Book contents
- Intimate Relationships Across Cultures
- Advances in Personal Relationships
- Intimate Relationships Across Cultures
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Spotlights
- Collaborators
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Why Was This Book Written?
- 1 How Do We Know What Matters in Intimate Relationships?
- 2 Why Do People Seek Intimate Relationships?
- 3 How Are Intimate Partners Selected?
- 4 What Is Love and How Is Intimacy Expressed?
- 5 How Do Sexual Attitudes and Behaviors Matter?
- 6 What Are the Dynamics of Exchange and Power?
- 7 How Do Couples Cope with Conflict?
- 8 How Do External Factors Matter in Intimate Relationships?
- 9 How Do Intimate Relationships Relate to Well-Being?
- 10 How Do the Predictions Combine in Comprehensive Models?
- 11 How Much Do the Levels of Factors Vary?
- 12 What Are the Implications of the Study?
- 13 How Might the Findings Apply to Other Social Relationships?
- Epilogue: What Future Research Is Needed?
- Glossary of Statistical Terms
- Boston Couples Study Publications
- References
- Index
11 - How Much Do the Levels of Factors Vary?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 June 2019
- Intimate Relationships Across Cultures
- Advances in Personal Relationships
- Intimate Relationships Across Cultures
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Spotlights
- Collaborators
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Why Was This Book Written?
- 1 How Do We Know What Matters in Intimate Relationships?
- 2 Why Do People Seek Intimate Relationships?
- 3 How Are Intimate Partners Selected?
- 4 What Is Love and How Is Intimacy Expressed?
- 5 How Do Sexual Attitudes and Behaviors Matter?
- 6 What Are the Dynamics of Exchange and Power?
- 7 How Do Couples Cope with Conflict?
- 8 How Do External Factors Matter in Intimate Relationships?
- 9 How Do Intimate Relationships Relate to Well-Being?
- 10 How Do the Predictions Combine in Comprehensive Models?
- 11 How Much Do the Levels of Factors Vary?
- 12 What Are the Implications of the Study?
- 13 How Might the Findings Apply to Other Social Relationships?
- Epilogue: What Future Research Is Needed?
- Glossary of Statistical Terms
- Boston Couples Study Publications
- References
- Index
Summary
Variations in the levels of factors that predict Having a Current Partner, and variations in the levels of factors that predict Relationship Satisfaction and Relationship Commitment, are explored in this chapter. These variations are discussed in terms of overall means and standard deviations, and variations in means across relationship types and across cultural regions.
The means (averages) and standard deviations (s.d.) of Having a Current Partner and of the Comprehensive Factors predicting Having a Current Partner are listed in Table 11.1. The standard deviations indicate the amount of individual variation in responses across all participants in the study. The possible responses for Having a Current Partner and for having had a previous partner are 0=NO to 1=YES, hence those means indicate percentages expressed as decimals. Age varied from 18 to 84. The other factors have possible responses from 0=NOT AT ALL to 8=EXTREMELY.
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- Intimate Relationships across CulturesA Comparative Study, pp. 183 - 192Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019