In the article, Close Emotional Relationships with Women versus Men: a Qualitative Study of 56 Heterosexual Men Living in an Inner-City Neighborhood, the given hypothesis that has been proven with multiple studies is that women tend to self-disclose more frequently than men do when it comes to intimacy. The hypothesis goes in depth to further explain that men tend to disclose in more descriptive detail whereas women disclosures tend to be more evaluative. Men in previous studies also stated that their friendships with other men were not as personally or emotionally gratifying as their friendships with women (Wagner-Raphael, Seal & Ehrhardt, 2001).
This article surveyed 56 heterosexual men to get a wide spectrum perception of how typical relationships between men and women are from the men's perspective. The study accepted the previously given hypothesis that how men and women come at intimacy is very different and the study concurred with how the relationships were different. This study confirmed prior studies that relationships between these men and women tended to be more evaluative self disclosure-type relationships and the relationships between men and other men tended to be more descriptive-type self disclosure relationships. The study reported that even though these men were reluctant to engage in evaluative self-disclosure with other men, they were comfortable engaging in this type of self-disclosure with women (Wagner-Raphael, Seal & Ehrhardt, 2001).
One previous hypothesis that was given in prior studies was that relationships between two men did not fulfill the men's psychological and emotional needs as relationships between men and women did. However, in this ...