Touch-Avoidance and Touch-Seeking in Non-intimate Relationships: The Null Effects of Sightedness

2021 ◽  
pp. 0145482X2110476
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Sorokowska ◽  
Michal Mikolaj Stefańczyk ◽  
Justyna Płachetka ◽  
Olga Dudojć ◽  
Krzysztof Ziembik ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Tactile Stimulation ◽  
Social Touch ◽  
Visual Status ◽  
Touch Avoidance ◽  
Interpersonal Situations ◽  
Sense Of Touch ◽  
Sensory Compensation

People differ in their touch preferences and in the ways in which they touch others. People who are blind are particularly sensitive to tactile stimulation as a result of sensory compensation, and sense of touch can support their interpersonal communication. In the article presented here, we aimed to explore whether visual status predicts preferences for touch behaviors involving strangers; specifically, we examined touch-seeking and touch-avoidance in non-intimate interpersonal situations. Our study, whose participants comprised 43 individuals with congenital blindness, 53 individuals with adventitious blindness, and 47 sighted controls, showed that visual status does not predict touch-seeking or social touch-avoidance. We also observed similar gender differences in all participating groups, with women avoiding social touch more than men in non-intimate interpersonal situations involving strangers.

Gender Differences in the Motivations for the Use of Sanctions in Conflicts Within Muslim and Jewish Couples

2020 ◽  
pp. 088626052093549
Author(s):  
Wafaa Sowan-Basheer ◽  
Zeev Winstok
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Orthodox Jewish ◽  
Heterosexual Couples ◽  
Preliminary Estimate ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
First Time ◽  
Empirical Implications

This study aimed to examine differences between men and women and between Muslims, secular Jews, and religious Jews in their motivations for using sanctions within their intimate relationships. This work involved heterosexual couples from the general population. The sample included 95 Muslim, 68 secular Jewish, and 70 ultra-orthodox Jewish couples (466 participants). The findings of the study show that sanction use during times of conflict is prevalent among the vast majority of couples. Motivations for the use of sanctions are stronger among women than men. In addition, the strongest motivation expressed by both genders was a motivation for conflict resolution. This is the first time that sanctions, as a tactic to cope with conflict, have been addressed in a scholarly manner. This study provides a preliminary estimate of how commonly these types of behaviors are used in intimate relationships. Theoretical and empirical implications of the theoretical framework and the findings are discussed, including the role of the use of sanction in the escalation of intimate partner conflicts.

scholarly journals Tactile Modulation of Emotional Speech Samples

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katri Salminen ◽  
Veikko Surakka ◽  
Jani Lylykangas ◽  
Jussi Rantala ◽  
Teemu Ahmaniemi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Tactile Stimulation ◽  
Speech Sample ◽  
Emotional Speech ◽  
Emotional Information ◽  
Tactile Stimuli ◽  
Sense Of Touch ◽  
The Way

Traditionally only speech communicates emotions via mobile phone. However, in daily communication the sense of touch mediates emotional information during conversation. The present aim was to study if tactile stimulation affects emotional ratings of speech when measured with scales of pleasantness, arousal, approachability, and dominance. In the Experiment 1 participants rated speech-only and speech-tactile stimuli. The tactile signal mimicked the amplitude changes of the speech. In the Experiment 2 the aim was to study whether the way the tactile signal was produced affected the ratings. The tactile signal either mimicked the amplitude changes of the speech sample in question, or the amplitude changes of another speech sample. Also, concurrent static vibration was included. The results showed that the speech-tactile stimuli were rated as more arousing and dominant than the speech-only stimuli. The speech-only stimuli were rated as more approachable than the speech-tactile stimuli, but only in the Experiment 1. Variations in tactile stimulation also affected the ratings. When the tactile stimulation was static vibration the speech-tactile stimuli were rated as more arousing than when the concurrent tactile stimulation was mimicking speech samples. The results suggest that tactile stimulation offers new ways of modulating and enriching the interpretation of speech.

Possessiveness

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfonso Troisi
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Child Abuse ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Personality Profile ◽  
Anxious Attachment ◽  
Behavioral Traits ◽  
Psychological Mechanisms ◽  
John Bowlby ◽  
Maternal Abuse ◽  
Clinical Conditions

The opposite of detachment is possessiveness, which generally reflects a personality profile characterized by anxious attachment. This chapter describes the psychological and behavioral traits that characterize people with anxious attachment and discusses two clinical conditions related to abnormal levels of possessiveness: child abuse and pathological jealousy. The discussion of these two conditions is based on very different databases. Whereas descriptions and explanations of pathological jealousy are based on psychiatric literature, the analysis of child abuse consists of a synopsis of studies of spontaneous cases of maternal abuse of offspring in monkeys, including the successful pharmacological treatment of abusive mothers. Also recounted is the author’s correspondence with John Bowlby regarding interpretation of the observations in monkeys. The chapter closes with a brief discussion of the psychological mechanisms that motivate normal jealousy in intimate relationships and of gender differences in jealousy, along with evolutionary explanations for such differences.

Gender Difference in Living Apart Together

2020 ◽  
pp. 52-77
Author(s):  
Cynthia Grant Bowman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Gender Differences ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
The United States ◽  
Science Literature ◽  
Work Lives ◽  
Raising Children ◽  
Living Apart Together ◽  
The Social ◽  
Supportive Relationship

This chapter focuses on the attraction of a LAT lifestyle for women, in part based on indications from the social science literature from outside the United States and in part drawing on my interviews of women LATs in the United States and England. There are gender differences in living apart. LAT allows women to maintain their independence without forgoing the benefits of intimate relationships. For some women, who are intensely involved in their work lives, raising children from a previous marriage, or both, LAT offers a way to have a physically and emotionally supportive relationship when cohabitation or marriage would be difficult.

