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- Title
A Longitudinal Comparison of Couples with Sex-Typical and Non-Sex-Typical Orientations to Intimacy.
- Authors
Stephen, Timothy D.; Harrison, Teresa M.
- Abstract
The present study was designed to investigate the relationship experience of males and females who do not conform to sex-typical orientations to intimacy. One hundred sixty-three couples' and 88 nondating singles' (total N = 414) responses to the Relationship World Index—Version 2 (R WI-2) were analyzed via discriminant analysis to determine if subjects' sex could be predicted accurately upon the basis of their R WI-2 scores. One discriminant function was found which was significant by the Wilks' lambda test [χ²(60) = 140.57, p < .001]; the procedure correctly classified 76% of the respondents. Those who were classified correctly were considered sex-typical and the remaining 24% of the sample was considered non-sex-typical in their orientations to intimacy. Additional analyses using data from a 6-month longitudinal study located qualities which significantly distinguished sex-typical from non-sex-typical subjects and couples in which at least one member was non-sex-typical from couples in which both members were classified as sex-typical.
- Subjects
GENDER role; INTIMACY (Psychology); GENDER differences (Psychology); COUPLES; FEMALES; MALES; STATISTICAL correlation; DISCRIMINANT analysis; MULTIVARIATE analysis; LONGITUDINAL method
- Publication
Sex Roles, 1985, Vol 12, Issue 1-2, p195
- ISSN
0360-0025
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF00288047