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Christopher Nathaniel Smith – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Consensual Non-Monogamy (CNM) is an umbrella term for relationships in which all partners explicitly consent to engage in romantic, intimate, or sexual relationships with multiple people. In a recent study on polyamory, one form of CNM, data from a nationally representative sample of 3,438 single adults in the U.S. from a range of backgrounds…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, African American Students, College Students, Student Experience
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Spišák, Sanna – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2022
This article explores Finnish regulatory authorities' attempts to mitigate young people's participation in mediated sexuality. Previous studies have argued that both attempted regulation and education about media and sexuality are often out of touch with many adolescents' lives. This study uses a Foucauldian inspired critical investigative method…
Descriptors: Intimacy, Sexuality, Computer Mediated Communication, Social Media
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Borusiak, Liubov' – Russian Education and Society, 2012
Issues of sexuality have started to be studied quite extensively in Russia in the past few years, and the results of research have appeared in this country's scholarly literature.1 It is regularly noted, moreover, that at the present time Russian sociologists have only very preliminary, fragmentary ideas not only about the sexual behavior of…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Adolescents, Foreign Countries, College Students
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Sarlet, Marie; Dumont, Muriel; Delacollette, Nathalie; Dardenne, Benoit – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2012
Behavioral prescription specifies how people ought to act. Five studies investigated prescription for men of protective paternalism, a particular form of benevolent sexism, depending on contextual and individual factors. In Studies 1 and 2, female participants prescribed for men more protective paternalistic behavior toward women in a romantic…
Descriptors: Females, Gender Bias, Intimacy, Males
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Huang, Penelope M.; Smock, Pamela J.; Manning, Wendy D.; Bergstrom-Lynch, Cara A. – Journal of Family Issues, 2011
Cohabitation has become the modal path to marriage in the United States. However, little is known about what cohabitation means to young adults today. Drawing on data from 18 focus groups (N = 138) and 54 in-depth interviews with young adults, this exploratory study investigates motivations to cohabit and examines potential gender differences in…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Intimacy, Marriage, Young Adults
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Houston, Sara – Research in Dance Education, 2009
The article examines the experience of participating in Contact Improvisation by male prisoners. It specifically focuses on issues of touch for this participant group and how inmates can learn different ways of acting from acquiring Contact skills, contributing to their rehabilitation. The paper looks at the culture in prisons that propagates a…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Males, Correctional Institutions, Dance Education
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Sorenson, Susan B.; Taylor, Catherine A. – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2005
We investigated the effect of assailant gender on injunctive social norms (i.e., beliefs about what ought to happen) regarding violence toward an intimate heterosexual partner. In a random-digit-dialed survey conducted in four languages, 3,769 community-residing adults were presented with five vignettes in which we experimentally manipulated…
Descriptors: Females, Aggression, Interpersonal Relationship, Behavior Standards
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Leaper, Campbell – New Directions for Child Development, 1994
Discusses the effects of gender segregation, which emerges in early childhood, on later adolescent and adult relationships. Suggests that communication and power relations in male-female relationships are likely to be influenced by gender differences in social norms. Provides recommendations for parents and teachers interested in encouraging…
Descriptors: Behavior Standards, Interpersonal Competence, Interpersonal Relationship, Intimacy
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Oropesa, R. S. – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1996
Using the 1987-88 National Survey of Families and Households, this research examines normative beliefs about marriage and cohabitation among non-Latino whites, Mexican Americans, and mainland Puerto Ricans. Results indicate Mexican Americans tend to be more pronuptial than non-Latino whites. They evaluate marriage more positively relative to…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Standards, Cohabitation, Human Relations