Sex Roles and Intimacy in Same Sex and Other Sex Relationships
- 1 March 1981
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychology of Women Quarterly
- Vol. 5 (3) , 444-455
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-6402.1981.tb00585.x
Abstract
In a survey of sex roles and intimacy in ongoing, close relationships it was hypothesized that the androgynous would have higher intimacy scores. The androgynous and sex-typed persons did not differ from each other but both were higher on intimacy than the undifferentiated. The only sex role independently related to intimacy was femininity. Based on the patterns of intimacy scores found for different types of relationships, sex-role stereotyping was implicated in the intimacy levels of women and men. The significant role of men's self-esteem in male-female relationships requires further investigation as do the contextual manipulations through which intimates may reduce the negative impact of sex-role stereotyping.Keywords
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