Sex Differences in Attitudes Toward Romantic Love Among College Students

1992 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard S. Cimbalo ◽  
Deora O. Novell
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Sex Differences ◽  
Romantic Love

Sex Differences in Romantic Love Attitudes among College Students

1993 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard S. Cimbalo ◽  
Deora O. Novell
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Sex Differences ◽  
Sexual Behavior ◽  
Romantic Love ◽  
Double Standard ◽  
Routine Activities ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
Love Attitudes

Previous research, using factor analysis, derived seven dimensions of romantic love. We sought to address whether these dimensions differed in importance for women and men. Specifically, it was hypothesized that women would consider Marriage and Family, Traditional Romantic Behavior, Routine Activities, and Religion, and men would consider Sexual Behavior, Aberrant Sex, and Drugs as more romantic. These specific predictions were seen as consistent with the ‘double standard’ regarding sex, i.e., it should be more important for men, and with an earlier theory we developed in which it was argued that in addition to the ‘double standard’ for sex, security-related stimuli should be more important for women. The results were entirely consistent with our predictions.

Reliability Study of the Defense Mechanism Inventory

1971 ◽  
Vol 29 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1237-1238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herbert N. Weissman ◽  
Kenneth Ritter ◽  
Robert M. Gordon
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Sex Differences ◽  
Lower Limit ◽  
Defense Mechanism ◽  
Reliability Study ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
Reliability Characteristics

Aims of this study are to replicate and elucidate reliability characteristics of the Defense Mechanism Inventory (Gleser & Ihilevich, 1969). College students (Men = 47, Women = 47) were administered the Defense Mechanism Inventory on two occasions separated by a 17-day interval. Whereas test-retest reliabilities for both the total and the women approximated the ranges reported by Gleser and Ihilevich (1969), the range of correlations for the men had a much lower limit. Significant sex differences were found on four of the five dimensions.

scholarly journals Romantic Love and Attentional Biases Toward Attractive Alternatives and Rivals: Long-Term Relationship Maintenance Among Female Chinese College Students

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 147470491989760
Author(s):  
Yidan Ma ◽  
Weifeng Xue ◽  
Guang Zhao ◽  
Shen Tu ◽  
Yong Zheng
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Chinese Women ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Romantic Love ◽  
Relationship Maintenance ◽  
Attentional Biases ◽  
Age Range

Studies about heterosexual individuals’ long-term relationship maintenance have indicated that committed individuals possess evolved psychological mechanisms that help protect their ongoing romantic relationships against threats from attractive others during early stage attentional processing when mating-related motivation is activated. In this study, two experiments tested the relationship maintenance mechanism among committed female college students in the Chinese cultural context under different love priming conditions. Committed Chinese women displayed inattention to attractive alternatives in positive love-scenario priming (Study 1: 114 female undergraduates, age range = 18–26 years), subliminal semantic love priming (Study 2: 110 female undergraduates, age range = 18–25 years), and baseline conditions (Studies 1 and 2). Those with high levels of chronic jealousy showed significantly increased attention to and difficulty disengaging attention from attractive rivals when subliminally primed with love. This provides further evidence, from an Eastern cultural context, for the existence of attentional biases toward attractive alternatives and rivals in early stage attentional processes for relationship maintenance. This research also illustrates the important role of romantic love in maintaining long-term romantic relationships.

Lack of Sex Differences with the Baldwin Illusion

1990 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 305-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Holland ◽  
A. E. Wilson ◽  
M. Goddard
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Sex Differences

Responses of college students (16 men and 16 women) to the Baldwin illusion showed a significant effect for size of square but not for sex. Findings are consistent with those reported previously by Porac, Coren, Girgus, and Verde for adults and for the oldest group of children tested by Pressey and Wilson.

Sex Differences in Privacy Preferences

1987 ◽  
Vol 64 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1239-1242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darhl M. Pedersen
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Sex Differences ◽  
The Other ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Female College Students ◽  
Female College ◽  
Privacy Preferences ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Mean

A Privacy Questionnaire was administered to 118 male and 142 female college students to determine differences in the patterns of privacy preferences between the sexes. The questionnaire contained factor scales for measuring six independent types of privacy. t-tests showed that the means for women were significantly higher than those for men in their preferences for Intimacy with Family and Intimacy with Friends. On the other hand, for Isolation the mean for men was significantly higher than that for women. There were no significant differences between the means for the two sexes on the remaining three dimensions, Reserve, Solitude, and Anonymity.

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