Attitude Towards Polyamory Among Practicing Psychotherapists

Student: Skovinskaya Sofya

Educational Programme: Systemic Family Therapy (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2021

This work is dedicated to the study of the attitude of Russian-speaking psychotherapists to the phenomenon of polyamory. The study involved 372 people. The results were obtained on the attitude towards polyamory, and also revealed the features of a positive or negative attitude towards polyamory associated with the personal characteristics of psychotherapists, such as age, level of awareness of the phenomenon of polyamory, general experience of psychotherapeutic work, educational level, orientation, gender, biological gender, marital status, experience with polyamorous clients, social and political values and religiosity.

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