Housework, Paid Work and Affection among Gay Couples

Housework, paid work and psychiatric symptoms.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the hypothesis that work burden, the simultaneous engagement in paid work and unpaid family housework, is a potential risk factor for psychiatric symptoms among women. METHODS A cross-sectional study was carried out with 460 women randomly selected from a poor area of the city of Salvador, Brazil. Women between 18 to 70 years old, who reported having a paid occupation or...

Sexual agreements among gay male couples.

Many gay male couples make agreements about whether or not to permit sex with outside partners, yet little is known about the development and maintenance of these agreements, their impact on relationships, and whether they are an effective HIV prevention strategy. Using semi-structured, qualitative interviews, 39 gay male couples were asked about their sexual agreements and about other relation...

Health-related social control and relationship interdependence among gay couples.

How gay partners influence each other to promote health and prevent human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is poorly understood. The present study combined qualitative and quantitative methods to examine the experience of health-related social control and relationship processes among a sample of 60 gay male couples. Couples completed semistructured interviews and separate self-administered question...

Gay couples, gay communities, and HIV: challenges for health education.

Private and Public Displays of Affection Among Interracial and Intrarracial Adolescent Couples

Most of the literature on romantic relationships focuses on adults. In addition, those who study the differences between interracial and intrarracial couples often look at only two racial groups, mainly black and white couples. Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), a nationally representative sample of adolescents in the United States (1994-1995), We examine h...