The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of intimate relationships at work, considering the gender of both respondents and coworkers, and on intimate relationships at home. Participants included 38 faculty members from a Louisiana University and 24 physicians from Louisiana and Alabama. Each participant completed all or a portion of the survey, which included a Demographic section, a modified Job Description Index (JDI), the Interpersonal Relationship Scale modified for use with coworkers, additional questions regarding work relationships, the Interpersonal Relationship Scale (IRS), and the Dyadic Satisfaction Subscale of the Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS). Pearsons r, Multiple Regression, and Analyses of Variance were used to test seven null hypotheses. Total scores on the scales above were used in tests of the hypotheses.

     Because few participants identified a coworker of the opposite gender, the results of hypotheses 1A and 1B were not interpretable. Intimacy with a coworker of the same gender was found to be significantly related to intimacy with a significant other for both men and women (R2 = .69 for men and R2 = .47 for women). As intimacy with coworker increases, intimacy with a significant other increases. Results of analysis of variance failed to find significant differences between groups on relationship satisfaction for gender of respondent and gender of coworker, though females reported higher levels of relationship satisfaction than males. Intimacy with a coworker and global job satisfaction were found to be significantly positively correlated (r = .33). Subscales of the modified IRS, trust and empathy, were significantly correlated with the total JDI (r= .28 and .33, respectively). Intimacy with a significant other was significantly associated with relationship satisfaction (r = .82). The higher the intimacy with a significant other was, the higher the relationship satisfaction.