dominancia y 5HTT, considero que son necesarios estudios más amplios al respecto.

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