Loving relationships: an exploratory research on the expectations and life experiences of women

• Autor(a) principal: Millan, Marília Pereira Bueno
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Vicente, Reginandréa Gomes, Saito, Julia Kubo, Soares de Azevedo Neto, Raymundo, Santos, Monique Fernandes Silva, Taborda, Fernanda Falótico, Queiroz, Barbara da Silva, Ronque, Gleyce Kelly Teodoro, Guerreiro, Angela Maciel
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Psicologia Revista (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/psicorevista/article/view/52192
• topic: expectativa; mulheres; relacionamentos amorosos; Contemporaneidade; gênero; expectativa; mujeres; relaciones amorosas; contemporaneidad; género; Expectation; women; loving relationships; contemporaneity; gender

This article reports partial results of the research “Loving relationships in contemporary times: what are women’s expectations?” (Millan et al., 2019) carried out with 2,778 women, that aimed to comprehend affective-sexual relationships in the contemporary era, from women’s point of view and knowledge of the dynamics in their relationships with their peers, in order to develop clinical tools to manage conflicts in affective and familiar relationships, via clinical and social interventions. Its objective is to highlight aspects concerning differences between expectations and experiences in relationships, regarding gender roles (in the performance of household tasks and childcare), professional life, financial independence, life dreams and projects. Quantitative and qualitative data were obtained, while answers to the questionnaire were labeled as qualitative ordinal variables and analyzed through Kruskal-Wallis or Mann-Whitney (1952) nonparametric statistical tests, according to the grouping of participants, by age, education and marital status. Categorical variables were analyzed through a Chi-squared Test or Fisher’s exact test, as appropriate. In the qualitative analysis, psychoanalytic and systemic references were adopted. The obtained results show that women’s expectations towards loving relationships are influenced by life experiences and prone to change throughout personal and familiar life cycles. The independent variables (education, age, marital status) have significantly influenced the results in different ways. It is concluded that loving relationships express elements characteristic of contemporaneity, which presents several tendencies, diverse in values, conducts and dissonant points of view, in constant transformation.