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Title: Matching in Sexual Experience for Married, Cohabitating, And Dating Couples (+) (Report)
Author : The Journal of Sex Research
Release Date : January 01, 2007
Genre: Health & Fitness,Books,Health, Mind & Body,
Pages : * pages
Size : 217 KB

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This study examined heterosexual romantic partners' number of intercourse partners prior to the initiation of their relationship to determine if a significant positive correlation (matching) occurred between partners, and if this matching was associated with their level of love and satisfaction with and commitment to the relationship. One hundred and six couples who were dating, cohabitating, or married participated in this study. Results indicated that, with the exception of cohabitating couples, romantic partners showed a significant level of matching in the prior number of intercourse partners. Further, among the married couples, a higher discrepancy between men's and women's number of previous intercourse partners was related to lower levels of love, satisfaction, and commitment in the relationship. There is by now a considerable body of research on the role that similarity plays in interpersonal relationships. For example, the research on interpersonal attraction and friendship has shown that attitude similarity is a major influence on attraction (Byrne, 1997), with individuals who are similar to one another reporting a higher level of attraction than individuals who are dissimilar. The role of similarity in attraction also has been investigated among individuals in romantic relationships, particularly in terms of assortative mating. A substantial amount of research suggests that married couples tend to be similar in their level of physical attractiveness (Price & Vandenberg, 1979) as are dating couples (Feingold, 1988). Married couples are similar in their political and religious attitudes (e.g., D'Onofrio, Eaves, Murrelle, Maes, & Spilka, 1999; Feng & Baker, 1994), and dating couples have been found to be similar in their attitudes about love and level of self-disclosure (Hendrick, Hendrick, & Adler, 1988). Furthermore, as noted by Watson, Klohnen, Casillas, Simms, and Haig (2004), similarity tends to be more pronounced on some variables (e.g., attitudes, age, values, etc.) than on others (e.g., personality).