Preliminary Results From Australian Survey

Andrew Armstrong, a social scientist based at Swinburne University of Technology in Australia is conducting a research study that looks at people's love lives and work lives, what they find most and least satisfying, what people would change, and why.

The results are showing that

1. Love. The strength of love partners feel for each other appears to be the quality most predictive of happiness in long term relationships.

2. Intimacy. The degree of closeness and sense of a shared life that partners feel for each other.

3. Commitment. The degree to which partners are emotionally bound to one another, and the belief that the relationship will stand the test and trials of time.

4. Satisfaction. The extent to which ones partner fulfills ones relationship expectations.

5. Trust. Reliance on the integrity and intentions of one's partner.

6. Passion. Feeling like one is the object of one's partner's desires.

The survey is still acceptiing new participants if you want to put your two cents in. Read more...
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