Friendships of Women and of Men

Bell, Robert R.

doi:10.1111/j.1471-6402.1981.tb00582.x

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“…In support, Canary et al (1997) reviewed a number of studies suggesting that men preferred sexual intimacy over emotional intimacy and women just the reverse (consistent with Abbey 1982;and Bell 1981). Canary et al (1997) review echoed the stereotypes of men as the initiators of sexual activity and women as its gatekeepers (see also Allgeier and Royster 1991;and McCormick and Jesser 1983).…”

Section: Sexualitymentioning

confidence: 89%

Aligning Mars and Venus: The Social Construction and Instability of Gender Differences in Romantic Relationships

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An evolutionary approach to gender differences in romantic relationships has pervaded the scientific literature, a trend mirrored in popular culture by MarsVenus stereotyping. Three studies tested the accuracy of the popular notion that gender differences would emerge for the behaviors women and men want and receive from romantic partners in a sample of 375 students at a southeastern U.S. public university. Across the three studies, only one stable and robust gender difference emerged (desires regarding relationship support), as did several unstable gender differences. However, gender-role identity significantly accounted for nearly half of the variance in this one stable gender difference, challenging the viability of some evolutionary conceptualizations of gender differences and instead providing support for social constructionist and feminist perspectives.

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Section: Sexualitymentioning

confidence: 89%

Aligning Mars and Venus: The Social Construction and Instability of Gender Differences in Romantic Relationships

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“…On the other hand, some research suggests that women may be more likely than men to have a cross-sex friend, as women are more likely than men to initiate the formation of 'platonic' CSFs (Buhrke & Fuqua). Accordingly, some studies do show that women report more CSFs than men do (Bell, 1981;Parker & DeVries, 1993).…”

Section: Sexmentioning

confidence: 95%

Cross-sex Friendships: Who has More?

Lenton

Webber

2006

Sex Roles

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This is the first study to examine the independent, simultaneous, and relative roles of several factorssex, relationship commitment, perceptions of the benefits vs. costs of cross-sex (vs. same-sex) friendships, gender role orientation, and sexism-in the number of cross-sex (vs. same-sex) friendships people have. The latter four constructs were independently found to predict participants' proportions of cross-sex friendships. Furthermore, a model comprised of all five factors provided a very good fit to the data, explaining 35% of the variability in the degree to which the participants possessed cross-sex friendships. Perceptions regarding the general benefits of both sameand cross-sex friendships and cross-gender role orientation continued to explain proportion of cross-sex friendship when the other factors were controlled.

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“…Wright (1984) mentioned that friendship can be differentiate from the other types of relationships by looking into the nature of the interaction. When people meet someone new and become friends, people treat each other as a person with meaning and not just an occupant within a certain role (Bell, 1981). In the west, friendship varies from short-term superficial ones to long-term committed ones (Matthews, 1986).…”

Section: Nature Of Friendshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Making new friends: Social concepts of study abroad

Huang¹,

Chen²,

Ching³

2014

IJRSP

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For the past few years, Asian universities have been trying to position themselves as a venue for study abroad opportunities. This is also quite true in Taiwan, wherein universities are exerting much effort in the recruitment of international students. Within the paradigm of internationalization, having international students in Taiwan is a way to promote communication, understanding, and friendship between other countries around the world.Moreover, it is hypothesized that successful internationalization is built upon the friendships that are form between student exchanges. In addition, with the current increased emphasis in student exchanges with mainland China, it would be quite important to determine the various concepts on friendship within these students. Therefore, the current study seeks to analyze the different insights between the Chinese and local Taiwan students' concepts on friendship.Using a mixed-method paradigm, 6 groups of volunteer students enrolled in a technical and vocational university in Taiwan participated in a series of focus group discussions. Afterwards, a survey was designed from the focus group interview results. The survey was then administered to 200 volunteer mainland Chinese and local Taiwan students. Statistical results show that there are both similarities and differences within the concepts on friendship. Local students are eager to make friends with their international peers, while majority of them thought primarily of the opportunity to understand a new culture. In addition, survey results also show that the highest factor is the social results; wherein the students' goal is to expand their world view and gain interpersonal relationship.

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Friendships of Women and of Men

Cited by 100 publications

References 3 publications

Aligning Mars and Venus: The Social Construction and Instability of Gender Differences in Romantic Relationships

Aligning Mars and Venus: The Social Construction and Instability of Gender Differences in Romantic Relationships

Cross-sex Friendships: Who has More?

Making new friends: Social concepts of study abroad

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