New Research finds women
Feel very happy when their husband or partner is upset
Women can feel happy when they see their husband or partner is upset, new research has suggested.
Re-search has revealed women most likely enjoyed spotting when their partner was dissatisfied because it showed his strong “engagement” or “investment” in their time together.
The detailed study found that wives or girlfriends were pleased when their partner showed emotion because they believed it demonstrated a healthy relationship.
The survey, carried out by Harvard Medical School, also found that when men realised their wife was angry, the women reported being happier, although the men were not.
It revealed women most likely enjoyed spotting when their partner was dissatisfied because it showed his strong “engagement” or “investment” in their time together.
Dr Shiri Cohen, the study’s lead author, said: “It could be that for women, seeing that their male partner is upset reflects some degree of the man’s investment and emotional engagement in the relationship, even during difficult times.
“This is consistent with what is known about the dissatisfaction women often experience when their male partner becomes emotionally withdrawn and disengaged in response to conflict.”
The study, published by the American Psychological Association, recruited a diverse range of 156 heterosexual couples.
More than 100 of the younger, urban, couples were in a committed but not necessarily a married relationship. Other couples who varied in the way they resolved conflict and controlled emotions were also chosen, while the remaining participants were older, middle-class and married.
In total, 71 per cent of those questioned were white, 56 per cent were married, and the average length of their relationships was three-and-a-half years.
During the study, each participant was asked to describe an incident with their partner over the previous two months that had been frustrating, disappointing or upsetting.
The researchers recorded the participant making a brief statement summarising the incident and then brought the couple together to play each other’s admission.
They were told to come to a better understanding of what had happened, with approximately 10 minutes to discuss the incident while they were filmed.
The video recording was then shown back to them while they rated their negative and positive reactions using an electronic device.
Later, six, 30-second clips of the most emotive discussions were then shown to the participants, who completed questionnaires about their feelings on watching the recordings. Overall satisfaction with the relationship was also measured, and whether those surveyed considered their partner’s efforts to be empathetic.
The study concluded: “Overall, the findings from this study suggest that men may be more satisfied in their relationships when they can accurately read their partners’ positive emotions, while women’s relationship satisfaction may uniquely benefit when they can accurately read their partners’ negative emotions
“Women’s satisfaction was more strongly related to the perception that their partners were trying to understand their negative emotions than to men’s actual accuracy in reading those emotions.”
RTÉ board will meet tomorrow after Seán Gallagher Frontline programme complaint was upheld
A special meeting of the RTÉ board is to take place tomorrow after the broadcasting watchdog upheld Seán Gallagher’s complaint about unfairness in the final televised presidential election debate last year.
The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland said the station had made “no apparent efforts” to verify the source and accuracy of a tweet broadcast during The Frontline programme.
The tweet, incorrectly described by presenter Pat Kenny as having been issued by the official Martin McGuinness campaign, put Mr Gallagher under increased pressure to explain his past links to Fianna Fáil.
The Louth businessman, who had gone into the debate a clear leader in the presidential election opinion polls but ended up finishing second to Michael D Higgins, has not ruled out taking legal action against RTÉ.
“That’s a decision for another day,” he said yesterday, after welcoming the authority’s finding.
Mr Gallagher said he was in no way seeking to overturn the result of the election, pointing out he had wished Mr Higgins well on his election last November.
RTÉ chairman Tom Savage said he accepted the authority’s decision, which merited close attention. The State broadcaster’s board would meet for that purpose tomorrow. “We will deliberate on the findings and discuss the matter in full.”
Journalistic standards at the station are expected to come under further scrutiny shortly when the authority’s report into the Mission to Prey programme on Prime Time Investigates is completed. RTÉ could be fined up to €250,000 over mistakes in the programme, which wrongly accused a missionary of fathering a child in Africa.
RTÉ director general Noel Curran apologised to Mr Gallagher for the mistakes made in The Frontline programme but refused to countenance an inquiry into the affair. “We have been found against and we have to learn from that,” said Mr Curran, who insisted there was “no question” of RTÉ having approached the debate between the presidential candidates “with agendas”.
RTÉ will now have to broadcast an announcement detailing the authority’s decision on the bogus tweet.
The revelation of the tweet, during a highly-charged final debate in the presidential election campaign, was seen as pivotal to the subsequent slump in Mr Gallagher’s popularity.
