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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Heterosexual couples"”.
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Heterosexual couples, gender discourse, and the production of relational subjectivity
… poststructural theory. The focus of the study is heterosexual relationships. In particular, the study investigates the shaping effects of patriarchal discourses on the relational subjectivity of a woman partner; how a woman partner responds to and refuses this shaping; and why and how a man might …
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Transitioning into parenthood : family leisure and heterosexual couples in New Zealand
… pregnancy through to first time parenthood for heterosexual couples in Christchurch, New Zealand. The particular focus on this study was on how this transition impacted upon access, opportunity and experiences of family leisure. As a result this study can claim to be longitudinal as it follows a …
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Intimate Partner Violence in Heterosexual Couples Viewed Through the Lens of Attachment
… partner violence. Extant data from thirty couples self-reporting violence in their relationship, was used. Individual audiotaped interviews from a study unrelated to attachment were transcribed. Ten interviews (five couples) were selected for coding. Applying the modified analytic induction …
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House of Men v. House of Women: Gender Domination and Relational Issues among Heterosexual Couples
… in a household created conflicts within future heterosexual relationships as to courtship, marriage, finances, and child rearing. 150 people responded from a pool of 450 to a ten-question survey.
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A dyadic study examining the association between attachment security and physical health in monogamous, heterosexual couples
… security and physical health outcomes among couples. Both actor and partner effects were explored. Participants were 60 heterosexual, monogamous couples. An initial model indicated a statistically significant actor effect such that men who were higher in attachment anxiety experienced a …
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Presence of children and inequality in the household: employment, housework and earnings in European heterosexual couples
The dissertation investigates couples’ gender inequality in paid and unpaid work as well as in earnings, especially as this inequality relates to parenthood with a cross-national focus. The different behavior of partnered women and men in the three areas is investigated in different institutional …
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The impact of mental health on unintended pregnancies within HIV serodiscordant heterosexual couples in Uganda and Kenya
… and ART delivery to 1,013 HIV serodiscordant couples in Kenya and Uganda. We administered socio-behavioral questionnaires, including assessment of fertility intentions, “probable depression”, “hazardous” alcohol use, and stigma internalized and perceived, at enrollment and annually for up to 2 …
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'Home is where the heart is': everyday geographies of young heterosexual couples' love in and of homes
This thesis focuses on the relationships between heterosexuality, love, and home. It examines the homemaking practices and relationship activities of 14 heterosexual couples, and in particular the experiences of women in these relationships, who are aged between 20-40 years, have no children, and …
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Accounts of the impact of erectile dysfunction on heterosexual couples from men seeking erectogenic treatment and their partners
… transcribed. The study sample consisted of heterosexual couples and compared feedback on the impact of ED from interviews with men seeking erectogenic treatment and their partners. Men attended routine appointments at a secondary care specialist clinic following referral to the clinic by …
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Positive sexual consent: an investigation into perception and communication of positive sexual consent in heterosexual couples in the UK.
… sexual consent shared by sexually intimate couples. Sexual consent here is defined as both, the internal choice to engage in a sexual act with another and the communication of that choice to that other concerned. Primary research comprised of conjoined interviews with six British, …
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Relationships, psychological distress and stigma: a counselling psychology perspective
… an individual perspective, or have looked at non-heterosexual relationship contexts, including lesbian relationships. Little attention has been paid to examining in depth, the relational experiences of heterosexual couples who experience PMS. The current study, therefore, aims to provide insight …
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Negotiating meaning following infertility and disruption to life plans
… experience and not enough attention given to couples who go through IVF together. The aim of this research was to investigate how heterosexual couples co-construct their experience of infertility and fertility treatment. It was of interest how they construct their experience, how they …
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Aggression In Lesbian And Bisexual Relationships
… associated with partner aggression among heterosexual couples, and therefore demonstrate not only the need for further research on the topic of same-sex partner abuse, but also the urgency to provide more assistance to the victims/survivors of domestic violence.</p>
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Relational Engagement and Empowerment: Establishing a Foundation to Address Gender and Power
… resulting in gendered power inequalities in heterosexual couple relationships. These disempowering discourses often manifest in males’ socialization to maintain autonomy compared to females’ socialization to orient toward the needs of others (Silverstein, Bass, Tuttle, Knudson-Martin, & …
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The effects of infidelity on lesbian relationships
Research has been conducted on heterosexual couples in terms of the effects of affairs or infidelity. However, there is little information on infidelity or affairs among lesbian couples. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the effects of infidelity on lesbian couples. An additional …
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Personality and marital satisfaction: The role of similarity and psychological health
… to marital satisfaction in a sample of 76 heterosexual couples. Personality characteristics were measured with the Index of Self-esteem and the NEO-Five Factor Inventory, which assesses levels of Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness, Conscientiousness, and Agreeableness. The Dyadic …
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Analyzing Well-being in Late Life: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches
… examined data from 90 husbands and wives (45 heterosexual couples). The qualitative method of thematic analysis was utilized to code core themes from the interviews and compare them with adult developmental theory. Further, a typology of broader narrative “story” types was identified for the …
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Materialism, Perceived Financial Problems, and Marital Satisfaction
… and relationship satisfaction among married couples. Data obtained from 600 married heterosexual couples who took the RELATE test fit the model well. Findings indicate that wives' materialism is negatively related to husbands' marital satisfaction. Husbands' and wives' materialism is …
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Gender differences in agency and communion: A meta-analysis
… agency was larger when sampling participants as heterosexual couples versus when sampling as individuals. An important methodological moderator was measurement instrument (e.g., short-form BSRI shows much smaller gender gaps than other measures). Theory and implications of the moderated gender …
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The relational construction of woman abuse : narratives of gender, subjectivity and violence in South Africa
This study examined how women and men in intimate heterosexual relationships attribute meaning to the man's perpetration of violence against a woman partner. Narrative interviews were conducted with women and men who constituted 15 heterosexual couples (30 individual women and men). Narrative …
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