Opinions Towards Sexual Partners with a Large Age Difference
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11220641 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Colette A Banks (University of Manchester, corresponding author), Paul Arnold (0000-0003-2496-4624, University of Manchester) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 5-18 |
| Publication date | 2001-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Marriage & Family Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0149-4929 • E-ISSN: 1540-9635 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1300/j002v33n04_02 |
| OpenAlex | W2009161042 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
| References cited | 6 |
Attitudes towards heterosexual sexual relationships, where there is a large age difference between the partners, were investigated. The media assumption that public opinion objects to large age-different relationships and that this objection is more pronounced for relationships where the female is considerably older was examined. One hundred and twenty-two participants completed a questionnaire comprising one scenario of an age-different relationship and seven categories of opinion on which the respondents had to rate their own attitude on a 6-point scale. These seven categories included the ‘acceptability,’ ‘happiness,’ ‘length’ and ‘unrealistic nature’ of a relationship, and also how much respondents thought a couple had in common and whether they considered one member of a couple to be looking for ‘resources’ or a ‘parental figure.’ Large age differences in relationships were found to be significantly less acceptable as the age-difference increased and there was significantly stronger opposition to female-older relationships than to male-older ones
Age groups · Developmental psychology · Happiness · Human sexuality · Opinion survey · Opposition (politics · Political science · Public opinion · Sexual relationship · Significant difference · Social science · Sociology · Demography · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior · Gender Studies · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Medicine · Psychology · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 20 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2025 (20) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |