Men display more interest than women in leaning on romantic relationships as a source of social status, a newly published set of studies suggests. Tracy Kwang, a social psychologist at the University of Texas at Austin, and colleagues conducted surveys to determine whether there are differences in the ways men and ...

Men display more interest than women in leaning on romantic relationships as a source of social status, a newly published set of studies suggests.

Tracy Kwang, a social psychologist at the University of Texas at Austin, and colleagues conducted surveys to determine whether there are differences in the ways men and women derive self-worth from relationships.

“Men and women alike indicated that men are less reliant on relationships as a source of self-worth than are women,” the researchers wrote, reporting their findings May 8 in the early online issue of the journal Psychological Science.

But “men reported basing their self-esteem on their own relationship status (whether or not they were in a relationship) more than did women, and this link was statistically mediated by the perceived importance of relationships as a source of social standing,” they added.

“When relationship status was threatened, men displayed increased social-standing concerns, whereas women displayed increased interdepend concerns,” they went on. “Together, these findings demonstrate that both men and women rely on relationships for self-worth, but that they derive self-esteem from relationships in different ways.”

The journal is a publication of the Washington, D.C.-based Association for Psychological Science.

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