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Changing a partner's behavior: some college student data.

Publication: College Student Journal
Publication Date: 01-SEP-04 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
One-hundred-and-twenty-seven undergraduates at a large southeastern university completed a confidential anonymous 33 item questionnaire designed to assess the degree to which undergraduate college students expect to change the behavior of their dating partners. The data revealed that changing a partner's behavior is normative and had been learned by observing their parents and friends attempting to change behavior in their respective relationships. The data also revealed that females, particularly those who had been involved in a previous meaningful relationship, were significantly more interested in changing their partner's gender role attitudes than vice versa. Implications of the data are suggested.

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"I'll change my partner after we get married" is a common thought among persons contemplating marriage. The thought carries three assumptions- that a deliberate attempt to induce the partner to change behavior is in the future for the relationship, that the partner will actually make behavioral changes, and that the partner will benefit/enjoy such changes.

Previous research on changing behavior has focused on conflict management styles (Greeff and...

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