Who’s more “sociable,” men or women? Common sense says it’s women, right? And many research studies back this impression up: Women are more interpersonal, more connected, more interdependent than men. Women are more likely to share intimate information with each other than men. But is that really the whole story?
There is also research suggesting that men have larger social networks than women do, and that male-male friendships last longer than female-female ones.
A team led by Joyce Benenson conducted a set of three studies that may shed some light on the question. In their first study, they identified 30 male and 30 female undergraduates at a small, Northeastern U.S. college. Half of each group was specifically recruited because they said they had some kind of conflict with their roommate. The other half said they were planning on living with their roommate for the rest of the school year. Each student was asked to rate their satisfaction with their roommate on a scale of 1 to 5. A score of 4 or 5 was defined by the researchers as “satisfied.” So were there gender differences? Here are the results:
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men often let the little things slide.. women… hmm.. not so!
Is it just me who thinks there is a big difference between friends and roommates.
Mmm, just what we need, another ‘scientific’ study proving that women are at each other’s throats. It could be read that many women don’t consider people they haven’t been in touch with as friends any more whereas men do, or in the case of the roommates, that many women are more analytical and less likely to give a high score about anything – including their views of themselves, for which I’m sure there would be a similar result. It’s a small statistic from a small sample, written up with the intent to prove a common myth, worthy only of publication in the Daily Mail to my mind.
“Mmm, just what we need, another ’scientific’ study proving that women are at each other’s throats. It could be read that many women don’t consider people they haven’t been in touch with as friends any more whereas men do, or in the case of the roommates, that many women are more analytical and less likely to give a high score about anything – including their views of themselves, for which I’m sure there would be a similar result. It’s a small statistic from a small sample, written up with the intent to prove a common myth, worthy only of publication in the Daily Mail to my mind.”
On a completely unrelated note, did you take offense to the statistics?
You’re competely right about it being a very small sample by the way.
I think you need to do a study of far more people of all ages & all walks of life to get a better picture of the answer to this, personally.
LC x
I think things with graphs are far more convincing than things without graphs.
Students? Students are being the standard ??
Friendship between male are quite different from friendship between female, in general. At times I do see male as better friends towards eachother but that’s also due to the fact that they never go into eachother’s psyche and emotion. They also tend to approach eachother therefor way different than female approach eachother. Female are indeed not nice towards eachother if you look upon them from a certain perspective .. but all has a hidden meaning. Young people do what they do for specific reasons, not all unknown to theirselves. Things change with age. You quite often see male go more deeper in their conversations than with their friends whereas female, having see it is pointless, will go to a more shallow system (but they read stuff underneath without speaking about it (experience)).
If it does not have a graph, its not true
I do think this is timely. I’ve been to plenty of international conferences where there is a special womens’ breakfast and usually a speaker who explains how women, being the more peaceful/negotiating gender, need to be in more management positions and make the world a better and more peaceful place. Bollocks!