To study whether gender differences and love styles affect people’s decision in selecting potential partners, Group2 conducted an online survey with 87 participants, which are the students in CUHK. The first part of the survey is the love attitude scales test, which is used to differentiate 6 types of the love styles . Participants needed to rate 42 love items in a 5-point numerical scales. Then participants needed to rate 18 mate selection criteria in a 4-point numerical scales in the second part of the survey, which is used to measure the dependent variables: the mate selection preferences.
There are some weaknesses that we cannot overlook. Firstly, the external validity of this research is low because Group2 only collected data from the CUHK students, which may not be generalize to people in all age range, but unlike what Group2 has presented, age difference indeed affect the love styles (Shulman & Scharf, 2000). The second weakness is the subject bias. Participants may try to be a good subject and conform to the predicted results. They may assume that Group2 are studying the mate selection preferences of different genders and answer the questions according to the predicted results. Moreover, the participants may have evaluation apprehension too. They may think that they need to be selfness and be passionate to their future partners so as not to be valued negatively. Then they may behave as an ideal person they think and answer the questions in a way to be valued as Eros and Agape love styles.
To tackle the first weakness, Group2 can have a sampling with a greater variety of ages so that the survey can show the general trend of the love style of the society across different gender. However, if there is a significant shift of mate selection preference across different ages. It is better to change the age difference as an IV to better reflect the trend. If we analysis the data without manipulate the age difference, then the data may not show any significant differences across different age groups because the data of each group will add noises to each other.
Without doubt, as suggested by Group2, not only age difference, there are also other kind of confounds (e.g. love history, generations, etc.) which may covary with IVs and obviously we cannot change all the items into IVs since it is very complicated. Therefore, to handle the extra noises caused by these EVs, it is recommended to increase the sample size of the survey so as to increase the statistical power.
Dating back to the early 1900’s and all the way through to the present, romantic relationships have been viewed differently. From strict unwritten dating regulations to not having regulations at all, recent generations have become more liberated in making their own decisions. The progressing times have made us become a more accepting society and have caused a decrease in the strong practice of religion and class. Even though differences such as religion and class in relationships were more than an issue they were not always a complete deterrence.
In order to distinguish the difference between loving and liking, questionnaire should be undergone. Firstly, the love-scale should be set which referred to the association response from the questionnaire. Some questionnaire items had to be provided according to the attitude of the respondents toward the target person. The questionnaire represented the personal visions of two panels of students and faculty about the ideas of love and like. It contained theoretical thinking and pointed to the three elements of love mentioned in paragraph one. The questionnaire items included two categories, like and love and questionnaires were distributed to 158 dating couples at the University of Michigan. The results found that love and like were more strongly related among males than females and it gave some proofs for the suggestion that it was more illustrious for women to differentiate the two emotions than men. The results also showed that women like their male friends more than other side like them. Moreover, women were prone to say love to same-sex friends more than men and those might be some kinds of the gender differe...
Using John Lee’s six styles of love and Sternberg’s triangular theory of love, I will discuss to separate relationships and how they relate to them. The two couples I chose to interview are from different generations, but both love their partner immensely. Throughout my interviews with the couples, I practiced active listening and got to know more about how their relationships worked.
To answer this question, I conducted a simple experiment with different variable. The first variable is age. The second is location. I interviewed sixteen people, (eight women and eight men) and asked them the same questions. Four males and females are from the Binghamton area, and four males and females are from the Long Island area.
In the article the researchers were trying to challenge the sexual strategies theory. It seems as though sexual strategies theory is different genders having different preferences when choosing a mate, in the case of long and short term relationships. The hypothesis at first was that both boys and girls felt that attractiveness was important. Girls would be more inclined to date someone because of social status and that boys would be the complete opposite. They also expected that social status would only become important when the person is attractive and social status would be important no matter if the person is attractive on no for girls. The last thing that was tested was according to Ha (2009) “the potential moderator effects of self-perceived mate value on adolescents desire to date with an attractive person.” Also according to Ha (2009) “They hypothesized that boys and girls preference for attractiveness and high social status would be independent of their own perceived mate value.” The information used to come to result of the theory has been known to be collect using surveys ...
After learning about the different styles of love, types of love, and attachments, people start trying to find their “perfect” mate by following a mate selection process. This search could happen rapidly and unexpectedly or it can develop over time. There are six different components to the mate selection model including, personality traits, social support, beliefs and attitudes, partner interactions, satisfaction, and stability. Personality traits relate to the traits that the partners will bring to their relationship and how they effect it. From the personality trait stems social support (which goes straight to satisfaction) and beliefs and attitudes (which leads to partner interactions). Social support ties in the family and friends component
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That the most success found in a romantic relationship is one where the five features are similar between partners. The individual differences include patterns of growing as an adolescent in variation and that the timing involvement for both romantic relationship and sexual activity has a factor (Collins, 2003). One could be more advanced in an intimate and sexual relationship and cause conflict, unless they partner up with someone at the same level of the features causing a fluent
Young people more and more often ask themselves what is better: be in a relationship or being single. Nowadays, being in a relationship is too difficult for young people. They are too busy to bother with building relationships – they have to study and often work at the same time. But is a relationship such a big burden as they seem? There are some advantages and also disadvantages of being in relationship, but being alone is not a good solution either. Now, I would like to compare and contrast those two statements.
