What is it about?
Individuals commonly experience ups and downs in their romantic relationships. It is widely believed that when these changes occur in mixed-gender partnerships, women’s relationship perceptions carry more weight than men’s in predicting future relationship satisfaction. This study tested this idea using data from nine studies that assessed 901 mixed-gender couples daily for up to 21 days and from 3,405 mixed-gender couples assessed annually across five years. Analysis of more than 50,000 relationship satisfaction reports revealed that men’s and women’s relationship satisfaction were equally strong predictors of their own and their partner’s next-day and next-year satisfaction.
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Why is it important?
These findings challenge the notion that women’s perceptions about their relationship are more consequential than men’s and highlight the interconnectedness of partners in romantic relationships.
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This page is a summary of: Women and Men are the Barometers of Relationships: Testing the Predictive Power of Women’s and Men’s Relationship Satisfaction, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, August 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2209460119.
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