The Process of Intimacy: Similarity, Understanding and Gender.

Heller, Patrice E.; Wood, Beatrice

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ERIC Number: EJ581111

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1998

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The Process of Intimacy: Similarity, Understanding and Gender.

Heller, Patrice E.; Wood, Beatrice

Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, v24 n3 p273-88 Jul 1998

Examines gender and three aspects of couples' (N=50) marital intimacy using a method establishing both objective and subjective indices of intimacy. Results suggest that high intimacy is based on both understanding and similarity of intimate experience. Women reported higher levels of intimacy and were also better than men in predicting their partners' feelings. (Author/MKA)

Descriptors: Bias, Evaluation Methods, Intimacy, Marital Satisfaction, Prediction, Sex Differences

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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