AGE, CULTURE, AND THE ANTECEDENTS OF LONELINESS

2005 ◽  
Vol 33 (5) ◽  
pp. 477-494 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ami Rokach ◽  
Felix Neto
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Situational Variables ◽  
Social Marginality

Loneliness is a pervasive experience which everyone has experienced. It is a subjective experience, which is influenced by one's personality and situational variables. This study examined the influence of age and culture on the perceived causes of loneliness. One thousand, three hundred and forty-seven Canadian and Portuguese participants from all walks of life volunteered to answer an 82-item yes/no questionnaire reflecting on the causes of their loneliness. The questionnaire used in this study is composed of the factors that describe causes of loneliness: Personal inadequacies, Developmental deficits, Unfulfilling intimate relationships, Relocation/significant separations, and Social marginality. Gender differences between and within the groups were also examined. Four age groups were compared: youth (13–18 years old), young adults (19–30), adults (31–58) and the elderly (60 and older). Within and between culture and age comparisons were also done. Results indicated that the causes of loneliness are perceived differently depending on one's age and culture.

Warning Signs of Partner Abuse in Intimate Relationships: Gender Differences in Young Adults’ Perceptions of Seriousness

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 1779-1802
Author(s):  
Anna Towler ◽  
Areana Eivers ◽  
Ron Frey
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Adult Population ◽  
Partner Abuse ◽  
Warning Signs ◽  
Warning Sign ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Perceived Seriousness

In response to the high rates of intimate partner abuse (IPA) among young adults and related negative health effects, this study examined 18- to 26-year-old Australians’ perceptions of unhealthy partner behaviors that may constitute early warning signs of abuse in intimate relationships. This research is the first to examine gender differences on this issue in a young adult population. A convenience sample of 49 males and 152 females ( N = 201) completed an online survey, rating how seriously they viewed a list of partner warning sign behaviors (WSBs). WSBs consisted of three subscales: Dominance-Possessiveness, Denigration, and Conflict-Retaliation. Participants’ perceived seriousness of WSBs was analyzed by gender and WSB type. Results revealed large and significant gender differences in perceptions of WSBs, with females likely to rate all WSBs more seriously than males. Furthermore, females’ responses were negatively skewed and leptokurtotic indicating high levels of convergence in the view that such behaviors are a concern. Analysis by WSB type revealed that conflict-retaliation behaviors were perceived most seriously by both genders, with more than half of males and 67% of females rating these as very serious. In contrast, significantly lower levels of perceived seriousness were observed for denigration and dominance-possessiveness behaviors. Half to two thirds of females viewed dominance-possessiveness and denigration WSBs as very serious, respectively, whereas just one third of males endorsed both these WSB types as very serious. Findings reveal that females have a heightened awareness of the subtle warning signs of abuse in intimate relationships and that as partner WSBs become more overt, both genders are more likely to recognize them as serious. Findings also indicate that subtler WSBs, such as control and denigration, are less readily identified as unhealthy, particularly among males.

Gender Differences in Expectations of Self and Future Partner

1992 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
LAWRENCE H. GANONG ◽  
MARILYN COLEMAN
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Gender Differences ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Single Female ◽  
Marital Partner ◽  
Educational Achievements ◽  
Male College ◽  
Personal Success

The expectations that 131 single female and 103 male college students had for themselves and their future marital partners were investigated using a combination of open-ended items and Likert-type scales. Although the students did not differ on expectations for personal success, they did differ on expectations for the success of their future marital partner. Young women expected more success for their future husbands than young men expected for their future wives. In addition, women expected their future husbands to make significantly more money and have higher educational achievements, and to be more intelligent, more successful, and better able to handle things than themselves. The implications of these findings for intimate relationships are discussed.

scholarly journals SELF DISCLOSURE DALAM MEMBENTUK LEVEL HUBUNGAN INTERPERSONAL PERSPEKTIF GENDER DI ASRAMA PUTRA DAN PUTRI STAIN PAREPARE

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-96
Author(s):  
Hasniar Hasniar ◽  
Muhammad Qadaruddin ◽  
Nurhakki Nurhakki
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Open Area ◽  
Self Disclosure ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Good System ◽  
The Relationship

Self-disclosure or "self disclosure" can be interpreted as giving information about yourself to others. The information provided can include various things such as life experiences, feelings, emotions, opinions, ideals, etc. Self-disclosure needs to be done by the dormitory because it is one way to adapt to the new environment. Self-disclosure, among others, is influenced by gender differences. Self-disclosure is closely related to effective interpersonal communication. The type of research conducted by the researcher is descriptive qualitative research using interviews, observation and documentation to find the data to be analyzed using triangulation techniques. The results of this study indicate that STAIN Parepare male dormitory and female dormitory students are able to build interpersonal relationships by means of self-disclosure and are able to provide an overview of the existence of gender differences in terms of the process of building interpersonal relationships. The relationship stage that can be formed through the sixth stage of the process becomes a reference for discussion to develop interpersonal relationships. Interpersonal relationships that occur in the STAIN Parepare male and female dormitories are in the management of psychological data levels to be able to do self disclosure. son or being in the category area area, the purpose of open area is where the residents of STAIN Parepare dormitories are more at an open level in order to be able to build good relationships. Self disclosure is a good system that is also applied by residents of the Parepare STAIN dormitory to form interpersonal relationships.  

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