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Men choose romance over success
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Men choose romance over success

If you go by the preconception that women prioritise relationships while men are more focused on themselves and their achievements, you're wrong. In fact, it's the other way round - males put love before career.

A team of international researchers has carried out a study and found that men are more willing than the fair sex to sacrifice achievement goals for a romantic relationship, the ScienceDaily reports.

According to lead researcher Sharon Danoff-Burg of the University of Albany, "In our study, women have been strongly committed to working towards a successful career and therefore hesitant to abandon their goals for a romantic relationship.

"In contrast to women, men appear to derive more emotional support from their opposite-sex relationships than their same-sex friendships." Before coming to the conclusion, the team looked at whether personality traits influence students' life goals, and focused on the relative importance of romantic relationships and achievement goals in particular.

A total of 237 undergraduate students (80 men and 157 women aged 16 to 25 years), from the psychology department at a US state university, completed questionnaires measuring personality traits and life goals. In particular, the researchers looked at 'agency', or the focus on oneself and the formation of separations, including self-assertion, self-protection, and self-direction, as well as 'communion', or the focus on other people and relationships, which involves group participation, cooperation and formation of attachments. In general, women tend to score higher on measures of communion whereas men tend to score higher than women on measures of agency.

Life goals included seven achievement goals - physical fitness, travel, financial success, home ownership, contribution to society, career and education - and five different types of relationships - romantic, marriage, children, circle of friends and family ties. The participants' willingness to sacrifice achievement goals for a romantic relationship was also examined.

Overall both college men and women showed strong desires for individual achievement and relational intimacy. Unexpectedly however, men were more likely than women to give priority to a romantic relationship when asked to choose between a relationship and their career, education and travelling.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com
01-13-2008 04:55 PM
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RE: Men choose romance over success

I knew it! Men are the better women:lol:
01-14-2008 05:45 AM
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