Relationship Quality of Gay Men in Closed or Open Relationships

Bibliographic Data

ID3668907
AuthorsLawrence A Kurdek (Wright State University), J Patrick Schmitt (Wright State University)
Year1986
Volume12
Issue2
Pages85-99
Publication date1986-04-29
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Homosexuality (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0091-8369 • E-ISSN: 1540-3602
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1300/j082v12n02_06
PMID3835204
OpenAlexW1986418819
LanguageEN
Citations received41

This study compared gay men in monogamous ("closed") relationships (n = 98) and gay men in nonmonogamous ("open") relationships (n = 34). Partners in open relationships were living together significantly longer than partners in closed relationships. Partners in the two types of relationships did not differ in Psychological Adjustment. Controlling for length of time living together, partners in closed relationships reported higher Affiliation/Dependency, more Favorable Attitudes toward the Relationship, and lower Tension than partners in open relationships. Global relationship quality for both types of couples was related to many Attractions, many Barriers, and few Alternatives to the relationship; few beliefs regarding both Disagreement is Destructive and Partners Cannot Change; high Dyadic Attachment; high Shared Decision Making; and low Psychological Maladjustment. Partners in both types of relationships were more similar to each other than different from each other, especially on the variables of Relationship Quality, a belief in Partner Changeability, and Dyadic Attachment

Family medicine · Homosexuality · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV · Male Homosexuality · Men who have sex with men · Psychoanalysis · Quality (philosophy · Sociology · Syphilis · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics · Gender Studies · Marriage and Sexual Relationships · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology

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