Partners and Cross-Sex Friends
A Preliminary Study of the Way Marital and Defacto Partnerships Affect Verbal Intimacy with Cross-Sex Friends
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12516919 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Patford (University of Tasmania, corresponding author), Janet L Patford (University of Tasmania) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 106-119 |
| Publication date | 2000-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Family Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1322-9400 • E-ISSN: 1839-3543 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.5172/jfs.6.1.106 |
| OpenAlex | W2034574970 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 7 |
Friendships help to preserve physical and psychological wellbeing, but they are likely to atrophy if people concentrate their energies on a spouse or de facto partner. To shed light on the way marital and de facto partnerships affect friendships, the present study predicted verbal intimacy in cross-sex friendships on the basis of gender, level of commitment to a partner, and level of self-disclosure to a partner. Data were collected from primary and secondary school teachers. Overall, findings do not support the notion that people's limited needs or energy for intimacy are divided across relationships. Neither do they indicate that people with a high level of commitment to a partner disclose less to cross-sex friends
Affect (linguistics · De facto · Developmental psychology · Friendship · Interpersonal relationship · Political science · Project commissioning · Publishing · Sociology · Spouse · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics · Behavioral Health and Interventions · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.06 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2009 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |