Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Psychologie - Sozialpsychologie, Note: Gut, Universität Salzburg (Psychologie), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: The present paper is concerned with the less studied model of relationship of Polyamory. This definition stands for the practical experience of having a love relationship to more than one partner at the same time. In the awareness, that all involved partners know about it and are full conscious of the situation. This is the first exploration of polyamore relationships. The phenomenon Polyamory was determined with two methodical different approaches, defined in the Triangulationsmodels, which combined two methodical different approaches in two separate studies. There is a questionnaire and a code of practise. The participants are between the age of 20 and 55. The questions relates to democraphic dates like age, gender graduation and profession. Furthermore was asked about how the polyamore relationship developed, sexual orientation, duration of the relationship and age of the partners. Another subject were children, who occured of such polyamory relationships. The question was, if there are children or not. If yes, how many and how they have been brought up? People were also asked, if they had any idea about this topic and the occurence in society. Some questions dealt with the quality of the relationship, frequency of contact and the local difference between the partners. Another big area was the social surroundings and the topic sexuality. Feelings of love and jealousy in polyamoryrelationships. At least polyamory people were asked in the questionnaire and interview what they thought would be worth mentioning.

Keywords Polyamory, Beziehung, Relationship, Liebe, Lov