This Study Revealed That Men View Their Ex-Partners More Positively Than Women Do

In other words, if your feelings are bound to follow you, it is best to understand and address them.

So, the research took form in four studies and included over one thousand total participants. The ex-partner attitude scale was used for the first and second studies to assess behavioral, cognitive, and affective studies.

Each participant was presented with a statement from the scale that they could wither agree or disagree with.

In both studies, the researchers found that “men had more positive attitudes toward their ex-partner than women did.”

A third study was conducted to confirm this, and also examined “gender variables”— such as coping styles, dependence differences, and more.

Again, men tended to regard their past partners in a more positive light. But, there were also more findings.

According to the study, men had more permissive and “playful love attitudes” as opposed to women. Additionally, “men reported that they received more social support from their ex-partners during their relationship than women did.”

Finally, “women reported more active coping behavior than men did, and they attributed the breakup cause more to their partner or as residing within the relationship than men did.”

Do any of these results shock you? The researchers thought they might. That is why their fourth and final study aimed to determine if these gender differences were “intuitively obvious” to the general public.

Using an email campaign, the researchers recruited nearly six hundred participants. Then, each participant was asked to either agree or disagree with the previous findings.

Shockingly, sixty-two percent of the participants reported that they did not believe a gender difference was present– regardless of their own gender.