Relationship satisfaction and sexual satisfaction

follow-up plan  questionnaire provided their name and address on a postcard that was returned separately. We mailed follow-up questionnaires to these participants 18 months after the initial mailing (Time 2). (Data from a 3-month follow-up were not used in the current study as 18 months provided a better test of the longitudinal hypotheses.) We made no attempt to find participants who had moved. Eighty-seven Time 1 participants (34 men and 53 women; 36%) completed the Time 2 questionnaire and indicated that they were with the same partner as at Time 1. To match the Time 1 and Time 2 questionnaires while maintaining anonymity, participants devised their own code number according to according to
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1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians.

2. In keeping with: according to instructions.

3.  instructions provided on both questionnaires. Lawrance and Byers (1995) reported Time 1 data.

I conducted two separate MANOVAs to determine whether respondents In the context of marketing research, a representative sample drawn from a larger population of people from whom information is collected and used to develop or confirm marketing strategy.  who completed the questionnaire at Time 1 and Time 2 differed from those who only completed the Time 1 questionnaire. The two groups did not differ in their demographic characteristics (gender, age, length of relationship, relationship status, having a child living at home), F(5, 236) = 0.84, p = .521. They also did not differ in their Time I relationship satisfaction or sexual satisfaction scores, F(2, 236) = 0.62, p = .540. The 87 participants who completed both questionnaires ranged in age from 23 to 61 (M = 37.7, SD = 10.0). At Time 1, respondents had been with their present partner for between 1 and 35 years (M = 12.2, SD = 9.3); most were married (85%) and had children living at home (82%). Although ethnicity ethnicity Vox populi Racial status–ie, African American, Asian, Caucasian, Hispanic  was not assessed, in keeping with the ethnic composition of both the province and the university, it is highly likely that the sample was primarily Caucasian Caucasian or Caucasoid: see race. . Nine participants (10%) reported that they and/or their partners had been in therapy during the 18 month follow-up period. Although 3 of these individuals reported being in therapy for relationship issues, they were retained in the sample because, at Time 1, they reported being relationally satisfied.

Measures

Participants completed the Interpersonal Exchange Model of Sexual Satisfaction (IEMSS) Questionnaire (Lawrance & Byers, 1998) at Time 1 and Time 2, as well as some additional items that differed at each administration. Only the measures that are related to the goals of this study are described here.

Background questionnaire. A background questionnaire was used to collect demographic information such as gender, age, type and length of current relationship, and number of children living in the home.

Global Measure of Relationship Satisfaction (GMREL; Lawrance & Byers, 1998). The GMREL assessed satisfaction with the overall relationship. Respondents rated their relationship with their partner on five 7-point bipolar (1) See bipolar transmission.

(2) One of two major categories of transistor; the other is "field effect transistor" (FET). Although the first transistors and first silicon chips were bipolar, most chips today are field effect transistors wired as CMOS logic, which  scales: good-bad, pleasant-unpleasant, positive-negative, satisfying-unsatisfying, valuable-worthless. Possible scores on the GMREL range from 5 to 35, with higher scores indicating greater relationship satisfaction. Lawrance and Byers (1998) provided evidence for the reliability and validity of the GMREL. Internal consistency In statistics and research, internal consistency is a measure based on the correlations between different items on the same test (or the same subscale on a larger test). It measures whether several items that propose to measure the same general construct produce similar scores.  of the GMREL was high for the present sample ([alpha] = .95 at Time 1 and .96 at Time 2).

Global Measure of Sexual Satisfaction (GMSEX; Lawrance & Byers, 1998). The GMSEX is identical to the GMREL except participants rate their sexual relationship with their partners. Lawrance and Byers provided evidence for the reliability and validity of the GMSEX. Internal consistency was high for the present sample ([alpha] = .96 at both time periods).

Primary Communication Inventory (PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS.

(2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). ; Navran, 1967). The PCI is a 25-item measure that was used to assess the quality of verbal and nonverbal communication nonverbal communication 'Body language', see there  within the respondent's relationship at Time 2 only. Items are rated on a 5-point scale ranging from never to very frequently. Navran (1967) found the PCI to have good validity. Internal consistency in the present study was good ([alpha] = .81).

RESULTS