Appendix A

Age:
Ethnicity:
Gender: Male Female
Highest Level of Education Completed (or current status)
__________________________
Occupation ______________________________________________
Relationship Status: Dating Engaged Length of Relationship: _______________
Please respond to the following questions by circling your response.
1. If you marry, to what extent will you miss the life you have had as a single
person?
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Not at all Very much
2. To what extent do you worry that you will have to give up your personal
freedom when you
marry?
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Not at all Very much
3. Do you think that adjustment to married life will be difficult for you?
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Not at all Very difficult
4. Do you ever have doubts as to whether you will enjoy living exclusively in
marriage with
one person?
123456
Never Frequently
5. To what extent will the responsibilities of married life be enjoyable to you?
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Not at all Very much so
6. How happy do you think you will be if you marry?

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Not at all Very
7. Do you ever have doubts about your chance of having a successful marriage?
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Never Frequently
Please respond to the following questions by circling your response. Please base
your
responses on your CURRENT relationship.
17Sex Differences
1. I would rather spend my free time with my partner than doing other things or
seeing other
people.
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Not at all Very true
2. It is important to share personal feelings, problems, and beliefs with my
partner.
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Not at all Very true
3. It is important to develop interests and activities in common with my partner.
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Not at all Very true
4. It is important to integrate my partner into my family.
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Not at all Very true
5. It is important to put effort into seeing my partner.
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Not at all Very true
6. I would be willing to change my career plans to continue my relationship.
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Not at all Very true

Please respond based on any previous or current relationships.

1. While in a relationship, I have had an online relationship with a member of the
opposite
sex who was (is) not my partner.
Never Once Twice More than twice
2. I have had an emotionally intimate relationship with someone other than my
partner
during that relationship.
Never Once Twice More than twice
3. While in a relationship, I have had a purely physical relationship with someone
other than
my partner.
Never Once Twice More than twice
4. I have had a one-night stand while I was in a relationship.
Never Once Twice More than twice
5. While in a relationship, I have had an emotionally and physically involved
relationship
with someone other than my partner.
Never Once Twice More than twice
18Sex Differences
Please respond to the following questions as you feel a typical member of the
opposite sex
would.
Please respond to the following questions by circling your response.
1. If you marry, to what extent will you miss the life you have had as a single
person?
123456
Not at all Very much
2. To what extent do you worry that you will have to give up your personal
freedom when you
marry?

123456
Not at all Very much
3. Do you think that adjustment to married life will be difficult for you?
123456
Not at all Very difficult
4. Do you ever have doubts as to whether you will enjoy living exclusively in
marriage with
one person?
123456
Never Frequently
5. To what extent will the responsibilities of married life be enjoyable to you?
123456
Not at all Very much so
6. How happy do you think you will be if you marry?
123456
Not at all Very
7. Do you ever have doubts about your chance of having a successful marriage?
123456
Never Frequently
Please respond to the following questions as you feel a typical member of the
opposite sex
would.
Please respond to the following questions by circling your response.
19Sex Differences
1. I would rather spend my free time with my partner than doing other things or
seeing other
people.
123456
Not at all Very true

2. It is important to share personal feelings, problems, and beliefs with my

partner.
123456
Not at all Very true
3. It is important to develop interests and activities in common with my partner.
123456
Not at all Very true
4. It is important to integrate my partner into my family.
123456
Not at all Very true
5. It is important to put effort into seeing my partner.
123456
Not at all Very true
6. I would be willing to change my career plans to continue my relationship.
123456
Not at all Very true
Please respond to the following questions as you feel a typical member of the
opposite sex
would.
Please respond to the following questions by circling your response.
Please respond based on any previous or current relationships.
1. While in a relationship, I have had an online relationship with a member of the
opposite
sex who was (is) not my partner.
Never Once Twice More than twice
2. I have had an emotionally intimate relationship with someone other than my
partner
during that relationship.
Never Once Twice More than twice

3. While in a relationship, I have had a purely physical relationship with someone

other than
my partner.
Never Once Twice More than twice
4. I have had a one-night stand while I was in a relationship.
Never Once Twice More than twice
20Sex Differences
5. While in a relationship, I have had an emotionally and physically involved
relationship
with someone other than my partner.
Never Once Twice More than twice