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Article: How do romantic relationship satisfaction, gender stereotypes, and gender relate to future time orientation in romantic relationships?
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- The Journal of Psychology
- Article date:
- May 1, 2003
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IN THE PRESENT STUDY I explored how romantic relationship satisfaction, attitudes toward gender stereotypes about romantic relationship, and gender are related to future time orientation in romantic relationships in a sample of university students who were currently in heterosexual dating relationships. A great deal of research has been focused on satisfaction in dating and in marital relationships. Satisfaction can be defined as an intrapersonal evaluation of the positivity of feelings for one's partner and attraction to the relationship (Rusbult, 1983). Romantic relationship satisfaction has been shown to be associated with various factors such as commitment (Rusbult, ...