Date of Award
Summer 2007
Document Type
Dissertation - Restricted
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Psychology
First Advisor
de St. Aubin, Ed.
Second Advisor
Franzoi, Stephen
Third Advisor
Seal, David
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to build upon previous research investigating people's satisfaction with romantic and sexual relationships. Currently, a useful way to examine sex, gender-mode, sexual orientation, and romantic relationship and sexual satisfaction is to incorporate the qualitative methods of grounded theory with dyad statistics. Past research in this area has consistently supplied participants with qualities to rate and consider when asking about satisfaction and partner characteristics (for example, Buss, 1989a, Regan & Sprecher, 1995). Participants rate these values, and statistical methods reveal that when given values, men rate some higher than women and vice versa...