There were seven individuals that I had interviewed, which consist of four females and three males. Subject A is an 18-year-old single female who came from Hispanic origin. Subject B is a 20-year-old single Caucasian male. Subject C is a 23-year-old single mother with a five-year old son with a Palauan origin. Subject D is a 19-year-old single Filipino female. Subject E is a 19-year-old Filipino female who is currently in a long-term relationship. Subject F is a 20-year-old single Japanese male who has never been in a relationship. Lastly, subject G is a 20-year-old previous engaged Caucasian male. All participants are heterosexual, and have been born and raised in the United Sates.
In the first group an infinite portion of the respondent omitted to answer some question with an average of 1/273 refusal, bringing the percentage to 0.4%. This could be explained by the close supervision that the participants were submitted. Each session were overseen and controlled by the researcher. The second cluster had a different upshot as it was observed in strong dichotomous behaviour, question directly related to the calculation of the PDI and IDV had a low average rate of no response 1.6/100 for a percentage of 1.6%. However, the portion regarding gender, age, profession and level of education were avoided by considerable extent of partakers, on average 17/100 questions were circumvented for a percentage of 17%. The explanation for this result could be understood by the age of this collection being in standard double the maturity of the precedent cluster, around 40 years old compare 21 for the initial selection demonstrating the reticence of mature people to reveal personal matter.
The data collection method that we use is direct questionnaire. In this method I greet the woman and male passenger and explain briefly our intention before us giving the questionnaire to the customer. I distribute the questionnaire to the customer of KTM Komuter at the Bank Negara station. The station that I choose is one of the stations who have many passengers. The 60 customer that we choose are representing around 1100 passengers who using Bank Negara KTM Komuter. The questionnaire comprised of two sections. The first section is designed to capture the respondents’ demographic. The questions asked in this section are related to the respondents’ gender, education,race, age, and marital status. The second section is designed to me...
It's a dance as old as the human race. At cocktail lounges and church socials, during office coffee breaks and dinner parties-- most blatantly, perhaps, in the personal ads in newspapers and magazines-- men and women participate in a ritual that has been embedded in our existence since the dawn of man. Beginning at young ages, humans start learning to master the art of attracting someone of the opposite sex, one day hoping to find the perfect mate. Whether it was the physical aspect, personality aspect, or the chemical aspect of attraction, there is something that attracts mankind to members of the other sex. The question is, 'How do you interpret these signals and how do you respond to them?';
Gender is a sociological factor which is a set of relationships, attributes, roles, beliefs and attitudes of human. On the other hand, sexuality can be referred into two traits. First is Biological; second is Physiological. Biological trait is about the difference of sex organs, the production of estrogen or testosterone. Physiological trait is about the difference of facial features, size of bones, shoulders, muscles, fatty issues. According to American Psychological Association, gender and sexuality impacts and is impacted by cultural, political, legal, and philosophical aspects of life. As popular culture is the culture of today, which is always based on universal activities, it is effortless to alter the mind of human so the concept of gender and sexuality would be easier to change. Therefore, this essay is going to discuss about how popular culture affects gender and sexuality in human's attitudes.
Recently , relationship statistics indicate that most people have a partner that is probably close to their age . There is a little bit difference in age between them . They have a concept that this little difference in age gives them the opportunity to be closer mentally and the way of thinking. As they keep in their minds the computability in their long-term relationships . Actually , these kinds of people long for someone who understand them , appreciate them and care for them . But after facing some struggles and can not bear each other , as well as their lack of experience or how to manage their relationship properly . They begin to find out that they live in a society full of stereotypes . Therefore , they begin pairing off with people who are 10 , 15 or more years apart in age . The phenomenon of men prefer the company of younger women , while women prefer men who are older is known as the age differential effect . From 1989 , there was a classic study of human mating in which David Buss found out that the board men normally prefer to marry women who were younger than themselves and this was proved during his survey across 6 continents . As well as , in 1993 and 1994 , a study proved that women were more willing than men to marry someone older . Age does matter in relationship . Whether the man is older than woman or vice versa , the maturity in this relationship plays a great factor , for not facing the case of abusing . That is why the younger one woman or man should be aware of the effect of the difference in age emotionally and physically . There are various opinions related to that topic , some agree that relationships with age gaps are very common these days . If you were to ask thes...