[rvedd001]

Okay, let's post some more results. I will answer your question socolias when I am done with that as it is a good one.

The primary aspect of my study was to explore the mediating role that sexual permissiveness played between gender and primary relationship commitment. Based on past research, instead of a direct relationship between gender and commitment, I hypothesized that gender caused sexual permissiveness (the mediator) which in turn caused relationship commitment.

Mediation was not found. Without getting too long-winded, mediation is established through 4 steps. All 4 steps must to met to have full mediation. My mediation failed at step 1. In the first step I addressed gender differences in commitment and found none. Other populations have be found to have gender differences in commitment whereas swingers did not.

I also looked at gender differences in sexual permissiveness. The results supported a significant difference between men and women on sexual permissiveness, indicating that men are more permissive than women. This is much like what past reseach has found with other populations.

In addition, sexual permissiveness was significantly, positively correlated with commitment, r=.22, p<.01, such that low sexual permissiveness scores, which suggest greater sexual permissiveness, were related to lower reports of commitment to one’s primary relationship. As such, the positive correlation demonstrates that individuals who have elevated permissive attitudes towards the sexual experiences of others, tend to have lower commitment to their primary relationship.


I also looked at differences in sexual permissiveness between those that are married versus unmarried. I found no significant difference.

That is all of my quantatative results thus far.

Regards,

Rachel