At an early stage in the debate, Mr McGuinness alleged that Mr Gallagher had called to the house of a businessman to collect a €5,000 cheque for Fianna Fáil, and the tweet stated: “The man that Gallagher took the cheque from will be at a press conference tomorrow.”
The authority’s decision criticised the use of unverified information from a source that was wrongly accredited by presenter Pat Kenny.
Although Mr McGuinness’s real campaign account on Twitter issued a corrective tweet with almost 30 minutes of the programme to run, this information was not passed on to viewers, nor to listeners of Kenny’s radio show the next morning.
The authority said the radio show exacerbated the unfairness of the Frontline debate by failing to clarify the tweet. There was no evidence that RTÉ, The Frontlineor Kenny deliberately concealed information about the tweets and no evidence for questioning their bona fides.
Kenny last night declined to comment on the finding, saying he was happy for the director general to speak for the station.
Mr Curran admitted the veracity of the first tweet read out by Kenny should have been checked, while a second, corrective tweet from the Sinn Féin campaign should have been mentioned.
He blamed the two mistakes on “a breakdown in communications in a very busy production box”. RTÉ’s guidelines for dealing with social media were being updated, he said.
Mr Gallagher said the ruling confirmed his view that there was an institutional failure by RTÉ. The station’s desire to “manufacture on-air drama won out over the truth” as it abandoned its own reporting guidelines, he said in a statement.
Proud Ireland speaks out as:
Irish Language is spoken in some areas for the
‘first time since Famine’
SEACHTAIN na GAEILGE :
Irish is being spoken in some areas of the country for the first time since the Famine, Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin claimed in the Dáil during a debate on the language for Seachtain na Gaeilge.
Mr Martin acknowledged the ambition of the 20-year strategy to increase the number of people speaking Irish on a daily basis from 83,000 to 250,000, but he said children were now speaking Irish in towns and cities around the country and he claimed the previous government had made great progress in Irish.
He warned, however, that the Government was “about to make a terrible decision in regard to small rural and Gaeltacht schools”, and the move would endanger Gaeltacht areas. He also criticised the Government’s decision to abolish elections for the Irish language authority, Údarás na Gaeltachta, and replace them with an appointed board, which he claimed “will be open to a lot of cronyism”.
Taoiseach Enda Kenny said the Government was engaged in job creation in the Gaeltacht through investment in energy, broadband and water.
Opening the debate, which took place through Irish, Mr Kenny said the Gaeltacht Bill would start the process of linguistic planning in Gaeltacht areas based on the 20-year strategy.
The Irish language “gives us an opportunity to improve our image on the international stage”, according to Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore. “We can bring the language forward safely to the next generation to show to the world we have respect for this part of our culture and that Irish is of value to world culture,” he said.
Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams said there had been no meeting of the Cabinet subcommittee since May last year and there was “no evidence of any saving of money” through the merging of the office of the language commissioner and the ombudsman. His party colleague Aengus Ó Snodaigh described the Irish language as a “jewel” which should be worn and shown, but Irish was currently a “jewel on display in a museum to be looked at”.
All party leaders paid tribute to TG4 and Raidió na Gaeltachta for their coverage of the language.
Multinationals plan to create 20,000 jobs in Ireland over next three years – new survey report
Multinational firms have plans to create up to 20,000 new jobs through a series of investments over the next three years, according to a new survey.
The survey of 315 executives by the Economist Intelligence Unit and commissioned by Matheson Ormsby Prentice questioned a number of global firms about their attitude towards investing in Ireland.
According to the results, 45pc plan to invest here for the first time or expand their current operations between now and 2015 while 10pc plan to reduce investment over the same period.
Half of those planning to create new jobs were in financial services while a further 25pc were technology firms.
The report identifies Ireland’s most important competitive advantages as access to EU markets, our 12.5pc corporation tax regime, as well as a ”uniquely” talented workforce alongside a stable regulatory framework that supports business.
But lack of stability in the eurozone and the size of the country are seen as negatives.
The report stresses that while the headline corporation tax rate is important, it should be thought of as one ingredient in the overall tax infrastructure
It also said that some multinationals are concerned about what they see as ”imbalances” in the country’s personal tax system highlighting the average tax rate paid by workers and the marginal tax rate for top earners, which is among the highest in the OECD.
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