Partnerská podobnost a její vliv na kvalitu vztahu

Zuzana Štěrbová
Klára Bártová
Jan Havlíček
Jaroslava Varella Valentova

Abstrakt

Výběr partnera není náhodný. Nenáhodné (asortativní) párování může být pozitivní (homogamie), kdy lidé vytvářejí páry se soběpodobnými (self-similar) partnery, nebo negativní (heterogamie, komplementarita), kdy mají partneři charakteristiky soběodlišné (self-different). Více než sto let výzkumu ukázalo, že v párování se výrazně častěji uplatňuje princip homogamie. Jelikož se jedná o jeden z nejvýznamnějších principů párování, je homogamie dlouhodobě zkoumána napříč obory, od psychologie, sociologie, psychiatrie, etologie, po antropologii. Cílem této narativní přehledové studie je uceleně představit a kriticky shrnout současný stav poznání v oblasti pozitivního nenáhodného párování, se zaměřením na empirickou podporu (partnerská podobnost v socio-demografických, psychologických a fyzických charakteristikách), faktory ovlivňující homogamii (sexuální orientace či kultura) a dopady partnerské soběpodobnosti na partnerský vztah (spokojenost a stabilita vztahu). Závěrem jsou diskutována metodická úskalí výzkumu a navrženy směry, jimiž by se mohl budoucí výzkum ubírat. Vzhledem k interdiscipli­naritě tématu a obrovskému množství textů zabývajícím se pozitivním nenáhodným párováním věříme, že tento text napomůže čtenářům zorientovat se v komplexní problematice, jakou homogamie je.

https://doi.org/10.29364/epsy.401

Klíčová slova

výběr partnera, partnerské preference, nenáhodné párování, partnerská spokojenost

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