Thematic analysis was used to identify key themes that emerged from the interviews. An exploratory method was used and interviews were conducted with Jewish Israeli, Christian Palestinian, and Muslim Palestinian students currently living in Israel. This study examines attitudes towards interfaith relationships between individuals living in the conflict state of Israel. The remaining 20 % were against interfaith and cross-cultural dating and marriages. Finally, the findings show that over 80 % of the participants did not want to interfere in their children’s partner selection. However, interestingly there are signs of a generational attitude shift. Moreover, the participants perceived the previous generation as ‘‘racist’’. The findings indicate that the majority of the participants were influenced by the social pressure put upon them. The questions of interest were: (1) What is the influence of parental attitudes towards interfaith and cross-cultural relationships? (2) How do the participants feel it impacts upon them? And lastly, (3) How do the participants predict they will respond to their children’s choice of such relationships? Fifty-five university students with diverse backgrounds participated in this study. The present study examined the perceived influence of parental and social pressure on individuals’ perceptions regarding cross-cultural and interfaith dating and marriage. Together, the results suggest that perceived stigma and love in a relationship are positively associated, which runs counter to better supported models of relationship satisfaction (Parks, Stan, & Eggert, 1983). Individuals in relationships, which face stigma from multiple sources, are believed to love each other more than those with no stigma. The results suggest that there is a perception that the Romeo and Juliet effect exists, despite evidence that does not (Sinclair, Hood, & Wright, 2014). In the second study, participants read a scenario of a male, gay relationship with various degree of stigma (none, one, two, or three sources), and rated how much the couple loved each other. Participants in the first study rated several relationships on the degree of stigma each one of them faced, and how much the individuals in each relationship loved each other-the perception of the Romeo and Juliet effect. We examined the connection between the perception of love and stigma in relationships and how much stigma needs to be present to elicit a heightened perception of love.
This effect was likewise evident in a meta-analysis. Rather, consistent with the social network effect (Felmlee, 2001), participants reporting higher levels of interference or lower levels of approval reported poorer relationship quality regardless of outcome measured.
Repeating the analyses employed by Driscoll and colleagues, we could not find evidence for the Romeo and Juliet effect.
Participants also completed contemporary, validated measures of the same constructs similar to those often implemented in studies of social network opinion. Using the original measures, 396 participants were followed over a 3–4 month period wherein they reported love, commitment, trust, and criticism for their partners as well as levels of perceived interference from friends and family. We conducted a replication and extension of Driscoll, Davis, and Lipetz’s (1972) classic longitudinal survey of the Romeo and Juliet effect, wherein they found that increases in parental interference were linked to increases in love and commitment.
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