Collected Data
The information I'm sharing with you is based on information collected from 61 couples (122 individual men in partnered relationships) who have been together in committed relationships for 10 years or more. In addition to the final 122 participants, there were an additional 13 coupled as well as 30 single gay men whose contributions—unfortunately—had to be filtered from the data set due to incomplete information or limited group response.
I admire him for who he is and his accomplishments and his compassion, and his helpfulness, his soulfulness. Yeah, I admire him a lot.
Data collection occurred in three phases. All 122 participants in the final data set provided five-minute responses to the requests that they tell me about themselves and their partners (Phase I) and completed an online questionnaire (Phase II). I conducted final in-depth interviews with 14 couples (28 individual men), a subset of the 122-man group (Phase III).
The following links will provide you with a wide variety of information about the study participants and collected data. For a brief synopsis and synthesis of information collected at all three phases of data collection, go to the Summary of Findings.
One more thing . . . Frequent references are made to the Object Relations Inventory (“ORI”), so be sure to take a quick glance at About the ORI.Who Participated?
About Commitment
About Conflict
About Partners, Parents and Relationships
In Your Own Words: Narratives of Longevity